This Essential Vitamin Lowers Blood Pressure

This Essential Vitamin Lowers Blood Pressure

One vitamin in particular is critical in regulating everything in the body, from the immune response to bone health. In fact, a lack of it has been linked to type-2 diabetes and arthritis. And now a new study has revealed that it is essential to bring high blood...
Heal High Blood Pressure With a Text Message

Heal High Blood Pressure With a Text Message

What if one simple text could lower your blood pressure by 2.2 points? I know it’s not much, but receiving a text is also not that complicated, right? This is exactly what researchers at the University of Cape Town and Oxford University did, before publishing their...
Is Your Headache an Imminent Stroke Indicator?

Is Your Headache an Imminent Stroke Indicator?

Stroke is one of the health events that scare us the most, mainly because it seems to come out of the blue and because it can leave us badly disabled. Recent studies have, however, revealed a few indicators of an imminent stroke. Using those indictors, you have time...
Why You Don’t Exercise Enough (it’s not your fault)

Why You Don’t Exercise Enough (it’s not your fault)

Most of us should be more active. In fact, 3-5 hours of intense activity per week is minimal, and every hour awake should include a little moving around. But sometimes you just don’t feel like you have the energy, do you? And according to a new study published in the...
These Fruits and Vegetables Raise Blood Pressure

These Fruits and Vegetables Raise Blood Pressure

Everyone knows that eating fruits and vegetables is the best thing for lowering blood pressure. And that’s true – in most cases. But there is one particular case where specific fruits and vegetables can actually raise your blood pressure by almost 5 points in two...