Want to know about an exercise that can lower blood pressure significantly? We're talking as much as 10-20 mmHg. No, it's not an endurance exercise. No, it's not strength exercise. It's actually an exercise you can do anytime and anywhere. It's called isometrics.
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Want To Lower Your Blood Pressure By 20 Points? Try This Exercise...
Posted by Dr. Karl R.O.S. Johnson, DC on Tue, May 24, 2022
Topics: High Blood Pressure, Isometric Exercise, Resperate, Zona, Functional Medicine University, Cardiovascular Health
Blood Pressure Medications and Nutrient Deficiencies
Posted by Dr. Karl R.O.S. Johnson, DC on Tue, Apr 05, 2022
I first want to give you a brief overview on how medications impact important nutrients.
HOW MEDICATIONS AFFECT NUTRIENTS
The following are a few ways that blood pressure medications can affect how our bodies absorb essential nutrients.
- The medication can attach itself to a nutrient and pass it out of the body
- The medication can alter the pH in the gut so that the nutrient can't be properly absorbed
- Some medications need specific nutrients in order for them to be able to work.
The Following are Blood Pressure Medications, Nutrients Commonly Depleted and the Negative Impact of the Deficient Nutrients
Topics: Blood Pressure, nutrient deficiency, Hypertension, High Blood Pressure, Medication, Blood pressure medications, medication induced nutrient deficiency
Don't Eat Yourself Sick - A primer on Insulin Resistance and Disease
Posted by Dr. Karl R.O.S. Johnson, DC on Tue, Apr 17, 2018
The road to chronic disease — from arthritis to heart disease — is paved with sugar and refined carbohydrates. It’s a freeway that leads straight to insulin resistance syndrome, given the right conditions, most notably being overweight and inactive.
The devastating chain of events that leads to chronic disease goes like this:
- Carbs and sugar break down in the digestive tract to glucose that the body uses for energy.
- Beta cells in the pancreas make and secrete insulin into the blood to ferry any glucose you don’t use to muscle, fat, and liver cells for storage.
- Given the right conditions and more glucose than your cells can manage at the moment, the call goes out for even more insulin.
- Beta cells keep the insulin flowing but eventually the body’s cells can’t absorb it or the glucose building up in your blood stream. That’s called insulin resistance.
- Eventually the beta cells can’t keep up and insulin levels plummet. Now your bloodstream is flooded with glucose, which damages nerves and blood vessels, causes inflammation, and leads to a host of chronic diseases.
Topics: insulin resistance, Heart Disease, Obesity, Hypertension, High Blood Pressure, Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, Prediabetes and diabetes, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Pancreatitis
Dietary Culprits in High Blood Pressure and Autoimmunity
Posted by Dr. Karl R.O.S. Johnson, DC on Sun, Feb 02, 2014
Topics: autoimmune, Hashimoto's, Hypertension, High Blood Pressure