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Know how to monitor your blood pressure the right way?

 
Dr. Krupka (00:01):

I want to take a minute and talk to you about checking your blood pressure. I had this discussion yesterday and it was suggested to me to do a video on it, and I think that's probably a good idea. I'll briefly go over mechanically how to check your blood pressure, but the bigger point of this video is to talk about how much data to collect to get an understanding of what's going on. So I'll get to that in just a second. As far as mechanically how to do it, I mean we all have the experience of going into our doctor's office or dentist or whoever, and you get your blood pressure checked and maybe it's good, maybe it's not, but it's a single reading and a single reading is never, well, I shouldn't say never. A single reading is generally not considered to be enough to make clinical decisions like should we put someone on medication or not.

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Now, there are readings that are so out of the normal range that you have to take action, right? But when you're talkin...

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Curcumin Slashes Heart Disease Risk

 

Hi everyone. Unless you've been living under a rock you've heard a lot about curcumin or turmeric lately. It's apparently good for everything. I'm going to talk about it today.

Interesting article here. This one is from a journal called Complimentary Therapies in Medicine in August of 2017 and this is about curcumin's effect on basically parts of the cholesterol panel in type two diabetics. Now, type two diabetics are notorious for having high triglycerides and high markers that would indicate their risk for heart disease. Heart attack, stroke, those kinds of things.

So being able to make a difference in that is substantial. I've done a few blog posts in the past few weeks about how to change type two diabetes. That's probably the bigger problem and one of the approaches that needs to be instituted in people like this. However, in the meantime, or in patients who refuse or their doctor tells them they can't fast or whatever, this is an option.

So in this study, they were looking at ...

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