Dr Gardner, I recently purchased your green tea extract formula. However, today after visiting with my endocrinologist she determined that my blood pressure is pretty high. She gave me another diuretic to treat it. My question is will the green tea tablet exacerbate my high blood pressure? Thank you for your time.
Green tea extract will [...]

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Omega Q Plus
I was wondering what you think of this product. I have tried the hawthorne berries to lower my blood pressure and it really works. Now someone else has told me about this product. Its by a Dr. Stephen Sinatra. Would you recommend this product?
Dr. Stephen Sinatra is a bright cardiologist, and I would [...]

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“Dr Gardner, I recently purchased your green tea extract formula. However, today after visiting with my endocrinologist she determined that my blood pressure is pretty high. She gave me another diuretic to treat it. My question is will the green tea tablet exacerbate my high blood pressure? Thank you for your time.
Quick answer: Green tea [...]

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Weaning off Lisinopril & HCTZ. I am on 10mg Lisinopril and a low dose of HCTZ (can’t remember how much). I have been in a fitness program for 1-1/2 years now and have lost 35 pounds and have been maintaining my weight now for at least 6 mos. I started cutting my Lisinopril in half [...]

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Two Questions: My husband is taking Amlodipine Besylate 5 mg per day for blood pressure.  After taking it he feels hot.  What do you recommend taking? He also was diagnosed 8 years ago with autoimmune hepititus which they think is due to taking the antibiotic Avolox.
Also, do you know about Young Living Products?  We [...]

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Weaning off blood pressure medication-topropol and ramipril. Why am I on both? Are they needed at all?
Without more information, no specific recommendations can be made. Toprol and Ramipril are blood pressure medications that are in two different categories.
The philosophy in conventional medicine is: 1. blood pressures above 120/80 cause an increase in cardiac events (heart [...]

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Would weight loss help my other physical problems, even though I have been told I may have to have back surgery for degenerative disc disease?
If you are overweight or obese, weight loss will help you in many ways, especially if you have back problems. Assuming you are overweight, let’s talk about how less weight should [...]

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Can you please explain about gugulipids: interdrug reaction between gugulipids and metroprolol XL j25 mg? One JAMA study indicates decreases bioavailability of propanolol hydrochloride.
Gugulipids is a gum from an Indian mukul tree that has quite a number of positive properties, although I do not use it on a regular basis. It [...]

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How does elevated blood pressure affect other organs in our body?  I have had BP around 135-140/80 for years, and my new doc is trying to convince me to go on meds as he says my BP will affect kidney, liver, and just about everything else.
Your doctor has bought into the prevailing [...]

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Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
U.S. Neglects High Blood Pressure
The Institute of Medicine said that nearly one in three adults have hypertension recently, and feels that doctors are not treating it aggressively.  “If you live long enough, you’re almost guaranteed to get hypertension,” said Dr. Corinne Husten of Partnership for Prevention, a [...]

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