How to Avoid Hypertension in Men

How to Avoid Hypertension in Men
How to avoid hypertension in men can be accomplished by
first understanding its cause. Just as air pumped into a
tire exerts pressure on its lining and surface, your heart
pumps blood through your arteries, and the force of the
blood flow exerts pressure on the arterial walls.
Therefore, just as too much air pressure is bad for the
life of a tire, too much blood pressure eventually damages
your arteries.

Here are some suggestions on how to avoid hypertension:

While smoking is not a cause of hypertension, it is a
contributing factor. We know there is a definite link
between smoking and heart disease, thus the combination of
smoking and high blood pressure increases the risk of
developing a heart attack.

Being overweight is another cause of hypertension. High
salt intake increases this condition as well. It is
important to find an appropriate diet regimen and exercise
program to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
While there may be a connection between weight and
hypertension, research reveals people who are at their
ideal weight have less tendency to develop hypertension
than those who are overweight.

Type A personalities may be more prone to hypertension than
others. Stress is evident in our lives every day; but the
key is to not let it take over your life. While we all work
hard and try to live comfortably, the pressure to succeed
rapidly is taking its toll, physically, emotionally and
mentally. It is also a contributing factor to hypertension.
If you have a highly stressed job, or find that you cannot
fill the demands placed upon you - find another job that is
not so stressful. If this is not an option; use meditation
to maintain an inner balance. Don't sweat the small stuff.
Your health is more important than the job.

Try not to drink alcohol in excessive amounts. Alcohol
increases blood pressure and if you are taking medication;
the two can cause severe side effects. Recently, however,
an eminent heart surgeon suggested that a glass of red wine
a day is preferred for a healthy heart. The debate
continues, and while it does, it seems that wine instead of
other alcoholic beverages may yield the best results.

Exercise and a good nutritional diet can work wonders, not
only in reducing weight but cleansing your body of all of
the toxins, as well as purifying your blood. Meditation is
another form of self-help therapy which can not only relax
you, but keep your pressure down. If you find you are
becoming excitable over something at work or at home - take
a deep breath and go for a walk. These suggestions on how
to avoid hypertension in men are necessary components in
reducing blood pressure and living a healthy life.

Hypertension in Men - Symptoms and Causes

A few years ago, the American Medical Association announced
that normal blood pressure should be 120/80. This was
lowered from the previous systolic and diastolic pressure
considered to be within normal range. Hypertension in men
is a serious and often fatal disease. High blood pressure
can lead to heart failure; kidney failure; or stroke.

The combination of hypertension and being overweight
increases the chances of developing one or more conditions.
In fact, the older you are, the more likely you will
develop hypertension unless you take steps to prevent it.
If you are overweight when you are young, you may develop
hypertension at an older age. However, it has been
suggested that hypertension is also inherited, which
doesn't help the situation either.

You may not even realize you have this condition, as the
symptoms do not reveal themselves. However, you should
assume you are a candidate for hypertension if you are over
40; if there is a history of this condition in your family;
and you are overweight.

The first thing you need to do if you are in any way
susceptible to this condition is to remove sodium from your
diet. Have your blood pressure checked at least once a
month, and avoid stress. Let's face it; however, we may
work in an environment that breeds stress.

Whether it's the job; money problems; smoking; overweight;
alcohol; and other social and psychological factors which
may contribute to the condition, it is important to
understand it is not a curable disease, nor one which is
tangible. Also keep in mind; hypertension is not exclusive
to any one group. It affects people from all walks of life.
To what degree it can cause damage to your heart, kidneys
and brain depends on its severity.

If you find that you have taken every precaution and your
blood pressure is still high, your doctor may prescribe
medication only if he or she feels it is absolutely
necessary. Some of the drugs have side effects, while
others can be tolerated. While on any type of medication,
do not fall under the assumption that because you may feel
better you can stop taking the drugs. This is a dangerous
scenario as mentioned earlier; hypertension is a
symptom-less disease.

If you follow a proper diet that does not contain sodium;
if you alter your lifestyle in order to ease the stress and
other factors which contribute to hypertension, it can be
controlled. Nothing in life is more important than your
health; certainly nothing to cause physical or
psychological elements which can raise your blood pressure.
Hypertension in men is prevalent; yet over fifty percent of
men do not realize they have the condition. Take care of
your health and it will take care of you.

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Fibromyalgia and Age? Is there a Correlation?

Fibromyalgia and Age? Is there a Correlation?
Fibromyalgia is a medical condition that often causes
weakness and fatigue along with the common symptom of pain.
Fibromyalgia is closely related to chronic fatigue syndrome
as well. So what is the connection between these conditions
and age? Where is it I am going with this? Well, studies
show that age may play a factor in Fibromyalgia.

So why is this? Well, there is a big thing called sleep.
Sleep is often disturbed in people with Fibromyalgia and
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. There are different stages of
sleep that we cycle through each night. The deepest cycle
of sleep is when the body heals itself from the damage and
wear and tear from the day. When sleep is disrupted or
disturbed, this cycle is often not reached. This, in turn,
means the healing is not done and the body's ability to
recover from the day's work is thwarted. So, people with
Fibromyalgia may experience a mental fog, known as fibro
fog, and have fatigue, pain in muscles and tissues, etc.

So let's make the age connection. It is common knowledge
that 90% of those diagnosed with fibromyalgia are women. It
is also pretty well known that most people are diagnosed
with fibromyalgia between the ages of 20 and 50. However,
recent studies show there is a shift in these numbers. Many
more people are being diagnosed after the age of 50 now and
the numbers continue to rise.

It seems as though the significance of age in patients is
rather debatable. Some in the medical community think it is
significant and others do not. The reason that some people
are diagnosed with it later in life could be due to the
fact that a lot in the medical community don't think of
Fibromyalgia as a real condition. It could be that the body
just wears down considerably more as we age and pain
progresses. It may also be the fact that it takes time to
rule out all other diseases before coming to a fibromyalgia
diagnosis.

Sleep cycles change as we age and so does disease. There is
a definite suggestion that age may play a factor in
fibromyalgia. It is figuring out the significance of what
this means to fibromyalgia and treatment in future years
that matters. One thing from the studies that we are
certain is that as we age our body goes through important
changes that may provide us some links and answers to this
debilitating condition.

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The positive effects of HERBS on sexual problems

The positive effects of HERBS on sexual problems
One major issue in the world today is sexuality. Do I look
good enough? I wonder if he or she likes me? While most of
the world today is becoming increasingly sexually active,
there are others out there who are lacking in this field.
Their bodies are no longer inclined to have sex, or their
sexual drive loses the time between time and fatigue. Sex
and sex problems are as old as man. Man was created by God
with the ability and passion for sex. However, sexual
problems have hunted the human race from creation.

With the passing of time man's sexual problems have
presented him with many challenges. The problems are many
and wide spread in the human population for both man and
woman. There are those who choose to accept, recognize and
discuss their sexual problems and seek for solutions.
However, on the other hand, there are many who prefer not
to accept, recognize, discuss and seek solutions for their
sex problems

In the last two decades medical research and major drug
companies have spent billions of dollars developing
medicines to help with human sexual problems. Erectile
Dysfunction, ED (impotence) drugs are major sellers both
online and regular offline pharmacies. The two leading ED
drugs that are commonly used are: viagra and cialis.
However, these two popular ED drugs have their own problems
and side effects. Viagra needs no introduction! Pfizer's
wonder drug, sildenafil, better known as viagra, is the
trusted treatment for male impotence problems. Introduced
in 1998, viagra, the famous erectile dysfunction drug has
been a profound influence in human sexual problems, even
when people are aware of the many side effects. Cialis is
by far the most effective and safe Erectile Dysfunction
drug available for male problems. Cialis is not for
everyone. Patients are advised to inform their Doctors of
any medical conditions before taking cialis, or healthy
enough to engage in sexual activities.

Herbal and alternative medicines and treatments are in
abundance on the internet and in conventional herbal
pharmacies for all sorts of sexual problems and
deficiencies. The use of herbs and plants to treat and
enhance human sexuality is as old as man. Countries in the
Far East, Africa and Asia have long used herbal remedies to
treat sexual problems. Honey Goat weed and Maca are popular
herbs used for centuries to enhance sexual pleasure and
endurance. The medicinal properties and ingredients in
herbs and plants used for sex problems are believed to
increase sexual desires, support sexual function, create
bigger and firmer breast in females, firmer harder erection
in men, increase testosterone levels, multiple orgasms and
libido, sperm count and potency, heighten desire, pleasure
and sense of well being and boost libido in male and female
alike. It is also believed in Asian and African countries
that these herbs are effective in keeping the liver, ovary,
prostate, thyroid and kidney in good shape, thus enhancing
good sexual health. Herbal Online Pharmacies, have long
used these ancient herbs and plants to treat human
sexuality.

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Confusion and Media Hype Surrounding Hormones and Menopause

Confusion and Media Hype Surrounding Hormones and Menopause
There are over 40 million women in the United States
between the ages of 40 and 60. Worldwide, about 25 million
women enter menopause annually. Estimates show that by the
year 2030, that number will increase to 47 million women
per year. Relief of menopausal symptoms such as improved
sleep could translate into a more productive woman whether
she works or is a mother or spouse. Healthcare dollars
could then be spent more wisely than in Medicare
reimbursements for constant doctor visits and endless
prescriptions and procedures. Quality of life would improve
for most symptomatic women. How? By way of hormone
replacement, an important choice for women, since estrogens
are known to be the only effective treatment for
estrogen-depleted states.

Right now, in the wake of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) Women's Health Initiative (WHI), getting hormones is
difficult. Doctors are leery of even the "Standard of Care"
approved synthetics in this time and place. Getting
legitimate insurance-covered physicians to prescribe even
bio-identical hormones is a challenge.

The majority of Western medicine has been on a wild goose
chase for the elusive proof that being completely
hormone-less will save our lives, in the face of massive
evidence that even with all of our estrogen blocked at
every turn, we still keep dying of cancer. In the burst of
the Baby Boomers becoming menopausal, doctors from all
specialties have clamored to the forefront to be of
service. But nobody has any idea how to prescribe hormones
for women.

Since 1900, in the developed countries, the life expectancy
of women has increase from age 47 to well over age 80,
however, the average onset of menopause has remained at 50
as recorded for the last 150 years. That means most women
are living at least thirty years longer than they did at
the turn of the century. It's estimated that eighty percent
of women experience a variety of transiently debilitating
symptoms in menopause and 30 percent of those are
classified as severe.

About ten years before women ever have a hot flash or a
migraine, we have odd, too-short menstrual periods, we're
up half of every night and we start to look and feel old.
Exhaustion coupled with plummeting sex hormones creates a
life in tatters. Our joints twinge and we can't stay
asleep. The symptoms of menopause, which can begin for
women as early as their late thirties, are the same as the
daily challenges the elderly face, and in fact, we get "old
and sick" when our hormones start to plummet.

The sick and old in our culture means usually means cancer,
diabetes, heart disease, glaucoma, depression, even
Alzheimer's. If menopause might really equal cancer,
diabetes, heart disease, glaucoma, depression, and
Alzheimer's, why is it, then, that no one ever mentions any
of the life-threatening disabilities associated with
hormonal decline and urges women to accurately replace
those hormones that are now missing?

Instead, women are told that the FDA sanctioned hormones
from Big Pharma are really way too dangerous to take (WHI)
and bioidentical compounded hormones have never been
studied (AMA). That's what women in 2003 got from the WHI
historic report on synthetic drugs with hormone-like
effects, PremPro and Premarin.

These substances were donated by the pharmaceutical company
that had sold them since 1942 because the assumption was
the drugs would be found safe and effective. Nothing could
have been further from the truth. After nearly 800 million
taxpayer dollars and 14 years later, the overly emphasized
negative results of the Women's Health Initiative were
released in May 2002. This study was poorly designed,
strangely monitored and incompetently analyzed.

Interestingly, the WHI never looked at hormones, only drugs
with "hormone-like" effects that were dosed in a regimen
far from that of human replacement. This study has led us
to believe that conjugated equine estrogens (from pregnant
mare urine) and a synthetic progestin (Prempro) dosed on a
daily basis in static doses is clearly very harmful to
women after only a few years, and yet, in contradictory
reports from the same agency, PremPro seemed to have had
positive effects as well. The other drug studied, daily
Premarin, seemed to show substantially less harmful
effects. Even though the death rate for all arms of this
study was equal, the study was dramatically halted early in
a very public effort to "save lives."

This confusing and frightening media spin caused millions
of women to immediately stop taking their Premarin or
Prempro, or any other product deemed a hormone. Physicians
also threatened by the negative media reports stopped
prescribing them, thus leaving millions of symptomatic
women without any reasonable clinical guidance, except the
ludicrous exception to the bad news, that lower doses of
Prempro, the killer drug, taken for less years is safer.
This advice has not left women feeling safe.

But, what if real hormone replacement could really mimic
youthful hormone levels, not just mask a few symptoms, and
therefore; was a cure for those diseases? After all, young
women don't have those diseases and the difference between
young women and old women is reproductive capacity and the
attendant hormones. It's logical that the majority of women
with normal hormones don't have those diseases.

Common sense is that natural (not synthetic drugs with
hormone-like effects) hormone replacement, in and of
itself, could not cause cancer. If estrogen and
progesterone, or even testosterone, caused cancer, all
young women would be dead. So if logic tells us that
estrogen doesn't actually cause cancer in and of itself,
then there must be more to the story-like what kind and how
much estrogen and when to take it.

Whether or not women replace their missing hormones is not
up for debate. Living without them is far too miserable and
dangerous. So then, the question becomes "how"?

One Santa Barbara California researcher and author named
T.S. Wiley asked, "What if hormone replacement was made of
real bio-identical hormones and dosed to mimic the ups and
downs of the hormone blood levels in a normal menstrual
cycle in a 20 year-old woman, would all of the symptoms and
disease states of aging decline or even, disappear?"

Shortly thereafter, she developed a trademarked patent
pending delivery system consisting of bio-identical
estradiol and progesterone in topical cream preparations
dosed in a rhythm to mimic the natural cyclic hormone
levels replicated in serum blood produced by a twenty
year-old woman.

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Kristin Gabriel represents the developer of The Wiley
Protocol® (http://www.thewileyprotocol.com), a patent
pending delivery system consisting of bio-identical
estradiol and progesterone in topical cream preparations
dosed in a rhythm to mimic the natural cyclic hormone
levels of a twenty year-old woman. The Wiley Protocol is
only available at compounding pharmacies that have agreed
to the standardized methods, materials, packaging and
recommended pricing. Wiley is also the author of of Sex,
Lies & Menopause," and "Lights Out."

Create Your V Taper With The Chin Up

Create Your V Taper With The Chin Up
First there are two kinds of pulling movements that fall in
the chin-up category. The chin-up and the pull-up. Pull-ups
are performed with palms pronated (facing away from you).
Perform the pull-up just like a lat pull-down, except that
the body rises up to the bar, rather than the reverse where
you pull the bar down to you. Make sure you clear the bar
with your chin at the top, and pull the scapulae back at
the bottom position. Think of "pulling the elbows to the
ribs" rather than lifting the chin over the bar. Chin ups
are the same movement but your palms face you and the arms
stay closer to the sides.

Most people like to start out with chin-ups and the palms
facing you, as for most it is the easier version. It
doesn't matter which version you do as long as you do them!

How to work up to a chin-up if you can't do them:

The Jumping Chin-up: This is a simple yet great way to get
the feel for the full blown chin-up. If you have a doorway
chin-up bar, you can set it up at a height that allows you
to grab the bar with a slight bend in your knees if you are
standing below it.

If you are at the gym, pull up a box or bench to place it
beneath the chin-up bar so you can get the jump off that.

From here it is simply a matter of how much leg power you
want to put into your "jump up" to determine how hard the
"chin-up" is for you. When you get comfortable, you can
start off with a couple normal style chin-up attempts
followed by the remaining reps performed "jump style".

You can also jump up and do a very slow negative or
lowering portion of the movement to build up your strength.
Soon you will be able to pull all the way up and not just
lower.

Why do I suggest the jump style method of chin-up over
certain machines that can take of resistance? Because for
what you are trying to accomplish here, which is fat
burning and a wicked "V" taper, you want to burn calories
and build your back. Jumping does that much better than the
machines!

What to watch out for:

Make sure you get full extension at the bottom.

Make sure you get your chest up to the bar or at least your
chin over the bar.

Avoid pulling with only the arms. This is a back exercise
with the arms helping.

Here is an awesome little workout you can do anywhere. Yes,
anywhere because chin-ups can be done hanging onto the top
of a door, a tree branch a playground set, you name it!

The anywhere "V" taper workout: You are going to combine
pushups and chin-ups for a total of 50 reps each. You
alternate between the two exercises every rep. One chin-up
and then one pushup until you hit 50. Time it and then try
to beat it next time, and yes, you can use the jumping
chinups!

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