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My plan is to avoid this stuff until I'm old with a healthy lifestyle, but you can't just tell other people to do that.
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honestly I don't think there's much money to be made out of those drugs. I'm on drugs for hypertension and they cost me less than 10 euros a month and that's if I go buy them at the pharmacy, if my doctor makes me a prescription they are free for me and I'm sure the government pay them a lot less than a private citizen. They also fall into the category of generic drugs, most of the time they are manufactured in my co…
A 30-day supply of Lipitor - I think, the most-prescribed drug in America? - is something like $150–200. Our cost was something like a dollar and we'd sell it for something like ten.
This shoots up so many red flags. "Dr. Houston also cautioned that the role of supplements in hypertension has not yet been tested in clinical outcomes trials in the manner that conventional drugs have been assessed . So while there is an apparent role for supplements in treating hypertension, their ability to improve cardiovascular outcomes remains to be proven." "Many natural compounds in food, as well as certain n…
The science is settled, pharmaceuticals are the only way.
I'm pretty sure this comment is sarcasm, but regardless, it should be pretty obvious that diet and exercise adjustment will fix hypertension in most (not all!) cases, but that: * Lots of people aren't prepared to make the level of change required and so medication can be a better option; and * Medication will probably reduce risk a lot faster than lifestyle adjustment if things are already dire.
fix I'm not so sure, but help, that is true.
I have hypertension myself, it's been in my family for generations, it's a moderate hypertension, but no kind of diet could lower it.
Drugs did in a very short amount of time and they are both cheap and had no consequences whatsoever.
Natural supplements can't be patented, so how could they treat disease? /s
Peter Attia and Rick Johnson
Isn't the idea to avoid it heart conditions with nutrition and exercise, but offer drugs to people who can't or won't comply? My plan is to avoid this stuff until I'm old with a healthy lifestyle, but you can't just tell other people to do that.
Just give people magnesium, it's incredibly effective and deficiency is very common (big part of it is because of soil mineral depletion). In fact, a lot of hypertension is just magnesium deficiency.
But I'd still recommend more broccoli for everyone.
This shoots up so many red flags. "Dr. Houston also cautioned that the role of supplements in hypertension has not yet been tested in clinical outcomes trials in the manner that conventional drugs have been assessed . So while there is an apparent role for supplements in treating hypertension, their ability to improve cardiovascular outcomes remains to be proven." "Many natural compounds in food, as well as certain n…
Part oft he problem with clinical trials of nutrition is that they do not stratify for genetics. Take Riboflavin for example. For a long time there were studies saying it worked and then studies saying it did not. But when they looked at MTHFR variants in people the result became more consistent that for these people with the minor allele Riboflavin worked.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01675...
https://jmhg.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s43042-022-00...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03009...
So in this case, if someone was deficient in Riboflavin, supplementing Riboflavin is much more preferable since the deficiency is the root cause of the hypertension and correcting the deficiency might resolve a variety of issues, not just the hypertension.
This shoots up so many red flags. "Dr. Houston also cautioned that the role of supplements in hypertension has not yet been tested in clinical outcomes trials in the manner that conventional drugs have been assessed . So while there is an apparent role for supplements in treating hypertension, their ability to improve cardiovascular outcomes remains to be proven." "Many natural compounds in food, as well as certain n…
Yes there is:
1) Treatment just treats the issue, unlike a healthy lifestyle which helps people avoid them in the first place.
2) Good health has various benefits beyond just fixing one particular health problem.
But the role of medicine is to treat the diseased and maybe offer some guidance along the way. Being healthy is up to the individual and maybe public health campaigns.