Heart Health Management, Artery Care, and Emergency Signs

Cardiovascular wellness focuses on plaque reduction, managing arrhythmias like AFib, and recognizing emergency signs of heart failure or infarction.

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Pressure Points in the Legs

Because of gravity, your legs may not receive the best circulation, especially if you have to be on your feet or sit at a computer for eight or more hours every day.

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How to Lower B6

Vitamin B6, also referred to as pyridoxine, is an essential component for your health. This vitamin aids in the conversion of food into energy, maintains healthy hair, skin and eyes, and cleanses the liver. It is also responsible for normal brain function and development, as well as the production of red blood cells.

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How to Raise Blood Pressure Naturally

While most people are more concerned about their blood pressure being too high, an abnormally low blood pressure can also cause problems. Normal blood pressure is less than 120/80 mmHg, but a level less than 90/60 is generally considered too low.

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Recommended Diet for Coronary Artery Disease

Coronary arteries carry blood to the heart muscle. In coronary artery disease, or CAD, LDL cholesterol builds up inside these arteries, forming plaque that causes them to become narrow, blocking or slowing the flow of blood and oxygen needed for proper heart function.

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What Tea Is Good for People Who Have High Blood Pressure?

Taking tea may be a grand affair involving fine china, tea sandwiches and proper etiquette, or it can be as simple as adding a teabag to a mug of boiling water. However you take your tea, understand that many varieties can offer benefits if your blood pressure is too high.

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Children's Chest Pain With Exercise

When your child complains of chest pain while exercising, you may worry that he has a heart condition. Chest pain due to a cardiac cause is extremely uncommon in children, according to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Pain often originates from an injury, illness or asthma rather than from a heart problem.

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Electrolytes for Heart Palpitations

The heart is a muscular organ that is extraordinarily sensitive to disturbances in electrolyte balance. This is because electrolytes are required to maintain the electrical activity of the heart.

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What Causes Low Fluid at 34 Weeks Pregnant?

Amniotic fluid is the fluid that surrounds your baby in the womb.This clear-colored liquid protects the baby and provides it with fluids, reports the March of Dimes. Your baby breathes and swallows amniotic fluid. The medical term for low fluid is oligohydramnios.

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How Does Skin Prevent Disease?

The average adult has over 8 lbs. of skin, and it is the largest organ in your body. Your skin serves many purposes, but one of its major functions is to protect the body from infectious organisms, such as parasites, bacteria or viruses, that cause disease.

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Sweating & High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, can lead to stroke, heart attack, damage to your blood vessels and congestive heart failure.

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How to Use a Steam Room With High Blood Pressure

Steam rooms can have beneficial health effects, including reduced stress, improved circulation and relief of muscle pain. They can help clear your sinuses, and they open your pores and cleanse your skin.

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Diet for an Overactive Sympathetic Nervous System

Your metabolism, temperature, heart action and digestion are all controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, or SNS, and the parasympathetic nervous system. Ideally, these two systems are balanced, but either system can become overactive and cause problems.

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The Best Vegetables & Fruits to Eat for High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure increases your risk for heart disease and stroke, but you may be able to lower your blood pressure by improving your diet. A diet which is high in vegetables and fruits may help lower your blood pressure, and eating a wide variety will provide multiple nutrients to support a healthy blood pressure.

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Foods With Calcium Channel Blockers

Calcium channel blockers, or calcium antagonists, are so named because they block calcium from going into blood vessel and heart cells. This helps to relax and widen artery walls. They are used in the treatment of conditions such as hypertension, migraine headaches, arrhythmias and certain other circulatory problems.

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