My whole life I heard older people, (my definition has changed with every half decade), “wait until you are my age and see if you can do that.” The “that”, was to perform some kind of athletic action. When I was in my 40’s people said, “wait until you are 50 and see how your body acts.” When I was 50 people continued to say, “wait until you are…”. They told me about the body aches and how hard it was to keep the extra weight off. They told me that I wouldn’t be able to do wha

High Blood pressure can be treated with lifestyle changes. That is hard! Sleeping more, resting more, enjoying life more often means less production. This doesn’t sit well with high pressure jobs or highly motivated personalities. So what do you do? Before you solve your issue with a pill, and a lifestyle overhaul seems too ominous (it won’t forever, in fact it really is appealing), how about adding a few things to your diet? NO (Nitric Oxide) is a wonderful compound that is

Sustainable is one of the best and most hopeful movies about health and our food system. It takes you through a journey of our food system. Well, not really our conventional food system, but the small and growing system of sustainable crop production. This film, unlike so many, has no axe to grind except for using our land to produce wonderful food without using up our land. If the film was a river, it would have many streams that it travels down to help us to understand how

I have watched a few documentaries about pharmaceuticals. A new one came out this last year on Netflix that talks about Adderall. The thing that we can all agree on, for those who think for themselves, is that we have been trained and taught that if you have something wrong with your brain or your body that there is a pill for that. There are pills for the side effects of pills, but that is another topic. Today’s topic is high blood pressure. Hypertension. There are pills for