Learn more from Dr. Michael Rakotz on behalf of NorthShore University about high blood pressure and if you can prevent it.

Can High Blood Pressure Be Prevented?

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We've had a big trend in medicine, and in culture towards early detection. And I think we really need to look carefully at that because a lot of times with this early detection, we've taken healthy people and labelled them with a pre-hypertension, or pre-diabetes, and it's not really a disease. 

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Preventing illness is getting to be a more widespread notion in the medical industry. In this video, HealthMaker Rita Redberg, MD, a cardiologist at UCSF Medical Center, talks about why certain issues do not benefit from premature labeling.

Is Early Detection Important?

Yes beet juice can lower your blood pressure there was a really great study done out of England that showed that it can lower your blood pressure anywhere up to four to five points, if you drink a cup of beet juice a day which is pretty amazing because even some medication try to achieve that effect and can and so the great thing about the beet juice is that you can use it as a healthy form as medicine, to try to start lowering your blood pressure and hopefully maybe eventually get off your hypertension medication with obviously your physician's supervision. 

  

Beet juice can lower your blood pressure; it's an effective natural alternative to prescription medications and has been shown to have similar results. Watch naturopathic specialist Pina LoGiudice, ND, discuss the benefits of beet juice.

Can Beet Juice Help Lower My Blood Pressure?

Or its a short and very straight forward list. Its chronic diseases, so hypertension, asthma, diabetes, COPD, lung diseases, these are the big entities that wind up making people sick for years and then kill them of, and we know how to tackle them. And so what we're getting now, the reason, if I sound excited I am, the reason that we are really able to do something about it now, is we can say, well if we are taking care of several hundred thousand patients and for example the L. 

A. Region, for our health system, we now have a way of tracking how their health is doing, sending them a reminder, getting them to education classes, have someone [UNKNOWN] to their home and put in a remote monitoring system, if we need to find how they're doing everyday. So we can catch it early if they're trending down hill, and get in there and help them and do something about it. 

So, it's a completely different way than just sitting in your office and waiting for. 
  

Chronic diseases like asthma, hypertension, diabetes and COPD are major concerns, says HealthMaker Molly J. Coye, MD, chief innovation officer of the UCLA Health System. But improved communication and remote sensors are making them easier to fight.

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Can High Blood Pressure Be Prevented?

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