In 2015, I was prescribed Terazosin. The VA doctor (my PCP) had asked if I had difficulty urinating due to BPE. I told him I generally got up in the night one time. He mentioned Terazosin, and I asked what the potential side-effects were. He answered, "There are none." When I replied that all medications have side-effects, he told me, "You are starting on a 1/20th dose - 1 mg - some men take as much as 20 mg. At that time I was ignorant regarding the nefariousness of comparing one patient to another (with, obviously, quite different symptoms, conditions, and needs). I started the drug, which caused my blood pressure (normal) to fall. I experienced Transient Global
Amnesia events (I was still working in I.T.) to great embarrassment. But, my judgment was impacted, as well as memory, and I kept taking my pills; it's unexplainable to someone who isn't impacted by a drug, and what it does to judgment and daily living. Ultimately, I blacked out (an FDA-recognized side-effect - "sudden fainting") at the wheel on the interstate. According to a witness, I drifted off the right side, went through a field at an estimated 70 mph, and smashed head-on into an oak tree. I woke up in the hospital with a broken back, sternum, ribs, arm, wrist, and was concussed and had been in a coma. I was told I wasn't expected to live when brought in. Later, a doctor told me I'd likely never walk again. I said, "Watch me." He didn't like that - his eyebrows shot up, he stared a moment, then walked out of the room with the back of his head going back and forth. (He likely thought I'd fallen asleep at the wheel). It took me months to piece together what had happened to me: meantime, my original doctor tried to reverse my medical timeline to make it appear that he'd prescribed the med after the accident. I'll never trust another doctor: Always seek second and third opinions, and follow your "sixth sense" - it will alert you. Mine nearly did, but I made a mistake the day I accepted that drug. I will be detailing my experiences/recovery at my political site, ScottSense in the coming months (plainsenseandsanity.substack.com). Please watch for it. Meantime, you can see the latest column, "Why DEI = DIE."
"These chronic diseases, including hay fever, asthma, cancer, and AIDS, are the result of wrong interventions upon the organism by conventional medicine.....the immune systems of the Western population, through strong chemical drugs and repeated vaccinations, have broken down.....medicine, instead of curing diseases, is actually the cause of the degeneration of the human race"
-Dr Juan Manuel Martinez Mendez writing in the Aug/Sept 2004 Townsend Letter
Many, many doctors are now drug pushers - they'll push a pill for the most spurious of reasons. As one potent example, doctors will prescribe anti-seizure medications prophylactically to patients who have suffered a head injury. And, guess what? One of the potential side-effects of such medications is... SEIZURE. The doctor will say, 'Good thing you're on an anti-seizure med; think how much worse it might be without it.' Ignorant patients keep truckin' along. It's a dirty cycle. and dirty doctors abound. If anyone wants my poem, "Step On a Crack - Break Your Doctor's Back," let me know - I'll post it here.
And imagine this: The Gov't. denied my Tort claim and the appeal, both assembled with the help of the Columbus (OH) VA clinic's Risk Manager. Immaculate evidence with appendixes. She later told me 'Nearly all Torts are denied regardless of merit.' Our gov't. at work (thanks for our service, indeed). I did manage to get the dirty doctor canned, as well as two clinic managers at the local community-based clinic. If further interest, go to YouTube and search "The VA's Inside War Against Our Nation's Veterans."
I'll graduate this year as a doctor and I find this article extremely important. I always felt like there is something wrong with prescribing drugs away like they're candy, and not fully acknowledging the side effects. I hope to be able to learn more and personalize my treatment models for all patients.
Great article. Thanks AMD for light shed on hypertension!
As the retired RN with a retired license for 2 years because of the COVID Debacle, it’s taking time for me to absorb all the information. However! I do enjoy eating a good egg omelette with my favorite cheese, salsa, colored bell pepper cooked in real butter on Sundays. Who would have thought it?? Eggs are not bad for you!
I am thankful for the statin scam exposure. I never took them. I dieted and got active exercising.
Beta blockers…I take one. We have what I call a family genetic disorder (last word suggested by my spell check!). So I always say I would rather have a low heart rate than one in the near 200 rate range and one that lasted 8 hours! This is not to negate what you wrote at all.
I believe each person should be treated as an individual not a group set. One size does not fit all. And lowering the BP numbers so more people are on unnecessary medications is a scam! Lots of issues coming to light thanks to the Debacle!
Again, thank you for all your research and time getting it out to us we the people who spoke on Election Day. Time for a Healthy America! Closer to 80 than 70!
Unless people have an allergy to them or they're adulterated, eggs are one of the best foods that exists; which makes it particularly frustrating the medical industry has gone after them for decades.
And now there’s an egg shortage because flocks are being killed because on bird might have had a positive bird flu test, even if it appeared to be healthy. More fear mongering.
Allie, so that was why the price was so high last night when I went in a store to get a couple seasonings I had forgotten earlier in town? The golden hen! Oh my!
Agree. The prices keep fluctuating greatly. Again, why we need to decentralize food and become friendly with our local farmer/rancher or become one ourselves! Convenience of modernity has left us unskilled and unhealthy.
I read in my Baby Book that I had an “allergic” reaction to eggs as an infant when my mom tried to introduced solid foods. Could this have been caused by one of the many vaccines I received?
If chicken eggs were used as medium to grow the vaccine (not uncommon) - it would be similar to all those who develop peanut allergies from the peanut oils in vaccines.
very likely. I read about a study where animals (I think it was monkeys) were given a vaccine for some disease at the same time a local plant was pollinating. Many of the animals developed an allergy to that pollen!
Margaret, I just learned about how important progesterone is even for women who e had their uterus removed. Dr. Mercola interviewed Carol Petersen, a compounding pharmacist, who specializes in bioidentical hormones. Although, he frustrates me as an interviewer with his constant interruptions, it’s led me down a rabbit hole. I found some other really good podcast interviews of Carol. My mind has been blow alway on how many issues can be corrected with bioidentical progesterone, even for men! I highly encourage everyone to learn more about progesterone in our highly estrogenic world.
I would like to learn more about pregnenolone, which my orthomolecular (brilliant) doc prescribed for me ages ago. I'm having trouble sourcing without compounding, but - she said it was a precursor to all hormones, including adrenal ones (it was why I started it) - but also including estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, etc. And your body would take up and produce what was needed. That it might serve as a sort of hormonal adaptogen?
I was able to import it to Australia until about a year ago, when my supplier stopped shipping to Oz (COVID put our shipping costs through the roof, so I understand why they might discontinue). I might still be able get it through Amazon, but - at a much more expensive rate.
Currently getting it compounded, but should maybe recheck Amazon to see if it's more affordable that way.
And ordering online, one ALWAYS runs the risk of "forbidden" supplements getting seized by Australian Quarantine. Then the money is just wasted.
17 years ago I had a brush with stage 0 cancer DCIS which was hormone driven so I have to stay clear of those. Thanks for the thought to mention those!
I agree. The synthetic hormones definitely cause cancer! And birth control causes low progesterone due to lack of ovulation which causes high estrogen to progesterone balance. There’s a lot of misinformation about hormones, including birth control and HRT!
And now with more xenoesteogens in our environment along with more chronic stress causes even more progesterone/estrogen imbalance. I implore you to open your mind to the possibility of progesterone/estrogen ratio dysbiosis causing more issues than you think (or want to see!) I was blown away by what I didn’t know, including how low progesterone can cause histamine/mast cell issues.
I was on a beta blocker for about 10 months. I showed up at a doctor's office after experiencing sudden onset, non-stop tachycardia and resulting high BP (about 160/120) for about 5 days straight. Instead of trying to figure out what was causing this reaction the doctor said "Maybe you just have high blood pressure" and prescribed me a beta blocker. I didn't know what else to do so I took it.
After many months of intensive research on my own and suffering from wildly swinging blood pressure as well as frequent nighttime episodes of tachycardia I discovered that what happened was that I'd developed histamine intolerance. I went on a low histamine diet and my BP dropped so low (like 93/65) I went out and bought a new cuff because I thought mine was broken. I cut out the meds, moderated food-related histamine and started taking a DAO supplement. Life returned to relative normal.
Imagine if I had believed my doctor that feeling like I just got off a treadmill for days on end just happens for no reason and shut up and took the meds.
Thank you for all you do. I'm getting immense value from your research.
It could also be caused by a drop in progesterone! Look into work by Carol Petersen, compounding pharmacist that specializes in bioidentical hormones, especially progesterone. My mind was blown! To think decades of issues due to low progesterone, including histamine/mast cell, fibromyalgia, PCOS, endometriosis, insulin resistance, etc. I’m so upset that I was never told I wouldn’t ovulate while on The Pill hence would not create the much needed progesterone.
Yes, low progesterone can cause blood pressure issues, anxiety, tachycardia, etc.
I'm sure it can! But when I addressed histamine intolerance my symptoms resolved. I've had my hormones checked and all is well. The pill is definitely awful, though. So glad I got off of it 15 years ago. Women have been sold a pack of lies on hormonal BC.
Essentially all food contains histamine, but the older the food, the more histamine it has that your body needs to process. So fermented food, canned food, processed food, leftovers, etc. are all super high histamine. When I had to eat the low histamine diet I had to keep everything super fresh which sounds great but it was very inconvenient and boring.
DAO is the enzyme the body makes to process histamine. The supplement is made from pork kidney. My favorite is HistaGest-DAO from Designs for Health but Seeking Health also makes a good one that is less expensive and more readily available. I've taken both with good results.
Absolutely! Good luck! I got a genetic analysis from 3x4 Genetics that also showed my histamine-moderating genes were misbehaving. I think they are having a Black Friday special right now (which is good because the test is pricey) if you're interested in digging deeper that way.
Sadly the people that need to read this type of information, won’t even read it, if you send it to them. They are so locked in to the ‘modern medicine system’, and because they never hear this information from their doctors, they won’t believe it. These are the doctors who are pumping the hell out of ‘prescription medicines’ into their patients. And the patients never question about any potential side affects or potential drug interactions of all the ‘meds’ they take.
I know I just had a brief ‘relationship’ with a person like this. He’s a 75 year old guy, who was a very athletic person and long time golfer, who can barely walk (even after back surgery) from having pain in his back and hips. He is slowly being poisoned by all the prescription meds he takes twice a day. I told him that it is highly likely that the source of pain as well as his ED is linked to all the prescription meds. He didn’t like that conversation.
"Doctors" are forced to follow a script that even a moron could follow (AI is coming up) and the goal is to find something the patient can be blamed for (bad habits or something "inherited," although families are usually exposed to the same type of poisoning that the "modern," mostly invented illnesses are meant to cover up in the Rockefellerian paradigm).
Yeah, I agree. I’m trying to break the habit of sending stuff. Since Covid-19 I have learned that it doesn’t make a difference what articles, links, etc. I send. Especially if a person watches cable news. It’s frustrating but it seems that people are their ideas, and sending stuff that doesn’t align with their beliefs/ideas is attack on their personhood.
men do not like having discussions about medicines.
there are some ppl can not avoid some meds, my husband has glaucoma since his 40s and he takes many eye drops. His is pretty bad, it runs in his family.
The heart meds, I can relate information, I know his doctors, but ...yeah, they have to decide.
“It runs in the family”…genetics play some part but mostly its lifestyle choices, including environmental. But the cognitive dissonance is too great for most to admit and realize they have made choices that impacted them negatively. But choices can be made to course correct! Yes, there will be possible lasting consequences but the power is in our hands.
Diet and lifestyle is - heriditary, too. It's where we learn how to be in the world, and some of those may be generational. I can name foods that were Grandma's recipes, and - judgements from that same generation.
They say that the trauma your Grandma's mother experienced in the womb affects your genetics - but this is epigenetics. Yes, it's inherited, but - it's also environmental. When we think about the generations before us - Vietnam, WW2, WW1, Great Depression, Civil War (and that's just the Yanks, the UK folk have a different set going back) - poverty, deprivation, hard work, coal mines - whatever it was - it's in you, now.
When I was in nurse traing, in the 1970s, we were taught - as rule of thumb - that "normal" systolic blood pressure should be approx 100 + the age of the patient. Still makes sense to me.
That was OLD data. I am a 67 year-old recently retired anesthesiologist and leaving my BP at 167 for extended periods of time will wind me up in the dialysis unit or the stroke unit or both. While I do think it is easy (and common) to over treat BP especially in the elderly, 100+age is not a recipe for health.
Interesting. In my mother's family. A lot of us have quite low blood pressure and the women routinely live into their '90s, but we need to eat way more salt than the dietary guidelines suggest or we...start fainting. My mother hopped on the trendy low salt bandwagon in the '90s and ended up getting quite sick until the doctor told her to start eating salt again.
Luckily the salt we need to control our condition is cheap and abundant. I feel fine if I salt my food until it tastes "right." I leave it on the dining table and several of my children are similar.
My mother told me about two janitors who talked about "blood pressure" and one of them said she had forgotten to take her "pill." The other one volunteered and gave her a BP-lowering chemicals, upon which the other party passed away...
Where can I find treatment ideas for my 74 yo wife’s low BP 100/65? Coupled with Afib and CIRS leaves her tired, no exercise, and sleeping often. Thanks to your posts we use Zeta Aid for some improvement.
You are greatly appreciated by those that are willing to question and seek. I have given input and DMSO to several stroke patients, etc.
This is making sense to me! In the 70's, it seemed like the men in our suburb were dropping like flies - heart attacks in their 40's. As my paternal grandfather was dead by 45, my parents got into the "low salt" thing. (I've since learned that potassium salts are awesome, and I'd love to be able to get my hands on some now - NuSalt, I think it was called)
But as I went through puberty, I started having severe blackouts and fainting spells....
I have always had low blood pressure. What you say, makes SENSE!
Yes, BP "madications" (sic!) make the victim (apologies, "patient") to develop dependency, kind of like in the case of Type-2 diabetes...
Blood pressure is NOT an illness; it's a symptom, which reminds me of autoimmune conditions and allergies, both invented illnesses, to cover up for common poisonings. Recently, I collected 13 major sources of mass poisoning, and they converge:
I was given a 1/2 a BP pill for heart rhythms. I think it was an ACE, but so long ago, now.
What I found was - the BP pill calmed the heart rhythms. Until it wore off, then the symptoms returned x2. Take another half. Calmed it down. Until it wore off, symptoms x3. When the symptoms got to x10, I reckoned this was a bad habit to begin. I think I took 2.5 tablets all up in that experiment.
Thanks AMD. Please, keep 'em coming...and please forgive my gloating over the revelations I have embraced for years, and you have confirmed to be true. My seriously misguided siblings, friends and fellow sojourners would benefit from studying your work...but they have not listened to date, and are unlikely to start now. I do appreciate reading your work, and knowing it to be true, enjoy what you share with us. Happy Thanksgiving, AMD.
IKR? I feel like an alien among other humans as I listen to their procedures and surgeries, look at their splints, orthotics and bandages...and the worst part, hear their litany of prescriptions....
I think it's contributing to my headaches - all the things I cannot say.
That is funny...you have a well developed sense of humor, JC. I had a friend, older, not well versed in anatomy or pathology, but who had a serious trust in everything his doctor told him. One day, he was very sad, contrite, and diminished in spirit. When asked what was going on, his response was a grateful look, that someone finally was interested in his latest ailment...he looked like he was going to admit to a finding of say terminal stage four pancreatic cancer or something...and with a long face, and, seemingly resigned to his fate, he announced the doctor's revelation..."I have stenosis". One of his friends told me that this man suffered from "optical rectalitis"...I THINK IT GAVE ME A HEADACHE TOO...I DARED NOT COMMENT FURTHER...morsicatio linguarum. (Thanks for being a good sport JC...God bless you.) P.S. I hope the guy with the IKr problem sees a Cardiologist instead of an Orthopedist.
Go get ‘em Doc! Love your stuff. Been hiding in the corner saying these same things. Tired of being called a “conspiracy theorist”. Perhaps the “phoenix is rising”. 😙
"Conversely, I believe many of the benefits from hospital care are a result of IV fluids being routinely given as they partially restore the physiologic zeta potential." Interesting! At one time, toyed with the idea of writing a book titled something like, "Useful stuff they don't teach you in med school." With the obvious exclusions of excess fluid conditions, never found a patient who didn't have a significant sense of improvement with IV hydration, regardless of the presenting complaint.
Great piece of writing. Thank you! I had no idea of the many side effects caused by blood pressure lowering meds. My basic understanding is that hypertension is indicative of another underlying condition and that taking blood pressure lowering medication masks the symptoms and ignores the root cause. Hypertension has a metabolic foundation and its most common cause is Insulin resistance. IR is rarely diagnosed as fasting insulin tests are not common practice. Hypertension is one of the ways in which IR significantly increases the risk for atherosclerosis. But IR is independently the most common health disorder that causes the most common cause of death - heart disease. Lowering blood pressure without addressing the insulin resistance via diet and lifestyle changes is not going to help improve matters - in fact it may do quite the opposite.
In 2015, I was prescribed Terazosin. The VA doctor (my PCP) had asked if I had difficulty urinating due to BPE. I told him I generally got up in the night one time. He mentioned Terazosin, and I asked what the potential side-effects were. He answered, "There are none." When I replied that all medications have side-effects, he told me, "You are starting on a 1/20th dose - 1 mg - some men take as much as 20 mg. At that time I was ignorant regarding the nefariousness of comparing one patient to another (with, obviously, quite different symptoms, conditions, and needs). I started the drug, which caused my blood pressure (normal) to fall. I experienced Transient Global
Amnesia events (I was still working in I.T.) to great embarrassment. But, my judgment was impacted, as well as memory, and I kept taking my pills; it's unexplainable to someone who isn't impacted by a drug, and what it does to judgment and daily living. Ultimately, I blacked out (an FDA-recognized side-effect - "sudden fainting") at the wheel on the interstate. According to a witness, I drifted off the right side, went through a field at an estimated 70 mph, and smashed head-on into an oak tree. I woke up in the hospital with a broken back, sternum, ribs, arm, wrist, and was concussed and had been in a coma. I was told I wasn't expected to live when brought in. Later, a doctor told me I'd likely never walk again. I said, "Watch me." He didn't like that - his eyebrows shot up, he stared a moment, then walked out of the room with the back of his head going back and forth. (He likely thought I'd fallen asleep at the wheel). It took me months to piece together what had happened to me: meantime, my original doctor tried to reverse my medical timeline to make it appear that he'd prescribed the med after the accident. I'll never trust another doctor: Always seek second and third opinions, and follow your "sixth sense" - it will alert you. Mine nearly did, but I made a mistake the day I accepted that drug. I will be detailing my experiences/recovery at my political site, ScottSense in the coming months (plainsenseandsanity.substack.com). Please watch for it. Meantime, you can see the latest column, "Why DEI = DIE."
Pinned your comment.
"These chronic diseases, including hay fever, asthma, cancer, and AIDS, are the result of wrong interventions upon the organism by conventional medicine.....the immune systems of the Western population, through strong chemical drugs and repeated vaccinations, have broken down.....medicine, instead of curing diseases, is actually the cause of the degeneration of the human race"
-Dr Juan Manuel Martinez Mendez writing in the Aug/Sept 2004 Townsend Letter
Many, many doctors are now drug pushers - they'll push a pill for the most spurious of reasons. As one potent example, doctors will prescribe anti-seizure medications prophylactically to patients who have suffered a head injury. And, guess what? One of the potential side-effects of such medications is... SEIZURE. The doctor will say, 'Good thing you're on an anti-seizure med; think how much worse it might be without it.' Ignorant patients keep truckin' along. It's a dirty cycle. and dirty doctors abound. If anyone wants my poem, "Step On a Crack - Break Your Doctor's Back," let me know - I'll post it here.
wow. incredible story and incredibly infuriating that your doctor told you NO side effects and then later tried to falsify your records.
And imagine this: The Gov't. denied my Tort claim and the appeal, both assembled with the help of the Columbus (OH) VA clinic's Risk Manager. Immaculate evidence with appendixes. She later told me 'Nearly all Torts are denied regardless of merit.' Our gov't. at work (thanks for our service, indeed). I did manage to get the dirty doctor canned, as well as two clinic managers at the local community-based clinic. If further interest, go to YouTube and search "The VA's Inside War Against Our Nation's Veterans."
I'll graduate this year as a doctor and I find this article extremely important. I always felt like there is something wrong with prescribing drugs away like they're candy, and not fully acknowledging the side effects. I hope to be able to learn more and personalize my treatment models for all patients.
I wish you the best of luck!
Thank you!
How did you vaccinate little children when you know how much harm the vaccines do? Being a doctor is not worth doing that. Shame on you.
And it just keeps coming. "Vaccines", statins, proton pump inhibitors, antidepressants and now blood pressure meds. Thank you for opening our eyes.
Still not done with that list either :(
I'm looking forward to that next timely topic. I will include this post in my next blog post.
Happy Thanksgiving, AMD.
Great article. Thanks AMD for light shed on hypertension!
As the retired RN with a retired license for 2 years because of the COVID Debacle, it’s taking time for me to absorb all the information. However! I do enjoy eating a good egg omelette with my favorite cheese, salsa, colored bell pepper cooked in real butter on Sundays. Who would have thought it?? Eggs are not bad for you!
I am thankful for the statin scam exposure. I never took them. I dieted and got active exercising.
Beta blockers…I take one. We have what I call a family genetic disorder (last word suggested by my spell check!). So I always say I would rather have a low heart rate than one in the near 200 rate range and one that lasted 8 hours! This is not to negate what you wrote at all.
I believe each person should be treated as an individual not a group set. One size does not fit all. And lowering the BP numbers so more people are on unnecessary medications is a scam! Lots of issues coming to light thanks to the Debacle!
Again, thank you for all your research and time getting it out to us we the people who spoke on Election Day. Time for a Healthy America! Closer to 80 than 70!
Happy Thanksgiving y’all!
Unless people have an allergy to them or they're adulterated, eggs are one of the best foods that exists; which makes it particularly frustrating the medical industry has gone after them for decades.
And now there’s an egg shortage because flocks are being killed because on bird might have had a positive bird flu test, even if it appeared to be healthy. More fear mongering.
Allie, so that was why the price was so high last night when I went in a store to get a couple seasonings I had forgotten earlier in town? The golden hen! Oh my!
Agree. The prices keep fluctuating greatly. Again, why we need to decentralize food and become friendly with our local farmer/rancher or become one ourselves! Convenience of modernity has left us unskilled and unhealthy.
I read in my Baby Book that I had an “allergic” reaction to eggs as an infant when my mom tried to introduced solid foods. Could this have been caused by one of the many vaccines I received?
If chicken eggs were used as medium to grow the vaccine (not uncommon) - it would be similar to all those who develop peanut allergies from the peanut oils in vaccines.
very likely. I read about a study where animals (I think it was monkeys) were given a vaccine for some disease at the same time a local plant was pollinating. Many of the animals developed an allergy to that pollen!
Margaret, I just learned about how important progesterone is even for women who e had their uterus removed. Dr. Mercola interviewed Carol Petersen, a compounding pharmacist, who specializes in bioidentical hormones. Although, he frustrates me as an interviewer with his constant interruptions, it’s led me down a rabbit hole. I found some other really good podcast interviews of Carol. My mind has been blow alway on how many issues can be corrected with bioidentical progesterone, even for men! I highly encourage everyone to learn more about progesterone in our highly estrogenic world.
I would like to learn more about pregnenolone, which my orthomolecular (brilliant) doc prescribed for me ages ago. I'm having trouble sourcing without compounding, but - she said it was a precursor to all hormones, including adrenal ones (it was why I started it) - but also including estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, etc. And your body would take up and produce what was needed. That it might serve as a sort of hormonal adaptogen?
JC, I was able to buy pregnenolone as a supplement from my local natural grocery store a few years ago.
Yes, it is readily available in the USA.
I was able to import it to Australia until about a year ago, when my supplier stopped shipping to Oz (COVID put our shipping costs through the roof, so I understand why they might discontinue). I might still be able get it through Amazon, but - at a much more expensive rate.
Currently getting it compounded, but should maybe recheck Amazon to see if it's more affordable that way.
And ordering online, one ALWAYS runs the risk of "forbidden" supplements getting seized by Australian Quarantine. Then the money is just wasted.
17 years ago I had a brush with stage 0 cancer DCIS which was hormone driven so I have to stay clear of those. Thanks for the thought to mention those!
I agree. The synthetic hormones definitely cause cancer! And birth control causes low progesterone due to lack of ovulation which causes high estrogen to progesterone balance. There’s a lot of misinformation about hormones, including birth control and HRT!
And now with more xenoesteogens in our environment along with more chronic stress causes even more progesterone/estrogen imbalance. I implore you to open your mind to the possibility of progesterone/estrogen ratio dysbiosis causing more issues than you think (or want to see!) I was blown away by what I didn’t know, including how low progesterone can cause histamine/mast cell issues.
Why Everyone needs progesterone…
Episode 430 on The Thyroid Fixer
Why Everyone needs progesterone…
Episode 593 on Energized with Dr. Mariza
I was on a beta blocker for about 10 months. I showed up at a doctor's office after experiencing sudden onset, non-stop tachycardia and resulting high BP (about 160/120) for about 5 days straight. Instead of trying to figure out what was causing this reaction the doctor said "Maybe you just have high blood pressure" and prescribed me a beta blocker. I didn't know what else to do so I took it.
After many months of intensive research on my own and suffering from wildly swinging blood pressure as well as frequent nighttime episodes of tachycardia I discovered that what happened was that I'd developed histamine intolerance. I went on a low histamine diet and my BP dropped so low (like 93/65) I went out and bought a new cuff because I thought mine was broken. I cut out the meds, moderated food-related histamine and started taking a DAO supplement. Life returned to relative normal.
Imagine if I had believed my doctor that feeling like I just got off a treadmill for days on end just happens for no reason and shut up and took the meds.
Thank you for all you do. I'm getting immense value from your research.
Joanna-
It could also be caused by a drop in progesterone! Look into work by Carol Petersen, compounding pharmacist that specializes in bioidentical hormones, especially progesterone. My mind was blown! To think decades of issues due to low progesterone, including histamine/mast cell, fibromyalgia, PCOS, endometriosis, insulin resistance, etc. I’m so upset that I was never told I wouldn’t ovulate while on The Pill hence would not create the much needed progesterone.
Yes, low progesterone can cause blood pressure issues, anxiety, tachycardia, etc.
I'm sure it can! But when I addressed histamine intolerance my symptoms resolved. I've had my hormones checked and all is well. The pill is definitely awful, though. So glad I got off of it 15 years ago. Women have been sold a pack of lies on hormonal BC.
What are histamine foods?
Essentially all food contains histamine, but the older the food, the more histamine it has that your body needs to process. So fermented food, canned food, processed food, leftovers, etc. are all super high histamine. When I had to eat the low histamine diet I had to keep everything super fresh which sounds great but it was very inconvenient and boring.
I'm jumping in with an unofficial, laydude's interpretation: foods that personally make you 'itch' or trigger some immune response.
In general, histamine is related to the age of food.
DAO supplement?
DAO is the enzyme the body makes to process histamine. The supplement is made from pork kidney. My favorite is HistaGest-DAO from Designs for Health but Seeking Health also makes a good one that is less expensive and more readily available. I've taken both with good results.
Thanks!
Absolutely! Good luck! I got a genetic analysis from 3x4 Genetics that also showed my histamine-moderating genes were misbehaving. I think they are having a Black Friday special right now (which is good because the test is pricey) if you're interested in digging deeper that way.
Great!
Sadly the people that need to read this type of information, won’t even read it, if you send it to them. They are so locked in to the ‘modern medicine system’, and because they never hear this information from their doctors, they won’t believe it. These are the doctors who are pumping the hell out of ‘prescription medicines’ into their patients. And the patients never question about any potential side affects or potential drug interactions of all the ‘meds’ they take.
I know I just had a brief ‘relationship’ with a person like this. He’s a 75 year old guy, who was a very athletic person and long time golfer, who can barely walk (even after back surgery) from having pain in his back and hips. He is slowly being poisoned by all the prescription meds he takes twice a day. I told him that it is highly likely that the source of pain as well as his ED is linked to all the prescription meds. He didn’t like that conversation.
It's very sad to see, but we just have to do what we can
"Doctors" are forced to follow a script that even a moron could follow (AI is coming up) and the goal is to find something the patient can be blamed for (bad habits or something "inherited," although families are usually exposed to the same type of poisoning that the "modern," mostly invented illnesses are meant to cover up in the Rockefellerian paradigm).
OH IT'S YOUR GENES!
I am so tired of that chestnut!
Yeah, I agree. I’m trying to break the habit of sending stuff. Since Covid-19 I have learned that it doesn’t make a difference what articles, links, etc. I send. Especially if a person watches cable news. It’s frustrating but it seems that people are their ideas, and sending stuff that doesn’t align with their beliefs/ideas is attack on their personhood.
men do not like having discussions about medicines.
there are some ppl can not avoid some meds, my husband has glaucoma since his 40s and he takes many eye drops. His is pretty bad, it runs in his family.
The heart meds, I can relate information, I know his doctors, but ...yeah, they have to decide.
“It runs in the family”…genetics play some part but mostly its lifestyle choices, including environmental. But the cognitive dissonance is too great for most to admit and realize they have made choices that impacted them negatively. But choices can be made to course correct! Yes, there will be possible lasting consequences but the power is in our hands.
Diet and lifestyle is - heriditary, too. It's where we learn how to be in the world, and some of those may be generational. I can name foods that were Grandma's recipes, and - judgements from that same generation.
They say that the trauma your Grandma's mother experienced in the womb affects your genetics - but this is epigenetics. Yes, it's inherited, but - it's also environmental. When we think about the generations before us - Vietnam, WW2, WW1, Great Depression, Civil War (and that's just the Yanks, the UK folk have a different set going back) - poverty, deprivation, hard work, coal mines - whatever it was - it's in you, now.
the glaucoma is hereditary.
Can it get any worse than that?
Oh, yes, it can and it will:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-plague-of-today
When I was in nurse traing, in the 1970s, we were taught - as rule of thumb - that "normal" systolic blood pressure should be approx 100 + the age of the patient. Still makes sense to me.
I’ve heard that, but that could be a pretty high BP for some of us seniors. I’m not sure a sys BP of 190 would be so good for a 90 year old.
They may need it that high just to get perfusion to their organs.
That was OLD data. I am a 67 year-old recently retired anesthesiologist and leaving my BP at 167 for extended periods of time will wind me up in the dialysis unit or the stroke unit or both. While I do think it is easy (and common) to over treat BP especially in the elderly, 100+age is not a recipe for health.
When I finished medical school in 1993, we were taught a SBP of 120 + age divided by 2 is ideal.
Interesting. In my mother's family. A lot of us have quite low blood pressure and the women routinely live into their '90s, but we need to eat way more salt than the dietary guidelines suggest or we...start fainting. My mother hopped on the trendy low salt bandwagon in the '90s and ended up getting quite sick until the doctor told her to start eating salt again.
Much less focus is put onto hypotension because it's much harder to treat with pills.
Luckily the salt we need to control our condition is cheap and abundant. I feel fine if I salt my food until it tastes "right." I leave it on the dining table and several of my children are similar.
My mother told me about two janitors who talked about "blood pressure" and one of them said she had forgotten to take her "pill." The other one volunteered and gave her a BP-lowering chemicals, upon which the other party passed away...
Where can I find treatment ideas for my 74 yo wife’s low BP 100/65? Coupled with Afib and CIRS leaves her tired, no exercise, and sleeping often. Thanks to your posts we use Zeta Aid for some improvement.
You are greatly appreciated by those that are willing to question and seek. I have given input and DMSO to several stroke patients, etc.
This is making sense to me! In the 70's, it seemed like the men in our suburb were dropping like flies - heart attacks in their 40's. As my paternal grandfather was dead by 45, my parents got into the "low salt" thing. (I've since learned that potassium salts are awesome, and I'd love to be able to get my hands on some now - NuSalt, I think it was called)
But as I went through puberty, I started having severe blackouts and fainting spells....
I have always had low blood pressure. What you say, makes SENSE!
Yes, BP "madications" (sic!) make the victim (apologies, "patient") to develop dependency, kind of like in the case of Type-2 diabetes...
Blood pressure is NOT an illness; it's a symptom, which reminds me of autoimmune conditions and allergies, both invented illnesses, to cover up for common poisonings. Recently, I collected 13 major sources of mass poisoning, and they converge:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/an-unlikely-synthesis-a-comprehensive
A couple of years ago, the "doctors" indeed had to lower the threshold to 130/80, because they had to obey their masters.
For that matter, among invented illnesses, blood pressure and "sleep apnea" also seem to be connected:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/sleep-apnea-and-high-blood-pressure
It’s gut health and liver…which is causing this cascade of symptoms.
The liver can recover in a couple of months, but about the gut, I had this "gut feeling":
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-works-in-the-guts
I was given a 1/2 a BP pill for heart rhythms. I think it was an ACE, but so long ago, now.
What I found was - the BP pill calmed the heart rhythms. Until it wore off, then the symptoms returned x2. Take another half. Calmed it down. Until it wore off, symptoms x3. When the symptoms got to x10, I reckoned this was a bad habit to begin. I think I took 2.5 tablets all up in that experiment.
Thanks AMD. Please, keep 'em coming...and please forgive my gloating over the revelations I have embraced for years, and you have confirmed to be true. My seriously misguided siblings, friends and fellow sojourners would benefit from studying your work...but they have not listened to date, and are unlikely to start now. I do appreciate reading your work, and knowing it to be true, enjoy what you share with us. Happy Thanksgiving, AMD.
IKR? I feel like an alien among other humans as I listen to their procedures and surgeries, look at their splints, orthotics and bandages...and the worst part, hear their litany of prescriptions....
I think it's contributing to my headaches - all the things I cannot say.
That is funny...you have a well developed sense of humor, JC. I had a friend, older, not well versed in anatomy or pathology, but who had a serious trust in everything his doctor told him. One day, he was very sad, contrite, and diminished in spirit. When asked what was going on, his response was a grateful look, that someone finally was interested in his latest ailment...he looked like he was going to admit to a finding of say terminal stage four pancreatic cancer or something...and with a long face, and, seemingly resigned to his fate, he announced the doctor's revelation..."I have stenosis". One of his friends told me that this man suffered from "optical rectalitis"...I THINK IT GAVE ME A HEADACHE TOO...I DARED NOT COMMENT FURTHER...morsicatio linguarum. (Thanks for being a good sport JC...God bless you.) P.S. I hope the guy with the IKr problem sees a Cardiologist instead of an Orthopedist.
Go get ‘em Doc! Love your stuff. Been hiding in the corner saying these same things. Tired of being called a “conspiracy theorist”. Perhaps the “phoenix is rising”. 😙
Be careful about accepting anything the Weinstein brothers tell you:
https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/like-a-phoenix-the-death-and-rebirth
Another side effect of low sodium is muscle cramps. I reduced the sodium in my diet for a while and got a couple of cramps that lasted for days.
Lab-made salt kills.
"Conversely, I believe many of the benefits from hospital care are a result of IV fluids being routinely given as they partially restore the physiologic zeta potential." Interesting! At one time, toyed with the idea of writing a book titled something like, "Useful stuff they don't teach you in med school." With the obvious exclusions of excess fluid conditions, never found a patient who didn't have a significant sense of improvement with IV hydration, regardless of the presenting complaint.
Which is one of the reasons why it's really frustrating they are try to shift to oral fluids.
after the 'COVID Era,' I'm basically inclined to do the complete opposite of whatever I'm told
Remember how they told us certain meds were needed to treat C19 and turned hospitals into incentivized killing factories?
https://eccentrik.substack.com/p/killing-factories-how-official-hospital
Another great article, as usual. :)
Great piece of writing. Thank you! I had no idea of the many side effects caused by blood pressure lowering meds. My basic understanding is that hypertension is indicative of another underlying condition and that taking blood pressure lowering medication masks the symptoms and ignores the root cause. Hypertension has a metabolic foundation and its most common cause is Insulin resistance. IR is rarely diagnosed as fasting insulin tests are not common practice. Hypertension is one of the ways in which IR significantly increases the risk for atherosclerosis. But IR is independently the most common health disorder that causes the most common cause of death - heart disease. Lowering blood pressure without addressing the insulin resistance via diet and lifestyle changes is not going to help improve matters - in fact it may do quite the opposite.