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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.

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I wish you the best of luck!

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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.

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And it just keeps coming. "Vaccines", statins, proton pump inhibitors, antidepressants and now blood pressure meds. Thank you for opening our eyes.

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Still not done with that list either :(

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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They may need it that high just to get perfusion to their organs.

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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.

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When I finished medical school in 1993, we were taught a SBP of 120 + age divided by 2 is ideal.

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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.

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What are histamine foods?

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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.

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It's very sad to see, but we just have to do what we can

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"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).

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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.

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Can it get any worse than that?

Oh, yes, it can and it will:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-plague-of-today

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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.

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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.

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Much less focus is put onto hypotension because it's much harder to treat with pills.

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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...

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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

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It’s gut health and liver…which is causing this cascade of symptoms.

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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

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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.

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Lab-made salt kills.

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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”. 😙

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Another great article, as usual. :)

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Thank you for listening to We The People 😁

You may want, to your own benefit, mentioning at the beginning of your shareable articles what’s included in the longer versions. 💪💪💪

If this advice brings you enough benefit🍾🍾🍾, May I expect a gift extension to my subscription, which is coming soon? 😁🫶🏻🕊

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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.

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"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.

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Which is one of the reasons why it's really frustrating they are try to shift to oral fluids.

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Insightful and helpful as ever. I was given a beta blocker, which fatigued me, gave me brain fog. and made me irritable. When I complained to my doctor that my BP and heart rate was causing me anxiety--it would often be at or dip below 90/60 with my heart rate also dipping into the 40s from the 50s--my doctor said, The lower the better--as long as you're not dizzy. I opted to halve my prescription and still wonder about the damage I may be doing to my peripheral arteries, especially in my legs. In my 60s, my BP is averaging in the low 100s/low60s-low 70s. :(

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thank you for the information, context, etc.

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