Q&A with Leyla, Part 2: The Coronary Artery Inflammation Controversy
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Q&A with Leyla, Part 2: The Coronary Artery Inflammation Controversy

C1AdvancedSeptember 17, 202632 min
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Welcome back to today's intelligent medicine podcast. It's part two of our Q&A with Leila for the week and we've been talking about hypertension. We got another question on the subject of high blood pressure. This time it has to do with medications. Yes, blood pressure rights. As soon as I take my meds for high

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blood pressure, I'm tired, no energy. I'm taking dia man in the morning and Crestor at night. I also take vitamin D, I take 12, I take biotin. My blood pressure does fluctuate it up, it goes up and down a lot. We don't know how old Priscilla is or anything else about her. Well this is sometimes referred to as

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brittle hypertension. Okay. And as what can imagine when your arteries become stiffer as you get older, you know, some so-called hardening of the arteries, which is the real thing. I mean, it's an old-fashioned expression, but your arteries become less flexible. And as a result, they don't distend and

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