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Postural hypotension is a sudden, transient drop in blood pressure that happens when rising from sitting or lying down, and it causes dizziness. Learn how to prevent or reduce this dizziness.

To lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels naturally, you need to take a close look at your diet. Learn why the Pan-Asian Mediterranean (PAM) diet is the best diet for those with high cholesterol and triglycerides.

The best thing you can do to help yourself recover from a stroke is to give damaged cells the raw materials they need to create energy.

We don't need an expensive prescription drug to do the same thing that niacin has done for 50 years: raise HDL and defuse Lp(a), one of the most dangerous components of cholesterol.

Treating high blood pressure often requires a multifaceted approach. To lower blood pressure, you may need to adjust the nutrients you take, begin a weight loss program, avoid excess salt, or any combination of these options.

To maintain heart health, you need to keep your immune system strong. But should your heart-health regimen include an annual flu shot? Dr. Sinatra recommends natural alternatives for boosting your immune system and avoiding the flu.

Diastolic dysfunction or DD, in the simplest terms, is a heart that is struggling to fill with blood because the cells lack the energy needed. People with high blood pressure are more likely to develop diastolic dysfunction.

Hawthorn lowers blood pressure because it has ACE inhibitor qualities.

To maintain heart health, your diet should include a good amount of high-quality protein and essential fatty acids, which is why the Pan-Asian Mediterranean diet is a better option for promoting heart health than a strict vegetarian diet.

Heart disease can be an underlying cause of arrhythmia, which is a potentially serious disturbance of your heart's natural rhythm. Learn about the important tests needed to detect an arrhythmia.

Blood sodium levels can be normal, yet you can still have high blood pressure.

A high blood pressure reading in the morning could be caused by excessive cortisol levels.

Treating high blood pressure with prescription drugs is sometimes necessary. But if you are on a drug to lower your blood pressure, you need to be aware of how it works in the body and what common side effects you may experience.

When screening for heart disease risk, blood tests that identify inflammation, which is the core cause of heart disease, are extremely important. Learn which blood inflammation markers indicate a higher risk for developing heart disease.

Anxiety (white coat hypertension) can cause high blood pressure readings. So it's best to throw out your first blood pressure reading, then average the second two blood pressure readings.

To accurately assess your heart disease risk, you need to know more about your cholesterol levels than a standard blood lipid test will tell you. Find out which two cholesterol tests best evaluate your risk of heart disease.

High blood pressure can be caused by too much salt in the diet. But even if you have high blood pressure, you need a minimum amount of sodium in your system to maintain proper electrolyte balance.

To maintain heart health, get your core nutrients from a good multinutrient formula instead of individual nutrients. Studies show that nutrients to promote heart health often work better in combination than they do separately.

Having potassium levels at the high range of normal is fine for heart health. Learn about healthy potassium levels.

I recommend CT scans of the heart to determine calcium scores and detect heart disease early. A calcium score of zero is best.