Q: Is there any evidence that caffeine raises blood pressure?

If you've ever been diagnosed with high blood pressure, I bet your doctor had his prescription pad out faster than a gunfighter drawing his pistol.

And here's the reason-most docs don't want to spend the time it would take to learn what's causing your hypertension. I'm not kidding-mainstream medicine claims that over 90 percent of all cases of high blood pressure are "essential," which is a bizarre medical term for "we don't know the cause."

Q: My “insurance plan” doctor tells me I shouldn’t take estrogen—even bio-identical estrogen—because it will increase my risk of a blood clot and maybe a stroke. Is this true?

––CS, via e-mail

Inflammation is the silent killer of hundreds of thousands of Americans every year and most of its victims have no idea how dangerous it is.

I will admit that I never thought much about the canola oil I routinely use for my baking until I asked myself one day, “is there a canola plant”?

This post outlines six reliable measures of how healthy your heart is.

Clearly, it's not practical or even possible for some people to track all six measures on a regular basis. But tracking one or even a few of the following measures once a year is recommended if you want to have some idea of how healthy your heart is.

Question: Could you please tell me the best natural way to reduce high blood pressure? I have a terrible time with nasty side effect on prescription drugs.

"Egg-Irony" - that's how ScienceDaily referred to a new study that shows how egg consumption might alleviate a heart disease risk factor.

All my life I have been healthy, slim and active never had any major health challenges. At the age of 39 I noticed som

Our old friends at Big Pharma are at it again – trying to get more people to take a drug they don’t need, for something it wasn’t even made for.

Millions of Americans are already taking statins to help manage their cholesterol. The drugs are already unnecessary for most people, because cholesterol can be controlled through your diet. It’s that simple, and I can show you how.