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Salt, how much is too much – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Website: www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: Salt is sodium chloride, the white crystals left over when seawater evaporates. Experts have been arguing about this for decades. One side says everyone needs to cut back on salt and that doing so would substantially reduce heart disease. The other side says universal salt reduction would have little effect on public health and would be a needless deprivation for most people. In Japan, the daily intake is a whopping 26,000 mg (more than 11 teaspoons of salt). But their lifespan seems to be more than in most other countries. How salt affects your blood pressure and health depends on your genes, age, and medical conditions. The human body requires a small amount of sodium to conduct nerve impulses, contract and relax muscles, and maintain the proper water balance and minerals. It is estimated that we need ...

Jul 19, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged blood sodium level, disease Kidney stone, Health, Heart disease, High blood pressure (hypertension), kidneys, s, Stroke Kidney

Have you checked your Blood Pressure recently? – Good advice by Dr. Harold You get high blood pressure as you get older. Being a slow process of increase, you may not have any prodromal signs, until one day you feel dizzy. Blood pressure is cause by pushing the blood from the left lower chamber of your heart against the walls of the arteries that develops a resistance due to thickening (arteriosclerosis). As you know, your doctor will give you two readings when he checks your BP: upper pressure represents the pressure caused by the contraction of the left lower chamber of the heart (ejection pressure), and the lower reading represents the diastolic pressure due to the pressure in the arteries as the heart dilates. In healthy active situation the best readings of your BP should be-systolic 120mm and your diastolic below 80 mm. High blood pressure (hypertension) is now ...

Mar 2, 2018 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged best readings of your BP should be-systolic 120mm and your diastolic below 80 mm, Have you checked your Blood Pressure recently? - Good advice by Dr. Harold, high blood pressure, High blood pressure (hypertension), sleep apnea Comments 0