High Blood Pressure

This healthcast will tell you what you need to know to get through a pregnancy if you have high blood pressure before or during the pregnancy. You will learn:

• The normal course of blood pressure in a pregnancy.
• The risks and complications of high blood pressure during a pregnancy.
• Effect of estrogen on your blood pressure in oral contraceptives and hormone replacement.

Length: 10 minutes

Please note:
The advice in these Healthcasts is no subsititue for the advice of your own physician. You should make no changes in your medical care based on this advice before checking with your physician.

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Special thanks to Monika Herzig for graciously allowing Dr. Rubin to use her music in his podcast.

Dr. Rubin's Healthcast is a production of PodcastConsulting.Net.

This healthcast concerns the major role that salt plays in raising your blood pressure. You will learn:

• Who makes the most salt and consumes the most salt
• How much salt is needed and how it gets into your diet
• How to get rid of the salt and your high blood pressure

Length: 9 minutes

Please note:
The advice in these Healthcasts is no subsititue for the advice of your own physician. You should make no changes in your medical care based on this advice before checking with your physician.

There are several ways to listen:

1. Stream this podcast
2. Download this podcast (4 megabyte mp3)
3. Use your podcatching software to subscribe to the Dr. Rubin's Healthcast RSS feed. This is the best option as new Healthcasts will automatically be downloaded to your computer as they are published.
4. Use the controls on the gray bar below to play the podcast directly from this page. Play will begin a few seconds after you click the play icon. You can control the volume by clicking the vertical bars on the right side of the gray bar.

Special thanks to Monika Herzig for graciously allowing Dr. Rubin to use her music in his podcast.

Dr. Rubin's Healthcast is a production of PodcastConsulting.Net.

This healthcast is about using drugs to control your blood pressure when lifestyle changes like the DASH diet and exercise have not lowered it sufficiently (below 140/90). More detailed information will be found in my book, "High Blood Pressure For Dummies".

You will learn:

• The five major classes of drugs for lowering blood pressure
• The effects and side effects of these drugs
• The modern approach to using these drugs to normalize your blood pressure

Length: 11 minutes

Please note:
The advice in these Healthcasts is no subsititue for the advice of your own physician. You should make no changes in your medical care based on this advice before checking with your physician.

There are several ways to listen:

1. Stream this podcast
2. Download this podcast (7 megabyte mp3)
3. Use your podcatching software to subscribe to the Dr. Rubin's Healthcast RSS feed. This is the best option as new Healthcasts will automatically be downloaded to your computer as they are published.
4. Use the controls on the gray bar below to play the podcast directly from this page. Play will begin a few seconds after you click the play icon. You can control the volume by clicking the vertical bars on the right side of the gray bar.

Special thanks to Monika Herzig for graciously allowing Dr. Rubin to use her music in his podcast.

Dr. Rubin's Healthcast is a production of PodcastConsulting.Net.

This healthcast is about using exercise and other body movements to control your blood pressure. More detailed information will be found in my book, "High Blood Pressure For Dummies".

You will learn:

• How exercise helps to lower blood pressure
• A basic program of walking which will lower your blood pressure and make you fit
• Other body movements and techniques that lower blood pressure like yoga, meditation, biofeedback

Length: 12 minutes

Tune in next week for Dr. Rubin's 20th healthcast where he'll discuss the devastating health consequences of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast.

Please note:
The advice in these Healthcasts is no subsititue for the advice of your own physician. You should make no changes in your medical care based on this advice before checking with your physician.

There are several ways to listen:

1. Stream this podcast
2. Download this podcast (8 megabyte mp3)
3. Use your podcatching software to subscribe to the Dr. Rubin's Healthcast RSS feed. This is the best option as new Healthcasts will automatically be downloaded to your computer as they are published.
4. Use the controls on the gray bar below to play the podcast directly from this page. Play will begin a few seconds after you click the play icon. You can control the volume by clicking the vertical bars on the right side of the gray bar.

Special thanks to Monika Herzig for graciously allowing Dr. Rubin to use her music in his podcast.

Dr. Rubin's Healthcast is a production of PodcastConsulting.Net.

This healthcast is about using diet to control your blood pressure. More detailed information will be found in my book, "High Blood Pressure For Dummies".

You will learn:

• To use the DASH diet
• To lower your blood pressure by reducing salt
• The place of weight loss in controlling blood pressure.

Length: 13 minutes

Please note:
The advice in these Healthcasts is no subsititue for the advice of your own physician. You should make no changes in your medical care based on this advice before checking with your physician.

There are several ways to listen:

1. Stream this podcast
2. Download this podcast (9 megabyte mp3)
3. Use your podcatching software to subscribe to the Dr. Rubin's Healthcast RSS feed. This is the best option as new Healthcasts will automatically be downloaded to your computer as they are published.
4. Use the controls on the gray bar below to play the podcast directly from this page. Play will begin a few seconds after you click the play icon. You can control the volume by clicking the vertical bars on the right side of the gray bar.

Special thanks to Monika Herzig for graciously allowing Dr. Rubin to use her music in his podcast.

Dr. Rubin's Healthcast is a production of PodcastConsulting.Net.

This healthcast will introduce you to this "silent killer" that affects 50 million Americans and 20% of the rest of the world. More detailed information will be found in my book, "High Blood Pressure For Dummies".

You will learn:

• How to determine if your blood pressure is high
• Who suffers from high blood pressure
• Basics of lowering blood pressure

Length: 18 minutes

Please note:
The advice in these Healthcasts is no subsititue for the advice of your own physician. You should make no changes in your medical care based on this advice before checking with your physician.

There are several ways to listen:

1. Stream this podcast
2. Download this podcast (12 megabyte mp3)
3. Use your podcatching software to subscribe to the Dr. Rubin's Healthcast RSS feed. This is the best option as new Healthcasts will automatically be downloaded to your computer as they are published.
4. Use the controls on the gray bar below to play the podcast directly from this page. Play will begin a few seconds after you click the play icon. You can control the volume by clicking the vertical bars on the right side of the gray bar.

Special thanks to Monika Herzig for graciously allowing Dr. Rubin to use her music in his podcast.

Dr. Rubin's Healthcast is a production of PodcastConsulting.Net.

You can do a lot to prevent high blood pressure. These are just some of the more important steps you can take to avoid getting it and its complications:

• Make sure you have it in the first place. There are many ways by which a mistaken diagnosis can be made. See Chapter 2 in my book.
• Find out if you have secondary high blood pressure. This is high blood pressure caused by another disease such as kidney disease and can often be cured by correcting the other disease.
• Give up tobacco and excessive alcohol. One cigarette is too many and more than 10 drinks a week for a man or 5 for a woman is too many.