TMJ 'dysfunction' - Health implications

What evil lurks in the hearts of men, the shadow knows.........Arminius Aurelius

In an article on beta-blockers, Dr Mercola says:
"European doctors may have caused as many as 800,000 deaths in five years by following a guideline to use beta-blockers in non-cardiac surgery patients—a guideline based largely on discredited science. Ironically, the discredited researcher, who was fired for scientific misconduct in 2011, was also the chairman of the committee that drafted the European treatment guideline."

Patients with jaw asymmetry often experience cardiac symptoms due to breathing problems caused by retrognathic jaws. However, many of these patients are subjected to a cocktail of drugs, especially beta-blockers without understanding the connection between their breathing and cardiac issues, which only exacerbates their condition. The use of beta-blockers in non-cardiac surgery patients has risen exponentially over the years, despite being based on largely discredited science. These drugs are also commonly used to "control" high blood pressure and various other conditions and "diseases" such as migraines, anxiety, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), and many other "off label" uses.

Unfortunately, when patients are told they have a "disease," they become more susceptible to being prescribed drugs and are less likely to challenge their doctor's treatment methodology. However, migraines and anxiety can be caused by physical asymmetries and TMJ dysfunction, respectively, and do not require beta-blockers.

The excessive use of drugs by cardiologists is concerning, as it is not uncommon for patients to leave cardiology departments with a sackful of medications. Furthermore, when patients return with symptoms such as a fast heart rate or atrial fibrillation, the drugs they are already taking are often not suspected. Instead, additional drugs are commonly prescribed to supposedly lower the fast heart rate, without considering the potential negative effects of the beta-blocker already being taken by the patient. Additionally, many cardiologists are now prescribing Max, an unlicensed drug, to lower high blood pressure and heart rate, which can potentially lower blood pressure to a dangerous level.

To date, the true cause of tachycardia or atrial fibrillation in patients remains unknown to many prescribers. Personal experiences suggest that it may be a combination of prescribed drugs and/or hypoxic environments that trigger these episodes. This issue is further compounded by the fact that beta-blockers, often labelled as "stress pills" or "antianxiety drugs," are easily accessible online, leading to unfortunate incidents such as the deaths of two Scottish schoolgirls. Shockingly, they even have the gall to start calling the beta-blocker a "stress pill" and "the antianxiety drug"!

In summary, understanding the potential risks and underlying causes of cardiac symptoms is crucial in developing effective treatment strategies. Instead of blindly prescribing beta-blockers, doctors should consider alternative solutions that address the root cause of the issue. By doing so, patients may be able to avoid unnecessary drug treatments and achieve better health outcomes. Jaw asymmetry patients often get cardiac symptoms due to breathing problems caused by retrognathic jaws. However, in the absence of such knowledge about this connection, the patients get subjected to a cocktail of drugs which only make their condition worse. We shall start with the major drugs used to treat such patients.

A blocked artery in the heart is a physical obstruction. Apart from measures to avoid a stent placed in a coronary artery from getting obstructed using a well-established blood thinner it does not always require the patient to take anywhere from 3 to 10 different additional drugs and yet, this is routine. In fact, it is not uncommon to see patients walking out of cardiology departments with a sackful of medications.

The excessive use of drugs by cardiologists is mind-boggling. What worries me is that when a patient returns with symptoms such as a fast heart rate or atrial fibrillation the drugs, like beta-blockers, are never suspected. Instead, further drugs are commonly prescribed to supposedly lower the fast heart rate! It does not even occur to the cardiologist that the beta-blocker already being taken by the patient may be or is ACTUALLY at the 'heart' of the atrial fibrillation. Some cardiologists prescribe antiarrhythmic drugs, like mexiletine.

Mexiletine has been reported to increase the risk of death or heart attack, especially in people who have had a heart attack within the past 2 years. It may increase the chance of having arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats), meaning it causes exactly what the patient presented with. This drug can lower the blood pressure to a dangerous level where recovery may not be possible.

To the best of my knowledge, the true cause of the patients' tachycardia or the atrial fibrillation is unknown to the prescribers. My personal experience has shown that it is a combination of the prescribed drugs and/or hypoxic environments which trigger these episodes.

Numerous blood tests, ECG's, scans, radiographs, echocardiograms invariably show no cause and the patient is given the advice that he or she may have to raise the dosage or take additional drugs if the tachycardia, arrhythmias or the atrial fibrillation recurs.

The additional drugs often prescribed are:

● Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors;
● Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs);
● Calcium channel blockers;
● Renin inhibitors.

Quite amazingly these drugs often cause further serious unpredictable complications causing further spikes in heart rate, blood pressure, and atrial fibrillation. Repeated episodes often result in clot formation, strokes and a serious possibility of sudden death.
The prescribing cardiologist, shockingly, gets away scot-free, blaming the heart disease for the death - not the pills the patient had been prescribed!

An article in the 'Daily Mail about the ace inhibitor' Ramipril says:

● "Blood pressure pills taken by MILLIONS worldwide 'raise your risk of lung cancer', scientists warn:
● Patients taking ACE inhibitors were 14% more likely to develop cancer.
● The risk increases the longer the patients were on the medication.
● Scientists believe the drugs cause the accumulation of chemicals in the lung."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6315253/Lung-cancer-risk-higher-common-blood-pressure-pills-research-finds.html Please note that this drug was the most common ACE inhibitor prescribed in England, with over 27 million prescriptions.

The adverse effects of Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) are:

● Headaches;
● Fainting;
● Dizziness;
● Fatigue;
● Respiratory symptoms;
● Vomiting and diarrhoea;
● Back pain;
● Leg swelling;
● High potassium levels.

In rare cases, some people taking an ARB may experience:

● Allergic reactions;
● Liver failure;
● Kidney failure;
● Angioedema, or tissue swelling;
● Lower white blood cell (WBC) counts;
● Irregular heartbeat caused by high blood potassium levels."

Many of these adverse effects attributable to ARBs reduce many patients to crippling fatigue, and some effects are potentially lethal. Such deaths are never attributed to the use of the drug but to heart failure or pulmonary embolism. I have brought this to the attention of many cardiologists in 4 different countries that beta-blockers cause the deaths of perhaps a million or more people each year. The universal parroted answer has been: "But they also save many more millions"!
Local health authorities are under an obligation to investigate these practices and take remedial action. An audit must be carried out for illness outcomes, and the prescribing habits of each prescriber must be kept on record long term.

All autopsies must include the name of the drug the patient was taking at the time of death - not just "heart failure", "pulmonary embolism" or "coronary thrombosis".

A posting on a forum I came across showing the cardiac care of a patient taking seven different drugs:
"The cocktail of drugs prescribed for me were Nicorandil - relieves chest pain opening the arteries, also reduces blood pressure. Ramipril - lowers blood pressure, Isosorbide mononitrate - a form of GTN - opens arteries and lowers blood pressure, Bisoprolol [β-blockers], Sotalol [β-blockers]and Dronedarone - all designed to slow the heart rate and blood pressure, there was also another heart med. I can't remember that acted the same way. After three days on these meds, I went to use the bathroom, on the way back, I felt very dizzy and sick and almost passed out next to my bed. The cardiac nurse just came on duty, took my OBS and I had a BP of 65/45 and a Heart Rate of 22bpm...............I almost died" (but was rescued by a quick-thinking doctor).

To best illustrate the calamitous workings of cardiology, I have gathered some conversations with cardiologists. Some have been contributed by patients who were the victims of beta-blocker use:

This first conversation is with a cardiologist in St. Petersburg, Florida:
Patient: Dr., Can beta-blockers raise the heart rate as well as lower it?
Cardiologist: I have never heard that before, where did you get that from?
Patient: My previous cardiologist told me that beta-blockers are anti-arrhythmic, but they can also be arrhythmic.
Cardiologist: Oh yes, I have heard that before!
Comment: When the patient tackles the cardiologist with some medical knowledge, the cardiologist owns up to this unpredictable effect of beta-blockers, which he previously masked out.

Patient: Doctor, do beta-blockers lower the heart rate?
Cardiologist: Yes, they do.
Patient: But doctor, my heart is racing at 150 beats a minute since I started taking this drug. That is why I have been brought here by ambulance today.
Cardiologist: Well, while intending to lower the heart rate, the beta-blockers can raise the heart rate also.
Patient: How do they lower the blood pressure?
Cardiologist: By opening your blood vessels in the legs, the β-blockers pool the blood there, so the blood pressure drops.
Patient: But doctor, I cannot walk, my legs are freezing, nothing warms them up at night, there appears to be no blood flow in them, they turn blue sometimes.
Cardiologist: Unfortunately, while these drugs are meant to expand your blood vessels, these drugs can constrict them also!
Patient: Are you telling me that the beta-blockers can make the heart rate and blood pressure worse?
Cardiologist: Yes, they can.

Comment: The cardiologist then walks away, leaving the patient on this hit-and-miss poison and in an even bigger limbo. He displays no shame about what he just said. Suddenly coming off the drug causes serious, immediate life-threatening problems.

It is alarming to note that a patient can have a normal heart rate of say 64 beats a minute. If the patient is then prescribed a beta-blocker and if the patient inadvertently misses a dose, the heart rate can shoot up to more than 150 beats a minute and even go into fibrillation. Somehow, the heart loses its ability to maintain the original 64 beats a minute status. The patient thus becomes dependent on the beta-blocker and its dire consequence of regular hospitalisations due to the complications it causes. I would call the prescription of these drugs a fantastic business model, just like an illegal drug pedlar getting clients hooked on cocaine. In the USA, such events regularly bankrupt families.

More than a million deaths from beta-blocker use probably occur in the world on an annual basis. Such statistics, such terrorism, do not feature in our collaborative news media.

They are very enthusiastic about printing supporting articles such as this one, headed:

"Blood pressure drugs 'should be given to everyone over 55 to reduce heart attacks and strokes'
The study says:
"Professor Malcolm Law's research found the medication cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes regardless of a person's blood pressure. Drugs such as beta blockers and ACE inhibitors reduce the chance of heart attacks by around a quarter and stroke by around a third, the British Medical Journal reports. [I am stunned and cannot understand where this evidence came from!] The finding, based on almost 150 studies into the drugs, will renew debate over the value of the polypill - a single pill containing blood pressure medication, aspirin, and a cholesterol-lowering statin."

Please read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1184544/Blood-pressure-drugs-given-55-reduce-heart-attacks-strokes.html#ixzz4tdDQ98cs

I shall be interested to know who funded this study and all the other quoted studies and how all these studies managed to overlook the 200,000+ annual deaths from beta-blocker use in Europe each year.It is unimaginable how many people will be sucked into this calamitous poly-pharmacy by such an article in a national newspaper. It will probably skyrocket deaths - not save lives.

Furthermore, according to the latest development reported by the "Independent Institute" in an article headed "New Blood-Pressure Guidelines Raise Concerns about Interest-Group Lobbying" reports: [url][/url]

"On November 13, 2017, millions of more Americans had high blood pressure for the first time.
That day, the American College of Cardiology (ACC), working with the American Heart Association (AHA), [url=http://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/ten-points-to-remember/2017/11/09/11/41/2017-guideline-for-high-blood-pressure-in-adults[/]released new guidelines[/url] regarding what constitutes high blood pressure. Since 2003, a reading below 140/90 has been considered normal. Now, any blood pressure over 120/90 is considered hypertension."

This means an estimated 30 million more Americans, or in other words, 50% of the present population and millions more around the world will qualify for the designation of having high blood pressure, in need of these unwarranted and dangerous blood pressure medications which will only, contrary to claims otherwise, will hasten their deaths.

Similarly, these headlines were in the British national newspaper, The Daily Express:
"‘Phenomenal’ new treatment could help save thousands at risk of heart disease'
A NEW daily treatment could slash the risk of heart disease patients dying from fatal attacks."

The drug they are referring to is the blood thinner Rivaroxaban. In fact, this drug is already responsible for the death of thousands of patients in the USA! Billions of dollars of lawsuits have been filed. A patient on any one of this family of drugs who begins haemorrhaging from a gastric ulcer or after a minor injury can easily bleed to death in a matter of hours. Patients with a history of kidney or gastric problems are among those with the greatest risk of dying on these anticoagulants. It is interesting to note that the cardiologists when prescribing this family of drugs obtains a signature from the patient that they have been warned about the dangers of taking these drugs. This has never been done before with any other type of blood thinner. They know the danger but absolve themselves of all responsibility.

Treating the heart rate to control blood pressure with unpredictable drugs is very questionable. Damping this response instead of purely controlling the blood pressure and oxygen saturation is simply wrong.

The graph above shows the actual records of a patient. The patient reports that he felt a sudden surge during this period. The HR has, however, only marginally risen. During this hypertensive crisis, the BP rose from 155/93 to 214/124, i.e. a rise of 59/31 points over 2 hours and 17 minutes. The HR had risen by only 19 points from 55 bpm to 77 bpm, and is in no way indicative of palpitations or tachycardia. It does not appear to be causing the rising blood pressure, as per the common belief among the cardiology community. THE BLOOD PRESSURE RISES FIRST. THE HEART DOES NOT CAUSE THE RAISED BLOOD PRESSURE Many cardiologists assume that the high heart rate is causing the rise in blood pressure and start treating the heart to suppress it with unpredictable drugs.

In my opinion, the treatment should address the high blood pressure. Measures should be in place to actively restore the oxygen concentration in the blood - not an outright assault on the heart with drugs which grossly interfere with the natural homeostasis of the cardiovascular system.

Prescribing these drugs with their propensity to cause fibrillation and arrhythmias warrants that anyone prescribed these medications should also have an implanted defibrillator to protect them from complications and an untimely death. If they cannot be fitted with such a device, they should not be prescribed these drugs!

Quoting another conversation[/color]
Patient:: Doctor, why are my legs freezing all the time ever since I started taking these beta-blockers? They cramp up all the time. I cannot get a decent night's sleep.
Cardiologist: Do you or did you ever smoke?
Patient: Yes, some 7 years ago.
Cardiologist: Well, we shall have to refer you to the vascular surgeons. You may have to have leg amputations because smoking severely damages the blood vessels in the legs and hence the cramps.

Comment: The cardiologist then walks away, leaving the patient in a bewildered state. It has not occurred to the cardiologist that the beta-blockers are a cause of a great deal of cramping in the patients' legs, and that he should consider removing the patient from the beta-blocker and see if his legs improve. By the way, on stopping the drugs, the patients' legs never froze or cramped again for many years now and has not had to have a leg amputation.

The drugs are a miniscule amount of income for big pharma - speaking in relative terms. The real money is generated by private hospitals where these treatments are undertaken. Can you imagine the cost of hospitalisations, ECG's, the blood tests, the radiographs, the ultrasounds, the MRI's and CT scans, the ICD's and defibrillators implanted, regular reviews of the ICD's, hormone level checks, catheter ablations, the numerous visits because of atrial fibrillations perpetuated by beta-blockers, the leg amputations, artificial legs, rehabilitation costs, the emergency ambulance transfers to the hospital etc?

On top of all these expenses, are the fees of numerous "expert cardiologists" who can easily charge $1800.00 in the USA for just showing their face.

The other losses suffered by patients are immeasurable. They get robbed of their quality of life. Their earning potential and their self-confidence plummets. They cannot buy holiday insurance or have to pay a steep premium to obtain the insurance. They lose their driving licence. Many must be supported by social benefits or other members of family, hence, the cost to society is out of control.[/i]

I have only spoken about two main adverse effects. There are countless other serious effects caused by β-blockers.
These include: nausea, diarrhoea, bronchospasm (is the most serious), dyspnoea, pulmonary oedema, cold extremities, exacerbation of Raynaud's syndrome, hip damage, blockage of leg arteries, bradycardia, hypotension, heart failure, heart block, intestinal gangrene, overwhelming fatigue, extreme and debilitating dizziness, alopecia (hair loss), abnormal vision, extreme back pain, extreme itchiness, hallucinations, insomnia, nightmares, sexual dysfunction, impotence, erectile dysfunction and/or alteration of glucose and lipid metabolism, increase in mortality rate if given to diabetics - and many more.

The heart surgeon/cardiologist controversy: Heart surgeons and Interventional cardiologists (who specialise in placing stents) do an outstanding job in unblocking arteries, miraculously saving lives. Death rates from acute coronary artery blockages have been greatly reduced - patients having a heart attack nowadays can expect to survive for many years, provided they can get to a proper treatment centre in time. We cannot thank them enough for their dedication and expertise.

Based on the patient's demographics, overall health, and surgical results, a surgeon should be able to predict approximate survival rates after surgery or coronary angioplasty. A successful quadruple bypass in a relatively healthy patient can be expected to extend their life by 20 years or more. I know of many living examples which are a testament to the work the surgeons perform.

However, I speculated that many such surgeons must often be dismayed to hear when a patient did not live the expected time and died prematurely, quite against their expectations. Are the causes of such premature deaths more related to surgical misadventure or cardiological polypharmacy? I wondered!

I heard of this dismay expressed by cardiac surgeons from several ICU cardiac nurses who operate with them. These nurses, who are perhaps unencumbered by both loyalty to and reliance upon their referral sources, seemed to be more forthcoming than doctors might be on such controversial or unpopular sentiments on this subject. They confirmed my suspicions, telling me that very often the surgeons are aghast that sometimes their patient was dead in a month or two. There is considerable acrimony between cardiologists and heart surgeons over patient medications. They often do not see eye to eye - the surgeons felt that the usefulness of medications was overrated, while side effects and mortality/morbidity were under-reported.

The heart surgeons only carry out the physical procedure and hand the patient back to the cardiologist. They have little say in the medications often prescribed, to the peril of the patient and the dismay of the heart surgeon. For this reason, the system needs changing, and I feel that the surgeons do the prescribing as well. I am sure they will be very reluctant to use drugs which could ruin their wonderful work and bring the demise of the patient far earlier than they expected after often gruelling complex bypass surgical procedures sometimes lasting 14 hours! It is essential to have a system for tracing back or rather an audit trail to see which GP or cardiologists over-prescribing is resulting in massive loads on the emergency hospital services through adverse effects, and they should be brought to book.

A word of caution: Please do not come off your beta-blocker without the proper supervision of your medical doctor and without getting complete control of your high blood pressure. This means radically improving your diet, putting into effect a regular exercise regime, and using other means of lowering your blood pressure. Suddenly coming off the beta-blocker can cause life-threatening and unpredictable complications. Also, keep these drugs well away from any other person. Just a quarter of a 5 mg tablet can dangerously lower or increase the heart rate to bring about a life-threatening arrhythmia, and may prove fatal in a young child.

In a further development, Dr Mercola writes:
"American Heart Association President Suffers Heart Attack at 52"

"Many AHA Recommendations Worsen Heart Health
Likely, Warner followed AHA recommendations, many of which are recipes for heart disease disaster. Of the foods scientifically proven to cause heart disease and clogged arteries, excess sugar and industrially processed omega-6 vegetable oils, found in nearly all processed foods, compete for space at the top of the list. And what kinds of foods does the AHA recommend protecting your heart? Not only does it support ample grain consumption, but it also recommends eating harmful fats such as canola, corn, soybean and sunflower oil. “Blends or combinations of these oils often sold under the name ‘vegetable oil,’ and cooking sprays made from these oils are also good choices,” the AHA says. Meanwhile, the association still insists saturated fats are to be avoided.

Just this past summer, the AHA shocked health experts around the world by sending out a worldwide advisory saying saturated fats such as butter and coconut oil should be avoided to cut your risk of heart disease, and that replacing these fats with margarine and vegetable oil might cut your heart disease risk by as much as 30 per cent. Overall, the AHA recommends limiting your daily saturated fat intake to 6 percent of daily calories or less.[/b]

This is as backward as it gets, and if Warner was following this long-outdated advice, it’s no wonder he suffered a heart attack. In fact, it is to be expected. As noted by American science writer Gary Taubes in his extensive rebuttal to the AHA’s advisory, with this document, the AHA reveals its longstanding prejudice — and the method by which it reaches its flawed conclusions.
The misinformation continues unabated. Dr Mercola writes an article headed:
Who's Behind the Claim That Coconut Oil Is Pure Poison?

"A German lecture in which Harvard professor Karen Michels proclaims coconut oil is “pure poison” has been picked up by many English-speaking media outlets. Michels is a proponent of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) advisory against saturated fats such as coconut oil. She also has professional ties to Harvard professor Frank Sacks, who was the lead author of the AHA’s 2017 advisory on saturated fats. The AHA’s Presidential Advisory against saturated fats specifically identifies coconut oil as a harmful fat, even though coconut oil was not included in any of the studies AHA used to support its claims.

The low-fat myth was born and grew to take hold in the 1960s and early ‘70s, and it is four studies from these eras that the AHA uses as the justification for their recommendation to avoid saturated fats. Coconut oil supports thyroid function, normalizes insulin and leptin sensitivity, boosts metabolism and provides excellent and readily available fuel for your body in lieu of carbohydrates "

Further notes and comments:
A medical doctor after reading this article:
"Sharp but true!"

A very senior hospital nurse writes:
"Terrifying. Every time they start my father on these, he lasts about three days, and we have to stop them”!!!

"Well-written piece and supports what some people think happens in practice. It always amazes me how many patients on multiple medications end up in A&E on numerous occasions in the last few years of life, and it is rare a doctor has the confidence to stop the medications and their known side effects to see if it benefits the patient. It’s a shame a research project can't look into this, and we could see the outcome."

A paramedic working for the ambulance service:
"I fully concur with you. One patient I recently picked up with tachycardia was on 23 different medications for his high blood pressure and high heart rate!"

Comment: I did not include further very incriminating comments from this source, but an article in the New Scientist explains what went on during the 1960s.
"Maurice Papworth was a “pestilential nuisance”, according to his obituary. It was meant as a compliment. A whistle-blower before the modern meaning of the term was invented, <u>he exposed how many of his fellow doctors in the 1960s, often at British teaching hospitals, were treating their patients with as much respect as lab rats, and sometimes killing them in the process"

In his explosive 1967 book, Human Guinea Pigs, he revealed how unsuspecting patients were “subject to mental and physical distress which is in no way necessitated by and has no connection with, the treatment of their disease”. They were being sacrificed to science by “wolves in white coats”, said onereviewer of his book.

I wonder if many aspects of present-day medicine are any different:
A patient writes:
"I read your article on hypertension etc. and was appalled. Coincidentally, I was talking to a chap today, whose 55-year-old father was as fit as a fiddle until he was given steroids for a knee problem. He immediately put on 5 1/2 stone, got diabetes and high blood pressure. The tablets that they gave him for his blood pressure brought it down to 85/35, so he passed out at home and is now in hospital with a collapsed lung! As you can imagine, my friend is furious."

A very senior cardiologist from a top cardiac hospital writes:
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 15:50
Hi Dr Amir,
I am beginning to believe you may be on to something![/b]
Please read this article

"The cardiovascular event rate was significantly higher in patients on β-blockers than in those not on β-blockers. In patients with coronary heart disease or heart failure, the cumulative event rate for cardiovascular events was also significantly higher in those on β-blockers than in those not on β-blockers. The incidence of severe hypoglycaemia was significantly higher in patients on β-blockers than in those not on β-blockers,"

In further correspondence, the cardiologist concurs:]
"Please see the attached paper to see how bad things are re polypharmacy, it's no fun getting old in the UK, especially if you rattle with tablets!" Please read more here.

To crown my article, a patient sent me this link:
Dr Aseem Malhotra - Killing for Profit - at the European Parliament!
You can watch a youtube video at this link.

Does all this sound familiar to any other patients? Please email me about your experiences, amir@dramir.com

Got Magnesium?
Those with Heart Disease should take supplementation.
"Half of the patients in the study took a supplement containing 365 mg of magnesium twice a day for six months. The other half took a placebo. Merz tells WebMD that at the end of the study, the patients who took magnesium had better blood vessel function and their hearts showed less stress during treadmill exercise compared to the placebo group. Nearly three-quarters of the patients were magnesium-deficient at the beginning of the study, but their levels rose to nearly normal by the end. "

• Blood pressure drugs causing skin cancer:
"A new study, led by Danish-based researchers, shows that one of the most popular drugs used worldwide in the treatment of hypertension raises the risk of skin cancer by seven times."
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320270.php?iacp

• Blood pressure increased by blood pressure reducing drugs!"Commonly prescribed drugs used to lower blood pressure can actually have the opposite effect -- raising blood pressure in a statistically significant percentage of patients. A new study suggests that doctors could avoid this problem -- and select drugs most suitable for their patients -- by measuring blood levels of the enzyme renin through a blood test that is becoming more widely available. "

• Blood pressure medications can lead to increased risk of stroke:
"Howard says the risk of stroke went up 33 percent with each blood pressure medicine required to treat blood pressure to goal. Compared to people with systolic blood pressure below 120 mmHg without treatment, hypertensive individuals on three or more blood pressure medications had a stroke risk of 2.5 times higher."

• Two more blood pressure drugs recalled for potential cancer risk:
"In August, the FDA announced an expanded recall of valsartan because products may contain the impurity. Last month, two more recalls were announced: one for the drug Irbesartan and a second recall for losartan potassium hydrochlorothiazide tablets."

• FDA urged to ban a blood pressure medication with troubling side effects:
"A consumer advocacy group is asking the Food and Drug Administration to ban the sale of a widely prescribed blood pressure medication — as well as several generic versions — over concerns the drug can cause a gastrointestinal disorder that leads to severe and chronic diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and weight loss."

• Are Blood Pressure Drugs Worth the falls?
"They followed those 5,000 older people (average age: 80) with hypertension for up to three years, and the results of their study are disturbing: The risk of serious fall injuries — fractured bones, brain injuries or dislocated joints — was significantly higher among those who took antihypertensives than among those who didn’t.

Over the three-year follow-up, 9 percent of the subjects were badly hurt by falls, which can have a devastating effect. “The outcomes are just as serious as the strokes and heart attacks for which we give these medications,” Dr. Tinetti told me in an interview. “Serious fall injuries are as likely to lead to death or lasting functional disability.”

• BP medication causing fatigue:
"How they can cause fatigue: Blood-pressure medications may slow down the pumping action of the heart as well as depress the entire central nervous system, or, in the case of diuretics, deplete electrolytes that the body needs."

In the next article, we shall demonstrate how jaw asymmetry patients show cardiac symptoms. The patients start getting prescribed heart medication and enter a downward spiral of ill health.

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