You may have noticed by now that I’m always suspicious of studies that “prove” the only solution to a health problem comes on a prescription pad.

Take this new survey out of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, which concluded that patients suffering from high blood pressure get better results from drugs alone than from drugs and lifestyle changes combined.

Since this flies in the face of all clinical evidence, the researchers concluded that people in the “real world” must be making lifestyle changes differently than people being studied in a clinical setting.

I can buy that… I truly can. And the next step should be to find out how to duplicate the clinical success of lifestyle changes in the real world.

But, of course, the researchers went in a different direction – and you’ll have no trouble believing the direction they chose. They outrageously concluded that drugs are the only real and certain solution for lowering blood pressure.

All I can say is, try telling that to my patients. I cure high blood pressure all the time, and I’m not relying on dangerous prescription drugs to do it. In fact, many of my patients come to me after they have unsuccessfully tried prescription drugs for years.

You see, high blood pressure is often the result of an imbalance of epinephrine and norepinephrine, which are produced by your adrenal glands. This imbalance can be caused by a simple nutritional deficiency. Fix the deficiency, and you can fix the high blood pressure.

That may seem overly simple, but I’ve seen it work time and again. In fact, I’ll be sharing the nutrient regimen I recommend to my patients with high blood pressure in the May issue of Health Revelations. Click here to sign up for Health Revelations today!

I’ve also seen patients experience remarkable results from lifestyle changes, like altering their diets, exercising more and managing stress.

You’ve got to realize that developing hypertension is not like catching a cold. You don’t go to bed one night perfectly healthy and wake up the next morning suffering from consistently high blood pressure.

It’s something that develops over time. Lifestyle modifications can take you at least part of the way back, but how far – and how long it’ll take – will depend in part on the severity of your high blood pressure and what’s causing it.

But don’t believe for a second that lifestyle changes can’t help. I have too many patients who are living proof that they can make a big difference. And, unlike prescription drugs, the only side effect of lifestyle changes is overall better health.

by Dr. Alan Inglis

There’s been plenty of blame to go around as drug interactions have become a leading cause of death in the United States. We can blame Big Pharma, for cooking up these deadly cocktails that unleash havoc in our systems.

We can blame the FDA, for showing no interest in how drugs will interact before bodies start piling up.

But it turns out that arrogant doctors may deserve a good chunk of the blame for unleashing illnesses and deaths related to drug interactions.

According to a new study, doctors are ignoring electronic drug interaction alerts up to 90 percent of the time!

Researchers looked at electronic prescriptions written by more than 2,800 doctors in three states. The electronic prescription software worked as it should, displaying alerts when doctors were about to write a prescription that could cause a potentially dangerous interaction or trigger an allergic reaction.

Doctors ignored 77 percent of the allergy alerts and 90 percent of the drug interaction alerts. Why? They decided to rely on their own judgment instead – in fact, they even seemed annoyed by the alerts.

If this isn’t the height of arrogance, I don’t know what is. This system wasn’t built to inconvenience doctors – it was built to save lives! And many docs, with their rushed, seven-minute appointments, just can’t be bothered.

Researchers said part of the problem was that too many alerts were being generated, and docs just stopped paying attention. The fact that so many alerts are generated is the real smoking gun here. There are literally countless ways that prescription drugs can do serious damage in your system.

You’ve heard me say it before — your real health problems often begin the minute you accept that first prescription. And once you take a second, you’re playing Russian roulette.

Before you accept any prescription, make sure your doctor fully informs you of the risks and potential interactions. We all want to assume that doctors are performing their due diligence – but this research paints a bleak picture we can’t ignore.