Bonus Episode: Treating High Blood Pressure at the UltraWellness Center

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Or heal or get rid of your medications. Uh we do a lot of deprescribing. And you know, I want to talk today about an incredible problem we have in our society, which is this dramatic increase in high blood pressure. And we've gone in nineteen sixty when I was born from about twenty four percent. of the population having high blood pressure to now forty seven percent, almost one in two Americans has high blood pressure. That's crazy. And the question is why? Why do we have such an increase?

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