Prevent Prehypertension With Simple Steps
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Russell Greenfield, M.D.
Greenfield Integrative Healthcare, PLLC and Greenfield Consulting, LLC
704-364-2658
info@bewelldoc.com
Russell H. Greenfield, M.D. is the Director of Greenfield Integrative Healthcare (GIH), PLLC and President of Greenfield Consulting (GC), LLC.
He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Harbor / UCLA Medical Center and subsequently entered into an administrative / teaching fellowship at the same institution. He moved to Charlotte, NC and became involved in the emergency medicine residency program at Carolinas Medical Center, where he was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. He then became one of the first four physicians worldwide to graduate from the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine under the direct instruction of Dr. Andrew Weil.
Dr. Greenfield returned to NC to become the founding medical director of Carolinas Integrative Health, a freestanding center in Charlotte owned and operated by the Carolinas HealthCare System. He was a consultant to the Federation of State Medical Boards in the development of national model guidelines for the use of complementary and alternative therapies, and is co-author of Healthy Child, Whole Child (2nd ed. HarperCollins, 2009).
Dr. Greenfield maintains a private consultative medical practice in Charlotte, consults with media and industry on integrative health initiatives, and lectures widely. He is the editor of Alternative Medicine Alert, a monthly newsletter designed for healthcare professionals. He also directs the creation of wellness information for shoppers for Harris Teeter, Inc.
Professional affiliations include Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Arizona College of Medicine.
In his spare time he likes nothing more than spending time with his wife and children. His personal interests are baseball and anything related to The Lord of the Rings.
Prevent Prehypertension With Simple Steps
Dr. Russell Greenfield breaks down hypertension and simple ways to avoid high blood pressure.
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Dr. Russell Greenfield: A healthy blood pressure is considered to be something less than 120 over 80. Anything more than 140 over 90 is considered high blood pressure. Anything in the middle and you're now considered to be prehypertensive. Consider the diagnosis to be a wakeup call and you definitely want a wakeup call if you are headed towards true hypertension.
High blood pressure or hypertension has few obvious signs and symptoms, but it's a serious condition that contributes to the hardening of the arteries, otherwise known as atherosclerosis as well as the heart failure, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, erectile dysfunction, and possibly Alzheimer's disease.
Now what does this mean for you? A diagnosis of prehypertension doesn't mean you have to take prescription medication, because the most effective way to address prehypertension is to make some healthy changes in your lifestyle.
The lifestyle prescription for people who are prehypertensive includes eating a healthy antiinflammatory diet along the lines of a Mediterranean or Asian style diet. Regular physical activity, reducing salt intake, cutting back a little on alcoholic and caffeinated beverages, managing stress in healthy ways, and especially doing your best to stop smoking once and for all.
Changing your lifestyle is not easy, especially when talking about stopping tobacco use. But when you realize you have the opportunity to take control of your health, really take control of it, simply by making even small changes in the way you eat and your daily activities, well, that's empowering. These strategies are good for you for so many reasons that it makes little sense not to give them a try to help stop prehypertension in its tracks.
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