Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Lunch Time Lecture By Alex Vasquez N.D. D.C. soon to be D.O.

Today I went to a lecture by Dr. Vasquez on Chiropractic Management of Chronic Hypertension. Dr. Vasquez is a sensation individual who started his professional career at Western States Chiropractic College, got his D.C., then went to N.D. school in Washington and is now just finishing up his D.O. degree. Not sure how he's financing all those loans but what an accomplishment.

He pointed out that hypertension is the number one diagnosis and accounts for 11 million patient visits per year. Most of the research and treatment of hypertension has been with prescription drugs. Dr. Vasquez outlined an evidence based approach to alternative ways at battling high blood pressure. He talking about the integration of diet, exercise, vitamin D (huge topic right now), CoQ10 and spinal manipulation to regulate blood pressure safely and cost effectively.

Dr. Vasquez has written an entire book on this http://www.optimalhealthresearch.com/ . Here you will find the link to the book and other good information on this topic.

I also recommend reading this article on Vitamin D

http://www.optimalhealthresearch.com/cholecalciferol.html, I found it a very useful and has most of the up to date information regarding benefits and dosing. Thanks.

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