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How is your blood pressure? How often do you check it? Perhaps you have your own device at home to monitor your blood pressure whenever you’re not feeling well. Or, maybe you check your blood pressure just in case when you’re at the pharmacy. And, of course, your visit to the family doctor should include ...click here to read more

Silent heart attack (silent ischemia) has been found to leave scars on the heart. A silent heart attack is a heart attack with minimal, if any, symptoms. For this reason, it is difficult to know when you are experiencing a heart attack, which can lead to further complications an even death. Some reports of silent ...click here to read more

We’ve heard it a thousand times: smoking is bad for you. But people who’ve taken up the habit continue to smoke, and it can be one of the hardest things to quit. Perhaps another reason to quit smoking—which may prompt you to finally quit—is that it may be raising the risk of infections, especially after ...click here to read more

Experiencing a burning sensation in the chest and subsequent chest pain can be the result of many disorders. It often leads to discomfort, aching pain, and perhaps even a metallic taste left in the mouth. Fortunately, most of the causes of these symptoms are not severe and can easily be remedied. The first thing people ...click here to read more

Feeling tired and fatigued is something we can all relate to. However, some individuals have preexisting conditions that predispose them to feelings of excessive tiredness—more so than the average person. Rheumatoid arthritis is one of these conditions, as due to damage to the joints, RA sufferers become very tired after short bursts of activity. However, ...click here to read more

Our stomachs are filled with acid so corrosive that if it were to be placed on a wooden table, it would eat through it. Thankfully, however, our bodies are advanced enough to account for this potential danger, creating a protective mucus lining that covers the inside of the stomach. This gastric acid is only one ...click here to read more

Spring is the season of renewal and is a good time to tune up our body after a long winter. Tired of hiding from the cold and perhaps recovering from a respiratory infection that is easily caught this time of year, we want to recharge ourselves with energy and give our body a health boost. ...click here to read more

Eye discharge (eye mucus) is a combination of oil, mucus, skin cells, and other debris accumulating at the corners of your eyes during sleep. Sometimes it can be wet and sticky, and at other times it may be dry and crusty. Although eye discharge may gross you out and be annoying to clean every morning, ...click here to read more

Resistant hypertension (high blood pressure) is diagnosed when a person has made the appropriate lifestyle changes in order to reduce their blood pressure or have taken at least two different types of blood pressure-lowering medications, and yet their blood pressure has not improved. Essentially, resistant hypertension refers to blood pressure that is difficult to treat and ...click here to read more

Bile reflux is a condition where bile backs up into the stomach and the esophagus (the tube connecting the stomach and mouth). Bile is an important agent that aids in digestion. It is produced by the liver. Bile reflux may accompany acid reflux, but the two are separate conditions. Unlike acid reflux, natural remedies cannot ...click here to read more

April is Alcohol Awareness Month, with the first Thursday of the month being National Alcohol Screening Day. These were established to help reduce the stigma often associated with alcoholism by encouraging communities to reach out to people with information about alcohol, alcoholism, and recovery. Here at Bel Marra, we have taken the time to spread ...click here to read more

Cardiac arrhythmia—which is an irregular heartbeat where the heart beats too fast or too slow—is a common condition. Although most arrhythmias are harmless, some can be quite serious and even life threatening, as the heart may be unable to pump a sufficient supply of blood to the organs and tissues in the body resulting in ...click here to read more

From time to time, we all pass gas. Flatulence is a completely normal part of the digestive process. When we digest food, it is reduced to its molecular form—this also results in the release of hydrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide gas that needs to be expelled from the body somehow. Luckily for us, our digestive ...click here to read more

When people think of strokes, they immediately think of an abnormality occurring in the brain. However, it can happen in the eyes too. This type of stroke is referred to as retinal artery occlusion. A typical stroke affecting the brain can occur in one of two ways: ischemic or hemorrhagic. Both have the same end ...click here to read more