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My stepdad has very high blood pressure and I’m trying to encourage him to increase his intake of potassium in food on a daily basis. Can you recommend the best method for doing that? Which tracker applications would be most suited to potassium checking?

Laura Schoenfeld: All right, so as far as keeping track of potassium intake, usually the calorie trackers that we recommend...

Chris mentions in the exposome unit on HPA axis dysfunction that if a patient is having low blood pressure to consider limiting high-potassium foods. To what extent do you think this is necessary? For example, would a medium banana and half an avocado in one day be too much? If the patient starts taking half to one teaspoon of sea salt in the morning, can they be a little more liberal with the potassium in the foods they’re eating? Lastly should the patient be monitoring blood pressure throughout the day? If so, how often and when?

Dr. Amy Nett: Yeah, so a lot of answers to each of these questions are going to depend to some...

What do you do for high blood pressure?

Dr. Amy Nett: Great question. I do all of the regular things. What is contributing to inflammation? Another huge one...

I’m looking for an alternative to the True Health Diagnostic testing for the metabolic work-up. I am a chiropractor and True Health at this time does not allow chiropractors to order. Is there another lab I could look into that is close to the True Health testing for the metabolic workup including fructosamine, fasting insulin, etc., for blood sugar dysregulation?

Dr. Amy Nett: Great question. I like True Health Diagnostic, mostly for the cardiovascular disease risk assessment. I think True...

Do you have experience with Quest Cleveland HeartLab Advanced Lipid Profile? I’m trying to figure out which labs have good particle number and size testing to better understand LDL.

Chris: Yes, that’s a pretty good one. The most affordable one usually is the NMR lipid profile, and you can...