The Demise of the Middle Age Business Executive

The health of the 21 century business executive is under attack. Numerous NIH (National Institute of Health) funded studies have reiterated the adverse effects from living the stressful, unhealthy executives lifestyle.

The Journal of Hypertension conducted a landmark study between the years 1964 and 2000. 3267 initially young, healthy male, business executives participated in a health screening with measurements of cardiovascular disease risk factors. At baseline exam. none of the executives had hypertension(high blood pressure), cardiac risk factors such as obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes, or were on blood pressure medicines. All test subjects were examined annually over a 32 year time frame.

After a 32 year follow up there where a total of 701 deaths. 234 (33.4%) died as a result of coronary heart disease , 49 died from strokes,42 (6%) died as a result of secondary coronary related disease and 204 (29.1%) to cancer.

To date, numerous federally funded studies are underway, analyzing the ongoing, progressive effects of the sedentary, stressful lifestyle, that the American business executive lives. Although biotechnology has taken huge strides to create, cutting edge diagnostic tools to diagnose and treat many diseases, as well as “the magic pill to alter blood pressure, heart rate, cholesterol and blood sugars, the business executive continues to become more sedentary,and has greater disregard for diet and exercise. Moreover the modern day American business executive is more likely to take Prozac, Zoloft or Paxil, to help handle the amount of stress, and anguish that corporate American throws their way. What they don’t know, is medical literature generally agrees that Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox and Prozac appear to cause the tremendous weight gain. The rule of thumb: The high the dose of psychotropic drug, the more likely weight gain will be an issue. So resorting to the state of the art in medical therapeutics is not the answer. It is in my opinion, the cowardly, lazy man’s way out of a no win situation.

I can save with conviction, that most blood pressure , cholesterol , glucose lowering agents, and heart medications do ONE thing: SLOW YOU DOWN! And when you slow down, your health go’s direct linear.

For example, beta blockers are prescribed to treat both blood pressure and associated cardiopathies. They are designed to slow down heart rate and stroke volume, relax arteries, suppress electrical activity of the heart, or offset calcium influx in heart muscle. The end result of all these actions is a drop in blood pressure and heart rate. This causes a significant drop your body’s metabolism, energy levels, mood and sexual libido, like a bad day on Wall street. Glucose lowering agents work by readjusting your blood sugars and secondarily promote fat retention. Cholesterol medications, primarily the “statins” have been indicated in muscle weakness and breakdown, also another culprit in making your metabolism drop. Remember when FDA announced in 2001 that Bayer Pharmaceutical Division must withdraw Baycol (cerivastatin) from the U.S. market because of reports of sometimes fatal rhabdomyolysis, a severe muscle adverse reaction from this cholesterol-lowering (lipid-lowering) product. The FDA agreed with and supported this decision. endep |serevent |mobic |aldactone |inderal |viagra |adalat |zyrtec |capoten |prednisone |
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