Welcome to Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking, a podcast with Dr. Samuel Mann, a physician, researcher, and author. His latest book, Hidden Within Us offers a pioneering new understanding of the relationship between emotions and health, one rarely considered by physicians, patients, and research psychologists. 

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In this episode you will hear:

Why I don't agree with the guidelines for selecting the initial hypertension medication and what I do instead

• Why it's important to measure plasma renin levels. So why don't physicians measure the plasma renin activity? It's of huge value in selecting a drug, especially in young populations
• Side effects of the most commonly prescribed diuretic
• Potassium sparing diuretics
• The issues with spironolactone and its alternatives
• Three loop diuretics that are alternatives to the usual thiazides
• Second category of calcium channel blockers
• What the guidelines tell us if your blood pressure is above 140