Most of us don’t go to the doctor until we’re sick.
That’s a mistake. Instead of focusing on prevention, we focus on treatment. Then we wonder why a doctor can’t fix us when we’ve ignored symptoms and problems most of our lives.
Here are five essential tests to prevent any ‘wellness” surprises.
1) Blood Pressure
Hypertension is called the silent killer for a reason: most of the time, we don’t know
it’s high until something goes wrong. What can go wrong?

Atherosclerosis, kidney damage, and congestive heart failure to name three.
Systolic blood pressure is the …

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