High Blood Pressure
Herbal Remedies for High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is common in many adults. A number of factors can contribute to high blood pressure, including genetics, and can be aggravated by being overweight. If you are currently taking prescription medication for high blood pressure, do not take herbal cures or stop your current treatment until you discuss this with your [...]
High blood pressure is common in many adults. A number of factors can contribute to high blood pressure, including genetics, and can be aggravated by being overweight. If you are currently taking prescription medication for high blood pressure, do not take herbal cures or stop your current treatment until you discuss this with your doctor.
Hawthorn - The leaves, flowers and berries are used to make tonic that helps improve the cardiovascular system. It helps reduce blood pressure by relaxing the walls of the arteries. This herb takes weeks or months to show any affects so do not rely on this as your sole method of controlling your high blood pressure.
Reishi - This mushroom is known for its rejuvenating properties and has been used since ancient times in Japan and China. It can help reduce your cholesterol. The most common way to take this is in capsule form but it is also available as a powder that can be mixed into liquids.
Garlic - Garlic has been used to cure many ailments for thousands of years, and it is known to help lower blood pressure and cholesterol. You can eat raw or lightly cooked garlic every day. If you prefer, you can take garlic in capsule form, which is readily available.
Dandelion - Dandelion helps increase urine flow and lowers blood pressure. You can eat the leaves in a salad or drink tea. It is also available in capsule form.
How I Drop My Blood Pressure To Optimal Levels
From my earlier posts, I shared how I was able to reduce my high blood pressure to 130/80. It used to be as high as 166/98. After I started on a daily exercise routine, I managed to lower it and stop my medication completely.
Now I feel healthier without the side effects of those medication. [...]
From my earlier posts, I shared how I was able to reduce my high blood pressure to 130/80. It used to be as high as 166/98. After I started on a daily exercise routine, I managed to lower it and stop my medication completely.
Now I feel healthier without the side effects of those medication. However, I was wondering if I could reduce my blood pressure even lower so that it is in an optimal range.
I did some more research and fould that by taking Omega-3 fatty acids can reduce blood pressure.
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential fatty acids. The body needs these substances but is unable to manufacture them. So, they must be taken from food. Cold-water fish and flaxseed provide ample supply of this essential nutrient.
Studies suggest that diets high in omega-3 fatty acids or dietary supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids can reduce blood pressure (Hirafuji M et al 2003). It appears that omega-3 fatty acids have a direct widening effect on blood vessels (Din JN et al 2004). As the blood vessels are widened, blood flow increases and blood pressure is reduced.
I highly recommend a daily dosage of this supplement. After taking it daily for 3 months, my blood pressure drops to as low as 108/69. Click here for more information on this health supplement.
3 Easy Exercises To Reduce Your Blood Pressure
I used exercise to reduce my high blood pressure back to normal. In my opinion, this is the best way to lower your blood pressure. It can be done easily without incurring any cost. There’s no side effects to worry about if you exercise correctly. You’ll also get to improve your overall health.
I’ve found a [...]
I used exercise to reduce my high blood pressure back to normal. In my opinion, this is the best way to lower your blood pressure. It can be done easily without incurring any cost. There’s no side effects to worry about if you exercise correctly. You’ll also get to improve your overall health.
I’ve found a guide that teaches you 3 exercises you can do easily to reduce your blood pressure drastically and quickly.
The first exercise helps you to relax while you’re on the move. It trains your body and mind to keep your blood pressure down, even in the most stressfully active situations throughout the day.
The second exercise releases all the emotions that are suppressed throughout the day due to our social requirements. This exercise is so simple that you can do it while in the subway or driving home from work.
The third exercise soothes your body and mind shortly before you go to sleep. This provides you with the deepest and most satisfying rest possible without having to resort to sleeping pills. It has been proven that a good night sleep will reduce blood pressure.
Al these exercises are simple to do, produce results quickly, and are not time consuming. The main advantage is that the results produced are permanent. These are not some temporary reliefs but permanent solutions to your hypertension problems.
You owe it to yourself to check it out. Click here for more details.
The Blood Pressure Reduction Guide
Do you want to know how to reduce your blood pressure WITHOUT DRUGS using safe, 100% natural remedies? Yes, that’s true. You don’t need to depend on expensive drugs to keep your blood pressure down. No need to worry about dangerous side effects. There are totally natural methods available. Want to know what they are?
This Blood Pressure Reduction Guide [...]
Do you want to know how to reduce your blood pressure WITHOUT DRUGS using safe, 100% natural remedies? Yes, that’s true. You don’t need to depend on expensive drugs to keep your blood pressure down. No need to worry about dangerous side effects. There are totally natural methods available. Want to know what they are?
This Blood Pressure Reduction Guide will give you a good understanding of what is hypertension and what you can do about it without depending on drugs. Besides informing you on what causes hypertension, you also get to learn about 3 natural methods to lower blood pressure, 7 supplements that can help you to reduce blood pressure, and also how to use small changes in your diet to lower your blood pressure.
How I Overcame Hypertension
I found physical exercise to be a good way to reduce hypertention, especially aerobic exercises such as running or cycling.
I decided to start on a regular exercise routine. After some stretching and warming up exercises, I would cycle for 30 minutes. This was done 3 times a week. I began at a slow pace because I was not [...]
I found physical exercise to be a good way to reduce hypertention, especially aerobic exercises such as running or cycling.
I decided to start on a regular exercise routine. After some stretching and warming up exercises, I would cycle for 30 minutes. This was done 3 times a week. I began at a slow pace because I was not used to doing regular exercises. After a couple of weeks, I was able to increase my pace without over-straining my body. Gradually, I increased my cycling time from 30 minutes to 45 minutes. Eventually I increased the exercise frequency from 3 time to 5 times a week.
All the while I monitored my blood pressure with an electronic blood pressure monitor. I would take several readings during each day. At the beginning of my exercise program, the readings were normal. That’s because I was under medication. However, after 3 months my blood pressure readings drop to optimal levels. This was good news because I was able to stop my medication.
My blood pressure readings went up after that. They went up from optimal to normal. I continued with my exercise routine without medication. To this very day, I don’t take any medication and have maintained a normal blood pressure. It has been effectively managed by physical exercise.
In a future post, I’ll share how I reduce my blood pressure even further to optimal levels without any medication.
My Experience With Hypertension
Because of a hectic schedule, I have been cutting down on the number of hours of sleep each day. On somes days I have barely 4 hours of sleep. However, I never had any high blood pressure problems before. So when my health screen results showed that I was midly hypertensive, I ignored it thinking [...]
Because of a hectic schedule, I have been cutting down on the number of hours of sleep each day. On somes days I have barely 4 hours of sleep. However, I never had any high blood pressure problems before. So when my health screen results showed that I was midly hypertensive, I ignored it thinking that it was due to a lack of sleep the night before.
The same thing happened the following year. My health screening results showed an even higher blood pressure reading. Again I ignored it as the problem don’t seem to be serious enough for me althouigh I was advised to seek medical treatment within a month. Instead, I resolved to have adequate sleep the night before the next year’s health screening date.
I did sleep early the night before the following year’s health screening appointment. However, this time the blood pressure reading got much worse. It was 166/98. I was told to seek treatment within 2 weeks. This time, I took it seriously and went to the doctor’s office.
I was put on daily medication. The medication worked. My blood pressure drops to normal. My doctor told me that I’ll need to be on medication for a very long time, possibly for life. But I don’t like the idea of having to take medication daily with its side-effects and costs. So I went around and look for a solution besides medication.
I found one.
Continued on the next post…
Dangers of High Blood Pressure
We need to be aware of the dangers of high blood pressure.
When high blood pressure is not properly managed, the patient becomes vulnerable to various types of health problems due to their hypertension. The effects of this increased blood pressure in any person depend very much on the type of organ affected.
The dangers of high [...]
We need to be aware of the dangers of high blood pressure.
When high blood pressure is not properly managed, the patient becomes vulnerable to various types of health problems due to their hypertension. The effects of this increased blood pressure in any person depend very much on the type of organ affected.
The dangers of high blood pressure get more complicated if the patient also suffers from some concurrent diseases. Differential diagnosis becomes very difficult for the doctor who is treating these hypertensive patients.
One of the dangers of high blood pressure is in the blood vessels supplying the eyes. They may be severely affected by the increased pressure. As a result, the patient is in danger of losing their vision.
The heart region can also become affected; therefore high blood pressure can also cause severe heart problems. The affected person may have disruptions in the blood flow within their heart because of leakage or rupture in the bloof vessels in the heart.
Mostly, the arteries have to face the impact of high blood pressure. In addition, the heart has to pump blood with vigorous effect in order to compensate for the blood leakage and, in the process, there is a danger of the patient developing a blood clot.
If a patient is unaware they are suffering form high blood pressure, then their condition is obviously left untreated until such a time as when they may have a sudden medical emergency such as heart attack or stroke, this could then lead to a potentially fatal situation.
Hypertension can also affect the cerebral tissues. If the patient is not treated, they may show signs of damage to the nervous system such as convulsions, ataxia or impaired coherence in talking. Even, brain death may happen in some vulnerable patients with severe hypertension and this has been documented in several occasions.
Some patients may develop ulcers in the gastro-intestinal regions, thus adding further medical problems to patients already suffering from other medical ailments due to prolonged hypertension. Depression is often noted as one of the dangers of high blood pressure, probably due to increased effects arising from secondary effects of increased blood pressure on various organs of the body.
