How To Treat High Or Low Blood Pressure

Normal blood pressure has a systolic reading of less than 120 and a diastolic of less than 80.  (Though normal can vary from person to person.  Ask your doctor or other health care professional what is normal for you).

Hypertension is a systolic reading of 140 OR more or a diastolic reading of 90 or more.

Treatment of hypertension includes:

Loosing weight (even just a few pounds can help)

Exercise

Diet changes

Medications

There are currently eight types of medications used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure).

Central acting medications – these directly affect your nervous system to reduce nerve signals that cause your blood vessels to constrict.  Example – clonidine.

Diuretics – these are better known as “water pills”.  These help your body eliminate excess water in your body by urinating it out.  Examples – Furosemide and hydrochlorothiazide.

Direct vasodilators – relax the blood vessel walls’ muscles – thus dilating them.  Examples – minoxidil and hydralazine

Angiotensin – converting enzyme inhibitors – these keep your body from producing a hormone that causes the blood vessels to constrict.  Examples – lisinopril, quinapril, and benazepril (and other medications with the ending of the word = …pril)

Beta – blockers – these slow the heart rate.  This causes less force to be exerted on your blood vessel walls and reduces blood pressure.  Examples include – atenolol, propranolol, and carvedilol (and other medications with the ending of the word = ….olol

Angiotensin II receptor blockers – these protects your body from a hormone that causes the blood vessels to constrict.  Examples – irbesartan, candesartan, and olmesartan (and other medications with ending of the word = …..sartan).

Calcium channel blockers – these keep your blood vessels from constricting by keeping calcium from entering your body’s cells.  Examples – diltiazem, felodipine, nicardipine, and verapamil.

Alpha blockers – these help relax blood vessels by reducing nerve signals.  Examples – doxazosin, terazosin, and prazosin (and other medications with the ending of the word = ….zosin).

If you receive a new prescription from your doctor – make sure to take the medication as prescribed.

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It seems like the later I stay up at night, the more educational the television shows become. Recently I found a show called “The Truth about Food’ on the Discovery Channel. I immediately kept flipping but later returned to the show after feeling a little guilty from a late night snack. It turned out, I learned more about natural health in the next 20 minutes then I did in the last week! Specifically, I learned how important food is to our health and high blood pressure! Duh!

Did you know that food can naturally treat high blood pressure (also called hypertension), shed those extra pounds and increase your sex drive?

So I ask you… Can you picture not having to worry about high blood pressure? Can you imagine being excited to go to bed early once again? Can you imagine the reward of a new wardrobe after shedding 20+ pounds?

Quit dreaming! Because doing all of these might be simpler than you think!

What I learned about Naturally Treating High Blood Pressure

I love creative shows! In fact, the Discovery show, ‘The Truth about Food’ was creative and educational! The premise of the show is hypertension participants spend about 2 weeks in a zoo and are challenged to eat like an ate. Literally, the high blood pressure sufferers could only eat the foods a chimp could eat. Their two week diet consisted of fresh fruits and vegetables. You can imagine how many bathroom visits there were with the high water-soluble produce. In fact, the constant ‘toilet time’ was remarkably humorous. I actually woke up my youngest boy.

But you would never imagine what happened after 2 weeks? All hypertension contestants reduced high blood pressure substantially, reduced cholesterol levels and lost weight (some 15+ pounds). And finally, you would never imagine the gained confidence and smiles on everyone’s thinner face!

By increasing your water-soluble fiber, high blood pressure contestants showed the following:

High blood pressure numbers dropped a whopping 10%.

Cholesterol levels plummeted an astonishing 25%.

Participants lost an average of 10 pounds in two weeks.

Why Every Second Counts with HBP!

Why is hypertension concerning? According to the American Heart Association (AHA), almost 70 million Americans over the age of 20 have high blood pressure. If you do the math, that is about 1 in 3 adults in the United States. Unfortunately, about only 63% of those high blood pressure sufferers are aware of it. In other words, 37% are walking time-bombs of high blood pressure. It is no wonder that high blood pressure is now the #1 killer! In fact, almost 60,000 Americans die each year because of complications of high blood pressure. Could you be next?

High Blood Pressure Medication… Is it worth it?

As you can also imagine! High blood pressure prescription medication is a multi-billion dollar industry. Whenever you are dealing with a life and death situation, you are going to have prescription companies involved. The problem is most prescription medications have serious side-effects and cost hundreds per month. Don’t believe me?

Have you heard about the new side-effect with male impotence medication, Viagra? Vision loss and complete blindness!

And the same goes for high blood pressure medication? Diuretics, Beta Blockers, Alpha Blockers and Vasodilators all have side-effects that can be seriously damaging to your health and sometimes deadly.

Can You Naturally Treat High Blood Pressure without Medication?

After watching my new favorite show, I immediately re-read Barton Publishing’s High Blood Pressure Natural Remedy Report and was re-convinced that everyone can naturally treat high blood pressure with about 5 simple steps! I wondered, how many points would the participants have dropped if they supplemented their high fiber diet (raw fruits and vegetables) with the correct vitamins, minerals and supplements.

Unfortunately, most people do NOT realize this and are becoming completely reliant upon over-priced, side-effect laden pills that run on the same concept as a piece of fruit, natural vitamins and minerals!

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Do you want to know what foods are essential? What foods should be tossed?

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