Try to reduce your sodium/salt intake. Your body shouldn't be getting more than 2,000 mg's a day (give or take based on your body weight or caloric intake).
Increase your potassium. You should be getting twice the potassium in your diet than sodium, i.e. 4,000 mg's or so.
Take a B-Complex. Some of your B vitamins work to metabolize fats and clean out your arteries.
Don't drink alcoholic beverages, alcohol blocks the absorption of some of your B vitamins.
Don't smoke.
Avoid transfats. Hydrogenated oils can have an effect on your "good" and "bad" cholesterol. Look at the ingredient list. Just because it says 0 grams of transfats does not mean it's completely free of transfats. If a product has .5 grams of hydrogenated oils per serving, it can be rounded down to 0! However, if you get two servings of .5 grams, you get 1 gram of transfat! having high "bad" cholesterol deposits plaques in your arteries.
Keep your teeth brushed and get a lot of vitamin C. If your gums are unhealthy, the bacteria that grows on your teeth can get into your circulatory system, and cause plaque on your arteries! Vitamin C, especially gained through drinking fruit juices as it's already in liquid form, helps to keep your teeth and gums healthy, and minimizes bacterial growth too.
Co-Q10 is something else that can help the heart and circulatory system.
Something else to avoid, artificial sweeteners: Nutra Sweet, Apartame, Sucralose, et al… can cause heart or neural damage!
Other stuff to look for, follow the links below…
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Water theraphy still the best. 4 glass of water after waking up of 160 mm each. Dont take breakfast yet until 45 min. do for 30 days. every time you feel attack of bp, drink another one glass. even every 15 min.ff you can. until cured.
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ACE Inhibitors, Angiotensin II receptor antagonists, Alpha Blockers, Beta Blockers, Calcium Channel Blockers, Direct Resin Inhibitors, Diuretics…
take your pick
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Garlic or aspirin will help
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In Chinese medicine, it all depends on how balance is your body right now, as well as any accompanying signs. Basically, Chinese herbalists treat hypertension according to symptom patterns.
http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/health/hypertension_define.html
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You should really make an appt. with a naturalpath to find out for sure. Don't self-diagnose. As far as other things you can do is reduce or eliminate foods that cause high blood pressure and start walking 30 minutes or so everyday.
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One of the most overlooked treatments is cutting way back on sugar and items containing sugar or simple carbohydrates, such as white bread, white rice, white potatoes, etc
The reason for this is related to the Atkins diet:
The body does not like large amounts of insulin floating around in it. For centuries we ate diets that were very low in refined carbohydrates.
Refined carbohydrates (like table sugar, white bread and HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP will stimulate your body to make much higher levels of insulin than it normally would, in order to metabolize the increase in blood glucose (sugar).
This is bad because insulin naturally causes water retention, in some cases more so than sodium (salt). Water retention in the system has been shown to be a significant contributor to High Blood Pressure (hypertension).
Diabetics who have to inject insulin are at great danger of high blood pressure because they are usually insulin resistant, meaning that there is plenty of insulin in their bodies already, but the cells won't allow the insulin to do it's job in converting this blood sugar to allow absorption by the tissues of the body.
So they end up having a ton of insulin in their body, and this causes a great increase in fluid retention.
Along with having a check-up with your physician, you should immediately take a serious look at how many refined carbohydrates you are eating in a day. Simply eating the same amount of carbohydrates un-refined (100% whole grain products, brown rice, beans made from scratch, raw almonds, seeds, sweet potaoes or yams–higher fiber content slows glucose production and decreases the need for insulin shots or oral medications–and LOTS of greens, plus raw tomatoes and grapefruit (even dried apricots) will make a huge difference in water retention, and you should lose the water weight AND see a drop in your bloood pressure.
So, in this case, no supplement or medicine is needed.
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Google: Glycemic Index. This will give you a list of foods that turn to sugar slowly. If you eat a diet full of these types of food, you may not loose weight, but you will feel much better as you see your blood pressure drop and your energy levels stabilize.
GET, RN
Registered Nurse
34 years of health care experience
Diabetic controlling his own blood pressure (and glucose levels) by following this diet.
Also Google: Longevity Diet, which is not so much for weight loss as it is for long term good health.
Try to reduce your sodium/salt intake. Your body shouldn't be getting more than 2,000 mg's a day (give or take based on your body weight or caloric intake).
Increase your potassium. You should be getting twice the potassium in your diet than sodium, i.e. 4,000 mg's or so.
Take a B-Complex. Some of your B vitamins work to metabolize fats and clean out your arteries.
Don't drink alcoholic beverages, alcohol blocks the absorption of some of your B vitamins.
Don't smoke.
Avoid transfats. Hydrogenated oils can have an effect on your "good" and "bad" cholesterol. Look at the ingredient list. Just because it says 0 grams of transfats does not mean it's completely free of transfats. If a product has .5 grams of hydrogenated oils per serving, it can be rounded down to 0! However, if you get two servings of .5 grams, you get 1 gram of transfat! having high "bad" cholesterol deposits plaques in your arteries.
Keep your teeth brushed and get a lot of vitamin C. If your gums are unhealthy, the bacteria that grows on your teeth can get into your circulatory system, and cause plaque on your arteries! Vitamin C, especially gained through drinking fruit juices as it's already in liquid form, helps to keep your teeth and gums healthy, and minimizes bacterial growth too.
Co-Q10 is something else that can help the heart and circulatory system.
Something else to avoid, artificial sweeteners: Nutra Sweet, Apartame, Sucralose, et al… can cause heart or neural damage!
Other stuff to look for, follow the links below…
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http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/herbsvitaminsek/a/Hypertension.htm
http://www.doctoryourself.com/congestive.html
http://www.chiro.org/nutrition/FULL/Sidestep_Heart_Disease.shtml
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=66416
http://www.newstarget.com/artificial_sweeteners.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060213093019.htm
Try Lipitor….It will drop your chloresterol FAST
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