How do u reduce High Blood Pressure?

Answer 1

High blood pressure is a lifelong disease. It can usually be controlled but not cured. Once you begin to manage it and start a treatment program, maintaining a lower blood pressure is easier. By controlling your high blood pressure, you'll lower your risk of diseases like stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney disease. You can do it!



The first thing to do is to have your blood pressure checked. If you have high blood pressure, you can do a lot to reduce it. Work with your doctor to determine the best treatment for you.

It may include reducing the fat (particularly saturated fat) in your diet, eating less salt, and changing your lifestyle by losing weight and getting regular physical activity.
Quitting smoking is also important to reduce your overall risk for heart attack and stroke.
Your doctor may recommend reducing how much alcohol you drink.
Many medicines also can help reduce and control high blood pressure. Your doctor will decide whether you need medicine in addition to dietary and lifestyle changes.
Be sure to look at our patient education sheets on high blood pressure. These can be printed out and taken to your physician. There are spaces for you to ask questions and for your physician to write special instructions for you.

Answer 2

I've heard that sitting and stroking a cat or dog immediately reduces the blood pressure. In the long term there is an answer but it is quite drastic. If you eat only fish, fruit, veg, white meat, pulses, small amount of dairy and nothing processed and no alcohol, the blood pressure plummets and your system becomes quiet. We are talking 40/50 points systolic and 30 diastolic. Wheat, yeast, monosodium glutamate (in everything processed) and sugary products all encourage water retention which increases blood pressure. I've compared notes with friends who have also gone on elimination diets to counteract food intolerances and they've found the same.

Answer 3

3 years ago, I was diagnosed - hypertension with a reading of 160/100. I used to feel dizzy a lot, my legs had awful cramps, and levels were very low in my potassium, causing my fingers and toes to always cramp together. One day I started to feel really faint while I was driving with my daughter in the back seat and I passed out, hitting 3 cars and ending up in a ditch. That moment,I knew I had to do something because my meds weren't working. I heard about this diet from a friend and thought I'd give it a shot. The results have been remarkable. In just 21 days, I honestly can't remember feeling this good, my blood pressure went from 175/110 to 125/70.

Answer 4

Also try and avoid caffeine products too. Some of us have high blood pressure and it is hereditary, so medication would be the only way to control it. If you try watching what you eat, picking good choices, low sodium in diet, exercise and try to reduce stress in your life. If that doesn't work, yes medication can be helpful.

Answer 5

Is it just temporarily High or is it Hypertension (a condition)?

If its Hypertension, it can be controlled and reduced by consuming less sodium, or if it became elevated due to excess weight then increasing activity levels and reducing weight would drop it many many points.

Almost any condition can be controlled by a proper nutritious diet, proper levels of daily physical activity and sunlight, and by properly responding to stress in one's life-- not just coping with it but eliminating stressors!

I have hypertension controlled by medication. And since I have been losing weight recently, it is going down even more.

Whatever you do, take care of it soon. The flow of blood rushing against your artery walls can erode them and cause them to harden-- which increases your chances of getting blockages and also heart disease!!

A little love and attention to the body, mind, and soul will go a very long way!!

Answer 6

I once ran an average of 4.5 miles an hour for five miles on a treadmill. Afterword, I took my blood pressure out of curiosity. It is normally 136/76. It was 104/56. This kinda made me think that there was probably a connection between rigorous exercise and lowering blood pressure.

Answer 7

Diet and exercise are one good way if you have not let it get too far advanced. If that does not work for you then you will have to go on the meds, which they have come a long way in improving high blood pressure medicine in the past five years .

Answer 8

I reduced my HBP by cutting out all added salt when I cook and eat foods. Eating more veggies, using them to snack on instead of chips and other high fat foods most of the time. I still indulge in chips and cakes once in a while. More exercise (ugh), I usually walk 2-3 miles two to three days a week and stretching the other days. My medication has been cut down by more than half.

Answer 9

Take high blood pressure regulating medication.

Answer 10

Many things can help like a diet with plant based foods, low salt intake and low fried foods and exercise. My area is white and has no fast food places. A black area has 6 fast food places on 4 blocks incl. McDonalds and Kentucky fried chicken.

Foods like french fries that are fried and with lots of salt are terrible and cause African-Americans to die before they reach 65. They have the highest rates of hypertension. See site below on way to cure it and home page which tells about healthy diet.

http://www.phifoundation.org/angina.html