help lowering blood pressure?

Question

i found out my blood pressure was pretty high. can somebody tell me a way to lower it.

Answer 1

If you smoke cigarettes, quit.

If you don't exercise, start.

Take garlic tablets.

Answer 2

Not to offend the person who suggested that a doctor might prescribe a diuretic, but I question the theory that the medical community is leaning on when they prescribe a diuretic to decrease the volume but wants the person to stay away from caffeine because it's a diuretic. This is totally absurd and shows how the medical profession would rather chase their tails rather than admit that not drinking enough water is what causes high blood pressure. Is money THAT important? Is the doubletalk to avoid prescribing water - which costs nothing - worth sacrificing a person's life? Here's what doctors will act like fools to keep you from knowing - High blood pressure is caused by dehydration. When you don't drink enough water, the cells don't receive the nutrients that water and salt deliver and so they begin to malfunction. The body senses a drought, so it rations the water to make it available to the more important organs such as the brain, liver, etc. It then looks for other water sources. The blood is made up of about 94% water and salt. Being conveniently located near every cell in the body, this is one of the body's favorite places to borrow the water it needs to inject into the cells. Doing this causes the arteries to constrict due to the loss of volume. It also causes the blood to thicken in much the same way a sauce thickens on the stove top as the water evaporates. Now the heart has to exert more pressure to pump the blood through the cardiovascular system, and this is the high blood pressure readings. Another thing to prove the accuracy of this is when the water is borrowed from the blood, the salt that was contained in the water gets concentrated. This is what doctors are calling "excess" salt and why they tell their patients to cut back. But this isn't "excess" salt - it's the same amount of salt that was there all along - it just had the water removed. This concentrated salt is NOT the REASON the blood pressure is elevated, it is one of the changes that were made as a result of the blood pressure rising. If salt was so dangerous, why is it that when you are admitted into the hospital, the first thing they do is to insert an IV needle in your arm? This IV consists of about 3 tsp of salt mixed with about 1 liter of water (this is TWICE the daily recommendation - and often, multiple IVs are given throughout the day). Why do they do this? To prevent / treat dehydration. Yet, they won't admit that dehydration is the cause of most non-inherited, non-injury-related health problems. There is one big difference - in the hospital, they charge you around $385 for each saline cocktail. But because they won't recognize dehydration as being the cause, they won't teach you how to do the same thing, as a preventative measure, at home for free (orally, not intravenously). Increase your water and salt intake (yes, increase the salt) according to the protocol found through the link below. To help dismiss the myth that salt is bad for you, click on the second link to see how important salt is in the body - and if you develop a salt deficiency, you can bet that your doctor will be right there to "help" you (to create an umbilical cord between him, you and your bank account).

Answer 3

The dash diet. dietary approach to stop hypertension. if it is really high you better moniter it and see if it is consistant. if it is you might need medication. the dash diet usually works for mild hypertension. but it does make the medications work way better and you need less of it.

fruits fresh, 7-8 servings a day, vegies fresh 7-8 servings a day, whole grains, (watch out for salt substitutes especially if taking diuretics.) legumes, low salt all of it. the better the quality of the food (quality is defined as the most nutritional bang for the caloires you get). by the way don't worry about the salt thing, if you follow the dash you will automatically eat less salt because you will eat less of everything your normal food intake without even trying. problem with salt thing is that it is not so much the salt as it's lack of counterminerals. potassium is the countermineral to sodium. same with calcium it is magnesium, these balance each other. it makes the blood vessels relax more because you need an electrical impulse to tense them and electrical response to relax them, it is a pump, up/down up/down constantly. also if your not eating enough absorbable calcium that can cause the blood vessels to hoard them and that makes the vessels stiff, which increases insulin resistances and prevent magnesium from entering the cells and countering the calcium charge.

remember electrolytes are the minerals here they ionize in the blood they have a negative charge and the cells are positive or the other way around, I forgot. they contract/detract muscles and vessels continually as needed.

what are your numbers? If you find that bp is going to be a problem get a home moniter. but only if it is consistently a problem many places will do bp checks free. I finally got a home moniter, I asked my doctor for a recommendation of a very accurate one. he recommended omron.

I finally have been able to get my numbers down to around 130's/82-84 range consistently which is good for me. and all this without having to take two types of meds. I credit the dash diet because I never was able to get my numbers down like that with only one medication before. I started the dash about 3 months ago. I also take a small dose of hawthorn and ginko biloba. it is very small so I don't know what help it has provided or not. it is supposed to nourish the heart muscles making them stronger which is why i decided to go on it, since ccb (calcium channel blockers) do not prolong life or prevent heart attacks, if not bring down the bp.

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Answer 4

Very simple, lose weight, stop smoking, take a walk every day (or some other form of exercise), get rid of the table salt, stay away from the "alternative" crap, start eating bananas. Bananas have alot of potassium in them, which lowers bp. If you don't already have diabetes, this will prevent you from becoming diabetic also.

Answer 5

These days controlling blood pressure is multifactorial approach. If you dont have very high blood pressure which is defined by possible target organ damage (eye, kidney, brain, heart) rather than blood pressures only, it can be controlled by modifications in your lifestyle and diet. Regular exercise and weight reduction definately helps. Reduction in weight decrease blood pressure. Other thing is you should take low salt diet, low fat diet and highway potassium diet. Increased potassioum in diet decreases blood pressure too.

Answer 6

i have the same issue. since i found out mine was high i walk every day for at least 30 minutes and watch my diet to stay off fatty foods. this alone has gotten my values to normal. i also try to not take things too seriously, and this has relieved a lot of stress, which i think has also helped.

Answer 7

You should take less salt in food u eat.And u should take much rest,Don't think about anything.Reduce your angry..i think these can help u...