Natural Blood Pressure Treatments
Saturday, January 10, 2009
I'm asked all the time if there are better ways to lower high blood pressure than using conventional medications.
I think you need to keep a degree of perspective here - many people do need to take drugs to lower their blood pressure - and would not be safe if they didn't. But there are other approaches you can take.
Natural methods of blood pressure control are now well researched and many of them have been shown to make a big difference to peoples lives. I've known many patients who have been able to reduce the dose of medications they take after using more natural methods - and some have been able to stop their drugs all together.
You should always try these things under the guidance of a doctor of course - and with the help of a blood pressure monitor - but there are real improvements to be had pretty easily for most of us.
As many of you reading this will know - I too have high blood pressure. I used natural treatment methods to reduce my blood pressure by about twenty points and I halved the number of tablets I took each day - and feel a lot, lot better as a result.
Read more about Natural blood pressure treatment here.
I think you need to keep a degree of perspective here - many people do need to take drugs to lower their blood pressure - and would not be safe if they didn't. But there are other approaches you can take.
Natural methods of blood pressure control are now well researched and many of them have been shown to make a big difference to peoples lives. I've known many patients who have been able to reduce the dose of medications they take after using more natural methods - and some have been able to stop their drugs all together.
You should always try these things under the guidance of a doctor of course - and with the help of a blood pressure monitor - but there are real improvements to be had pretty easily for most of us.
As many of you reading this will know - I too have high blood pressure. I used natural treatment methods to reduce my blood pressure by about twenty points and I halved the number of tablets I took each day - and feel a lot, lot better as a result.
Read more about Natural blood pressure treatment here.
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Treat high blood pressure with medication
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Treat high blood pressure with medication
I'm sure you know by now - and you certainly will if you have browsed around this site - that there are lots of ways to treat high blood pressure.
Many people are able to achieve their blood pressure goals by simply changing their diet or by altering their lifestyle.
Salt reduction certainly helps - you'll be horrified at how easy it is for salt to sneak its way into your diet and play havoc with your blood pressure. If you feel up to it then here's a way to test it out: go all out for it and take a diet consisting only of fruit and low fat yogurt for up to a week. You can have as much fruit as you want and as much yogurt as you want - and take your normal fluid intake. In effect you'll be having a diet with almost no fat and almost no salt. I did it and the results were remarkable. My blood pressure levels came down by more than ten points systolic when I checked on my BP monitor.
Weight loss is also now proven as a method to treat high blood pressure. You can expect a ten kilogram weight loss to lower your blood pressure readings by ten on the scale.
But for many of us - medication is still needed to treat high blood pressure and with that comes all the side effects and problems that we are all too familiar with.
Check out the links on this site for lots more about medications for hypertension.
I'm sure you know by now - and you certainly will if you have browsed around this site - that there are lots of ways to treat high blood pressure.
Many people are able to achieve their blood pressure goals by simply changing their diet or by altering their lifestyle.
Salt reduction certainly helps - you'll be horrified at how easy it is for salt to sneak its way into your diet and play havoc with your blood pressure. If you feel up to it then here's a way to test it out: go all out for it and take a diet consisting only of fruit and low fat yogurt for up to a week. You can have as much fruit as you want and as much yogurt as you want - and take your normal fluid intake. In effect you'll be having a diet with almost no fat and almost no salt. I did it and the results were remarkable. My blood pressure levels came down by more than ten points systolic when I checked on my BP monitor.
Weight loss is also now proven as a method to treat high blood pressure. You can expect a ten kilogram weight loss to lower your blood pressure readings by ten on the scale.
But for many of us - medication is still needed to treat high blood pressure and with that comes all the side effects and problems that we are all too familiar with.
Check out the links on this site for lots more about medications for hypertension.
Labels: blood-pressure-medicines, diet-and-blood-pressure, treat-high-blood-pressure, treatment-of-blood-pressure
