Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Sodium also raises your blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure (hypertension), you probably have already been told by your physician to reduce your sodium intake. If you do not have high blood pressure or you do not know if you do, you can still benefit from lowering your sodium levels. It has been shown that lowering sodium intake will help lower your blood pressure, and since high blood pressure is known as "the silent killer" and a major cause of heart disease and stroke, it just makes sense. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This will hydrate your body and lower blood pressure without any negative side effects. Be careful to avoid hydrating yourself with other drinks that are actually dehydrating in nature. Those would include soft drinks, coffee, sports drinks, and basically any drink containing sugar, such as processed orange drinks.
That's one of the main things you can do. Another thing you can do, and this is generally better known, is to avoid intake of salt or sodium. Obviously high sodium intake causes high blood pressure. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, it will also reduce high blood pressure because part of the reason blood pressure is so high in some people is because their blood has turned into a thick, viscious liquid that flows like molasses. Basic physics tells you that a thicker liquid will take more pressure to pump through any system. By reducing the viscosity and making the bood flow in a more frictionless manner, blood pressure is automatically lowered. |
Jay Joseph
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 African-Americans have higher blood pressure levels than white Americans, and researchers have found that blood pressure levels are indeed correlated with skin darkness.3 However, although molecular genetic researchers would find that genes producing darker skin color correlate with blood pressure levels, it does not mean that these genes cause high blood pressure. Clearly, environmental factors affecting people with dark skin might completely explain the correlation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And besides, did it really take a government-funded research project to realize that the people in our nation are getting fatter and have higher blood pressure? I figured this out one day just by walking through the Denver Airport. All you have to do is basically look at the people walking around and you can reach the same conclusion the government did without spending $5 million on federally funded research.
So now that 1 in 3 American adults have blood pressure, what are the other two doing? |
Mike Adams
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 My blood chemistry nails the "healthy" mark on every single test such as liver enzyme function, blood platelet counts, cholesterol levels, and so on. My blood pressure is 105/65 and I have extraordinary bone mass density that makes my bones remarkably strong. (50 percent more dense than the bones of a 25 year old, actually.)
I'm not saying any of this to brag, but rather to share with you the extraordinary results that can be achieved by any person who applies sound nutritional wisdom with strength training and cardiovascular training over a period of several years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Hypertension (high blood pressure) is often caused by chronic dehydration. In fact, in one of the interviews I conducted with Dr. Batmanghelidj, he explains the mechanism by which this takes place. Essentially when the body is lacking water, it attempts to hold on to the available water supplies by resorting to vascular constriction throughout the body. This helps reduce the loss of water through the skin and through respiration. And by doing so, it helps conserve the remaining water in the body.
So if you want to avoid this response to dehydration, just drink a lot of water. |
Mike Adams
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| The Doctor's Complete Guide to Vitamins and Minerals
There are, in fact, many health problems associated with the excess consumption of caffeine:
Caffeine is a problem for people with heart disease, as it heightens the blood pressure and puts stress on the circulatory system. I tell my patients with angina to limit themselves to no more than one caffeinated drink per day. Most people opt for a cup of coffee in the morning and cut out all additional coffee or caffeinated sodas or teas. |
Jay Joseph
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| African-Americans have higher blood pressure levels than white Americans, and researchers have found that blood pressure levels are indeed correlated with skin darkness.3 However, although molecular genetic researchers would find that genes producing darker skin color correlate with blood pressure levels, it does not mean that these genes cause high blood pressure. Clearly, environmental factors affecting people with dark skin might completely explain the correlation. |
Mike Adams
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| Elevated insulin levels are associated with elevations in cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, and risk of death from cardiovascular disease."
- Michael T. Murray, N.D., The Textbook of Natural Medicine
Heart disease is a broad medical term covering a variety of physical and biochemical disorders affecting the heart and circulatory system. For the last several decades, heart disease has been routinely associated with the consumption of fat, but today, new evidence is turning that theory on its head. |
| Here's the link between dietary carbohydrates and Syndrome X, as explained in The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine:
Syndrome Xis a term used to describe a set of cardiovascular risk factors, including glucose or insulin disturbances, high blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels, elevated blood pressure, and android obesity. The underlying metabolic denominator in Syndrome Xis elevated insulin levels. There is little doubt about what contributes to these elevations: an elevated intake of refined carbohydrates. |
Jay Joseph
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| However, although molecular genetic researchers would find that genes producing darker skin color correlate with blood pressure levels, it does not mean that these genes cause high blood pressure. Clearly, environmental factors affecting people with dark skin might completely explain the correlation. "If you follow me around Nordstrom's, and put me in jail at nine times the rate of whites, and refuse to give me a bank loan, I might get hypertensive," argued sociologist Troy Duster. "What's generating my increased blood pressure are the social forces at play, not my DNA. |
David Wolfe
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 An elevated blood pressure is caused by obstructions in the blood vessels (cooked fat, cooked protein, chemicals), an increased thickness of the blood and/or a constriction of the arteries due to stress, all of which cause the heart to work harder to push blood through the vessels. Nutritionally, the blood pressure can be quickly decreased by adding garlic bulbs and onions into the diet, These foods help thin the blood so as to lower blood pressure.
Healing Through Detoxification
The major diseases and illnesses are diet-related. |
Michael Pollan
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 Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) study, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in saturated fat reduced blood pressure even when salt intake and weight remained unchanged. (Lawrence J. Appel, et al., "A Clinical Trial of the Effects of Dietary Patterns on blood pressure," New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 336, No. 16, April 17, 1997.) Neither of these studies relied on food-frequency questionnaires; rather, the researchers prepared the meals for the participants. |
Victoria Boutenko, M.A.
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 As soon as scientists discovered what healthy human blood pressure and temperature were supposed to be, devices were invented to measure them. Whenever I went to a doctor, my blood pressure and temperature were measured, but I don't ever remember a doctor measuring my pH. High blood pressure and fever, though not pleasant, do not cause cancer. The acidic condition of the blood does. This is what the internationally renowned scientist Dr. Warburg has proven. Therefore it seems vital to make pH information available at once to everyone. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Both animals secrete the catechol amines, blood pressure rises, blood is diverted from the internal organs to the muscles, breathing rate increases, and the sweat glands become more active as both animals concentrate on their main task, survival.
However, adrenaline is very toxic, and if allowed to remain circulating in the body at high levels, it will increase blood pressure and eventually kill the animal. Chronic adrenaline secretion, at low levels, also has numerous deleterious effects. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Although many of the internal workings of our body are not under our conscious control, through biofeedback it is possible to learn to influence them. Thus blood pressure, skin temperature, digestion and muscular tension can all be controlled. Whether asthma can be helped using biofeedback is unclear, but it has certainly been proved that blood pressure can be reduced without taking drugs by using biofeedback machines.
B10RHYTHMS
Three internal body clocks or cycles are thought to control physical, emotional and intellectual ups and downs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It means allowing the body to regulate its own cholesterol, blood pressure, and brain chemistry in a healthy, supportive way. Not hijacking blood pressure, cholesterol, or brain chemistry with toxic chemicals that happen to be called "medication."
Choose natural medicine from day one
You have to make this decision early on. You cannot choose conventional medicine for six months then hope to switch successfully to naturopathic medicine or alternative medicine after you have been maimed, harmed, and poisoned by your doctor or your oncologist. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But to suggest that sensible sun exposure, making vitamin D, vitamin D probably evolved early in evolution to modulate cell growth, decrease risk of cancer, modulate your kidney to produce the blood pressure hormone renin, which regulates your blood pressure ... I mean all of those things are very subtle, you can't feel your blood pressure, and you can't feel your cells growing, but you certainly know if you have cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So now that 1 in 3 American adults have blood pressure, what are the other two doing? One of those two is busy filling out paperwork for the Medicare drug discount card which reportedly requires 500 pages, and the other person is working sixteen-hour days to generate enough tax revenues to pay for the overpriced healthcare of the first person.
This, friends, is called, "The best health care in the world!" Only by naive Americans, of course. Everybody else knows the U.S. health care system is the laughing stock of the international community. |
Jack Challem
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 Y/N
I've been diagnosed with high cholesterol, triglycerides, or blood pressure. Y/N
I don't have a lot of energy, and I often feel like I have to push myself to get things done. Y/N
I am usually very tired by the time I get to bed. Y/N
I keep waking up and have trouble getting a good night's sleep. Y/N
Explanation: Answering yes to two or more of these questions suggests that your eating habits are not ideal and may be pushing you toward a diabetes-like blood sugar pattern. Elevated blood fats and blood pressure, as well as a lack of energy, are often signs of blood sugar problems. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 You should not take Adrenal Boost, however, if you have high blood pressure, because licorice root can elevate blood pressure.
In summary, you do not have to allow stress and/or poor lifestyle choices to upset your hormone balance. A proactive regimen of self-care is the best way to vaporize those weight-loss saboteurs that lurk in the corners of your everyday life. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| In our culture, recent extensive American experiments into colour for health revealed that when people were 'bathed' in blue light their blood pressure dropped significantly, but being 'bathed' in red light speeded up circulation and caused blood pressure to rise.
An English researcher, Theo Gimbel, found blue to be the healing, calming colour and of most benefit in treating an asthma attack. Emerald green was most favourable for hay fever, influenza, colds, ulcers and malaria. Orange appeared to activate the respiratory system. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Now, salt also got a bad rap for a while, especially when it was first linked to high blood pressure, but it's a critical component of your body chemistry. It regulates fluid balance and nerve cell function. You can't survive without it. But when people who are especially reactive to it eat a diet high in salt, it can contribute to high blood pressure.
When Africans were taken to America against their will by slave traders, they were transported under horrible conditions— they usually weren't fed or even given sufficient amounts of water. The death rate was very high. |
Anne Harrington
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 As he recalled later, "We found that the monkeys that were 'rewarded' for higher blood pressure went on to develop hypertension.25
If monkeys could learn to raise their blood pressure through operant conditioning, was it also possible to teach them to lower it and, in this way, create a behavioral therapy for hypertension? That was the question Benson began to pursue. At the same time, he and some colleagues began to experiment with a clinical intervention for human subjects that would draw on similar operant conditioning techniques. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Normal" blood pressure was once considered to be 120/80; "normal" blood sugar was considered in the range of 80 to 120; and "normal" cholesterol levels were anything below 180. New guidelines find all these figures rearranged. If your blood pressure sneaks above 110, you may be "at risk." If your fasting blood sugar rises to 120, you may be pre-diabetic. And as for cholesterol: anything above 150 demands treatment. These small redefinitions greatly increase the number of consumers for a variety of medications. Additionally, anxiety, restlessness, anger, fear...normal human emotions... |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| It has been shown that lowering sodium intake will help lower your blood pressure, and since high blood pressure is known as "the silent killer" and a major cause of heart disease and stroke, it just makes sense. It is one of those easy dietary decisions from which you have everything to gain and nothing to lose (except excess water weight).
The Low-carb Lie
To help you understand how low-carb diets work, I want to share a personal experience about what happened to me when I was fulfilling a dream of competing in several bodybuilding contests. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 High blood pressure: About 75 percent of adults with diabetes have high blood pressure. þBlindness: Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness among adults. þKidney disease: Diabetes is the leading reason why people need to go on dialysis, accounting for 43 percent of new cases. þNervous system disease: About 60 to 70 percent of people with diabetes have mild to severe forms of nervous system damage. Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Mullin's blood pressure fell so low the hospital staff couldn't get a reading. Doctors managed to resuscitate Mullin with injections of cardiac medications and massive plasma and blood infusions. That evening he was told that his heart was so weak he might not live through the night.
But he did. The following day, doctors were finally able to stop the gastrointestinal bleeding and regulate Mullin's heartbeat and blood pressure. He was released one week later on heavy doses of oral steroids. The pain remained untenable. |
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