Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The fact that you are now avoiding meat and dairy products is excellent progress in reducing your high blood pressure and restoring healthy cholesterol levels. The fact that you are also consuming a lot of fruits is outstanding. Be sure to get plenty of berries in your diet at the same time.
Let's talk about high blood pressure first and what a person can do to reduce high blood pressure naturally without relying on prescription drugs or surgical procedures. |
| REPPED: A reader asks,"What are the proven natural products that reduce high blood pressure and restore healthy cholesterol levels? I am taking steps on the nutritional side of things such as avoiding meat and dairy products while eating a lot of fruits."
First of all, congratulations to you for taking some steps on the nutritional side. The fact that you are now avoiding meat and dairy products is excellent progress in reducing your high blood pressure and restoring healthy cholesterol levels. The fact that you are also consuming a lot of fruits is outstanding. |
| You should always work with a qualified health professional, especially when dealing with potentially dangerous issues like high blood pressure.
Getting to those things that really work, you might be surprised to find that one of them is simply water. 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. |
| Obviously high sodium intake causes high blood pressure. That's not even disputed by the American Heart Association, which seems to remain 10 or 20 years behind the cutting edge when it comes to heart health and science. My advice goes much further than that though, and that is: never eat foods containing simple sodium or sodium chloride (processed salt). Sodium chloride is not real salt.
If you're going to use salt at the dinner table or in cooking, go out and get yourself some ocean salt, or what is sometimes called "Celtic salt" or "Sea salt. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 To say that Americans are being diagnosed with high blood pressure simply because they are chronologically aging is truly junk science. They're getting high blood pressure because their diets are getting worse and they're avoiding physical exercise. It's happening because people are eating more processed foods and they're being dosed up with more prescription drugs that actually cause destructive side effects in their bodies.
Of course, it is true that Americans are getting fatter, and it's no secret why. |
| REPPED: New health statistics from the government reveal that high blood pressure has climbed 30% over the past decade. The report says that Americans are getting older and fatter and that's causing the number of adults with high blood pressure to rise.
I love the intelligence of researchers who make such obvious statements as, 'Americans are getting older.' Of course Americans are getting older. Are there people from any other countries who are getting younger? Of course, what the researchers are really talking about is the age wave in America. |
Mike Adams
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 It is possible that this type of diet (high in simple and refined sugars, high in fats, and low in complex carbohydrates) maybe influencing the incidence of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, anemia, skin problems, kidney disease, and cancer.
That's quite a list, but as you will see in the evidence that follows, it is well justified. The consumption of refined carbohydrates absolutely and inarguably promotes diabetes, cancer, heart disease, mental disorders and other problems. The evidence is quite simply overwhelming. |
| It is essential that individuals with a strong family history of Alzheimer's disease and those having had a stroke or high blood pressure avoid excitotoxin food additives. The simplest way to do this is to restrict foods from your diet that contain excitotoxin taste enhancers such as MSG, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and aspartame (NutraSweet®).
- Russell Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
From this, it seems reasonable to suspect MSG in the rising rates of Alzheimer's disease that have appeared in Western societies over the last several decades. |
| For others, the sweetener may cause chemical changes in the brain that could contribute to headaches, depression, mood swings, high blood pressure, insomnia, and behavior problems. In addition, it could cause your appetite-control center to malfunction, so your diet drinks could be causing more harm than good. Aspartame may also cause birth defects and is not recommended for use by pregnant women. |
| It is essential that individuals with a strong family history of Alzheimer's disease and those having had a stroke or high blood pressure avoid excitotoxin food additives. The simplest way to do this is to restrict foods from your diet that contain excitotoxin taste enhancers such as MSG, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and aspartame.
- Russell Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
Aspartame and heat
Aspartame is also known to break down more quickly when exposed to heat. |
| While in very small amounts it can be used as medicine, in large amounts sugar leads instead to obesity, hypoglycemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, anemia, immune deficiency, tooth decay, and bone loss; it contributes to herpes, yeast infections, cancer, pre-menstrual syndrome, menstrual problems, and male impotence; it weakens the mind, causing: loss of memory and concentration, nervousness, shyness, violence, excessive or no talking, negative thought, paranoia, and emotional upsets such as self-pity, arguments, irritability, and the desire for only sweet things in life. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In modern medical lingo, any statement about "controlling high blood pressure" or "controlling high cholesterol" or even "controlling blood sugar" actually means taking pharmaceuticals to control those numbers. So when researchers say that people need to "control their high blood pressure" what they're really saying is that people should take high blood pressure drugs.)
It's a message that might as well have been announced from the Big Pharma Glee Club, or the FDA cheerleading squad. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 A controversial theory looks to a shameful period in our history to explain the high rate of high blood pressure among African Americans.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a particularly insidious disease—it's responsible for as much as 25 percent of end stage kidney failure, but it usually has no noticeable symptoms; that's why it's often called the "silent killer."It is almost twice as common among African Americans as it is in the rest of the American population. |
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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So when researchers say that people need to "control their high blood pressure" what they're really saying is that people should take high blood pressure drugs.)
It's a message that might as well have been announced from the Big Pharma Glee Club, or the FDA cheerleading squad.
Pushing the pro-Pharma propaganda
Sadly, the mainstream media will buy this distortion, reprint it, and thereby spread disinformation to the public which is already half scared of vitamins thanks to all the other fear tactics being pushed by today's oppressive medical system. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What actually causes high blood pressure? Many doctors would say high blood pressure is caused by a specific, measurable interaction between circulating chemicals in the human body. Thus, the ill-behaved chemical compounds are the cause of the high blood pressure, and therefore the solution is to regulate these chemicals. That's exactly what pharmaceuticals do -- they attempt to manipulate the chemicals in the body to adjust the symptoms of high blood pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
Or take a look at high cholesterol. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They're getting high blood pressure because their diets are getting worse and they're avoiding physical exercise. It's happening because people are eating more processed foods and they're being dosed up with more prescription drugs that actually cause destructive side effects in their bodies.
Of course, it is true that Americans are getting fatter, and it's no secret why. The average American purchases apparent weight loss products like SlimFast, which has more sugar in it than the circulating blood of a 14-year-old ADHD child. |
| The report says that Americans are getting older and fatter and that's causing the number of adults with high blood pressure to rise.
I love the intelligence of researchers who make such obvious statements as, 'Americans are getting older.' Of course Americans are getting older. Are there people from any other countries who are getting younger? Of course, what the researchers are really talking about is the age wave in America. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| E3 DOCTOR'S NOTE:
Slowly eliminating caffeine from your diet may actually relieve the following conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, acid reflux, stomach ulcers, diarrhea, Crohn's disease, high blood pressure, difficulty sleeping, anxiety, and Ulcerative Colitis.
Did You Know?
Over 70% of the world's coffee supply is contaminated with toxic pesticides and chemicals. It's estimated that just one cup of coffee contains more than 2,000 chemicals, many of which are gastrointestinal irritants and cancer-causing agents. |
| These problems range from asthma, headaches, skin irritations, gastrointestinal disturbances, allergies, obesity, diabetes, adrenal gland malfunction, seizures, high blood pressure, hypothyroidism, stroke, and heart complications. If you are experiencing any of those conditions, it is imperative to eliminate MSG from your diet immediately. z
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Read all food labels at the supermarket. Avoid products containing MSG.
Always ask if the restaurant's dishes contain MSG when dining out.
Stay away from fast food! |
| You take something to treat your pain, high blood pressure, or arthritis and you end up needing laxatives to treat the accompanying constipation. We have "lemon" laws to protect consumers from deceptive auto salesmen but it's apparently an accepted practice for drug manufacturers to grow rich from your misery These companies sell you even more drugs instead of fixing what's wrong by addressing the root cause of your problem. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 He had no family history of heart disease, was not overweight or diabetic, and did not have high blood pressure or a bad cholesterol count. In short, he was not the usual candidate for a heart attack. Nonetheless, he had been struck—and struck hard.
In this book, I tell Joe Crowe's story, along with those of many other patients I have treated over the past twenty years. My subject is coronary artery disease, its cause, and the revolutionary treatment, available to all, that can abolish it and that has saved Joe Crowe and many others. |
| Half of the patients had received cardiac rehabilitation, which generally consists of advice to lose weight, exercise, control high blood pressure, control diabetes, stop smoking, and eat less fat. The other half of the patients did not receive such assistance. The results: the "rehabilitated" group had slightly fewer fatal heart attacks than those who did not get the same advice. But the researchers found "no significant difference" between the two groups in the number of nonfatal heart attacks. |
| In hemorrhagic stroke, the less common of the two, a blood vessel in the brain ruptures because of high blood pressure or a genetic weakness of the vessel wall known as an aneurysm. A plant-based diet cannot do anything to cure a genetic aneurysm. But it will definitely help reduce blood pressure, an important step in the right direction.
On the more common variety of stroke—ischemic or embolic stroke—there is even better news. These have the same origin as coronary artery disease. |
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. |
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