Tuesday, January 29, 2013
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Friday, January 25, 2013
How to Lower Blood Pressure With These Simple Suggestions
A common question many people in their early 40s ask is: "How to lower blood pressure?" Although we know blood pressure can be lowered with the use of medication, the trend today is to lower it using natural remedies and solutions. If you follow the suggestions below you should be able to successfully lower your blood pressure and keep it in the normal range. Please keep in mind that it is not going to happen overnight and you will normally not see any results for at least 2 weeks. The same would hold true if you were using medication.
- Eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables, whole grains and low in synthetic and natural sugars is recommended. Alternative sources of energy can be found in herbs such as ginkgo and ginseng.
- Eat foods that are low in fat and are good for you. In addition to good foods, you also need to develop good eating habits.
- Instead of using salt to add flavor why not add some herbs or spices. Certainly garlic and cayenne pepper are extremely effective in helping to lower blood pressure.
- Garlic tablets, especially taken at night, have been shown to reduce spikes in blood pressure. Look for a brand that's NOT deodorized, but rather enteric coated. Garlic acts as medicine to lower blood pressure. Actually, garlic proves helpful in reducing phospholipids and cholesterol; hence, it strengthens ones body immunity and lowers the chances of stroke.
- Stress is another factor believed to contribute to high blood pressure but according to recent studies the long-term effects of stress are not yet unclear.
- Although stress can increase blood pressure, yoga with its relaxing principles can help combat it. It is worth noting that yoga is also a weight bearing exercise because some of the poses require you to hold up your own body weight. This leads us to our next suggestion.
- Exercise and proper diet are two of the most effective high blood pressure remedies that you can find. Experts believe that when it comes to high blood pressure remedies, there is nothing more effective than a change in lifestyle, exercising and eating right. Exercise is also a great stress reliever, allowing you to work off tension while you move your body.
- Losing weight is an added benefit of exercising frequently and this can further reduce blood pressure.
- Supplements are another way of increasing our intake and should be used to make up the shortfall in our diets. Not as a complete replacement. Supplement your potassium intake. Increased potassium levels in the body have been found to decrease blood pressure levels.
The suggestions above are just the beginning on how to lower your blood pressure successfully and keep it in the normal range. You should also remember to keep a blood pressure log to monitor your progress.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Side Effects of Hypertension Drugs
Medications designed to help hypertension are advertised almost everywhere I look. Given the abundance of drugs available, I decided to do some research into what a person might expect while undergoing this type of therapy. Some of the side effects I've become acquainted with through the advertisements themselves as well as some investigation include "heartburn, headaches, drowsiness and fever."
By this time they had my total attention..." sudden loss of blood pressure, kidney damage, fever and possibly the worst possible side effect, impotence". The list seemed endless with each possible effect growing worse than the others.
I heard something mentioned about those with diabetes, pregnant women and then they wrapped things up very neatly by advising that there were "practical ways to help you cope."
I'm sorry, that was the last straw. I simply cannot think of a practical way to 'cope' with kidney damage. I began to hear the two words 'pregnant women' ringing in my ears and began to wonder just what additional issues are to be considered when speaking of a child still in the womb.
Now let me say that there is no question that many of the drugs that lower blood pressure have been proven to be quite effective. And it's certain that many people have been helped by the results of lowered blood pressure. But maybe there is more to be considered than just the effectiveness.
Some of the most common high blood pressure medicines are diuretics. Hypertension medications such as diuretics flush the body of salts by creating a demand for frequent urination. Along with the flushing of excess salts comes the rapid loss of potassium in some.
For others, particularly diabetics, diuretic drugs may force an increase of the blood sugar level. At this point additional drugs are required to add potassium to the body or to counter act the effects on the blood sugar level.
Now the patient that walked in with high blood pressure walks out with high blood pressure AND a potassium deficiency AND elevated blood sugar and who knows what else.
There are almost too many different types of high blood pressure drugs to count. If each includes an array of possible side effects - the math becomes too confusing to even try to nail down.
I couldn't help but think about the most simple way to avoid having to worry about this host of other problems. If we could just head off the hypertension to begin with seems to fit the bill.
It was at this point in my thought process that I began to realize that preventing high blood pressure would have to be the easiest solution by far. Loss of weight, reduction of stress, walking to the moon and back. whatever it takes, there is nothing in terms of a preventative measure that would be tougher to 'cope' with than kidney damage or impotence.