The current convention of diagnosing blood pressure as "high" beginning at 140/90 has created another set of problems. Most doctors have been taught that once a diagnosis of "high blood pressure" has been made, blood pressure medication is the treatment of choice. As a result, many physicians believe that the current definition of "high" blood pressure is also the same level of blood pressure at which drug treatments are worthwhile. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
In multiple studies conducted by world leaders in high blood pressure research, drug treatments have been found to be surprisingly ineffective. In fact, there is no clear evidence that drug therapy reduces the risk of death in patients with "mild" high blood pressure which is the majority of diagnosed patients! In summarizing the results of one of the largest clinical trials ever conducted performed by the prestigious British Medical Research Council it was reported that for mildly hypertensive patients, "...Active (drug) treatment had no evident effect on the overall cause of mortality...." In a subsequent review of the entire scientific literature, the British Medical Journal concluded that there is "no appreciable benefit to an individual patient from treating (with drugs) a diastolic pressure of less than 100...." What these scientists found was that while drug treatments for mild hypertension may be effective at lowering blood pressure, they were not effective in reducing overall mortality. Put more bluntly, hypertension patients in these studies died at about the same rate whether they took medication or not. These findings reaffirm an important health principle treating the symptoms of disease is not the same thing as causing health.
It also would appear that the dangerous "side effects" of high blood pressure drugs are sufficiently substantial to obliterate any positive effects of reducing mild high blood pressure in this artificial manner. In fact, the side effects of medications are sufficiently toxic that leading medical authorities suggest that medications only become worth the risks when blood pressure becomes "moderately to severely elevated" (160/100 or above). Typical side effects of high blood pressure medications range from mildly unpleasant to lethal. These include fatigue, gastric irritation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, headache, impotence, depression, and congestive heart failure.
Don’t assume that your doctor is aware of these facts. If you are diagnosed with mild high blood pressure, you likely will be prescribed medication, instructed that it is helpful, and told that you must take it for the rest of your life. But before accepting this potentially dangerous treatment, it may be to your advantage to seek answers to the following questions: "What caused my high blood pressure?" and "Can I remove those causes and reverse this condition?"
Now these are the words of well established Physicians in the their field, who have not only a great educated guess about the use of High Blood Pressure medication but have seen the effects of these drugs out in the field and their application on good unsuspecting patients and also the doctors who have no real clue about the side effects of these drugs once administered to their patients. Both Doctors and patient are unaware of the full length of the side effects that they may even later a patient to go into cardio-arrest or commonly known as heart failure and or death.
In my own case I was placed on High Blood Pressure meds and found out later that I had a case of anxiety, massive headaches all day long and stomach problems, no sex drive and fatigue, The are things I had never in my life ever experience in my life. I was an athlete and had been strong, with no sign of muscle atrophy but I had become a walking vegetable, depressed and drained of all life and will to live. I had been diagnosed with having High Blood Pressure for some years now and the Blood Pressure has gone up and down and it had even stabilized for a brief couple of years at one point. Now at the age of 51 I decided to make a statement, and with all of the gathered information from around the medical and holistic and herbal societies I have decided to make my journey to true health using my very own body as an instrument to measure what is good for me and possibly for you as well. I am hoping that you would follow me through the dark catacombs
None Medication application to lowering your blood pressure and keeping it under control
- Inform your primary care Doctor of your intentions in taking this route of natural homeopathic method to health and ask him or her for healthy diet plan and tell him to be specific in giving you items that you should avoid if any make sure that you keep a log. Even though you are taking your health into your own hands you don’t want to be foolish and just step off into the great abyss, you need to layout how to start in a safe way; you will always need help, it would not be wise to go swimming in the ocean and don’t have a life vest handy; as you focus on your health make sure that you learn what is good for you and what is bad and good information comes from all types of sources. Even you primary care physician can offer you some helpful hints.
2. Keep all appointments and follow ups with Doctor – monitoring your come back to proper health is imperative to your ongoing health, high blood pressure can be kept under control with the proper attention to diet and good nutrition, along with the proper exercise.
3. For the most part of making sure that you tackle this problem in a manor that will bring you the best results, cut all salts or as much of it out of your diet as you possibly can; this could be as simple as life or death decision to a person with High blood pressure. * Make sure that you read all labels on all packaged or processed products for salt intake of sodium or its by products. Remember if you have questions in this area it is best to ask a good dietitian (get helpful hints from your doctor, there are good information on the internet, Google helpful diet plan for fighting high blood pressure is a good place to start).
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4. It is important to know and maintain a good BMI or body mass index; Body mass index: A key index for relating a person's body weight to their height. The body mass index (BMI) is a person's weight in kilograms (kg) divided by their height in meters (m) squared. The best BMI to maintain is should be between 18.5 - 24.9. The rule of thumb according to WebMD. Here is a chart for you to take a look at and it may give you some prospective and you look for your particular BMI.
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