Natural Blood Pressure Control – New Research May Help You
June 19, 2009 by GiGi
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I’ve covered natural blood pressure control before, (see Lower Blood Pressure Naturally – My Story), however new research has been published that warrants an update. If you are suffering from high blood pressure (or know someones who does), this may be helpful.
There are several reasons folks develop high blood pressure and naturally diet, exercise, stress, heredity and environmental components all play a role.
But strictly physically talking, almost all of the studies have been about reducing the PHF ( parathryroid hypertensive factor ) level. Only about 30 percent of folks with high blood pressure have elevated PHF levels, so other causes and treatments have to be explored.
Two other considerations that cause hypertension ( or high blood pressure ) are Nitric oxide deficiency and an overactive ACE ( angiotensin-converting enzyme ). It is not actually important that you know all of the medical jargon and issues concerned with these elements, only to grasp that they exist and they are also possible reasons for increased blood pressure.
One of the major issues related to high blood pressure isn’t knowing which factors are causing it. So it becomes a making a guess game for doctors to try assorted treatments to determine which ones will work.
Nitric Oxide – is produced in the body from arginine, oxygen and enzymes. It works to relax smooth muscle and to dilate the blood vessels. When nitric oxide levels are low, hypertension can happen as well as coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis.
New studies show that grape seed extract has solid effects on nitric oxide. In one experiment, subjects taking 300 mg of grape seed extract for eight weeks seriously reduced both their systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Overactive ACE – Kidney cells produce the enzyme renin, which splits into other enzymes, one of them being ACE. If too much ACE is released, then blood vessels contract and an entire series of other conditions occur which can result in increased blood pressure, water retention, congestive cardiac arrest and other issues.
Research is showing a special extract of blueberries can restrain ACE and therefore support healthy blood pressure levels.
Arterial Flexibility – Calcium deposits can collect on artery walls and this decreases the elasticity of the blood vessels. High blood pressure is frequently linked to artery calcification.
Those that experienced a rise in blood pressure while playing the game were rather more likely to have coronary artery calcification thirteen years on. It’s the first study that relates stress to calcification in the coronary arteries.
Up to date research has shown that Vitamin K2 ( menaquinone ) helps to reduce coronary calcification.
To conclude, if your high blood pressure is due to PHF, you may wish to check out cordyceps and shark cartilage. These paths to natural blood pressure control should be discussed with your physician, but are definitely worth trying. They also contain plenty of other benefits not really related to blood pressure.
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As usual Gigi, a nice post with lots of good information, One of the links in your previous post about reducing blood pressure naturally talked about the importance of getting adequate potassium and magnesium. This is important, but at the same time people need to reduce their salt intake.
There has been an epidemic of hypertension over the years to the extent that one in four people in the US have hypertension. This is in large part due to the excessive addition of salt to processed and fast foods. The maximum daily amount of salt for those aged 13 to 50 is 2500 mg, but nobody should get the MDA on a regular basis. (The percent of salt in food given on the label is the percent of the MDA). Rather than the MDA, people should aim to get no more than the adequate daily amount, which for those aged 13 to 50 is 1500 mg (I have been quoting the Canadian guidelines which might be slightly different in the US.). The MDA and the adequate daily amount are lower for children and those over 50, and differ according to age. Most people can get less than the adequate daily amount without any adverse health effects.
Many processed foods and those in fast food restaurants (including kiddie meals) often have far more than the MDA per serving I found one fast food outlet which had two offerings which had four times the sodium MDA!
Excessive salt intake not only contributes to hypertension but also to osteoporosis and to kidney disease. The mortality rate from kidney failure in the US has increased by 52 percent in 16 years. Japan, where people eat 5,000 to 10,000 mg or more of salt a day, has extremely high mortality rates from stroke and coronary artery disease. Finland, which had a program to reduce salt intake by 30 percent, saw a 10 mm of mercury decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure and a corresponding decrease in rates of stroke and coronary artery disease.
There are other sources of salt in the body including drinking and bathing in salt-softened water, but the dietary route is the major one for most. If people were to read labels when shopping and the nutrition guide (a misnomer) in fast food restaurants before ordering, they could substantially decrease their risk of hypertension and probably lower existing hypertension, especially of they take adequate amounts of potassium and magnesium as well. This is especially important in those populations, such as black people, who are genetically sensitive to salt.
Sorry about the length of this comment, but I think it is important that people are aware of the dangers of excessive salt.
Thanks, Jennifer for the great information! I agree about the excessive salt intake. I sometimes take for granted that people already know about all the salt in processed foods since we hear about it all the time, but it helps to get the reminder.
I also make the assumption that most of my readers aren’t fast food eaters, but that’s a pretty silly assumption to make since I occasionally have fast food, too!
GiGi
You should have mentioned CoQ10–it’s been established as effective against moderate hypertension.
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Blood pressure is the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries. Each time your heart beats, it pumps out blood into the arteries. Your blood pressure is highest when your heart beats, pumping the blood. This is called systolic pressure. When your heart is at rest, between beats, your blood pressure falls. This is the diastolic pressure.Your blood pressure reading uses these two numbers, the systolic and diastolic pressures. Usually they are written one above or before the other. A reading of
120/80 or lower is normal blood pressure
140/90 or higher is high blood pressure
120 and 139 for the top number, or between 80 and 89 for the bottom number is prehypertension
High blood pressure usually has no symptoms, but it can cause serious problems such as stroke, heart failure, heart attack and kidney failure. You can control high blood pressure through healthy lifestyle habits and taking medicines, if needed.