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Does High Blood Pressure Threaten Your Life… Without Drugs?
By admin | July 19, 2010
High blood pressure is a real killer. Untreated it can blow out an artery in the brain and cause a stroke. It is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease and coronary artery disease. Heart attack, heart failure, poor sleep and fatigue often accompany untreated hypertension or high blood pressure.
Do you have any of the following problems that cause high blood pressure?
- Atherosclerosis that builds up cholesterol and calcium plaque in your arteries
- Enzyme imbalances that thicken blood and require blood thinners
- Mineral imbalances of too much sodium and too little potassium
- Hormone imbalances caused by stress and poor diet
- Sleep disturbances due to sleep apnea
Your medical doctor may be treating some of these problems already and that is good. All of the aforementioned categories are the primary drivers for high blood pressure and are serious health risks. Besides treatment by your medical doctor you yourself can help with several simple, no cost measures that are doctor recommended.
Nattokinase: Cardiologist, nutritionist, author and researcher, Stephen Sinatra, M.D. reports this in his June 2009 newsletter: “Thick blood contributes to the calcification of blood vessels and increases the risk of clots. Nattokinase helps prevent abnormal thickening. I have seen this supplement reduce diastolic pressure by 5 -10 points. Start with 50mg a day and increase the dose to 100 mg after a week.” It is available in most health food stores.
Dr. Sinatra is not alone in his recommendation for a non-drug treatment available to the public. Martin Milner, M.D., professor of cardiology and pulmonary medicine in Portland, Oregon says this: “In all my years of research as a professor of cardiology and pulmonary medicine, Natto and Nattokinase represent the most exciting development in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular related problems. We’ve finally found a potent natural agent that can help thin and dissolve clots effectively, with relative safety and without side effects.”
The Japanese have used Nattokinase for over 1000 years and effectively reduced a clot forming enzyme, fibrin, which can become over abundant. You should be under the supervision of a medical doctor using this drug alternative because there are many reasons for high blood pressure other than thick blood. Also Nattokinase is contra indicated along with other blood thinners unless closely monitored.
Most people are aware that too much salt is a driver in hypertension. Sometimes it is more a lack of potassium and your doctor can monitor mineral levels with lab tests. Good diet and supplements help provide the needed vitamins and nutrients like calcium, potassium and magnesium that are frequently deficient. All the drugs in the world do not help if your body is not getting the needed nutrients.
Cardiologist Stephen Sinatra and Robert J. Rowan, M.D. concur in the benefit of reducing blood pressure by grounding. What is grounding? This is a very new discovery that going barefoot on cement or the ground helps balance the electrical charges on the red blood cells called zeta. Normally red blood cells carry a negative charge that causes the RBC’s to repel each other. This prevents their sticking together and decreases the resistance to blood flow. Free flowing red blood cells naturally reduces your blood pressure.
Yet another proven remedy for some with hypertension is to give blood regularly. Amazingly, regular donation of blood can reduce blood pressure by up to 88%. Normal red blood cells are flexible, biconcave disks that must become more round in order to pass through the terminal capillaries. Old red blood cells are stiff and less flexible; they produce friction, raising viscosity and increasing blood pressure.
Why does viscosity reduction reduce blood pressure and heart attacks? Quite simply since the old red blood cells are less flexible, they create significant resistance to the flow-through end capillaries. It is believed that terminal capillaries need to squeeze the red blood cell discs to as much as one fourth of their diameter to pass them through.
Since new red blood cells are more flexible, they pass through the capillaries easily. You might ask why is friction produced by the old red blood cells so significant. Friction at the bifurcation of the blood vessels causes injury and accumulation of LDL cholesterol plaque there. Plaque accumulates in response to inflammation of the blood vessels, due to injury. This can cause blood clots that produce heart attack or stroke.
Another simple, yet amazingly effective blood thinner, can be water. If you drink too little water and are basically dehydrated your blood is thick and resists flow. A simple, no cost remedy for some, is drinking 8 glasses of water a day. When the body does not get enough water to hydrate the body tissues, water is drawn from the blood. When too much water is removed from the blood, the blood pressure goes up because of thick blood.
High blood pressure needs to be monitored by a medical doctor, but you can also help reduce blood pressure by some simple, inexpensive measures…Denis Van Loan D.D.S.
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