Raenard Gonzalez was taking five different pills a day to treat his high blood pressure.
The medications didn’t work very well. His blood pressure readings were often still high. Even worse, the pills made him feel terrible.
“The drugs left me feeling completely exhausted all the time,” said the 49-year-old airport worker.i
So, when he heard about a new, minimally invasive procedure to lower blood pressure, he was interested.… Read More
No one wants to take pills they don’t need to.
But millions of patients are taking unnecessary hypertension medications because their doctors use incorrect procedures when taking blood pressure readings. This can result in falsely high numbers and unneeded prescriptions.
At a major blood pressure symposium, healthcare professionals and clinicians from around the country were tested on how accurately they measured patients’ blood pressure.… Read More
If you have high blood pressure, your doctor has probably told you that you should to eat right to get your numbers down.
But here’s something you probably didn’t know…
It’s not only what you eat that matters…it’s how you cook the food.
Researchers at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health looked at how cooking methods affect the risk of developing hypertension. … Read More
If you have high blood pressure and take medication for it, you should have two goals.
One is, of course, to lower your blood pressure.
The second is to do it consistently.
If the drug you’re taking causes big swings in your pressure, it’ll do more harm than good.
Research published in the British Medical Journal associated these swings with a 15% increase in all-cause mortality.… Read More
Most of us who struggle with high blood pressure know the drill…
We cut salt. We try to lose weight. We exercise more.
When that doesn’t work, we end up taking a hypertension drug.
But what if there was a way to lower your blood pressure naturally without drugs, hours of grueling exercise, or changing your diet?
In fact, a study shows that you can reduce hypertension by doing nothing but sitting still…and sweating.… Read More
Your blood pressure tends to rise as you get older. That’s why 65% of Americans over 60 have blood pressure higher than the healthy threshold of 120/80.[1]
Many of us want to avoid the side effects of taking hypertension pills. So we turn to natural methods.
You probably already know that certain lifestyle behaviors lower blood pressure. But a new study finds that one factor is more powerful than all the others.… Read More