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Hypertension
According
to many years of practice in orthomolecular medicine, it was found that
for women with high blood pressure, vitamin B 12 injections effectively
lower it to normal levels. If you are interested in this
protocol,
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The
Importance of Salt
Reiki,
Heart Rate and Blood Pressure
Natural Antioxidant Alleviates High Blood Pressure and May Reduce Dosage of Antihypertensive Drugs
The authors of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial among 58 subjects with hypertension, reported that Pycnogenol may lower blood pressure and suggests that the antioxidant offers a broad spectrum of protection for people with high blood pressure.
Over 12 weeks, the subjects received either 100mg Pycnogenol or a placebo in addition to nifedipine, an antihypertensive drug, often sold under the trade names Adalat® (Bayer) and Procardia® (Pfizer). At the end of the 12-week trial, those in the Pycnogenol group needed significantly less medication to control their blood pressure than those in the placebo group.
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from
Natural Health Newsletter
Those
bad boys at the drug companies are at it again. First they lower the
normal cholesterol recommendations from 220 to 200 and then 180. Wow
have the sales for Lipitor and other statin-type cholesterol-lowering
drugs been soaring. That amounts to a lot of bucks $$$$ for the drug
industry, despite all those pesky lawsuits for the deaths caused by
Baycol, which was taken off the market. Watch out for those side
effects, including liver damage. They can get you faster than
cholesterol-related heart disease.
Now a
new decree has lowered the numbers for blood pressure as well. Brace
yourselves for a barrage of advertisements for blood pressure
medications because all of you who thought you had normal blood
pressures of 120/80 are now classified with a disease called
pre-hypertension as of the announcement on May 15, 2003. You thought
140/90 was the upper limit of normal didn’t you? Not anymore. The
current recommendation (this week) is to treat anyone with "prehypertension" and other complicating diseases such as diabetes or
kidney problems with drugs. The rest of us can expect to get lectures
about losing weight, exercise, and low fat diets.
The
exercise part is a great idea. Be warned, however, a recent study showed
that it took one hour of vigorous exercise per day to decrease the
incidence of heart disease. Regular walking had no effect. Excess weight
is now recognized as a risk factor for cancer as well as diabetes and
heart disease. For adults to keep off those extra pounds, I recommend
eating a diet low in refined carbohydrates (flour), lots of fruits,
vegetables, and protein from beans, dairy, eggs, chicken, and turkey.
Eating a low fat/low cholesterol diet can be dangerous to your health.
To lose a significant amount of weight I recommend a no-grain diet and a
rigorous exercise regime. A recent survey found that 75 percent of
overweight Americans had given up on losing weight. Depressing.
To
specifically treat blood pressure and prevent associated heart disease
and strokes, I recommend acupuncture and Chinese herbs along with
nutritional supplements and a diet/exercise program. Essential
supplements include omega 3 fats, garlic, CoQ10, and vitamin E. Other
antioxidants and nutrients may be necessary for different individuals,
and other, additional health problems require a more individualized
plan. To view
the complete hypertension guidelines go to
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
Randall Neustaedter OMD,
LAc
www.cure-guide.com
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Cholesterol lowering
drugs in the statin class are known to block COQ10 and specific
vitamins necessary for health. Remember the Schute brothers whose
research in the 1950s proved the benefit of vitamin E for heart
health? Statin drugs block vitamin E, also A, and other valuable
anti-oxidant and heart protective nutrients. Statin drugs can lead to
liver damage (and death - Baycol) (ge)
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It is known that about
half of people with hypertension, and a quarter of the population as a
whole, are "salt-sensitive", that is, their system
overreacts to salt by raising blood pressure. The rest of
us don't seem to react much to salt. However, in this
"sensitive" population, increasing potassium, magnesium and
calcium intake seems to control the sensitivity. So,
taking adequate doses of these minerals (about 3500 mg potassium,
800-1000 mg for calcium, 1200-1500 mg calcium for post-menopausal
women, and 500-800 mg magnesium) seem like a better idea, along with a
moderate level of salt intake.
The kidney has a delicate
mechanism (called the renin-angiotensin system) for maintaining
pressure in the blood vessels.
Renin-Angiotensin
System

Artificially lowering one element of the system (sodium) causes an
elevated renin level, and thus the kidney works harder to retain the
salt that it has. In other words, the hypertension is a
sign that a hormonal system is out of balance,
and thinking we can starve it into submission may be naive. Sodium is necessary enough that a major adrenal steroid hormone,
aldosterone, is devoted to its regulation and retention. Many studies show the necessity of dietary salt, from population
studies showing a tendency toward shorter life span in people eating
low-salt diets, to animal studies showing growth failure with sodium
restriction. Multiple studies earlier this century showed
fatigue and mental dulling to result from salt depletion diets.
Using
naturally mined or
farmed salt is an important source of minerals - including sodium -
that helps maintain this important system.
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