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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, please contact us.
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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.
"HOSPITAL DVT KILLS 25,000"
- Over 500 hospital patients a week are dying from blood clots in veins. Yet the Commons Health Select Committe found 'shocking evidence' that medical staff were not aware of the extent of DVT among surgical patients. There are recommendations for hospitals to have a thrombosis team.
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.