Nutrition First
-Cutting down on your sodium intake, helps
lower your blood pressure. Study and research
your foods, because manufacturers don't always
tell you the truth for the ingredients on their
labels. Try to always pick stuff to eat where you
get less than 400 mg of sodium a day.
-Next, eat some foods with potassium in them,
daily. They give you energy and they help
balance your sodium intake. It's well known
that banana has a lot of this in it, and as well
as
papaya
prune juice
raisins
mango
kiwi
orange
pear
diced honeydew melon
-Eat wholegrain and heart healthy foods, plus
supplementing with Omega 3 acids will help
assist in lowering your blood pressure. Ask
your doctor about what supplements to add
first.
-Some of the herbs that help lower your blood
pressure are garlic, basil and cinnamon. Garlic
relaxes your blood vessels causing them to
dilate. This creates a relaxation that lowers your
pressure.
-When you drink alcohol, cutting your drinks
down to twice a week will also save your life
and lower your blood pressure. Drinking some
of it, has a lifesaving effect. This does not mean
that if you didn't drink alcohol before, that you
rush into this to get to the lifesaving effect. If
you do that with high blood pressure, your body
goes into shock for the many years that it didn't
have alcohol before. This shock can send your
blood pressure through the roof, causing a
stroke or heart disease. In this case, you are
better off not consuming alcohol.
-Eliminating refined sugars and creating a
negative caloric balance, aids in losing weight
that lowers your blood pressure. These are
important. They are amongst your natural
remedies for high blood pressure.
Stop Smoking
If you are diagnosed with high blood pressure
and you are a smoker, that makes it worse.
Please stop smoking. It can be hard at first, but
you can still do it. Consult your doctor as
needed. This is on the top of the list for smokers
of natural remedies for high blood pressure.
Exercise
This is on the top of the list of natural remedies
for high blood pressure. Being over weight
creates stress on your body and your joints.
This, in turn, causes your blood pressure to go
up. If this is not taking care of properly, you can
get heart disease or a stroke.
So it is very important to eat right and exercise
every week. If you are just beginning to exercise,
start off with three times a week for thirty
minutes. Do this until your joints and your
muscles get used to this. Then increase it. You
want to work up to doing sixty minutes of
exercise at least five times a week.
Exercise will help you tone your muscle, burn fat
and relieve stress. You should include low or
high impact cardio workouts at least three times
a week. They help lower your LDL, the bad
cholesterol too. This, in turn, lowers your blood
pressure.
Rest
Make sure that you get enough sleep. When you
are sleeping and resting for your eight hours or
so, your blood pressure is going down. After
around four hours of sleep, your body enters into
it's REM sleep where it sends out growth
hormones to heal you.
This all comes down to exercise, nutrition and
rest along with you working with your doctor.
Keep yourself healthy by lowering your blood
pressure. Be happy and be there for your loved
ones.
Great post for all
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