*The Surprising Cause of High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)*
If you are not already among the 1 in 3 adults with high blood pressure in the U.S.— or about 75 million people — the odds are that without intervention, you will have high blood pressure at some point in your life.
In fact, if you’re middle-aged (55 to 65), the risk of becoming hypertensive over your lifetime is about 90 percent, and statistics show that 64.9 percent of adults in the U.S. age 60 and over do have high blood pressure. Also, when you become hypertensive, statistics also show that there is a 50 percent chance that you’ll be among those with uncontrolled high blood pressure, which increases your risk for a number of serious health problems, including:
•Heart disease
•Stroke
•Kidney disease
•Vision problems
•Cognitive decline and dementia
The medical term for high blood pressure is hypertension. Unfortunately, many confuse this word as being related to feelings of anxiety or nervous tension. While such feelings certainly can cause high blood pressure in some people, anxiety is not the only cause of this condition.
In reality, a number of other factors have been identified as contributing to high blood pressure, including, but not limited to:
• *Insulin and leptin resistance.* As your insulin and leptin levels rise, it causes your blood pressure to increase
•Metabolic syndrome. Identified as a group of risk factors that put you at risk for heart disease, diabetes and stroke, metabolic syndrome is now also recognized as a contributor to high blood pressure
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• *Elevated uric acid levels* are also significantly associated with hypertension, so any program adopted to address high blood pressure needs to normalize your uric acid level as well
• *Poor nutrition* in childhood has been shown to raise the risk of high blood pressure in adulthood
• *Lead exposure*
• *Pollution* . Air pollution affects blood pressure by causing inflammation, while noise pollution asserts an effect via your nervous and hormonal systems. Air pollution has been shown to increase your risk of high blood pressure to the same degree as having a body mass index (BMI) of 25 to 30.
Living in an environment plagued by constant noise pollution can also raise blood pressure.
With all of these factors playing into your everyday life, it’s no surprise that hypertension is on the rise. What may be surprising, however, is how easily you can control one of the major contributors to high blood pressure—insulin and leptin resistance —through diet alone.
Water is a paramount element in anyone diet. Are you replenishing enough water for your body, daily.
*The Importance of Diet and Insulin Sensitivity*
Groundbreaking research published in 2001 in the journal _Hypertension_ , featuring a prospective cohort study of 12,550 adults, reported the development of diabetes was almost 2.5 times as likely in persons with hypertension. A few years earlier, a 1998 article in the same journal showed that 58 percent of study subjects with hypertension were also insulin resistant.
This crucial connection between insulin resistance and hypertension is yet another example of how wide-ranging the debilitating effects of high insulin, leptin and blood glucose levels can be on your body.
The bottom line is if you have hypertension, chances are you also have poorly controlled blood sugar levels. And if your hypertension is the direct result of an out-of-control blood sugar level, then getting your blood sugars normalized will also bring your blood pressure readings into a healthy range.
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*The Sugar Connection*
Research now shows that consuming excessive fructose (sugar) can not only cause metabolic syndrome — a precursor of diabetes — but also lead to an increase in blood pressure of about 7 mmHg / 5mmHg, which is greater than what is typically seen with sodium (4mmHg / 2mmHg). And in fact, a study in the journal _Open Heart_ argues that sugar consumption may be more directly associated with high blood pressure than sodium.
One of the primary sources of excess sugar in your diet (as well as sodium) is processed food.
According to _SugarScience.org_ , added sugars hide in 74 percent of processed foods under more than 60 different names! The real killer is the artificial sweetener such as aspartame. Quit _Diet Coke_ if you are drinking for your dietary program. It's not the calorie that kills, but the cellular dehydration effect it causes your body after consumption.
When you consider that Americans consume 66 pounds of added sugar each year, it’s easy to understand why, as your insulin and leptin levels rise, your blood pressure increases and, besides having high blood pressure you may eventually become insulin and / or leptin resistant.
*How Magnesium Figures Into the Sugar Connection and Insulin Resistance.*
Magnesium is a mineral important to the health of every cell and organ in your body, especially your heart, kidneys and muscles. Symptoms of a magnesium deficiency include unexplained fatigue or muscle weakness, abnormal heart rhythms, eye twitches and muscle spasms.
Magnesium has a direct effect on the relaxation of vascular smooth muscle and the regulation of ions important to blood pressure control, and a meta-analysis done at the Indiana University School of Medicine Strategic Research Initiative shows a direct link between magnesium deficiency and hypertension.
Your body is not sick, it is crying for water, especially your brain cells.
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Insulin stores magnesium, but if your insulin receptors are blunted and your cells grow resistant to insulin, you can't store magnesium, so it passes out of your body through urination. Since magnesium stored in your cells relaxes muscles, if your magnesium level is too low, your blood vessels will be unable to fully relax, and this constriction raises your blood pressure.
Fructose also elevates uric acid, which drives up your blood pressure by inhibiting the nitric oxide in your blood vessels. (Uric acid is a byproduct of fructose metabolism. In fact, fructose typically generates uric acid within minutes of ingestion.)
Nitric oxide helps your vessels maintain their elasticity, so nitric oxide suppression leads to increases in blood pressure. Therefore, any program adapted to address high blood pressure needs to eliminate added sugars in your diet, to help normalize both your insulin / leptin sensitivity and uric acid level, as well as your magnesium levels.Your body needs sufficient water for normalization of cells content composition and concentration.
*Healthy Blood Pressure Is Within Your Control*
Uncontrolled high blood pressure is a very serious health concern. It is especially dangerous because hypertension often has no warning signs or symptoms.
The sad reality is half of people taking multiple medications for high blood pressure are still not able to manage their condition, often because they don’t take their medications as prescribed.
The great news is that if you have hypertension or hope to avoid it, there are simple lifestyle steps you can take to balance your blood pressure, glucose, leptin and insulin levels — all at the same time – without harmful and /or ineffective medications.
I’ll detail those steps later in this special report. It is free, so you can share with those who need this information.
But first, a little background information about the importance of your blood pressure to your health.
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