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Blood Pressure and Big Pharma
It’s important to understand that national guidelines for what constitutes high blood pressure or hypertension (HTN) and how it’s treated are heavily influenced by drug companies. In fact, the two lead authors of the 2014 Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults for the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC) have a long list of affiliations with pharmaceutical companies that make blood pressure drugs.
There are dozens of different medications in 10 different classes of drugs to treat blood pressure, and it’s important to note that the JNC’s reports are remarkable for its heavy emphasis on drugs—more often than not, multiple drugs—for treating hypertension. Ace inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers(ARBs), beta blockers and calcium channel blockers are all listed as first lines of therapy in the guidelines, with the total recommended drug classes being:
Diuretics: increase urination, which reduces sodium and fluid in the body
BetaBlockers: work directly on the heart to reduce heart rate and force of pumping
ACE Inhibitors: decrease production of the hormone angiotensin, which reduces blood pressure
Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers: prevent angiotensin from binding to receptors in blood vessels, which lowers blood pressure
Calcium Channel Blockers: increase the strength and force of contractions in the heart, thus relaxing blood vessels and reducing heart rate
Alpha Blockers: dilate blood vessels, thereby lowering blood pressure
Alpha-2 Receptor Agonists: work on the central nervous system to lower blood pressure
Central Agonists: work directly in the central nervous system rather than the cardiovascular system
Peripheral Adrenergic Inhibitors : work in the brain to block signals telling blood vessels to constrict
Vasodilators: relax artery wall muscles (usually prescribed only for very high blood pressure, together with other drugs)
All these cocktails of drugs , based on solid paradigm, only trying to mask or cover up the real cause of the signs or symptoms.
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The drugs your doctor prescribes for you depend on a number of different factors, including whether you have a chronic kidney condition, heart failure or diabetes.
Unfortunately, alternative recommendations for prevention and treatment of high blood pressure are barely mentioned, with insulin resistance not mentioned at all, in the JNC’s reports. While Cleveland Clinic, ranked No.1 in the nation for heart care, does note that insulin resistance and insulin levels can lead to hypertension, it still doesn’t offer ideas for addressing insulin resistance specifically to lower blood pressure.
In line with the JNC, the Clinic’s approach also concentrates on drug therapy and basic diet changes.
The confounder here is that, despite years of intensive drug therapy on millions of patients, the number of people with high blood pressure has now reached 1 billion worldwide, and the global hypertension drug market is projected to be $32 billion a year by the end of 2020. (Source: Technavio. Global Hypertension Drugs Market 2016-2020. April 13,2016. Accessed January 2017)
In the last 25 years alone, people with systolic pressure of 140 or more grew by 18 percent, while deaths due to high blood pressure increased by 51 percent. It’s obvious that all this drug treatment simply isn’t working.
Prescription Drugs Are Not Your Best Choice
It should come as no surprise that the majority of conventional physicians apply a cookbook model to treating hypertension, rather than treating the individual patient and addressing the underlying causes, which have far more to do with lifestyle choices than unavoidable aging.
High blood pressure is in fact an easily treated condition, but one that can cause serious damage if it’s ignored.
As previously noted, drugs have not solved most people’s blood pressure problems—primarily because in most cases, drugs are not the answer to this problem. You don't medicate your body cellular dehydration with more drugs, but with more water and minerals salt. Yet, with a seemingly endless supply of drugs and drug combinations available with the flick of a pen or finger tap on the keyboards across a prescription pad, many doctors choose pharmaceutical interventions as opposed to taking the time to sit down with you and discuss diet, exercise and insulin and leptin levels with you.
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When it comes to stress, the connection between stress and high blood pressure is proven.
Unresolved stress issues are at least as significant to your. health as poor diet and lack of exercise and water. So, how is it that the Joint National Committee fails to so much as suggest stress management as part of lifestyle modification?
On going inner body's stress can only be remedied with saline IV, water plus sodium.
Again, most doctors’ answer to stress problems is to turn to drugs and add a prescription or two for anti depressants or even anti psychotics to your blood pressure drug regimen, even though some studies show that anti depressants actually may add to your heart problems!
Blood Pressure Guidelines Are Designed to Create New Patients and More Prescriptions.
Up until the JNC changed its guidelines in 2003, a blood pressure reading of 120/80 was considered normal. But with the 2003 changes, which were updated again in 2013, you were now “normal” only if your blood pressure is below 120/80. And with these changes, 45 million Americans “suddenly” had high blood pressure and were potential consumers of anti-hypertensive drugs. This, despite the fact that there was absolutely no evidence that these new, overnight blood pressure drug candidates were at risk for chronic high blood pressure.
Normalize Your Blood Pressure Naturally, for Life
The remainder of this special report will show you how to normalize your blood pressure for the rest of your life without dangerous drugs.
The following information not only will help you bring your blood pressure under control, but will optimize your overall health and the quality of your life in countless other exciting ways. You’ll read about the importance of:
• Eliminating two types of foods that are poison for most people, but especially if you have high blood pressure
• Addressing insulin and leptin resistance
• Balancing the omega fats in your diet
• Normalizing your weight
• Managing your emotional life
• Drugging yourself with exercise
• Appropriate sun exposure
• Experimenting with supplements and other alternative tips for improving your blood pressure
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Eliminate Grains and Sugars From Your Diet Right Now
If you are like most people with hypertension, you have insulin receptors that don’t work efficiently. This is a condition called insulin resistance (IR). To compensate, your body generates more insulin.
One of the most important dietary changes needed to improve high blood pressure is to eliminate or dramatically reduce sugar and processed fructose from your diet. The easiest way to do that is to replace processed foods with real, wholefoods. This will address not only insulin and leptin resistance, but also elevated uric acid levels.
Eating sugars and grains—including any type of bread, pasta, corn, potatoes or rice—will cause your insulin levels to remain elevated. And since insulin stores magnesium, your insulin receptors can’t work properly and subsequently passes the magnesium out of your body in your urine, as opposed to going to your cells.
Magnesium stored in your cells relaxes muscles; if your magnesium level is too low, your blood vessels will constrict rather than relax, which will raise your blood pressure and decrease your energy level.
Insulin also affects your blood pressure by causing your body to retain sodium. Your body will on purpose retain more sodium than required during cellular chronic dehydration. Sodium retention causes fluid retention, which in turn causes high blood pressure, and can ultimately lead to congestive heart failure.
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It’s important to note that high sugar diets are a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease not only in adults, but children as well. For American adults, who consume as much as 25 percent or more of their total daily calories in added sugars, high levels of fructose in your diet may predispose you to fast-onset hypertension, and regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with earlier death from cardiovascular disease.
It’s clear that eliminating sugars from your diet should be your No.1 priority, whether you’re getting those sugars from processed foods, in sugar-sweetened beverages or by adding them to your foods and drinks yourself. When you eliminate or sharply reduce starches and grains as well, you are on your way to achieving a healthy level of insulin in your bloodstream.
Again, the role insulin plays in high blood pressure cannot be overstated. Elevated insulin levels are very toxic and can lead to devastating consequences to your health—including your blood pressure.
Other Dietary Considerations
1. Eat real food. A processed food diet, loaded with net carbohydrates (non-fiber carbs like sugar, fructose and grains) and transfats (margarines and vegetable oils) is a recipe for hypertension. Instead, make whole, ideally organic foods the focus of your diet.
Also, remember to swap non-fiber carbs for healthy fats such as avocados, butter made from raw, grass-fed organic milk, organic pastured egg yolks, coconuts and coconut oil, raw nuts such as pecans and macadamia, grass-fed meats and pasture-raised poultry.
My Optimal Nutrition Plan will turn your health around with my own Healthy Food Pyramid, which limits grain and sugar intake and promotes healthy saturated fats. This Nutrition Plan is divided into two levels: beginners and those who are looking for extensive measures to promote health and healing.
2. Normalize your omega -6 to -3 ratio. Omega-3 is vital for healthy blood pressure.
Findings from a study of 2,000 healthy men and women between the ages of 25 and 41 showed that those with the highest serum levels of omega-3 also had the lowest blood pressure readings.
Both omega-3 and omega-6 fats are essential for your health. Most Americans, however, are getting too much omega-6 in their diets and far too little omega-3.
Consuming omega-3 fats is one of the best ways to re-sensitize your insulin receptors if you suffer from insulin resistance. It is also vital for healthy blood pressure.
You can obtain omega-3 fats from both plants and marine animals like fish and krill, but it’s really important to realize that these sources provide very different types of omega-3, and they are NOT interchangeable. You absolutely need animal-based omega-3, and you simply cannot obtain all you need from plants.
3. Mind your sodium-to-potassium ratio. The key here is managing your diet as a whole, rather than concentrating on simply reducing your sodium (salt) intake. This means avoiding processed foods of all kinds because they often have high levels of hidden sodium in them, and switching to whole foods.
Most people actually need more potassium, calcium and magnesium to balance their sodium intake, which then will help maintain a proper sodium-to-potassium ratio.
4. Load up on veggies. Juicing is asimple way to increase the amount of vegetables in your diet. Beets, kale, celery, spinach andcarrots are all excellent for this purpose.
Adding allicin-rich garlic, leeks, shallots and chives also will help improve your blood pressure, and are easy to add to your salads and side dishes.
5. Lower your uric acid levels. You can do this naturally by eliminating sugars (fructose) from your diet, limiting alcohol, staying hydrated drinking enough water regularly throughout the day, and eating modest portions of inflammation-fighting foods like pineapple, cherries, blueberries and strawberries. Tart cherry juice and apple cider vinegar can also fight inflammation while lowering your body’s uric acid levels.
6. Some people may need to eliminate caffeine. The connection between coffee consumption and high blood pressure is not well understood, but there is ample evidence to indicate that if you have hypertension, coffee and other caffeinated drinks and foods may exacerbate your condition.
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