Tips to Control High Blood Pressure Part I - General Approach

Blood pressure is the force of blood that pushes against the wall of the artery when the heart is flowing out. High blood pressure means increasing the pressure in your heart. If it stays high over time, it can damage the body in many ways.

Blood pressure medications have certainly prevented many deaths from heart disease in the last 30 years, but they have many side effects such as kidney damage. If you can control your diet, such as making changes to your lifestyle, maintaining your ideal weight and a low salt diet, you can do anything without medication.

Here are some natural remedies that will help you lower your blood pressure, keeping it within the normal range of 130/80.

1. Calcium and Magnesium

The combination of these two minerals with the correct DOSAGES has a long and undeniable track record of safely normalizing blood pressure. Be sure to only take these compounds in the ratio of 2 to 1. Otherwise, these compounds may cause irregular heartbeats.

2. Mediterranean food

One study found that people in Greece and Italy always had ideal blood pressure, as their diet contained more unsaturated fats, such as olive oil. If you can replace saturated fat in your diet with extra virgin oils, you can normalize your blood pressure.

3. Reduce salt intake

Salt is a mineral made up of sodium and chloride. You only need half a tablespoon per day, but we take many times more than that daily which causes high blood pressure and increases the risk of early death.

Avoid processed meat, as it is soaked in salt. Use a little tomato sauce, mustard, and soy sauce as it contains high salt.

4. Cigarettes

If you smoke, you better stop. Nicotine in cigarettes and other tobacco products causes your blood vessels to shrink and your heart beats faster, which temporarily raises your blood pressure. If you already have high blood pressure, smoking will increase your blood pressure, leading to increased risk of heart disease and stroke.

5.Alcohol

Alcohol may cause a temporary increase in blood pressure in some people. If you have high blood pressure, you should reduce your daily intake of alcohol to 1-2 cups. If your blood pressure is rising with alcohol, you should not drink alcohol.

6. Relax

Stress can affect blood pressure. To help combat the effects of stress, try relaxation techniques, such as yoga, lightweight exercise, aerobic exercise, and so on.

I hope the above information is helpful, we will discuss this subject further in section II "Tips on controlling High Blood Pressure - With nutritional supplements", if you need more information, please visit:

------------------