What is the best way to lower your Blood Pressure? Please let me hear your thoug!


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What is the best way to lower your Blood Pressure? Please let me hear your thoughts.?

My family has a history of high blood pressure. I am 34 and mine is starting to go up. I know eventually I will have to go on meds, but I would like to control it as long as I can without the med. So let me know what has worked for you guys.


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What your doctor measures near your elbow is NOT your blood pressure. Your blood pressure is the level generated within the left ventricle of your heart, before it's ejected into the aorta and thus into the large arteries, and how much of that pressure is absorbed by the elasticity of your aorta and arteries determines the readings your doctor gets.

So it's perfectly possible your true (generated) B/P isn't changing at all....it's only the condition of your blood vessels and how much they expand giving the illusion of apparent "raised B/P". Everyone's goes up with age, and your AVERAGE through the day should be roughly "100 + your age." Now, because this is an average, clearly it must rise and fall throughout the day, for lots of reasons, so, if you are 34, then your readings (at the upper arm) will vary from roughly about 160 (max) to about 105 (sleep).

These are perfectly natural, normal, readings, and if you look up records for the whole of Western Europe and US B/P figures, you'll find you're probably dead average. (Ref. Prof. C.F. Levick "Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology" - the section on "Aging"......it shows it well. If you didn't show this rise with age, it would mean that you were in some way differrent from other people, and I'm sure you're not. I'm 80. My figures vary over the day from well over 200/ 120-ish down to 130/90-ish...and I'm still here. I work out, and swim, and if I believed the doctors I wouldn't be here. I threw away all my pills ages ago.

Above all, the most important warning I can pass on to you is don't ever let them put you on beta-blockers. Most of the medications they give you will probably do no harm (not much good, either!) but beta blockers will raise your systolic pressure.




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