High blood pressure and exercise?!

Contrary to the standard medical advice to "drink more fluids" soft drinks, coffee, energy drinks, etc do not supply the body with an adequate water supply. These contain sugar, caffeine and other additives that change their nutritional aspect, turning them into diuretics that pull out as much as 50% more water than they contain. Add to this the 2 1/2 quarts or so of water lost through respiration and kidney function each day, and that equates to more water being lost from the body than what is being replaced. This results in chronic dehydration - the cause of most health problems.

High blood pressure is one of the many symptoms of dehydration. When not enough water is being taken in, the body will sometimes borrow water from the blood to inject into the cells using a process called reverse osmosis, which puts pressure against the arteries, capillaries and veins to filter fresh water through tiny holes for use in the cells. This pressure is reflected in the blood pressure readings.

Lowering the blood pressure is as easy as increasing the water and salt (slightly - contrary to the warnings commonly given out, salt does not cause high blood pressure) and doing moderate exercise. The best exercise you can do is a simple walk. Walking exercises every muscle in the body without pitting strain on them. It can be done at any comfortable pace, and an hour of walking twice a day will keep the metabolism going 24 hrs a day.

Follow the link below to learn how to re-hydrate your body properly.

http://watercure2.org/mankind.htm

If you do strenuous exercise without first lowering your blood pressure, you will make your heart muscle do a lot of extra, extra hard work pushing the blood round your body against too much resistance. This can cause your left ventricle to get thicker (Left Ventricular Hypertrophy) and this puts you at a higher risk of a cardiovascular 'event' like a heart attack or stroke and can eventually lead to heart failure.

I'm not a doctor and I certainly don't have full understanding and am delighted to be corrected by others. I had the same BP as you, though, and it went undetected for years - or rather uncommented upon. I got the LVH. Only when I'd got my BP down with drugs, did my doctor give the go-ahead for initially MODERATE exercise (but then I'd already got the LVH). To my mind, you shouldn't start doing more than walking without getting proper advice if you possibly can. I wish you all the best on improving your health.

Adopt DASH diet (Mediterranean diet). Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet, which includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish, vegetables, poultry, and egg whites. Use monounsaturated oils such as olive, peanut, and canola oils or polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, cottonseed, and soybean oils. Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/high-bl…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH_diet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/…
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It is the best way of controlling your BP. heavy activity is not good when BP is in hypertension stage that is above 160 over 100 .you are in pre hypertension stage and the advice for you is exercise at least one hour a day