You might want to think about a natural approach to beating it, many of the ideas on this thread are excellent. I know a guy who beat hypertension by following a simple natural healthy approach to it, then he wrote a book on how to do it, take a look around the net
Go to a doctor, try not to stress and eat less animal fat and eat more high fibre meals. Eat (good oils like FLAX SEED contains omega 3,6,9, olive and avocado) best to reduce your bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol which strengthens your arteries. Reduce your salt intake and do light exercises. Increase eating Fish.
To treat hypertension from a physical medicine standpoint, the first order of business is to assess cardiovascular fitness with a submaximal stress test. This is something typically done in a hospital or sports medicine setting, by a qualified exercise physiologist. Your aerobic condition is calculated, compared to normal for your age and other factors, and then an aerobic exercise program tailored to your needs can be designed. Typically heart patients need to work out in the range of around 40% of their maximum target heart rate, sometimes for only 10 minutes a day at first. Don t overdue. Consistency, and slowly building up as your condition improves is the key. Severe hypertension patients may be advised to do NO aerobic exercise at first. Isometrics are strongly contraindicated because they can unduly stress the venous system. A system of slow, standing Chinese exercise movements called Qi Gong have helped many people and are widely practiced in China not only as therapy but treatment of many diseases, including cardiovascular problems. Physical medicine therapies using water may also provide great benefit. Some of these include: hot baths: to promote sweating peroxide baths: to greatly stimulate skin circulation constitutional hydrotherapy for acute hypertension : enema, then full body hot bath with cold compress to head and neck foot baths: alternating between tubs of hot and cold water. Stress is an important complicating factor in hypertension, so you may benefit from stress reduction techniques. One of the oldest and best beloved stress management technique is treating yourself periodically, as your budget allows, to a gentle, full body massage. The importance of nutrition and diet cannot be overemphasized in disease control, and hypertension is no exception. In general, attempt to adhere to the following eating principles: low sugar, especially refined, white sugar and products which contain it. low fat diet of unsaturated fats -- no more than 15% is optimal, and try to avoid saturated fats (meat fat) altogether. your daily food intake should provide calories in the following percentages: 70% complex carbohydrates, 12-15% protein and 10-15% fat . high fiber, such as the good old apple a day, and whole grains low cholesterol (avoid animal fat). low Sodium/Sodium-restricted diet . Take the salt shaker off the table. 1-2 week fast on alkaline juices or watermelon fast, followed by a vegetarian diet . if overweight, reduce weight to normal range. Foods that can provide specific therapeutic benefit in hypertension include: high Potassium foods such as millet, buckwheat, oats, rice, raw goat s milk, raw leafy vegetables, watermelon, garlic, onions, rutin-rich foods, cornsilk tea, garlic, broccoli, celery, cherries, nectarines, pineapple, kumquats, watermelons, squash, pomegranate, guava, parsley, cucumber, dandelion greens, cornsilk and white mushroom soup. If you are taking diuretics as part of your plan to control or reduce your hypertension, replacing Potassium is especially important. increase omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. These high quality oils are found in vegetable, nut, and seed oils (particularly good is flaxseed oil), salmon, herring, mackerel, sardines, walnuts, evening primrose oil, and black currant oil. Therapeutic foods used in Oriental cultures for hypertension include: mung bean soup chrysanthemum and spinach tea persimmon radish cucumber vine tea Other specific food-based remedies include: take 60 g of banana skins or stems, steam in water and eat three times daily one cup of grape juice and celery juice each, taken with warm water three times daily for 20 days. After one 20-day course of treatment, a 5-7 day rest, then resume another course. drink the decoction of 10 water chestnuts and 25 g each of kelp and corn silk. This means bring 1 quart of water to a boil, add the ingredients and simmer for about 20 minutes on a low heat. soak peanuts in vinegar for 5 days, then eat 10 peanuts every morning. take a handful of sunflower seeds every morning and evening with 1/2 cup of celery juice (an effective, potassium-sparing diuretic) for one month. drink one small quot;wine glassquot; of freshly pressed turnip juice morning and evening for 10 days soak 6 g black fungus in water overnight; steam for one hour; sweeten with sugar to taste. Take one time per day in evening before bed until the symptoms and blood pressure have improved. for constipation caused by hypertension take 500 g of peeled banana and mash together with 15 g black sesame seed. Eat daily. take 60 g of water chestnuts and 30 g of fresh orange peel. Add water, steam until cooked and eat this dish 2 or 3 times daily. take 30 g dried green peach (pitted young green fruit left to dry in the sun) cover with water and simmer until cooked and drink in place of tea. Avoid: allergenic foods salt, salty foods: pickles, olives, chips, packaged snacks, meat, (especially ham, frankfurters, bacon, bologna, corned beef, lunch meats, frozen fish fillets, sardines, herring, caviar, anchovies, shellfish), dairy products, spicy foods: salsa, white and black pepper, mustard, ginger, hot foods, canned tomato juice, V-8 juice, processed cheese, canned, dried or instant soups, frozen peas and beans, most processed and refined foods, MSG, mayonnaise, salad dressings, gravies, ketchup, food with Sodium benzoate as a preservative, Sodium proprionate in cheese and bread, baking powder, baking soda, ice cream, milkshakes, soft drinks, smoked meats and fish, Jello, pretzels, potato chips, salted nuts, candy, rennet tablets, pudding mixes, beverage mixes, spicy foods, alcohol, fried foods, fatty foods, pork, overeating, low levels of Calcium alcohol, sucrose, caffeine trans-fatty acids, hydrogenated oils (margarine, vegetable shortenings, imitation butter spreads, most commercial peanut butters) oxidized fats (deep fried foods, fast food, ghee, barbecued meats) Supplements that may be additionally helpful, because it is sometimes impossible to get therapeutic levels of certain nutrients through diet alone. Please contact a qualified health care provider for specific dosages. Vitamin A Vitamin B-complex Vitamin B3 Vitamin C Vitamin D Calcium 1-2 grams Magnesium 500 mg daily Potassium 100 mg daily Coenzyme Q10 60 mg daily omega-3 fatty acids 10-15 g daily omega-6 fatty acids, especially evening primrose oil (EPO)
WATCH YOUR DIET. YOU CAN TRY MEDITATION BUT MEDICAL RESEARCH SHOWS IT DOES LITTLE IF ANYTHING.
just have a cold shower and be calm after wards have a hypertension pill, get a good sleep an d just forget all tensions...take life easy!!!
