Health signs such as high cholesterol, overweight, diabetes, smoking, stress, inactivity or high blood pressure (BP) are all signs (indicators) that you risk creating heart problems and brain later in life.
This looks obvious, but the more of these indicators, the higher your risk.
I work with people who have all these indicators - here, in South Wales, there are a lot of stressful, obese diabetics with high blood pressure, who smoke, drink heavily and eat unhealthy. This may be an extreme example, but not so extreme that I cannot think of many people who fit this description.
For me, they are like a time bomb waiting to strike or a train destined to die.
If you have only one problem from the list of indicators, and all the others are in order, then you are pretty low risk.
Each of them must be considered in the context of the general state and well-being of a person.
One example of this is High BP.
If you have high blood pressure, overweight and a poor lifestyle, you largely guarantee yourself poor health in the future in some form or form. Conversely, if you have only a high level of blood pressure, but otherwise you are healthy and healthy, this is not considered a high risk.
Although initially difficult to detect, since people suffering from high blood pressure will not experience any symptoms, in patients with high blood pressure, if treated by a doctor, blood pressure treatment will be prescribed to help solve this problem. I was a big fan of blood pressure medications, as they helped me exercise the exercises safely and effectively with hundreds of heart attack patients.
However, in recent years, along with drugs that reduce cholesterol levels (statins), the blood pressure drug and its effectiveness are actually being questioned. Now, I never suggest you stop your beta blockers or your ace inhibitors and so on, but this is an interesting discussion that I will have with you today, read on to learn more.
That's what led me to writing this article, a couple of quotes, from the Doctor. “I was aware that the saline contraction (actively supported by most governments and relevant health care institutions) does not seem to have any miraculous positive effects (on AD), but with regard to drugs for blood pressure, so-called antihypertensive drugs “Do these medicines deliver their promises?”
Before going further, the controversial side of things will allow you to get acquainted with the basics of blood pressure.
The effectiveness of blood pressure treatment was not questioned 10-15 years ago. I myself had a heart rehabilitation program for six years, and treatment was at the therapy center to save lives and keep these clients after a heart attack as suitable and active as possible.
What is high blood pressure?
High blood pressure, which is often called hypertension, is defined as the constantly increased blood pressure in the arteries. Blood pressure is the power of blood that hovers around the body and walls of blood vessels.
High blood pressure and hypertension can lead to health risks such as:
Strokes or heart attacks
Heart failure
Aneurysms
blindness
Renal failure
Renal failure
If you want to know your BP reading, then it’s easy, you can easily check it at your local pharmacy, doctors, or you can even get a test kit at home.
As I already mentioned, there are very few symptoms of high blood pressure, so it is difficult to detect. But if you suffer from symptoms such as nosebleeds, heartbeats, persistent headaches, dizziness, facial flushing and unusual tiredness, then it would be helpful to check your blood pressure.
When BP is tested, you give 2 values first Systolic (worker) and then diastolic (rest). If your blood pressure exceeds 120/80 mmHg. St., then you, according to practitioners, have a high level of blood pressure.
Blood pressure values from 120/80 to 139/89 are called before hypertension, where you have an increased risk of hypertension, blood pressure values of 140/90 or higher are defined as hypertension.
What are the causes of high blood pressure and hypertension?
There is no definite answer, but, as I mentioned earlier, there are many risk factors associated with high levels of blood pressure:
Passive lifestyle
Poor nutrition
smoking
Obesity and overweight
Lack of exercise
Diabetes
stress
aging
High salt intake
Adrenal and thyroid problems
Plus a lot more. Doctors use a large number of different drugs for the treatment of high blood pressure and hypertension.
Some of the prescribed drugs include beta-blockers, vasodilators, ace inhibitors, diuretics, calcium channel blockers, renin inhibitors, alpha-blockers, alpha-beta-blockers, and central active ingredients.
These drugs can be administered individually to help reduce high blood pressure or in combination with other blood pressure medications. There is a general opinion among doctors that drug combinations work better than one pill.
This raises the question of how effective these methods of treatment are and how healthy is the adoption of many different types of medicine, with all the side effects. One side effect of some BP drugs is actually high blood pressure!
How effective are these drugs AD?
Now I am not an expert on this issue, doctors, so I bought a few words of wisdom from a doctor who does not seem to suffer from the same brain as many of his peers.
In an article written by Dr. Biff, about the treatment of AD, he says that most doctors prescribe treatment based on the fact that this is evidence based on the fact that truth is not really good evidence to support this.
In this article, Dr. Biff explained how a well-researched group of scientists (Cochrane Collaboration) conducted a review of studies that tested the effectiveness of blood pressure treatment, they looked at four studies and over 9000 subjects without a history of cardiovascular diseases for 4/5 years.
This study examines the question of how effective AD drugs are for people with only mild cases of high blood pressure. Subjects tested all registered blood pressure values between 140-195 mm Hg. systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure 90-99 mm Hg
Half of the subjects were treated with this medication, and the other half received a placebo. The results showed that the group that took blood pressure drugs did not have any risk of developing heart disease, suffered a stroke or other cardiovascular events.
In general, drugs did not work better than placebo.
Thus, this study was carried out for many people and for a long time and shows that the accepted drug did not have a positive effect on the subjects.
Briff also said that Cochrane Hypertension Group editor James Wright wrote in the British Medical Journal that doctors base their opinions on a combination of assumptions and clinical trial data in which patients with mild hypertension were not analyzed separately.
He also said: "In most cases, drug treatment has a good effect on the sickest people, people suffering from mild hypertension (which is a lot of people) do not benefit from this medicine."
Professor Jerome Hoffman wrote in the British Medical Journal that “efforts to lower blood pressure, usually requiring multiple medications, were usually unsuccessful, but did more harm than good, because the adverse effects of intensive treatment outweigh the minimum marginal benefits of a little more blood pressure .
He further said that the treatment of mild hypertension is of great benefit to drug manufacturers, even if it does not provide real benefits to patients. (This is the type of thing that really pissed me off (sorry), always about money, the government and large pharmaceutical companies make decisions, and they do not make decisions based on health, they are based on profits,
In many professions, such things as “conflicts of interest” cause people to do what they are meant for, and not in the pharmaceutical industry, they may have forgotten that they are meant to help people, and not just earn money. to rant)
You may think that such a discovery, we hope, will lead to the fact that many people with MILK BLOOD PRESSURE emit blood pressure medications and focus on some natural ways to lower blood pressure. In fact, this is not a good idea, and this will not happen, not yet.
Another interesting point is that of Dr. Des Spens, general practitioner and BMJ observer. He said:
“The risk is abstract, and doctors and patients struggle with this concept and cannot follow the recommendations. Doctors see blood pressure 156/98, and they prescribe. Easier to heal than not to heal - you are never blamed for overtreating.
And this is what you have to fight, and, frankly, I do not blame the GP, unfortunately, its usual practice.
Prescribing blood pressure medication for someone is the easiest step for a doctor, and he is going to take something BIG, and a lot more research, like what I mentioned, to change the situation. Interesting anyway.
Natural ways to lower blood pressure
So let's see what we can do.
As I already mentioned, there are more natural ways to lower blood pressure than taking different medications day after day.
In most cases, this is common sense.
However, "common sense is not a common practice."
(You should already have a vague idea of how to help yourself, this is not rocket science.
For those who are still interested in a good way to get started, take a look at your lifestyle. How much exercise do you do, what foods do you eat, smoke or drink a lot?
All these things need to be addressed and changed so that they can positively influence their health and reduce the level of blood pressure.
Therefore, I will bring it to a simple list of 8 natural ways to lower blood pressure:
1. Increase activity levels with exercise.
2. Reduce the intake of salted and processed foods
3. Reduce alcohol consumption
4. Stop smoking
5. Eat a healthy diet containing high-quality meat and lots of fruits and vegetables.
6. Guide foods rich in magnesium, potassium and calcium, or take supplements
7. Eat garlic - garlic is associated with lower blood pressure, and is a great way to compensate for the odor lost from salt.
8. Reduce body fat - this should happen by following the previous 7 tips.
These 8 steps can be very useful if used in combination with your doctors, and perhaps if your medications become too effective, the GP will have to reduce them (they don’t like to do this, you should be warned). I had clients who took drugs or cut their medicines, but usually I needed to do this through a cardiac rehabilitation nurse, and it’s normal if the GP listener doesn’t matter who makes them agree!
Thanks for reading, let me know your thoughts below, I will answer all your questions as soon as possible,
Richard
