High Blood Pressure Medication - Are Drugs the Only Effective Option?
Are you currently taking high blood pressure medication? Is it working the way you would like it to? Are you free from the side effects that bother so many others? Are you comfortable with the cost? Have you had your prescription modified since you first were diagnosed? If you are pre hypertensive or have stage 1 hypertension, you'll find the information that follows very interesting.
If you pressure is stage 2 or greater, you'll want to discuss these ideas with your medical professional before trying any.
High blood pressure medication is not the only effective treatment for hypertension.
As a matter of fact, the American Heart Association says that changes in lifestyle should be the primary treatment for this condition and that drugs are useful only when changes in diet and exercise fail.
Why is that? While nobody can say for certain what causes high blood pressure, almost everyone who has it had one of these lifestyle characteristics:
Doesn't it stand to reason that reversing those lifestyle habits can reverse the disease? Can you understand now why drugs simply control the condition but do nothing to eliminate it? Drugs simply interrupt natural processes in the body that are responsible for creating the conditions that lead to hypertension.
A change in lifestyle actually changes those natural responses.
In other words, a natural approach attacks the root causes of the disease and reverses them.
If you're sitting there thinking that "I'm an overweight couch potato who has a part time holiday job at Target in customer service, how can I possibly jump into a diet, exercise and stress management plan all at once?" have no fear.
Just as it probably took years of lifestyle abuse to get your blood pressure problem to where it is today, one cheeseburger at a time; you can start reversing it in the same small steps of positive action.
Most plans for example, recommend thirty minutes of daily aerobic exercise.
If you can't manage it daily do it two or three times a week.
And if you can't spare thirty minutes all at once, you can do it in three ten minute increments and get the same result.
The same goes for diet and stress management.
You don't have to jump into this head first but you do have to do something.
If you make no changes in your lifestyle you are condemning yourself to a lifetime on drugs!
If you pressure is stage 2 or greater, you'll want to discuss these ideas with your medical professional before trying any.
High blood pressure medication is not the only effective treatment for hypertension.
As a matter of fact, the American Heart Association says that changes in lifestyle should be the primary treatment for this condition and that drugs are useful only when changes in diet and exercise fail.
Why is that? While nobody can say for certain what causes high blood pressure, almost everyone who has it had one of these lifestyle characteristics:
- Unhealthy diet.
Actually unhealthy diet can be interpreted as the typical American diet rich in sodium, fats and cholesterol. - Sedentary lifestyle.
For a culture that values youth and appearance we are a lazy lot. - Obesity.
This condition, like high blood pressure is endemic in our society even among our youth. - Poor stress management.
The world is not going to get less stressful anytime soon.
Stress generates hormones that can do great damage not only to blood vessels but to our organs as well.
Doesn't it stand to reason that reversing those lifestyle habits can reverse the disease? Can you understand now why drugs simply control the condition but do nothing to eliminate it? Drugs simply interrupt natural processes in the body that are responsible for creating the conditions that lead to hypertension.
A change in lifestyle actually changes those natural responses.
In other words, a natural approach attacks the root causes of the disease and reverses them.
If you're sitting there thinking that "I'm an overweight couch potato who has a part time holiday job at Target in customer service, how can I possibly jump into a diet, exercise and stress management plan all at once?" have no fear.
Just as it probably took years of lifestyle abuse to get your blood pressure problem to where it is today, one cheeseburger at a time; you can start reversing it in the same small steps of positive action.
Most plans for example, recommend thirty minutes of daily aerobic exercise.
If you can't manage it daily do it two or three times a week.
And if you can't spare thirty minutes all at once, you can do it in three ten minute increments and get the same result.
The same goes for diet and stress management.
You don't have to jump into this head first but you do have to do something.
If you make no changes in your lifestyle you are condemning yourself to a lifetime on drugs!