• Caffeine: Caffeinated drinks cause jitters, insomnia, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, elevated blood cholesterol levels, vitamin and mineral depletion, breast lumps, birth defects, and perhaps some forms of cancer.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/04/Venezuela-Bans-Coke.aspx
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE LOWERED BY ADDING SALT AND CALCIUM
Studies have shown that high blood pressure can be prevented and lowered by consuming a diet high in calcium, and surprisingly, a diet high in salt. [Use unrefined salt. - bfg] Using calcium is far more effective with the essential use of salt. The recommended daily allowance (RDA) of calcium is 800 mg, and by meeting the RDA along with a diet high in salt, we will not raise, but lower our blood pressure. This is responsible for some of the lowest blood pressures in our society. Studies have shown that people who use the saltshaker more frequently and consume salty snack foods tend to have lower blood pressures than those who do not use salt with such frequency. This may also come as a shock, but low salt diets are associated with increases in blood pressure, and this is consistent with data from the U.S. clinical sites participating in the INTERSALT Study. This study found that the highest blood pressures were found in those with the lowest salt excretion in their urine. If we want to lower our blood pressure and prevent high blood pressure, we must use salt as well as calcium, as higher blood pressures were noted in the small percentage of the population eating high-salt low-calcium diets (which lessened the potassium, magnesium, and phosphorous). People who consumed large amounts of salt and had high blood pressure lowered their blood pressure by using calcium. The same thing happened for those who were using a lot of calcium and had high blood pressure; their blood pressure lowered when they started using salt. All of these studies show that calcium’s effect on blood pressure is most visible in those consuming at least the RDA of salt. Therefore, it makes sense for doctors to make sure that patients who have or are at risk of high blood pressure consume enough salt and calcium daily. I hope this information will provide Americans with a more attractive and nutritional approach to lowering their blood pressure.
Dr. Michael Alderman, Chairman of Epidemiology at Albert Einstein Medical School and President of the American Hypertension Society says, “The lower the sodium, the worse off you are.”
Dehydration is the biggest factor in hypertension - diuretic drugs just make it worse!
In looking for the causes of essential hypertension, conventional research has generally ignored the roles of water intake and nutrition. Blood pressure results from a balance between two factors: how hard your heart is pumping (cardiac output) and how easily plasma can diffuse out of your capillaries (peripheral resistance). Most people with hypertension have a normal cardiac output but increased peripheral resistance (Brit. Med. J. 322:912-916, 2001). The most likely cause of this is dehydration.
When you are dehydrated, the volume of blood in your body falls. But a water rationing system keeps your essential organs well supplied, by shutting down the capillaries supplying your muscles and skin. This increases your peripheral resistance. In addition, production of histamine, a hormone-like substance, increases, which causes your blood vessels to narrow. Both of these effects increase your blood pressure and can turn into a chronic problem if water intake is not increased. Yet modern medicine often treats this condition with diuretic drugs, which cause further dehydration!
Well, Greg, there is a link between high cholesterol and heart disease, but then there is also a link between breathing and heart disease. The key is not whether there is a link but rather whether there is a causative link. There is absolutely no causative link between high cholesterol and heart disease....
Also, doctors are commonly ignorant or dishonest about blood pressure anyway. People commonly have higher blood pressure readings at a doctor’s visit due to nervousness and/or discomfort. PLUS the first reading is practically NEVER accurate anyway. To get an accurate reading usually requires at least taking the blood pressure reading twice consecutive and three times consecutive is better. Doctors commonly just take blood pressure once and then drug people due to an inaccurately high blood pressure reading.
http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/full-page.php?id=20584223408 page=article
Selenium deficiency is also at the root of hypertension (commonly called high blood pressure) that also increases cardiovascular risk. This is a very technical matter that a whole article could be devoted to but I’ll just sum it up here.
It was Dr. Schroeder who discovered the connection of salt to hypertension and devised the low salt for high blood pressure that continues to be used today more than 50 years after his discovery of this. However, his later, more advanced finding that salt was not actually the culprit have been ignored.
Schroeder found that refined, white salt was a carrying agent for the mineral cadmium and that a build-up of cadmium was the real agent for causation of hypertension.
Cadmium is a heavy metal and as such is stable against the processing that removes other minerals when refining salt deposits to the pretty, white, sodium chloride salt so popular with almost everybody – thereby setting up an exaggerated imbalance of cadmium in the body that results in high blood pressure so very, very common to so very, very many.
Cadmium displaces zinc due to some technical matters of physics. The only normal means by which the body has to remove cadmium is the mineral selenium. Selenium physically bonds with cadmium to escort it out of the system. Of course, selenium is sacrificed in this role so that it is then unavailable to protect the heart, prevent cancer, or to perform any of the other myriad functions that it nutritionally performs.
Cigarette smoking is documented to dramatically increase high blood pressure risk. Cigarette smoke is very high in cadmium. The subsequent loss of selenium due to such cadmium increase also explains why cigarette smokers have so much more heart disease as well as cancer.
The processing of whole cane sugar to refined, white sugar has the same cadmium problem as with salt refining noted earlier.
Whole grains can be very high in selenium, although there is a wide disparity due to modern farming practices and geographical distribution of selenium in the soil, In any case, refined, white flour removes 92 per cent of selenium from the whole grain and leaves a similar exaggerated imbalance of cadmium, as with white salt and white sugar.
Dr. Alexander Schauss is noted to have said that practically the only mineral left in white flour and white sugar is cadmium. Dr. Schauss is the author of the book, ‘Diet, Crime and Delinquency’, and has been researching physical, mental, and social effects of nutrient mineral deficiencies and toxic element build-ups for many decades.
Selenium is important for so many functions in the body that it just makes sense in so many ways to concentrate on selenium supplementation rather than CoQ10 supplementation.
http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/full-page.php?id=08584822708 page=article
95 per cent of the mineral silicon is removed when white flour is made – more than either selenium or chromium. Silica is vital to the integrity of the blood vessels. It is key to both strength and elasticity of the vessels.
Lack of silica results in weaker vessels. This results in easier damage to the weaker vessels from free radicals due to lack of selenium. Then cholesterol acts as a band-aid to a problem that is not truly countered without the restoration of the nutrients. The continual placing of cholesterol band-aids is the plaque that builds up in the arteries – in combination with excess calcium as well.
A study many years ago confirmed that in those dying from cardiovascular disease there was little or no silica to be found in the arteries. Those who died with healthy cardiovascular systems had an abundance of silica in their arteries.
Other very important nutrient deficiencies contributing to heart disease are magnesium, of which 75 per cent is removed in the refining of white flour, and pyridoxal compounds (commonly referred to as vitamin B6) of which more than 50 per cent is removed in the refining of white flour.
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Do blood pressure drugs work? Nope...
Not according to patients and their families. A big new study in the famous, mainstream New England Journal of Medicine finds that 100% of doctors prescribing the drugs believed their patients lives had improved. But most patients disagreed and 98% of spouses and friends said the patients lives had worsened. That"s nearly unanimous.
Forget what they told you about high blood pressure. Why 150 million Americans are obsessing about the wrong numbers - and how to nab the real killer in 12 minutes, for about $10. Say your blood pressure is 170/110 and Joe"s is 170/70. Joe's blood pressure is lower, so he's healthier, right? WRONG. In fact, Joe is twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke, heart failure, or some other adverse event. That's according to the Framingham study - the definitive study on blood pressure, with over 50 years of data from more than 10,000 patients. Why? Because even though everyone's obsessing about high blood pressure, what's killing folks over 50 is... HIGH PULSE PRESSURE....
In your free Library of Medical Lies, I'll detail how breathtakingly easy it is to fix high pulse pressure. Simple exercise can do it, and here's the easiest one imaginable: You'll need 12 minutes with a $10 hand-gripper. This solution was recently tested in a clinical study by a distinguished scientist in my Alternatives network - Dr. Neil McCartney at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. His patients just held a special gripping device in their hands and squeezed it with 30% of their strength, 12 minutes a day, a few times a week. The results were flabbergasting. They experienced an average 19-point reduction in systolic pressure. It normalized their pulse pressure AND blood pressure....
Alternatives, Mountain Home Publishing, POB 2000, Ranson, WV 25438-2000
"Reverse Stroke Damage - Even Up to 5 Years After - hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO)."
Source: SECOND OPINION, P.O. Box 467939, Atlanta, Georgia, 31146-7939 1-800-791-3445
"His dad's blood pressure dropped a full 40 points. Yet all the cure consisted of is eating some celery every day!" Skeptical? So was the scientist! But old dad turned out to be right on the money, when researchers uncovered a miraculous compound in celery called 3nB. 3nB blocks dangerous stress hormones and relaxes blood vessel walls. This allows blood to flow with a lot less pressure." -
Source: Health Revelations, 819 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201, Alan Inglis, MD, a real country doctor
"Cod liver oil can not only reverse your arthritis, but also normalize your cholesterol, lower your blood pressure, keep your arteries open and all that other good stuff...you can get it in capsules and freeze them - you won't even burp. See for yourself." -
Source: Health Revelations, 819 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201, Alan Inglis, MD, a real country doctor
"The ancient practice of yoga can help control high blood pressure almost as effectively as medication." -
Source: Consumer Reports on Health, P.O. Box 5377, Harlan, IA 51593-0877
"..After just one month on the juice [rimmon]... their high blood pressure started dropping like a stone..."
Source: Alternatives, Mountain Home Publishing, P.O. Box 2000, Ranson, WV 25438-2000; 1-800-844-1462
"Flush away high blood pressure - without drugs. A new study has found that a diet of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy lowers blood pressure as well as drugs. The reason: When you eat these foods, you excrete more water, thus reducing your blood volume so your heart doesn't have to pump as hard." -
Source: Consumer Reports on Health, P.O. Box 5377, Harlan, IA 51593-0877
Natto "The 44-cent Preventive for Dropping Dead
"Most of the medical profession is in distress about cardiovascular disease because they have no good solutions for it. That's why, over the next 20 to 30 years, hundreds of people you've met will die of myocardial infarctions, strokes, and so forth. The victims have something in common-they all believe anything they hear from someone in a white lab coat.
"You, however, aren't one of these people. Just follow through on the simple information that follows, and your blood vessels can stay open and flowing like the Nile. Best of all, you'll do this without drugs or their dreaded side effects. The solution to blood clots is a food, an inexpensive Asian food (also available in pill form). If you can afford 44 cents a day, you've just added a lot of healthy years to your life.
"How the University of Chicago is Saving Millions with a Japanese Delicacy
"A researcher at University of Chicago's Medical School has discovered that an extremely inexpensive natural food is more effective at healing and preventing heart disease and strokes than the best medical treatments costing $20,000 per dose.
"Dr. Hiroyuki Sumi found that a traditional Japanese dish made from fermented soybeans dissolves blood clots with unmatched speed. He identified an enzyme in the cheese-like food that prevents heart attacks, strokes, and angina (plus plain old-fashioned senility) without any of the horrid side effects of drugs. (If a clot goes to your brain, you have a stroke; if it goes to your heart, you have a heart attack.) To his great surprise, he found that when he put one drop of this food onto a blood clot in his lab, it dissolved the entire clot in only 18 hours. That's a stark contrast to the $20,000 substance (Urokinase), which fizzles out quickly and has a half-life of just 20 minutes at best.....
"Researchers began with animal studies. In a single-blind study on male dogs with blood clots, a single serving dissolved the clots completely in five hours! After 18 hours, the clots in the dogs that got a placebo were as big as ever.
Then they tried rats, the soy derivative bested plasmin, the natural clot-fighting substance you have in your own arteries, by four times over.
"In human studies, it was again a success: It cut in half the time required for the subjects' bodies to dissolve clots. That means your blood approaches the ideal condition quite rapidly.
"No Side Effects Here
"Instead of side effects, like drugs, this all-natural cure typically furnishes a bouquet of side benefits:
"Stimulates your body to produce more of its own clot-dissolving plasmin. In contrast, most drugs weaken your body's ability to fight its own battles.
Lowers blood pressure. In human tests, blood pressure fell 10% in four days.
"May ward off osteoporosis.
"Proven to combat senility.
"Works strongly to prevent heart attacks and strokes-with just one small 100-milligram capsule per day.
"Has a 100% safety record. Unlike the commonly prescribed drug Coumadin, it won't make your blood too thin, no matter how much of it you eat.
"Potent But Fun
"This isn't a novelty or a lightweight remedy. In fact, one noted naturopathic doctor says that this product represents the most exciting new development and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Many of his patients had tried everything else, even bypass surgery-they came to him as a last resort to stay alive.
"Eating this cure-all is nothing like taking a drug. If you have a taste for Asian food, you'll enjoy it. (Try it with hot mustard.) A dried variety is even served now by Japan Airlines with in-flight meals and as a snack with beer." [It's Natto - here's a link about it]
Source: Health Sciences Institute, P.O. Box 925, Frederick, MD 21705-9913
"If your blood pressure is high, chances are your doctor will tell you to watch your sodium intake. Unfortunately, that advice is not always correct. ...it's not sodium intake per se that aggravates high blood pressure. Rather, it's an excess of sodium in relation to potassium. ..The ideal ratio is to get 5 times as much potassium as sodium..."
Source: Bottom Line Health, P.O. Box 53409, Boulder, CO 80321-3409, http://www.BottomLineSecrets.com/healthy
"Ordinary cooking oil fixes incurable hypertension... This unpublicized breakthrough was recently tested on 328 people who were already taking a leading drug. Even with help from the drug, their blood pressure averaged a dangerously high 166 over 101. Yet days after they started using this common cooking oil, their readings plummeted into the normal range." - [Olive oil also reduces blood pressure - according to one study, just two teaspoons a day reduced blood pressure on average by 5 points (Clin. Exp. Hypertens. 3: 27-28, 1981).] -
Source: Bottom Line Books, P.O. Box 11400, Des Moines, IA 50381-1400 - flyer for book Health Breakthroughs 2007
"Blood pressure drugs beat by...low sodium V8 juice?! New study confirms doctor's low-tech discovery" -
Source: Health Healing, One Executive Way, Forrester Center, WV 25438, Dr. Whitaker, 1-800-211-7657
"Nearly two decades after limiting salt became synonymous with healthful living, the relationship was convincingly refuted. A major international research project in thirty-two nations showed that while the incidence of hypertension varied widely, salt intake had little to do with it."
- T.J. Moore, The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1989
Alka-Seltzer Gold is Sodium Bicarbonate and Potassium Bicarbonate. If you have a blood pressure problem related to sodium the potassium keeps the sodium from building up and causing the blood pressure problem. Alka-Seltzer Gold is a great thing to have around. Remember, plop, plop, fizz, fizz, O what a relief it is. There are several different types of Alka-Seltzer, but Gold is the only one you want. (makes the body alkaline!)