Hypertension / High Blood Pressure :

Hypertension / high blood pressure is a major cause of heart disease and deaths from heart disease is the UK's biggest killer.

Everyone knows that blood pressure lowers when weight is lost and that fluid retention is a major contributor to hypertension. This is why the first action that doctors take in treating this ailment is prescribing diuretics (water loss tablets) as these help to eliminate extra fluid in the body and this in turn will hopefully reduce the blood pressure.

The long term use of diuretics for helping to lower blood pressure can cause their own set of problems:

• The reason being is that these drugs deplete the body of potassium, magnesium, zinc etc. This applies to the potassium sparing types too. These minerals are precisely the minerals required to maintain the correct amount of sodium and therefore fluid within the body so the condition is made worse over time by the diuretics.
• They also overtax the kidneys and could cause permanent damage in long term use.

Therefore, try to reduce your blood pressure the natural way by improving your diet, losing excess weight and increasing activity levels.

SUMMARY: Eliminate junk foods & improve your diet (more vegetables, fruit, soya etc.) Lose excess body weight Stop smoking Reduce alcohol intake Eliminate adding salt to food Increase mineral water / fluid intake Increase activity / exercise levels BENEFICIAL SUPPLEMENTS Diuretic herbs e.g. dandelion leaf, celery seed, uva ursi, alfalfa Various Essential Oils EFA's Garlic Choline & Inositol Vitamin B6 Vitamin C