High blood pressure is a common illness among adults. There are many causes of high blood pressure, but overall, long-term high blood pressure can lead to heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and diabetes. Because this is a serious illness, doctors and other health care professionals (or simply people worried about the health of themselves and their families) are taking great steps to prevent high blood pressure. However, it is important to remember that the first step to lowering your high blood pressure is to understand it in the first place.



Symptoms of High Blood Pressure

If you or someone you love has high blood pressure (also called hypertension), your fist reaction is to get your family doctor who will give you prescription drug to take the rest of your life. Sadly, most of these drugs have potential for many side effects including fatigue, dizziness, depression, impotence, liver damage or more. You are not alone, almost 63 million Americans have heart disease, and the number is growing all over the world.

When you have high blood pressure or hypertension, the force of blood against your artery walls is too strong. High blood pressure can damage your arteries, heart and kidneys and lead to arteriosclerosis and stroke. Hypertension is called the "Silent Killer" because it does not cause symptoms unless it is severely high, and without your knowing it, causes major organ damage of not treated.

In a more of an easy way to understand, Hypertension is when the blood pressure is the force in the arteries when the heart beats (systolic pressure) and when the heart is at rest (diastolic pressure). It is measure in millimeters of mercury (mmHg). You have high blood pressure (or hypertension) if you are an adult with blood pressure readings greater than 140 mm Hg systolic or greater than 90 mm Hg diastolic. If you do have hypertension, I urge you to do something to reverse it since it is a serious matter. Left unchecked, it can cause many potential health problems, including heart attack, stroke, kidney damage, blindness, and death!

Causes of High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure can be caused by any number of factors in a person's life or by many factors all adding together. However, the hard truth is that if you don't control your blood pressure , it can lead to many serious medical conditions, including heart attack and stroke. By understanding the causes of high blood pressure , you can learn how to prevent your levels from exceeding the normal range and therefore promote in yourself and your family a healthier overall lifestyle.

An unhealthy diet also causes high blood pressure in another way. When there is too much sugar in the blood stream. Glucose, or blood sugar, increases due to diabetes, in which the body does not produce the chemical that regulates blood sugar. Ingesting food high in sugar, such as most desserts, can also cause your blood sugar to increase, as can stress, hormone levels, and infection. When there is more glucose in the blood stream, your blood is essentially thicker, and harder to push through your arteries and veins, creating a higher blood pressure .

One of the major causes of high blood pressure is cholesterol. In most cases, a person with higher than normal cholesterol levels will also suffer from high blood pressure . This is due to the fatty deposits left on the artery walls from the cholesterol in your blood stream. The body actually needs no cholesterol, since it produces enough on its own, but the foods we eat often introduce more into our body. When no more can be absorbed into the blood stream, the cells deposit fat onto the walls of the arteries. This fat turns to a hard plaque, making our blood vessels smaller and smaller over time. The same amount of blood needs to flow through these smaller spaces, creating a higher blood pressure .

High blood pressure does not only come from an unhealthy diet, but can also occur due to drug intake as well. People who drink alcohol excessively, for example, increase their risk greatly of having high blood pressure . Caffeine is another drug that is proven to raise blood pressure , especially in combination with nicotine, which is found in cigarettes. Many other narcotics, especially those that are illegal in the United States, have also been show to increase your blood pressure .

Genetics is a final factor in the high blood pressure battle. Some estimate that 30% of high blood pressure cases can be attributed, at least in part, to genetics. We do not have any control over our genes--genetics refers to the coding used in our bodies that produces everything from the color of our eyes to our height to the ability we have (or do not have) to curl our tongues. We get this genetic make-up from our parents, and so there is nothing we can do to stop ourselves from having a "high blood pressure" risk when we are born. However, we can prevent genetics from playing a major role be overall living a healthy life. By taking steps to reduce our high blood pressure , we can create a better future for our bodies, whether our parents suffered from high blood pressure or not. Living this healthier lifestyle, including eating a low-cholesterol diet, watching our sugar intake, and introducing less drugs into our bodies can help us overcome high blood pressure .

The conventional approach to lowering your blood pressure is eating well, exercise and taking prescription medications such as diuretics, alpha blockers, and vasodilators which have immense negative side effects that we mentioned earlier.

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How Herbal Medicines work

• Reduce high blood pressure
  
  
• Reduce blood stickiness and improve blood flow through the arteries
  
  
• Calm and soothe stress and nervous tension
  
  
• Tone and protect the heart and cardiovascular system
  
  
• Improve circulation, including chilblains and tingling in the hands and feet
  
  
• Improve the pumping ability of the heart and reduce irregular heart beat
  
  
• Relieve the symptoms of angina
  
  
• Protect against dangerous plaque build up in the coronary arteries and help to
• prevent blood clotting, strokes and heart attacks.
  
  
• Increase energy levels and feelings of well being