Every time you have a fight with your spouse or your kids, you feel angry, your face gets red, your heart start pounding hard, and you even get a headache. If you take your blood pressure at that time, it will be alarmingly high.
Intense emotions make our blood pressure increase, but it decreases and returns to normal once those intense emotions subside. High blood pressure is normally not detected until it remains high over an extended period of time.
The only way to detect it is to have it checked regularly, at least once every two years. The following symptoms may indicate that you are suffering from hypertension, or high blood pressure. Be aware you could also have high blood pressure without any of these symptoms; that's why it's so important to check your blood pressure regularly.
Dizziness Chest pain Headaches Shortness of Breath Blurred Vision or other visual abnormalities
Around 95% of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, according to most people in the medical community. I think it's scary to think that such a big percentage is unknown. However, there is something you can do about this 95%. But more on that later.
There are risk factors that are controllable and there are also those that are uncontrollable. Uncontrollable risk factors are your heredity, age, and race. As you get older, your risk of developing high blood pressure also increases.
In general, men between the ages of thirty-five and fifty are more prone to hypertension, and in women it generally begins following menopause. Also, if someone in your family is suffering from it, you have a higher risk of getting it.
Some races also have a higher incidence of hypertension, such as African Americans, who have a tendency to get it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. Those risk factors are uncontrollable and there is nothing you can do to change them.
But there are many areas you do have control over that have a direct impact on whether you'll develop high blood pressure. Eating too much salt, excess alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all contribute to the development of high blood pressure. How many of those risk factors do you have?
Hypertension, if not monitored and treated, can lead to much more serious problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. Delicate blood vessels in the eye can be damaged as well. Due to high blood pressure, the following life-threatening conditions can occur:
Irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias Heart attack or brain attack (known more commonly as a stroke) Chronic kidney disease, ultimately resulting in kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplant Hardening of the arteries, called atherosclerosis CHF - Congestive heart failure, a condition in which your heart becomes too weak to be efficient at pumping your blood.
The traditional method of treating hypertension is with aggressive drug therapy, designed to drive down your blood pressure, many with a laundry list of side effects. Plus they most often do not even get the blood pressure down. Remember, most doctors admit they don't know about 95% of the causes of high blood pressure.
But I do so I've created a remarkable High Blood Pressure Program designed to drive down your blood pressure like what medicines do but without all the side effects.
The exercises are simple and takes very little time to learn and even less time to do. This program is a natural way to lower your blood pressure and helps you handle the stress that's so often the reason for your blood pressure problems. You can find out more about this amazing program here
Christian Goodman is a well known natural health researcher and the creator of the Natural Health Blog. His latest research is the Natural High Blood Pressure program, which has now cured thousands of people to lower blood pressure naturally.
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