Q: I have high isolated systolic BP and my diastolic is normal. Why is systolic BP more important? Would using RESPeRATE be harmful for this condition? What’s a good way to get your systolic number lower?
A: Both systolic and diastolic high blood pressure readings are important. In recent years, doctors have come to understand that systolic hypertension (high top number with normal lower number) is also a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The treatment of systolic hypertension is the same as for combined systolic/diastolic hypertension. The RESPeRATE has been shown in clinical studies to lower both systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings. It certainly has a place in a treatment plan for hypertension. The treatment plan for an individual is best determined by their physician.
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I believe it is important to do some of your own research. Keep reading comments here. My suspision is that natural foods and herbs might be more successful for the treatment of systolic hypertension because whole herbs and foods tend to be balanced in their actions because their phytochemicals were made to support their own life as well as ours and other animals. Stress has an enormous effect on your blood pressure so I recommend you go to my website livingandlovinglife.net to read and decide whether you might benefit from a copy of my book Living and Loving Life in an Imperfect World by Laura Kay Baughman. It will soon be available from Xlibris my new publisher in a small attractive paperback form including pictures of trees to represent your growth into a better life; freer, more relaxed and productive from following the mind changing excercises in the book. Hypnosis, imagery, relaxation and mental reprogramming really help. I have included a sample of a guided script to help you follow my lead or develop your own imagery including reprogramming at the end of course.
You come up with your own reprogramming based on your own anxieties of course. My book will teach you how to recognize thoughts that upset you, and then reverse them to a statement you would rather believe. Go slow to avoid getting overwhelmed. Your mind will try to get you to reject that new belief so I recommend relaxing, and walking and/or waiting until you are less upset before trying to reprogram yourself. Just start trying to change one belief and see what happens. See how you can tolerate it; and proceed accordingly. If you can convince yourself to believe it you can achieve it. Exercise. Start with a 5 minute walk outdoors for relaxation and benefit to the cardio-vascular system with a minimal exertion. It may take month to years of repetition to change a belief. It took me about 20 years of working on my negative beliefs about myself to reprogram myself into who I am today. I still use my own copy of my book occasionally. After all I created the book from my research for myself. All the techniques in the book should be easy to understand and be effective for you. I am constantly rejecting negative programming still getting thrown at me. I don’t think that assault ever ends. You will need to constantly reverse what is thrown at you to prevent another long period of reversing the damage if you let it build. You will be reversing years of reinforcement of that previous belief. Remember, very little of what you worry about ever becomes reality. There is no point of listening to all your worries but I know how ingrained the worry habit may be. Most of the anger released on you is really because others dislike the part of you that shows them what they don’t like about themselves.
Best of luck! Look at some of my other comments shown to the left for more ideas of food, herb and homeopathy approaches to hypertension and other problems you may be able to relate to.
I agree that the natural methods might be more effective in reducing the Systolic reading. I don’t believe our medicine is advanced enough to just lower one of the two numbers. Both numbers are typically reduced simultaneously with medication.