Q: Three months ago, I changed my diet to reduce my sodium intake since I realized that maybe the cause of my consistent high blood pressure is due to all the canned foods I eat. Now I eat very healthy and exercise regularly, but my blood pressure is stillnot at a normal level. Please help.
A: Great that you are eating healthy and exercising since those are key factors to reducing your blood pressure and living healthy. However, you may not see any decrease in your blood pressure by limiting your salt intake. Not everyone with high blood pressure is sensitive to salt and salt sensitivity is difficult to measure. Regardless, it is important to reduce your salt in take when you have high blood pressure. Since you have not been able to reduce your blood pressure to a normal level, I suggest that you try Resperate, the only FDA Cleared natural high blood pressure reducer. Resperate has been clinically tested and proven to reduce high blood pressure naturally through a unique breathing method invented by Dr. Benjamin Gavish. If you go to this link you can learn all about this unique device and discuss it with your doctor: What is Resperate? – resperate.com.
I hope this information was helpful & good luck.
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Taking 600 to 800 mg a day of magnesium and eating several servings of unsalted raw or steamed vegetables and eating nonfat foods high in calcium helps balance your sodium intake. In some people that also lowers their blood pressure a bit.
Spices other than salt eaten with some extra virgin olive oil can add a LOT of taste without using salt.
Doing exercise that makes you sweat lowers blood pressure AND removes some salt too! Just be sure to drink extra water after you exercise enough to cause you to sweat.
Always taste food first BEFORE you add any more salt and add as little as you can when you do add some.
Pouring off the liquid from most canned foods where it is appropriate to do so, removes up to 60 % of the salt.
As you find opportunities to do so eating unprocessed or thawed and unsalted frozen foods instead of canned foods also can help.
3 months is also a rather short period of time to be expecting significant results. It took about a year or so for me to see significant results from doing the same things. I also added some supplements to my diet (garlic and CoQ10), which appear to be helping, along with the resperate device. Its a gradual decline, not a sharp one.
Very good suggestion.
Thank you.
The current belief is that less than 30% of folks with HBP are purely sodium sensitive, so most are not. It’s better to focus on the the total lifestyle element including a DASH style diet in combination with vigorous exercise. Most people can normalize their BP with lifestyle changes if they are persistent.
There are so many factors of High Blood Pressure. My dad was 40 yr old when he died of a massive heart attack. Young yes. He was a smoker and grew up in New York City; drinker: Yes; especially after a high stressed job as a commissioner and he was wounded in WWII; with Yellow fever and something else; spent 199 days in a field hospital in the South Pacific. He loved walking and beach combing, swimming and playing with his four kids. Can you pick out why he died young?
He didnt carry extra pounds. Ask any Doctor; they dont know all the facts, yet, why we have High Blood Pressure? They do know that smoking is very bad. My Dad
back then smoked Lucky Strikes. I wish I could have had him for an extra 40 years, he was a great Dad. These days tho the Big Pharma would rather push the quik fix-PILLS, then sorting out your lifestyle and start walking 40 minutes a day. Away with fats. I am not a picture of health but I have already past my dads age by 21 years. Three years ago I weighed 254; I started eating red meat again and now I weigh over 300; I maybe tall but this will kill me. There is so much on line and you can ask the doc here for anything and she will provide tons of info. Thank you Dave G.
The High Blood Pressure Solution by Richard Moore MD PhD is my bible. It shows the cause of HBP is in the cells and the result of an imbalance between potassium and sodium. The research is impressive. You must eliminate all added salt and increase potassium. Just reducing salt is not the answer. Get the book. Every Dr should read it. You will get results without drugs