Three simple and quick methods to helps decrease your high blood pressure using the Chinese healing art of Qigong. Learn more at my blog funwithqigong.com.

Doctors use a very wide range of medicines and treatment in an attempt to lower the blood pressure. These medications can be dangerous, as there is no way to pre-determine which treatment is right for the individual patient. A trial and error approach is usually taken, which can mean that the wrong mixture of drugs is administered or prescribed, resulting in unwanted and sometimes dangerous side-effects.

There are many ways around having to take prescription drugs. Obviously, the more natural the better, so we are now beginning to focus on certain lifestyle changes that will decrease the risk of heart disease due to high blood pressure and/or hypertension.

If you begin with these five changes, you will feel the benefits almost instantly. Over a short period of time you will get to know other beneficial changes that you could make, as you may start to realize what foods, habits and exercises could be affecting your blood pressure.

It is always important, especially for the elderly and overweight, to consult your doctor before making some of these changes.

1. Water is a good replacement for the caffeine filled, or sugary drinks that one may drink daily. Approximately 2 liters, or somewhere around 8 and 10 glasses would be enough, each day, to cleanse and refresh your body.

2. Smoking is thought to be one of the biggest causes of high blood pressure. If you stop smoking your blood pressure levels will start to decrease in a matter of days. If you have a particularly hard time quitting, even with all of the available substitutes and medications, then at least try to halve the number of cigarettes you smoke in a day, as this will help lower your blood pressure.

3. Cardiovascular workouts are great for the heart. As the heart is a powerful muscle, it needs exercise to grow more connective tissue, which makes it much stronger and helps to keep it working just that little bit longer. It is not recommended to start a vigorous exercise regime straight away, as this could lead to a heart attack in those with particularly high blood pressure. Start off with a slow run twice a week, and lead up to more vigorous work-outs daily.

4. Altering your diet, as well as helping you to lose weight, will lower your blood pressure. 5 good sized portions of fruit and vegetables each day is the best way to increase your nutrient intake, whilst fighting high blood pressure. Decreasing the amount of salt in your diet is very important. Some say you should try to eliminate salt completely, but your body does still need salt to function properly, just do not over do it. 6g is the recommended daily allowance for salt, but if you eat lots of processed and packaged foods, be aware that they do contain “hidden” salts. This will dramatically lower the risk of heart disease.

5. One of the simplest steps you can take is to simply relax a bit. Stress is one of the worst things when you have high blood pressure, because it raises it. The worst cases are usually in sufferers that are overweight, the elderly and people with a family history of high blood pressure and hypertension. Walking, slow running, quiet meditation or just relaxing on the couch and watching the television are great ways to combat stress related high blood pressure.

Read more on How to Prevent High Blood Pressure and Effective Ways To Reduce Blood Pressure and Hypertension Symptoms

It is not completely understood as to why this has only just recently been discovered, as scientists have tested thousands of different types of fruit and vegetables to determine their potential health benefits. The best news of all is the tomato is so easy to get a hold of. You can buy them almost anywhere, and even some of the big brands of tomato sauce contain enough real tomatoes to be just as beneficial, although not in massive quantities as they also contain rather a lot of sugar.

Fresh tomatoes are a very effective anti-oxidant and also help to reduce the risk of most forms of heart disease. Shocking that the Italians, who are well known for having a very low rate of heart disease cases reported, have been eating so many tomatoes for such a long time, and nobody has picked up on it.

The study on the health benefits of tomatoes was led by Dr. Esther Paran, who is the leading lady at the hypertension division of Soroka Medical Center. It was mostly a case study performed on patients suffering from hyper-tension, where other medicines had completely failed. Dr. Paran gave patients a dose of concentrated tomato essence, along with adding tomatoes into their diets, at least more than usual.

The results were astonishing. Dr. Paran saw results fast, sometimes in as little as four or five weeks. This aqueous fruit definitely looks to be an almost miracle treatment, although it is not a cure.

The effectiveness of the tomato in lowering blood pressure etc. is attributed to the natural presence of the chemical lycopene. This is a very powerful anti-oxidant that has recently been extracted from “hybrid” tomatoes that were grown in Israel, called the Lycomato, which were specifically grown to ensure higher concentrations of Lycopene, inside each and every piece of tomato. Lycopene is not the only anti-oxidant that is naturally present in tomatoes. The long list make tomatoes a “super-food” in reference to lots of different potential heart conditions. Whilst tomatoes may not necessarily lower cholesterol, if you eat them regularly, they can help to prevent LDL cholesterol from sticking to the inside walls of the

Even during the peak growing season it can be difficult to consume four whole tomatoes each day, which is the recommended amount for having a positive impact on blood pressure. Here are some ways to get the benefits of tomatoes without having to eat them straight off the vine.

1. Make Chili. Using tomato puree, which is a concentrated form of tomatoes, as the base for your chili utilizes the antioxidants without the bulk of a whole tomato. Add some ultra-lean and high protein ground bison and kidney beans with minced garlic and onions, and cayenne pepper and you have a heart-healthy main course and a full day’s allowance of tomato.

2. Take a leaf out of the Italian’s book and eat pasta in a tomato sauce. Use olive oil to fry the onions and garlic, use tomato puree or paste to color the sauce, and use fresh and/or canned tomatoes to flavor and fill the sauce. Using this many tomato ingredients ensures that you will consume far more than the necessary amount of tomatoes and nearly ten times as many nutrients.

3. With any food you can have a side salad, as it does not add many calories. If you have one tomato, whole, sliced, it does not really matter how you eat, just that you do.

4. Drinking your own homemade tomato juice is one of the best ways to cram as many tomatoes as you can into a juicer, making sure that you have a huge dose of the beneficial anti-oxidants.

5. You can buy 200mg tomato supplement tablets. These are good for anybody that does not like the taste of tomatoes but still wants to use them as a medicine. When you take these tablets you are actually taking in more nutrients than you would if you ate the full recommended four tomatoes.

Eating more tomatoes reduces systolic blood pressure by up to 10 points and diastolic blood pressure by up to 4 points. It has definitely become apparent that tomatoes are very, very good for you, however they are prepared.

After researching literally thousands of information sources I discovered that blood pressure is simply the amount of pressure (like pounds per square inch) it takes for the heart to push blood through your blood vessels into your body, and how much pressure it takes to suck it back. Systolic being the first and diastolic being the second.

Researchers say that 120 (systolic) / (over) 80 (diastolic) is “normal”. However, I have found that this varies between age groups, occupations, sexes and races. In my opinion, if your blood pressure is between 110 to 135 systolic and 55 to 85 diastolic, you are healthy. These readings would be when you are resting, not in the middle of any vigorous exercise or under any extreme distress.

Believing the above I theorized that getting blood vessels to be more flexible and getting the heart to be more relaxed should lower blood pressure. Investigating further I found devices being marketed that already worked on these theories. ZonaPLUStm produces a device that exercises the blood vessels through handgrip squeezing. RESPeRATEtm makes a device to aid in slow breathing exercises to relax the heart.

Scientific research shows that both these devices play a role in lowering blood pressure. Then I contemplated combining both these exercises, squeezing and breathing, into one program. After months of additional research and testing BPDown © was born. Not only does BPDown © combine both squeezing and breathing exercises into one program, but unlike the $300 price tags of other programs, BPDown © costs only $49 including shipping.

The BPDown © kit  provides, 2 squeeze apparatus (tension balls) tested and calibrated to provide appropriate tension for a good grip squeezing exercise designed to improve blood flow, a CD with audio instructions to squeeze correctly and slow down breathing for relaxation, an instruction booklet with directions on how to squeeze and breath properly with a method to practice these techniques anywhere, as well as record sheets and a pen to keep track of your progress.

I’m 69 years old and I’ve used BPDown for several months. My blood pressure was lowered from 180/90 to 125/75 in just a few weeks. I saw improvement immediately after just one use. Initially I used the BPDown program practically everyday, but now I use it only every other day and my low blood pressure is being maintained.

I carry the tension ball devices with me everywhere. So if I’m in a movie theater, early for an appointment, or watching TV, I just take out the devices and do the exercises.

I found that not only has my blood pressure gone down, but my grip, wrists and forearms are stronger and I feel generally much better.  Walking up and down stairs, and bending to pick up stuff are less effort. Even sleeping is better.

I don’t know if BPDown © will work equally well for everybody, but the price is so low and the other benefits so broad that I think everybody who might benefit from it should give it a try.

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More than 50 million people in this country have high blood pressure. This amounts to almost one in four adults.

Nearly a third (30 percent) of those with high blood pressure don’t know they have it.

Another 36 percent don’t have their blood pressure under control.

f left untreated, high blood pressure can damage the kidneys, or lead to a stroke, heart attack, or heart failure.

Make no mistake, this is a serious problem, but, there are ways to lower blood pressure fast without drugs. First step to lower blood pressure fast is to avoid sodium.

Many of today’s processed foods/snacks and canned foods are loaded with sodium. Sodium causes you to retain fluids so that your blood has more fluid volume. When this happens, your heart must pump harder to circulate this larger amount of fluid.

To lower blood pressure fast, you should limit your caffeine intake. Even one or two servings of coffee, tea, or high caffeine drinks a day can increase your pressure. Caffeine is a stimulant that makes your heart beat faster.

This, in turn increases your pressure. Are you still smoking? Quitting now will lower blood pressure fast and will improve your overall health as well. Smoking causes your pressure to increase because of the stimulants in cigarettes. Losing weight can dramatically lower blood pressure fast. Carrying extra weight causes your heart to work harder and beat faster.

By losing those excess pounds, your pressure will drop along with your weight.A glass or two of red wine with dinner has also been shown to lower blood pressure fast.

A glass of red wine cleans out your arteries, makes it easier for them to dilate, and allows blood to flow through them more smoothly. When your arteries are able to dilate properly, your pressure comes down.

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