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Recently I had the pleasure to sit next to a very nice older gentleman on a long flight from Newark to Munich. We quickly began to discuss everything under the stars and one subject that came up was his high blood pressure.

I told him about my High Blood Pressure Exercise Program and how effective it is. He was interested but when I began explaining how the exercises work, he was skeptical and said his blood pressure was not stress related.

Pretty much everyone in his family on both sides going back several generations had hypertension. In fact, his father had died of a heart attack at age 53.

I’ve heard this objection so many times that I was not surprised at all. After all, there are so many things that can cause high blood pressure: high cholesterol, genetic factors, bad diet and most of the time … no known cause.
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I had a number of positive responses from readers regarding my previous article about the benefits of adding cayenne pepper to your diet.  So I thought I’d follow up with some details about people in various parts of the world that implement cayenne pepper into their daily diet.

In that article we covered the many benefits of cayenne pepper that include relieving your pain, stimulating your blood circulation, aiding in your digestive system, boosting your metabolism and thermogenesis rate, decreasing arthritic pain and lowering the risk of atherosclerosis and high blood pressure.  Since heart disease is known to be the number one killer in America, these benefits are compelling.

Cayenne Pepper has been used for thousands of years.  The regions of South and Central America as well as Africa were known to have put it to use first.  As its advantage spread around the world, it became known to treat a wide spectrum of diseases.

Costa Rica and the Bahamas use it to treat indigestion and colic.  Africans use it for vascular disorders and North Americans use it as a natural stimulant and tonic.  Native Americans originally and exclusively used it as an Aztec royalty treat.
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I just received an email from a reader asking me to highlight the benefits of cayenne pepper in regards to high blood pressure.  Immediately, I embraced the idea as I found it would be interesting to share with all my readers.

High blood pressure or hypertension affects millions of Americans each year.  It can lead to serious conditions such as kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, or even paralysis.  It is imperative to diagnose and treat immediately.

There are many medications on the market today that your physician can prescribe.  However, are you willing to take on the side effects of such medications?  Fatigue, insomnia and nausea are a few of the side effects.  Sure, the medication may be helping your blood pressure issue, but do you want to feel like you are a walking, talking zombie?
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“You aren’t going to believe this,” wrote a good friend of mine in an email, “I’ve just returned from the dentist and I was watching fish the entire time!”

My friend went on to say that while he was lying in the chair having his exam performed, he was also viewing a giant aquarium which had been installed.

This was different from his usual exams with his previous dentist.  In an attempt to make him feel relaxed, he believed, they asked him questions which required him to try to talk while having dental instruments in his mouth. (more…)