You’ve just had a fight with your spouse or your kids. You’re angry, your face is red, you feel your heart pounding and on top of all that, now you’re getting a headache. If you took your blood pressure right now, it would be alarmingly high.
Our blood pressure increases with intense emotion, but it’s a natural reaction and will quickly return to normal levels once your fear or anger subsides. High blood pressure is typically not diagnosed until it remains consistently high over an extended period of time.
The only way to know is to have it checked on a routine basis, once every couple of years as a bare minimum. If you have any of the following symptoms, you may indeed suffer 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
Most people in the traditional medical system will tell you that roughly 95% of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, this is termed essential hypertension. I think it’s scary to consider such a big percentage unknown. Because there is something you can do about this 95%. More on that later.
There are risk factors you can control and those you cannot. Examples of risk factors you can’t control include your heredity, your age, and your race. The older you get, the greater your risk for developing high blood pressure.
Generally speaking, hypertension most often occurs in men between thirty-five and fifty years old. In women it typically begins following menopause. Also, if someone in your family has it, your risk for getting it is increased.
Some races have a greater incidence of hypertension such as African Americans, who tend to develop it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. You have no control over those risk factors. There’s 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?
High blood pressure, left unchecked and untreated can lead to much more serious problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. Fragile blood vessels in the eye can be damaged as well. Some of the dangerous health conditions that occur as a result of untreated high blood pressure include:
● 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 and I’ve developed an amazing High Blood Pressure Program designed to do the same thing as the drugs without all the side effects.
With simple exercises that take no time to learn and even less time to perform, this method helps lower your blood pressure naturally and helps you handle the stress that’s so often at the root of blood pressure problems. You can learn more about my program here…
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman
