The only thing more dangerous than high blood pressure is using blood pressure medications to lower it. Here’s why…
It’s a well-known fact that hypertension medications cause serious side effects. Even the medical companies have to admit to that. But to defend themselves, they say: "No efficacy without side effects".
Some of the serious side effects include (but are not limited to) dizziness, headache, fatigue, depression, throbbing of the heart, lack of energy, lack of concentration, impotency, frigidity and more.
What’s worse, these medications give rise to the feeling of “false security”
It’s like wearing a safety helmet with an unnoticeable crack in it. You take more risk because you trust the helmet. But when something hits you in the head and the helmet breaks and your head along with it.
Because hypertension medications neither cure hypertension nor protect you from sudden fatal cardiovascular events – such as heart attack, stroke, embolism, kidney failure and other conditions that are directly caused by high blood pressure. It often doesn’t even work to normalize the blood pressure itself.
Fifty percent of the modern populations die from these diseases. Mortality is even slightly higher among people who are on medications. So people are put on medications for the rest of their life, thinking they’ll be safe, but then the safety-device doesn’t work and fatal accident happens. Horrifying, isn’t it?
The reason the medications don’t work is because they don’t take on the underlying cause of hypertension: Stress and wrong diet.
Living standards have never been so high as they are in the western world today. It has never been so easy to live a good life. We have plenty to eat and nice clothes and shelters. In many ways, we’ve safer than ever. But never before have worries and stress plagued us so much.
The normal person has worrying thoughts running through his/her mind 24/7. People in that state have tension in their mind and tension in their body. They cannot sleep and they cannot relax. This builds up emotional tension, which again causes hypertension.
You need a break!
Your mind needs a few minutes focused break every day. And watching TV doesn’t cut it. It actually makes it worse. You absolutely do need to give your body and mind a few minutes break from all tension and all worries every single day.
Half of western world’s population die from conditions where hypertension plays a key role. A Focused break could have saved many of those people.
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman
PS: You can find my hypertension program (and learn more about "Focused Break") on the right-hand-side of this page
Did you know that there is a simple chiropractic adjustment that lowers blood pressure? It is the atlas at the base of the skull. Check out NUCCA on the web.
I agree with you,taking some of those prescription drugs is like taking a loaded gun and pointing at yourself ,and saying good luck.Many of the drugs side effects are down right scary! Case in point,I just recently refused to take a
prescription drug due to its many harmful side effects.I told my doctor I`ll change my lifestyle instead - my diet,my daily exercise,and better sleeping habits. By the
way,the prescription drug in question was “APO-RAMIPRIL
5MG.” This was to help with my high blood pressure - hypertension. End of story…
In Re: Nutrition and the heart. I’ve noticed that the licorice root capsules I’ve been taking seem to smooth out my atrial fib (which I get when I drink too much coffee). Or am I just imagining things?
hi am just curious doctors say dont stop the medication, it can cause heart attack.So it is possible to stop my medication and concentrate on proper exercise and diet.Am afraid, pls. reply
i am taking lipitor for high cholestrol and coversyl for high blood pressure, i also take a daily capsule of evening primrose and fish oil for rheumatism
Thank You very very much.
Dear Bernardine,
Do not stop your medication cold turkey, it can make the BP rapidly rise to higher than recorded when you first began BP medications.
Find something to replace it first and take both of themside by side. If you can purchase a BP testing kit, use it to monitor your readings daily. Only when you have been on a regularly reading of clear to normal levels, slowly wean your self from the medication.
The medication you are on at the moment, is it like a sweet with a hard coating? or is it like a powdery tablet? If it is a hard coating, you have to go back to the doctor and have the strength lowered, you can not cut hard coated medications as the hard coating is to protect certain parts of the internal organs as it travels through the digestive tract. If it is the powdery type, carefully cut the tablet into quarters, if you normally take 1 tablet per day, take 3/4 of a tablet per day. Keep a check on you BP over the next 4 weeks.
If all is well, start on a 1/2 tablet for the next 4 weeks, if there is any sign of BP rising, go back to the former dose that you took the previous 4 weeks.
Again if all goes well and you BP reading is holding steady, try to take a 1/4 tablet every day for 4 weeks.
If all is still going well, take a 1/4 tablet every 36 hours for two weeks. Hopefully by the time all this is done, your bodies dependancy on them should be a lot less and you should be able to get off them altogether.
It takes time to wean yourself off these and many other medications, It took me 6 months to wean my husband off Zoloft because it was screwing with his head big time. It was done very slowly and he had no withdrawal side effects.
Do not stop any Px medications instantly, it can do more harm than good.
Prepare to spends weeks or months to wean your self off very gradually.
I have been taking blood pressure medicine for 2 months,but I only take half of what the doctor prescribed and it keeps my blood pressure at about 140/80 and pulse 49-62. I do not have any side effects from taking 25 Mg of Beta-blocker and 25 Mg of watr pill. Since my blood pressure has gone down my sex life has been better than it has been for several years and I’m 67 years old yesterday. I have changed my diet to more vegestables more fish and salmon, much less salt. I take extra supplements of Calcium,Magneism, garlic. I also exercise more and hope to get off medication someday but when I cut back on the drugs my blood pressure starts going up and it gets scary when it reaches 165/100 with a pulse of 85 bpm.