Picture this, you’ve just had an argument with your spouse or your kids. You’re feeling angry, your face is flushed, your heart is pounding hard and on top of all that, you have a headache. If you took a reading of your blood pressure right now, you will see that it is alarmingly high.
Intense emotions make our blood pressure increase, but it decreases and returns to normal once those intense emotions subside. High blood pressure is normally not detected until it remains high over an extended period of time.
Having it checked regularly, at least once every two years, is the only way to know if you have it. The following symptoms may signify that you are suffering from hypertension, or high blood pressure. It is important to note that you may also have high blood pressure even if you don’t have these symptoms; that is why it is very important to have your blood pressure checked regularly.
Dizziness Chest pain Headaches Shortness of Breath Blurred Vision or other visual abnormalities
Around 95% of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, according to most people in the medical community. I think it’s scary to think that such a big percentage is unknown. However, there is something you can do about this 95%. But more on that later.
Risk factors can either be controllable or uncontrollable. Examples of uncontrollable risks are heredity, age, and race. The older you get, the higher your risk for developing high blood pressure.
In general, men between the ages of thirty-five and fifty are more prone to hypertension, and in women it generally begins following menopause. Also, if someone in your family is suffering from it, you have a higher risk of getting it.
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, if left unchecked and untreated can lead to more serious health problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. The eyes can be damaged as well if fragile blood vessels erupt in that area. Some of the dangerous health conditions that can develop because of 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.
However, I do know the reason, so I’ve developed an exceptional High Blood Pressure Program intended to do the same thing as the medicines without all the side effects.
The exercises are simple and takes very little time to learn and even less time to do. This program is a natural way to lower your blood pressure and helps you handle the stress that’s so often the reason for your blood pressure problems. You can find out more about this amazing program here
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