High Blood Pressure Causes
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 detect it is to have it checked regularly, at least once every two years. The following symptoms may indicate that you are suffering 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 that are controllable and there are also those that are uncontrollable. Uncontrollable risk factors are your heredity, age, and race. As you get older, your risk of developing high blood pressure also increases.
Most commonly, hypertension occurs in men between thirty-five and fifty years old. In women, it commonly occurs after menopause. Also, if a family member has it, your risk of getting it is increased.
Your race also contributes to your chances of getting hypertension. African Americans have a higher tendency of developing it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. You cannot control those risk factors, and you cannot do anything to change them.
But there are many factors that you do have control over that have a direct relation with you developing high blood pressure. Too much salt intake, excessive drinking of alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all contribute to the development of high blood pressure. Do you have many of these risk factors?
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 usual treatment being done to combat hypertension is aggressive drug therapy, which drives down your blood pressure, but it comes with many side effects. More often than not, they don’t even get the blood pressure down. If you recall, most doctors admit they don’t know about 95% of the reasons for 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…