Medical blood pressure reasons
by Christian Goodman
Every time you have a fight with your spouse or your kids, you feel angry, your face gets red, your heart start pounding hard, and you even get a headache. If you take your blood pressure at that time, it will be 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
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.
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.
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 risk factors that you can control and have a direct impact on whether you’ll develop high blood pressure or not. Eating too much salt, drinking alcohol excessively, having a sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all play a part in the development of high blood pressure. How many of those risk factors do you have?
Hypertension, if not monitored and treated, can lead to much more serious problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. Delicate blood vessels in the eye can be damaged as well. Due to high blood pressure, the following life-threatening conditions can occur:
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.
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
Christian Goodman is a well known natural health researcher and the creator of the Natural Health Blog. His most recent research is the Natural High Blood Pressure program, which has now helped thousands of people to lower blood pressure naturally.