Cause no 1..Nutritional deficiency : Omega 3 fatty acids

In previous issue, I showed you how 30% of high blood pressure patients really don’t have true hypertension. Many people simply have situational hypertension, where your blood pressure goes up when you’re nervous. I also told you that if you do have true hypertension, you can treat it successfully without drugs.

That’s because one of the primary causes of high blood pressure is nutritional deficiency. And there are several deficiencies that can cause high blood pressure. All you have to do is treat the deficiency and your blood pressure will come down.

Unfortunately, nutritional deficiencies are tough to find. But let me give you the most common types and also show you how to know if you’re deficient.

The first deficiency I check for is omega-3 fatty acids. Most people are seriously deficient. Oh, we eat plenty of fatty acids. But most of them are omega-6. In fact, the typical ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids is 20 to 1. The optimal ratio is under 6 to 1. So you can see how deficient most of us are in omega-3s.

So how can you change the ratio? First, cut back on your omega-6 intake. These are good fats, but only in moderation. We eat way too many. Foods that contain lots of omega-6s include peanut oil, safflower oil, soybean oil, corn oil (and the processed foods that contain these oils), whole grains and flours (such as wheat and corn), grain-fed meat and poultry, and eggs from grain-fed chickens.

Second, you need to take two high-potency fish oil supplements. In one study, researchers gave 16 patients with hypertension and 16 patients with normal blood pressure either a four-gram dose of fish oil or a placebo for four months. The
fish oil group saw their systolic pressure lowered by an average of 6 mmHg, and the diastolic 5 mmHg.

The researchers noted that it took about two months to see these results. So don’t expect results overnight. In fact, I’ve found (and other studies confirm) that it takes a fairly high dose of fish oil for at least three to four months to really make a difference in blood pressure. If you’re not deficient in omega-3s, then fish oils probably will not lower your blood pressure. But they are still very helpful for your heart and brain. So they’re worth trying.

Fish oils are now available in a super concentrated, highly purified form, which is the only form you should use. Other forms often contain impurities, impart an unpleasant fish oil taste and smell, and require taking way too many capsules to get the proper dosage. A good starting dose is to take a fish oil capsule that contains 1,000 mg of combined EPA/DHA twice a day. Do this for 2-3 months, and then double the dose for an additional 2-3 months if your blood pressure hasn’t normalized. Diabetics, particularly those on insulin, should carefully monitor their blood sugars while on the higher doses. Occasionally these doses can interfere with optimal blood sugar control.

Causes of Hypertension

We are talking about what the doctor calls primary or essential hypertension. Usually the doctor say unknown cause, or genetic, run in the family... the things you can't do anything about it.

Yes of course... the so called essential hypertension has a cause. To enable treat hypertension once and for all, you must address the root cause and correct or treat it. Then the blood pressure will come to more healthy level. Don't just take the drugs and just mask the symptoms... means of course your BP come down but the disease still there. That's why eventhough you taking the drugs religiously but still after few years you end up with all sort of complications such as heart attack, stroke, renal failure.. and best of all every time you see the doctor for follow up, the doctor say ohh your BP is good, all within normal limit, keep it up, don't stop the medications...yet you still succumb to complications.

So start think and act outside the box...

What to Do if Your Blood Pressure Is Chronically High

If your average blood pressure reading is high (anything over 140/90), then you really do have high blood pressure. And you must take steps to lower it.
But that doesn’t mean you should take drugs to bring your blood pressure down. Blood pressure drugs don’t have any ability to heal. They artificially lower your blood pressure without correcting the cause (we’ll discuss various causes in a moment).

In cases of newly diagnosed high blood pressure, there are very few instances where drugs are immediately needed. Drugs only needed when everything else has failed.

Rather than taking these dangerous drugs that merely mask the symptoms, it's better for you to get rid of the cause.

So what are the causes of hypertension...stay tuned.

Here’s the Solution

The solution is simple. If you want to know if you have hypertension, you should take your blood pressure regularly. And you should take it at times when you’re not nervous.

It’s really easy to take your blood pressure yourself. In fact, I recommend that everyone should have a blood pressure monitor at home, just like everybody has a thermometer.

After you buy the monitor, take it to your doctor’s office and have them validate that it is working well, and that the size of the cuff is appropriate for your arm. Once you know it’s accurate, follow these steps:

(1) Before taking your measurement, be sure that you are seated quietly for at least five minutes with your feet on the floor and your arm supported at the level of your heart.

(2) Avoid caffeine, exercise, and smoking for at least 30 minutes before you
measure.

(3) Take the first measurement. Then wait 15 seconds and take a second measurement. If they are essentially the same, record that reading. If they are different, measure your pressure a third time. Record the lowest of the three readings as your blood pressure. Do this in the morning before breakfast, and again in the evening before supper.

(4) Repeat these steps for about two weeks and then average them up to determine your average blood pressure. Don’t include any occasional spikes in the readings, as these will throw off the average unnecessarily.

Do you really have hypertension ?

Many people who think they have high blood pressure, don’t. And even if you do have it, there are far better ways to fix it than by taking dangerous drugs.
Let’s start with the question of whether or not you have hypertension.

Take Joe H., for example. Joe went to the ER with chest pain thinking he was having a heart attack. The staff at the ER did all the usual tests. It turned out the chest pain was nothing. His cardiogram and heart enzymes were normal. But they did find that his blood pressure was high. So they put him on medication.
Well, he had gone to the hospital wondering if he was going to die. Of course his blood pressure was high! And now he thinks he has hypertension and he’s worried about it. So every time he gets his blood pressure checked, it’s going to be high!
This isn’t true hypertension. It’s what I call “situational hypertension.” It means your blood pressure is going to be higher in some situations than others.

You see, blood pressure is not a static reading; it’s a dynamic reading. It changes to meet the situation involved, just like your heart rate changes. During the course of a day, there will be times when your blood pressure is low and times when it’s high. These fluctuations are no cause for concern.

Moreover, there should be no cause for concern if your blood pressure is high when you’re nervous. It’s no secret that people’s blood pressure is higher at the doctor’s office.

Unfortunately, many doctors will see this “chronically” high blood pressure as something that should be treated. They prescribe dangerous drugs to treat a problem that doesn’t exist. These drugs can cause asthma, impotence, extremely low blood pressure, kidney damage, heart failure, and even death. And that’s just to name a few of the possible complications.