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.