Natural High Blood Pressure Recovery Resource

This resource is for education purpose only. Speak to your doctor about these options.

Many common blood pressure medications carry notable side effects. Some of the more common and worrisome adverse effects include:

ACE inhibitors: persistent dry cough, hyperkalemia, angioedema, kidney function decline

Beta-blockers: fatigue, sexual dysfunction, bradycardia, exercise intolerance

Diuretics: electrolyte imbalances, gout flares, dehydration, frequent urination

Calcium channel blockers: peripheral edema (leg swelling), constipation, dizziness

ARBs: dizziness, hyperkalemia, possible kidney effects

These effects can impact quality of life and sometimes require additional medications to manage.

High blood pressure doesn't result from a deficiency in these medicinal plants or deficiency in blood pressure lowering medications.

Typically the main reason for high blood pressure is or are situations that affect metabolic health. High blood pressure is closely associated with:

Low thyroid function (current conventional methods aren't able to pick up sub laboratory subclinical low thyroid function so deeper evaluation is typically needed).

Prediabetes, diabetes and blood glucose dysregulation.

Stress both mental emotional situational chronic stress.

Oxidative stress from poor dietary habits and a variety of internal external toxins which damage the function of blood vessels.

Hormonal influences such as elevated aldosterone, or estrogen dominance (relative to progesterone).

While these natural options can be helpful, if the underlying issues continue, high blood pressure can come back and so it's important to identify and treat the underlying cause.

An experienced naturopathic doctor or other doctors versed in natural medicine should be able to help with that.

The American Heart Association used to suggest that for people over 60 there's no need to medicate until blood pressure reaches 150 over 90.

In other words it's not our natural for blood pressure to increase a bit as we get older. A modest rise in blood pressure with age is is natural, and does not automatically require aggressive pharmaceutical.

Blood pressure represents a higher risk for cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular events but not always.

When evaluating cardiovascular risk it's always good to look at other test other factors particularly most helpful is to evaluate blood vessel inflammation by testing High sensitivity C reactive protein or hs-crp and coagulation markers like fibrinogen as well as markers that evaluate metabolic health stress organ Health like kidneys and liver and that influence blood pressure Metabolic health markers (blood glucose, insulin, HbA1c, triglycerides, and others).

An experienced help practitioner can guide and assist with that.

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