how do you control high blood pressure naturally without the use of medication?
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eliminate salt from your diet.  also eliminate stress from your life and try to get more exercise.
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You posted this question here so obviously you are looking for diet and nutrition solutions.  Congratulations to making efforts to improving your health.  The good news is - hypertension can be managed by diet.  This is a general answer I usually offer to my patients with the same question....\n\nIn general, a diet that emphasizes fruits & vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy appears effective in shaving points off a blood pressure reading. In particular, shedding pounds, cutting down on sodium, boosting potassium intake and limiting alcohol are all proven ways to help control blood pressure.\n\nFor more details on diet solutions, go to the DASH diet link at the bottom of the page listed below.\n\nTake Care :-)
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check out the DASH diet that is, Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension. its very common and SAFE!! and there are TONS of recipes and such. good luck!!
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Yes there are natural remedies for high blood pressure.\nFirst cut the salt down or out in your diet. Take a walk everyday. You don't have to power walk but walk at least 15-20 minutes. As you get more used to it you can increase your walking pace. Take the stairs whenever possible. Cut out the junk food. If you smoke cut way back or stop if you can smoking does raise your blood pressure. Eat bananas. Drink plenty of water. Get a cd or video of deep breathing excercizes this will also help you to reduce your stress level and as a by product reduce your blood pressure. Try the pomegranate juice or better yet eat a pomagranate and chew up the seeds, they're a good source of fiber. Try to stay away from processed foods like frozen dinners, white bread and donuts and fast food.Eat whole wheat bread - Check The Label - If Whole Wheat Flour isn't the first ingredient its NOT whole wheat bread. Eat vegetables with lots of color in them Tomatoes, red & yellow peppers, squash, kale, mustard greens, spinach, broccoli rabe. There's lots of real good stuff in them to keep you healthy. Also eat fresh fruit/ they too have lots of stuff in them to keep you healthy and the complex carbs break down slowly and help to keep your appetite from getting out of control. Keep in mind that this is the only body you get and you have to treat it kindly. It's a really complex piece of machinery if you will much like our earth's ecosystem. You mess with one thing and it always affects other things in the system. You don't have to go on a crash diet or take pills if you take some responsibility for your eating habits if you learn how to respect the vehicle that is your body you can reduce your blood pressure and cholestoral too.\n I have done it and so have lots of other people & you can too. Good Luck and happy eating.\nLL
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I would start with diet. Lifestyle issues you can control to lower your risk of developing high blood pressure include obesity and not being active or exercising, drinking alcohol (three drinks a day or more), eating a lot of salty or processed foods, and not getting enough calcium, magnesium, and potassium in your diet. Do you take a supplement like Centrum? Look into the DASH diet. Dietary approaches to stopping hypertension. www.nhlbi.nih.gov try this, and enter DASH into search. Maintain a healthy weight.\nGet regular exercise. Avoid using too much sodium. Get enough potassium, calcium, and magnesium in your diet. Add fiber to your diet. Limit alcohol use. Stop smoking. Use anti-inflammatory medications wisely. Learn to check your blood pressure at home. Reduce stress.
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Mostly this is something that is due to inheritance and then to our lifestyle and eating habits that are in our control.  So get into the habit of exercise every day, like walking or ride a bike.  And eat healthy too.  This will do a lot to help.  The other big factor is stress.  Take things in stride.  Live for the moment.  Have fun, fun, fun.  Stay nice and be happy.  It does work.  And don't ever worry, like worry about blood pressure.  Let the doctors do what they do, and you do what you do.
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First of all, get to a Dr. asap. Second, cut out the salt and most of the caffeine, and follow the diet the Dr. advises. Get exercise--walking is great. If the doc prescribes meds, TAKE THEM! If you are stressed, try to get some help to deal with it. Hypertension is called "the silent killer" because a person often does not know they are suffering from it. By the time you have a stroke or a heart attack it may be too late. With on going high blood pressure you need to be under a Dr's care. Monitor your blood pressure at home, but always keep in touch with your physician.
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Have your blood pressure checked.
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For a 100% natural whole food approach, I highly recommend ViaViente.  After 3 weeks of adding it to his diet, my husband's blood pressure went from 140+ to 117.  It has been 3 months now and it is at a stable 110.  He is 38 years old and this is the first time in his life that his blood pressure has normalized (hi BP runs in his family)\n\nViaViente is the leading whole food health juice on the market, backed by independent 3rd party research and clinically proven to lower blood pressure by a randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial.  I highly recommend it.
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There are several things you can do for hypertension that can have a powerful effect:\n1. Lose weight if you are overweight.\n2. Exercise regularly, even if it is only walking.\n3. Follow the DASH eating plan, which is proven to lower blood pressure: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/\n4. Discontinue the use of stimulants, including caffeine and tobacco. Look for hidden sources of stimulants in food and beverages.\n5. Take calcium and magnesium. (Low intake of both are associated with high blood pressure; women need between 1,000 and 1,500 mg of calcium per day; men no more than 1,200 mg daily from all sources. If you get your calcium from supplements, take half as much magnesium as your calcium dosage.) \n6. Take vitamin C, which has been shown to lower blood pressure in people with mild to moderate hypertension.\n7. Take omega 3 supplements (fish oil).\n\nGarlic and niacin, suggested above, while helpful for cholesterol, aren't remedies for hypertension.
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My mother & step-father have HBP. They are both taking Omega-3 Fish Oil supplements. They have only taken it for a few weeks & said that their bp has significantly lowered.\n\nAlso things like caffeinated & alcholic drinks will raise bp. Take in moderation.\n\nAn old wives tale that I am not too sure about is vinegar. Take a teaspoon of vinegar a day. Yuck, but lots of people say that it works.\n\nPeace.\n\n:)
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Chances are, your blood pressure is a combination of excess weight, lack of physical exercise, high salt intake, and genetics.  When you go to the doctor tomorrow, he/she will take your blood pressue (most likely twice).  Two readings that are high will classify you as having hypertension (the word doctors use for high blood pressure).  That's all they use to diagnose you.  You are young to have high blood pressure, but it is becoming more common in younger people due to lifestyle.\n\nBlood pressure should be less than 120 for the top number (systolic number) and less than 80 for the bottom number (diastolic number).  Chances are, your doctor will recommend some lifestyle changes and will give you the opportunity to lower your blood pressure with better diet and exercise.  When you come back for a visit, if there is no improvement (if your numbers did not drop) you will be given a antihypertensive medication.  Then you will go from there.  The doctor will bring you back for a checkup until your blood pressure gets lowered.\n\nIf your pressure is not improved, there could be other causes for the high blood pressure such as pheochromocytoma (a rare, but usually benign, tumor), renal artery stenosis, or some other rare causes.  But this is most likely not the case.  Your doctor will be better able to evaluate this.\n\nLowering your weight by about 10-15 pounds can do wonders for your blood pressure.\n\nIt's nothing to stress about as long as you get it under control.  If it remains high (at your current level, or goes up), in the long run you can get damage to organs such as your kidneys, eyes, and enlargement of your heart.\n\nRight now, relax, go to the doctor, and focus on improving your eating habits and getting more exercise.  Your doctor will be more specific.
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What is the origin of your high blood pressure?\nMaybe some other diseases coexist?\nIf we don't know that and what kind of therapy you have taken, if you are pre or post menopausal, if your parents had high BP, we can't talk about natural remedies.\nAs I use to say, in health one size does not fit all.\nAccording my opinion it is dangerous to try substitute your medicines with herbal remedies of any kind without your doctor's opinion.\n\nConsider also the following things\n- usually, herbal remedies are used along with the medicine\n- the form in which you will take the herbal remedy: if you will use garlic, as has been mentioned, what will be the amount that you have to take?\nIs garlic proper for your type of hypertension?\nIf you will drink an infusion(a tea of the herb),what will be the amount of the active substance that will be found in diluition in this infusion? How many cups you have to drink daily?\n \nTry to adopt a healthy life-style that I'm sure you have already adopted, to loose weight, practice some "light" sport like aerobic, walk for 1/2 - 1 hour daily and  try to control your stress ; at this point, a herbal infusion containing relaxing herbs is mostly helpful. Take care also if you take any antiinflammatory medicins, as they can slightly increase your BP.\n\nKaterina
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assuming u are talking about high BP, u shud take a couple of spoons of yogurt on an empty stomach in the morning.\n\ni know ppl who make a habit of this and their BP levels drop to normal WITHOUT taking tablets to control it!!!\n\nand a daily glass of concentrated orange juice is good too\n\ntry it for a week at least... i am sure it will help!
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There is a recent study suggesting that people who eat twice the recomended servings of fruit and vegetables see significant reduction in high blood pressure. Avoidance of salt in processed food has also been helpful to some. Obviously no smoking and regular excercise.\nHOWEVER  \nuncontrolled high blood pressure can have devistating effects. My aunt and grandmother had strokes and my father died of a heart attack.  They all had bad lifestyles, but high blood pressure is a killer.\nTalk to you doctor and see if she is willing to try a non-medicated approach. If not, look for another doctor.  See if  you can monitor yourself at home as well. Best of luck to you.
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first of all eat a healthy balanced diet, 5 portions of fruit or veg a day, try not to eat to many bananas, grapes or satsumas if you are border line diabetic as these contain natural sugar, diet drinks are fine in moderation not to many as these contain caffeine and can raise your blood pressure not good with hypertension, start off with a little exercise just a gentle walk as if your not used to it, this can be dangerous, gradually build up to more exercise, smaller portions, if you eat smaller portions for 2-3 weeks you won't feel so hungry as your stomach will shrink because it's not being full with food and can't take so much, when you feel like picking eat carrot sticks or celery, you should go to a dietitian and they will tell you how many calories you should have a day for your size, lifestyle etc, and give you an eating plan. good luck
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Check for high blood pressure, eat high fiber foods such as grains & vegetables and cut down on fatty foods. Take fish oil daily. Drink plenty of water. Exercise regularly - and even a half hour of brisk walking creates significent change. Avoid stress - and plenty of sleep creates significent change. DO NOT SMOKE- a major contribution to circulatory damage.