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Prevent High Blood Pressure and Stroke - Is Your Headache
an Imminent Stroke Indicator?
Stroke is one of the health
events that scare us the most, mainly because it seems to come out of the blue
and because it can leave us badly disabled.
Recent
studies have, however, revealed a few indicators of an imminent stroke. Using
those indicators, you have time to address the issue in time.
In
a new study published in the journal Headache, researchers wanted
to find out if frequent headaches
are one of those stroke indicators.
And
the results were terrifying… but only for some people.
The
researchers analyzed information collected by the Atherosclerosis Risk in
Communities study.
This
study’s 11,592 subjects were interviewed to map their migraine
history between 1993 and 1995. They were then observed for 20 years to see who
would have ischemic strokes.
The
authors of the new study compared the migraine
histories with ischemic stroke incidents and made some interesting discoveries.
Firstly,
strokes were very uncommon in people below the age of 50. As such, no type of migraine
below the age of 50 could be linked with stroke risk. Therefore, it can be safe
to say that migraines and headaches over your life do not buildup to a stroke later on,
as many people believe.
But
people experiencing frequent headaches after 50 were at a drastically increased
risk of stroke.
And the type of headaches and migraines made
all the difference:
Many
people who got migraines
only had headaches and possibly nausea and neck stiffness. These are called
common migraines.
Others
sufferers have headaches paired with sensory disturbances called auras. These
are called classic migraines.
Visual
disruptions were found to be the most common and often include flashing lights,
blind spots, partial vision loss, and zigzag patterns. Other sensory
disturbances that sometimes occur include tingling or numbness in the face or
hands, auditory hallucinations, random smells, and so forth.
Migraine
sufferers whose aura first started after the age of 50 had double the risk of
ischemic stroke as compared to those without headaches and those with common
migraines.
Of
the 11,592 participants in the study, 447 had migraines with aura and 1,128 had
migraines without aura.
Those
whose aura started above age 50 had an 8.27 percent chance of stroke, while
those without migraines or without aura had a risk of approximately 4.25
percent.
It’s
therefore important to take your headaches seriously if your aura starts above
age 50, and especially if you have other cardiovascular disease risks like high blood pressure, high cholesterol.
This also proofs my long-lasting claim that migraine and headaches are caused by lack of blood flow throughout the brain. Here are some simple exercises that will load your brain with oxygen and heal migraine and headaches permanently…
To prevent high blood pressure and stroke, you
need to clear your cholesterol plaque buildup in your heart (and prevent it
from causing a stroke),cut out this one ingredient, as explained here…
Prevent High Blood
Pressure and Stroke - These 2 Oils Beat Blood Pressure Medications
If
your doctor is pushing you to take blood pressure medications, you have a simple, natural, and healthier
alternative.
This
option was recently proven to be more effective than leading medications in lower high blood pressure and improve cholesterol level.
It
all lies in a blend of two common oils that you probably already have in your
kitchen.
Indian
researchers presented a research paper at the American Heart Association’s High
Blood Pressure Research Scientific Sessions and revealed that sesame oil and
rice bran oil had powerful blood pressure reduction properties.
Their
subjects included 300 adults with moderately high-to-high blood pressure, with
an average age of 57 years.
They
divided these subjects into three groups. One received only nifedipine, a calcium-channel blocker, while another received an ounce of a 20% sesame/80% rice
bran oil blend with their food every day. The third received both.
These are the findings:
1.
Those who took only the medication experienced a 16-point drop in systolic pressure,
and 12-point drop in diastolic pressure, and unchanged cholesterol levels.
2.
Those who took only the oil blend experienced a 14-point drop in systolic
pressure, and 11-point drop in diastolic pressure, a 26% drop in LDL (bad)
cholesterol, and a 9.5% rise in HDL (good) cholesterol level.
3.
Those who took both the medication and the oil blend experienced a 36-point
drop in systolic pressure, a 24-point drop in diastolic pressure, a 27% drop in
LDL (bad) cholesterol, and a 10.9% rise in HDL (good) cholesterol.
So,
you see, taking the oil alone delivered pretty much the same drop effect in
blood pressure as that of blood pressure medications – but this came without
suffering the side effects that medications have. Plus, people also gained
benefits in improved cholesterol level.
However,
it is crucial that you buy oils, which are either unrefined or refined through
a process that involves no hydrogenation. Hydrogenated cooking oil is one of
the leading causes of high blood pressure and high cholesterol, while unrefined
oils are normally called virgin or extra-virgin oil.
When
oils are used above their ideal temperature, they smoke, burn, and give off
chemicals that may bring about cancer over time. To avoid this, use sesame oils
only in cold salads or add it to sauces once the sauces have been made and
cooled down for a while.
Rice
bran oil has a high smoking point of 232°C or 450°F and is therefore
appropriate for oven roasting and deep frying.
However,
if you need to lower your blood pressure by more than the 15 points that the
oils delivered, you will need an even more powerful natural method.
And if you want to prevent high blood pressure
and stroke and if your cholesterol is too high, discover how cutting out one single ingredient that you didn’t even know you were consuming will normalize your cholesterol level in weeks…
Prevent High Blood
Pressure and Stroke - Blood Pressure Drugs Turn Deadly When You Drink These
Juices
You
may have heard that grape juice can seriously interfere with various
medications – including many blood pressure medications.
A
new study, published in the Journal
of Food and Drug Analysis, takes this knowledge a step further by proving that
another common juice is even deadlier when used with blood pressure
medications.
It
has already claimed several lives.
As
if that wasn’t enough, two more juices were found to completely neutralize the blood
pressure medications, causing false security.
In
a 2016 article that gave practical advice to clinicians in the Natural Medicine
Journal, researchers explained that many drugs, upon ingestion, were first
processed in your small intestine by a chemical called cytochrome P450 3A4
(CYP3A4) before they started to circulate through your body. This is true for
approximately 50% of all drugs.
Under
normal conditions, these chemicals ensure that these drugs are available in
only small amounts, letting them do their work before your liver finally
disposes of them and prepares them for excretion.
The
big problem with grapefruit juice is that the furanocoumarins and flavonoids in
it reduce the activity of CYP3A4. This, in turn, means that the drugs are not
first processed by it, and will appear in your body in insanely high and toxic
amounts.
The
consequences of this could include extremely low blood pressure, dangerously
irregular heartbeats, unconsciousness, and difficulty breathing.
Blood
pressure and cholesterol drugs are right at the top of the list of drugs that
are processed by CYP3A4, and these can be made toxic through the consumption of
grapefruit juice.
A
small, 200 mL glass of grapefruit juice, or even an entire grapefruit, can make
these drugs toxic for anywhere between 24 hours to three days.
Since
the first batch of studies, some researchers have found that pomelo,
pomegranate, cranberry, and even apple and orange juice can have similar
effects.
This
finding prompted Chinese scientists to do a systematic review of the literature
recently, in order to find out just how dangerous blood pressure and
cholesterol drugs can be when taken with juice or any fruit other than
grapefruit.
They
analyzed 46 medical trials.
It
was found that the calcium channel antagonist
felodipine could become toxic
when taken with seville orange juice (also called bitter or sour orange).
This
popular drug for high blood pressure has even been found to have caused some
deaths when taken on the same day as the consumption of this juice.
Normal
orange juice, in turn, rendered most blood pressure drugs useless by causing
them to be excreted before they could be able to do anything.
This
was true for direct renin inhibitors, like aliskiren, and for beta-blockers, like
atenolol and celiprolol.
Beta-blockers
block the effects of epinephrine (adrenaline) and are often prescribed for
cases such as irregular heartbeats, chest pain, and other heart conditions.
Apple
juice neutralizes some beta-blockers, and pomelo juice was found to neutralize
the drug for high blood pressure, (vasodilator) sildenafil, thereby rendering
the drug ineffective.
What
this new study tells us is that doctors really have no idea as to what
interferes with the drugs you’re using.
If
something as innocent as apple juice can render your drugs useless, what else
could interfere with it?
That
is why I always recommend to try to manage your blood pressure naturally as
much as possible and to get off medications if you’re already taking them.
For
more ideas to prevent high blood pressure and stroke, watch these 2 videos –
To prevent high blood pressure and stroke, here is the simplest,easiest, and most effective natural method to bring your blood pressure below 120/80 in as little as nine minutes…
This post is from
the High Blood Pressure Exercise Program. It was made by Christian Goodman Blue
Heron health news that has been recognized as one of the top quality national
health information websites.
This program will
provide you the natural high blood pressure treatments, natural recipes to cook
healthy meals and useful strategies to build a healthy diet with the aim to
help you to maintain, stabilize and reduce diastolic blood pressure permanently
and naturally.
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