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Your Blood Pressure Below 120/80 - These Blood Pressure Drugs Raise Cancer Risk
250%
Ask
the World Health Organization which health problem is the world’s biggest and
they’ll tell you it’s high blood pressure.
1.13
billion people are affected by it, and if they don’t get treatment then they’re
looking at a heart attack or stroke at best.
Unfortunately,
a new study in the Journal
of the American Medical Association shows that those who do go for
treatment might be inadvertently making things worse.
Researchers
at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found that one of the top blood pressure drugs can increase patient’s
risk of getting cancer by a staggering
250%.
The
researchers looked at post-menopausal women who’d been taking calcium channel
blockers (CCAs) to combat their hypertension. They found they were more
likely to get Invasive ductal and lobular carcinomas, which account for 90% of
all types of breast cancers.
Unfortunately,
doctors continue to prescribe these dangerous drugs to postmenopausal women,
and they are not the only problem medications. The breast cancer risk also goes
up when patients are given blood pressure medicines such as diuretics,
ACE inhibitors, and beta blockers, too.
Add
to this the fact that the National Institutes of Health says that hormone
replacement therapy (HRT) raises breast cancer risk by 50 percent anyway, and
it gets even worse.
It’s
clear that there really should be lots more research going on into all of these
issues, including the potential effects on men.
You
should probably be avoiding these drugs if you possibly can, but if you do then
what else can you try to lower your blood pressure?
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Your Blood Pressure Below 120/80 - Common Vitamin Heals High Blood Pressure
Vitamins
D and E are seriously good for you, of that there is no doubt.
They
are proven workhorses which support your health in many ways, and they are great for your cardiovascular health, too.
They’re
so good that we’ve lost track of the number of times that we’ve told you about
them, so today we will give them a rest!
Let’s
give another vitamin a chance to shine instead.
The
one we’re going to look at instead is super common, and thanks to researchers
at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, we know that it’s super powerful.
They
found that it can cut blood pressure and reduce the buildup of arterial plaque too,
but the best part is that you don’t need much of it.
And
it’s dirt-cheap and can find in all supermarkets.
The
researchers looked at 29 different studies to see how well vitamin C performed
as a blood pressure reducer.
The
studies had a median duration of eight weeks and used anywhere from 10 to 120
subjects. Doses ranged from as little as 60mg to as high as 4000mg, with an
average of 500mg.
After
the researchers had summarized all of the study results, it became clear to
them that vitamin C did a really good job of lowering blood pressure. The reason for
this is that it helps the body to produce more nitric oxide, which dilates
blood vessels, and on top of that it makes the endothelial layer—the inner
walls of blood vessels—both stronger and more elastic.
The
recommended dosage for vitamin C is between 500 and 1000mg. If you feel a cold
coming on and want to up your dosage, you can take up to 2000 mg a day. You may
read that some people recommend taking more, but we wouldn’t advise it. Stick
within these limits and you’ll still be helping to reduce your high blood pressure, along with
getting the other benefits. Although, having said that, vitamin C alone
probably won’t be enough.
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Your Blood Pressure Below 120/80 -This Common Nutrient Can Make Exercise Less
Heart-Safe
“Get
more exercise,” is the kind of common wisdom that’s handed out to almost
everybody, and particularly for anyone with high blood pressure.
But
a 2016 article in the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative
and Comparative Physiology could raise your blood pressure all on its own
with its alarming warning.
It
shows that exercise could spike the blood pressure of anyone who eats
too much of this particular substance, something that the Western diet contains
a lot of.
Before
we dive into the details, we need to understand a little about how your body
decides to raise and lower your blood pressure.
Your
nervous system isn’t just one thing. It’s a system made of systems. One of
those is called the autonomic nervous system and its job is to take care of
many automatic processes. It’s divided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic
systems.
Your
“fight or flight” response comes from the sympathetic system. It helps you to
deal with threats by increasing your blood pressure, accelerating your heart
rate, and dilating your lungs. So, it makes sure your body is supremely ready
to either fight a threat or run away from it.
The
parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for looking after things that go
on while your body is in a resting state, like sexual arousal, digestion, and
urination.
If
the sympathetic system is too active, your blood pressure will be raised all the time,
which is bad news because it can lead to cardiovascular disease.
Scientists
have known for a long time that phosphate increases blood pressure, so they wondered
if the phosphates in salt might be increasing sympathetic nervous system
activity.
They
gave double the recommended dose of phosphate to one group of rats and a normal
diet to another group, then put their muscles to work.
Lo
and behold, the rats on the high phosphate diet had higher blood pressure while they were
resting, and when their muscles were working they had much higher blood pressure and more sympathetic
nervous system activity than the rats on the normal diet.
The
takeaway from this for humans who exercise is that it spells double trouble.
First you’ve got raised blood pressure from the phosphate,
then on top of that you’re adding raised blood pressure from the exercise.
It’s easy to see that this could be catastrophic combination, especially if
you’ve already got high blood pressure from other causes.
It
could help to explain why some people die while training.
The
USDA recommends that adults consume at least 700 milligrams of phosphate per
day, as it’s not all bad. It’s needed for healthy skin, bones, teeth, and hair, and
you can find it in meat, milk, eggs, tuna, white beans, almonds, sunflower
seeds, and brown rice.
Those
are all great sources, but in the West, we also have access to a lot of packaged
foods which use phosphate as a preservative or flavor enhancer. Things like
processed meats, cheeses, marinades and sodas all come with a dose of
phosphate, so unless you’re eating fresh, it’s best to be cautious.
The
authors of the study think that phosphate content should be listed on food
labels, just like sodium, and when that happens it won’t be too soon.
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.
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provide you the natural high blood pressure treatments, natural recipes to cook
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