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#77 Mind-Body link

Breathing exercises, mind body brain modifying experiences seem to be able to lower blood pressure.  Here is an article I came across today, suggesting that medication should be last line of defense against high blood pressure. ...

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K factor of 4 to 1

Been reading a book by Julian Whitaker, Reversing Hypertension  (2000).  One of the things that Julian suggests is that the levels of salt and potassium aren’t as important as keeping them in a  4 to 1...

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Alternative Medicine

It always fun to read about various alternative medicines, and huge pile of testimonies that many of them develop.  Of course, for every testimony that worked, we don’t really know how many tried it without any...

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Stress and Blood pressure

With job market layoffs and financial crises everywhere, there is a lot that may be stressing us out. Does stress cause high blood pressure? High Blood Pressure as was once thought of as a Taxi Driver disease....

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#76 Balancing the minerals (64 non-drug ways to lower blood pressure)

Perhaps your systolic (high value) and diastolic (low value) values are both high, or maybe one of them is considerably higher than normal than the other.  It is thought that this information is a clue on...

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Baroreflex – getting to the core of high BP.

In simplicity, the human body has a set of nerves, some in the arteries of the neck and heart that measure and respond to blood pressure — and maintain it.   This response is known as...

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#75 Smell your way to a lower blood pressure (64+ ways to lower blood pressure)

I recently came across a book (Scentsational Weight Loss by Dr Alan Hirsch, 1997) that claimed you could reduce your weight by smelling your food and sniffing scents. My first thought was that this was...

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#74. Get better sleep – A Deeper Sleep (64+ non-drug ways to lower BP).

Sleep is extremely complex and not totally understood process.  It is known that the most important part of sleep for blood pressure is the deep sleep cycle.  Roughly the human body cycles through 90...

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73. Avoid Sodium Benzoate (64 Non Drug Ways to lower Blood Pressure).

A century ago, the restrictions on addition of chemicals to food was pretty weak, and lot of food additives have never been studied.  Research from a British university suggests a common preservative, sodium benzoate, found in...

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Jan 22nd weekly plan

I’ve been reading about motivation and plans, and notice that sometimes we don’t actually get going, it takes a catalyst to get us going.  So here is idea, for those that are interested here is my...

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