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#72. Drink less soda (64 Non-drug ways to lower BP).

This article gives cute 8 reasons why people drink them, and 16 valid reasons why you should consider cutting back.   As explained in an early post, weight gain, diabetes, and kidney problems are all related to high blood pressure, what works for one of them...

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#71 Apply a little NLP thinking (64+ ways to lower BP).

The new year has rolled around again, and many of us, have made our New Year’s resolutions, and yet we know that we probably won’t stick with them. We will plan to loss weight, exercise more, eat better, and although we might make some...

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70. Watch less television (64 Non-Drug ways to lower Blood pressure)

It seems that just sitting on your butt, either working on the computer or watching television isn’t good for you.  Now if you munch will you eat … that is deadly combination.

So, here’s an idea — cut your television and computer time.  Get out and...

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69. Cuddling (64 Non-Drug ways to lower blood pressure)

The human skin is amazing organ, it is known that there is amazing human response to being touched.  When we are touched it stimulates us, creates sense of well-being .  Even having a dog or cat to hug, and pet, is a form of touch...

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#68 Improve your oral and dental health (64 non-drug ways to lower BP)

I came across a book “Teeth are our organs” by Dr. Kazumasa Muratsu. (2009)    The book is fairly unreadable as I believe it is a computer translation from Japanese to English.   It also tends to be bit sensational and at times not well documented...

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# 67. Don’t use Uva ursi (BearBerry) (64+ non-drug ways to reduce blood pressure)

There is a huge supplement industry that sells all kinds of products and Uva ursi is one of those plants that are promoted. I haven’t personally tried this one, but it seems to me for quantities received it is a fairly expensive supplement....

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66. Asparagus (64+ ways to lower blood pressure

Asparagus is a fairly strong tasting food, not everyone finds it pleasant, but there are a variety of ways to cook it,  with the right steaming, spices and additions it actually great.    In some ways, asparagus is a wonderfood, it contains things that a lot...

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#65. Selenium (64+ non-Drug Ways to lower BP)

Nuts in general have health benefits we tend to overlook.  One example is Brazil nuts.  They happen to be very high in selenium, a compound that has health benefits.   There are even some hints that selenium may be a key to predicting and controlling high...

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Functional Medicine

Last post I was talking about Magnesium role in high blood pressure.  But in the list of links was a link about video of Functional Medicine at TED by Mark Hyman.   The thinking or position of functional medicine is that we have to move from...

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#64. Magnesium (64 Non-Drug Ways to lower BP)

Apparently ,there are some common symptoms… headaches, high stress levels, sleep disturbances, that respond well to increase in magnesium in the diet.  Again, natural sources in diet are better than supplements, but supplements of right type and quantity can help.

Personally, I tried magnesium and noticed...

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