I have high blood pressure patients go through my practice many times in a month. There are many tools that I use to help support the body to lower its own pressure. Sometimes I use pharmacological means to actually lower the blood pressure to prevent secondary effects of high blood pressure and those are gravely; stroke and death.
Outside of this thinking is that the body is doing some kind of adaptive physiology to make sure the blood pressure is high for some other reason. On that thought of the blood pressure being high is for getting blood to the brain which is a the gravitational top of the body. If the brain doesn't get blood then the the body doesn't work. So if blood is needing to be perfused (spread out in) to the brain then the body will increase the blood pressure. This basic reasoning to have the blood pressure higher than normal until something gets taken care of in the body wide health. Then there is a cause of high blood pressure that comes from the kidney, and that has to be looked into as well.
So this idea of adaptive physiology (adapting to the bodies needs, the physiology changes to keep the body as healthy as it thinks it needs), may actually make a person get symptoms of sickness. With high blood pressure, sometimes people feeling nothing with blood pressure being high (The 'silent killer'). Sometimes they feel a little amped up or sometimes they feel headaches. Any feeling you feel of high blood pressure means it usually WAY to high and this is the time to see a doctor.
The thing to do about high blood pressure is continue to get the whole body healthy while its being treated. Some main focuses of high blood pressure are lifestyle, exercise, diet and micronutrients. If you are overweight and have high blood pressure you are going to need to get to optimal BMI. If you are a snorer at night you need to get this managed before you blood pressure will normalize. If you eat a fast food diet you are going to need to eat healthy and more nutrients in your diet before you get blood pressure normalized. If you eat too much protein, you are going to have to eat just the right about for your needs. If you don't exercise the nervous system will not be able to normalize your blood pressure as well. If you have tried all these and it hasn't worked yet. Please get me or an ND in your area on your team of health care.
Be well,
Dr. Kozura
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