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What is normal blood pressure anyway? How far do we have to reduce our b.p. to get the full health benefits?
I have good news and bad news.
The
good news is that every drop you make, say in steps of 10/5, will have
a great benefit to your health and can cut the risk of premature death
from heart attack or stroke.
The bad news is that your risk can still be quite high unless you reach the healthy zone.
What Is This Healthy Zone?
The
target blood pressure that you should be aiming for is 115/75. If you
are 20/10 over this then already you have doubled your cardiovascular
risk.
For practical purposes, a few units either way do not make
a whole lot of difference so a blood pressure that is between 110/70
and 120/80 is good enough.
The health departments in many
countries will classify anything over 121/81 to be prehypertension.
This means that you are already at some increased risk. In the UK, you
only officially have hypertension when you hit 140/90. However, the
facts are that you can still be at an increase risk even if you are
below this e.g. 130/85.
How To Reduce It?
Some
people turn to drugs. Drugs that were never invented for treating blood
pressure in the first place. They have a systemic effect on you.
"Systemic" is medical-jargon for "all of the body".
This means
that side effects are common such as headache, needing to urinate often
and even increased risk of cancer. Paradoxically, some of these drugs
can even increase the risk of a heart attack - and defeat the entire
point of turning to your doctor about your blood pressure in the first
place!
A natural approach is much better. Although there is some
tiny component of your b.p. that is genetic, this can be far outweighed
by lifestyle approaches. There are three key areas and you cannot
neglect even one of them:
- what you eat
- your type of exercise
- stress levels
By
following such a natural approach there is simply no need to turn to
drugs at all. Even doctors are now acknowledging this as study after
study reaches this conclusion.
Do you not want to worry anymore
about dying before your time is up? You can easily make a few tweaks to
your lifestyle and beat this "silent killer". Discover my natural step
by step proven plan for easily defeating high blood pressure here: Blood Pressure Truth.
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