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High Blood Lood Pressure Description

What Is High Blood

Pressure?

Genetic Factors

Secondary Hypertension

Conclusion

Transcendental Meditation

Meditation and high blood

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Benefits of Proper Sleep

Habits

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Medical treatments for high blood pressure

Conventional drug treatment for hypertension consists of six basic categories. Although we will be discussing natural treatments, it may be useful to be aware of the approach that uses drugs. The conventional treatment approach is to recommend drugs if your hypertension does not respond to changes in life-style and diet within three to six months. As you explore many other approaches, you will learn more options for correcting hypertension.

Warning: If your doctor has prescribed drugs to treat your hypertension, do NOT stop taking them. Follow the program in this book, take your medications as prescribed, be patient, and work with your doctor to adjust medication as appropriate.

Medications used to treat hypertension:

Diuretics: Increases urinary excretion of water and salt. Possible side effects:

gastrointestinal disturbances
reduced potassium
increased urination
photosensitivity
muscle cramps
increased blood sugar
general weakness
impotence

Beta Blockers: Blocks effects of adrenaline, thus the pumping action of the heart is easier. Also widens blood vessels. Possible side effects:

lethargy
decreased blood sugarm
fatigue
increased triglycerides
bronchospasm with some asthmatic patients
insomnia
reduced exercise tolerance
decreased HDL

ACE Inhibitors: Reduces production of the hormone angiotensin. Angiotensin causes arteries to constrict. ACE inhibitors decrease peripheral vascular resistance. Possible side effects:

dizziness
skin rash
increased potassium
lightheadedness
loss of taste
cough
hypotension, or even abnormally low blood pressuree
heart palpitations

Calcium Channel Blockers: Decreases the contractions of the heart and widens blood vessels, and slows or blocks the flow of calcium into muscle cells. Possible side effects:

dizziness
nausea
weakness
hypotension
facial flushing
headache
constipation
lightheadedness
rapid heart beat
ankle or peripheral edema

Alpha-1 Receptor Agonists (and Antagonists): Central alpha-1 agonists reduce the passage of impulses along certain nerve pathways. This relaxes blood vessels, and blood flows easier. Possible side effects:

dizziness
nausea
drowsiness
palpitation
headache
severe hypotension

Vasodilators: Dilates arteries of the heart, and relaxes smooth muscles. Possible side effects:

headache
heart palpitations
nasal congestion
tachycardia
fluid retention

Side Effects

All these drugs have serious potential side effects. Exploring alternatives with a holistic physician or other qualified and properly trained health professional is invaluable. I will explain in Chapter 10 how to find such a physician.

If you must use drugs, have your physician explain the potential benefits and risks, or research them yourself. As you have been learning, intelligence is not only in the brain, but also everywhere in the body. Actually, intelligence is primary to the matter that makes up your body. The disruption of intelligence is directly related to the incredible array of side effects that you can get from one drug.

Side effects are the disruption of many different functions in your body. Drugs rush into the receptor sites and fill them for as long as you take the drug. In the introduction, you learned that each part of your body is listening to get messages from other parts of your body. If the receptor sites are already full, then the neuropeptides that your body is sending never get delivered to the appropriate site. Drugs actually interfere with the free flow of intelligence and information throughout your body.

Deepak Chropa M.D., author of Quantum Healing and other best selling books, illustrates this point using steroids as an example. Even though the steroids reduce inflammation, there is also a host of other strange reactions. Steroids can cause depression, fatigue, abnormal fatty deposits under the skin, and brittle blood vessels leading to bruises that heal slowly. Potential long-term side effects also include diabetes, osteoporosis, and suppression of the immune system (which can lead to cancer and other diseases). Peptic ulcers, internal bleeding, elevated cholesterol, lower ability to tolerate stress, atrophy of the adrenal glands, and perhaps even death are attributed to this class of drugs. Allergies and allergic reactions might even occur because the adrenal glands would stop functioning after using steroids over a period of time. Properly functioning adrenal glands are necessary for a healthy immune system, to fight allergies and to combat stress. Steroids also suppress the symptoms that are warning your physiology of an imbalance.

A study at Yale University showed that poorly prescribed drugs kill 2,000 people a week in the United States. Corticosteroids replace some of the secretions of the adrenal cortex, a yellowish pad on the apex of the adrenal glands. They also suppress other adrenal secretions. This in turn can affect the secretions of the pituitary located in the brain and other endocrine glands as well.

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