Blood Pressure: Why it Goes Up and What to Do About it Without Drugs!

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Blood Pressure:

Why it Goes Up and What to Do About it Without Drugs!

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By: Dr. William Wong, ND, PhD.

 

 

Let's cut this intro. short. By now you've all heard of things that can raise

your blood pressure, like stress or high salt intake but has anyone every

told you what made your blood pressure go up and stay up in the first place? It

wasn't the stress and it isn't the salt; those just make things worse. What

physiologically happened inside our bodies to bring our blood pressure up and

not let it go down?

 

There are two reasons for high blood pressure:

 

1. Encroaching glomerulosclerosis, and

2. Peripheral vascular resistance to blood flow.

 

Let's look at each in turn.

 

Glomerulosclerosis is a condition where scar tissue builds up inside the

kidney over the little filtering fingers called Glomeruli and decreases the

surface area the kidneys have to filter through. Blood is " pressed " against the

inside of these filtering fingers and waste water and waste material go through

the filtering tissues and into the interior of the kidney. To get a better

picture of it imagine a rubber glove with tiny holes in the fingers. Now pump

water into the inside of the glove and watch the water it seep through the

holes. That's about the way it looks.

 

This scar tissue build up came about for two reasons:

1) it happens naturally as we age. We build up scar tissue in all of our

internal organs after the age of 27 or so. This scar tissue decreases the size

and function of the organ and sometimes leads to its failure in old age.

2) We make it worse by what we do, I'll explain.

 

The kidneys need a constant level of inflow and outflow of fluid to maintain

their health. Put a plug in your urine tube to create a blockage in the

outflow (as stones can do), and you'll create kidney damage. Cut back on the

inflow

to the kidney through dehydration, lack of drinking enough good water, high

alcohol consumption or the use of drugs that cut back on kidney inflow and you

also cause kidney damage. What drugs are we talking about? Every day ones

such as: aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxin, relafin, Vioxx, Celebrex, and the entire

class of Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (both Cox I and Cox II), have

as side effects kidney damage and kidney failure. When damage is had scaring

develops on the damaged site. When scaring is severe enough on a Glomeruli it

dies. When enough of these filtering fingers die that causes kidney failure

and bang, you're dead!

 

It's interesting to note that the great killer of young athletes is the

combination of Ibuprofen, aspirin, acetaminophen and dehydration. In one New

York

marathon of the late 90's this combination clamed 4 lives, and many of the

average 30 deaths a year in school age football players also happen from this

combo. Yearly upwards of 20,000 Americans die from the side effects of the

NSAID class of over the counter and prescription drugs, mostly from kidney

failure, the rest from liver toxicity or intestinal hemorrhage! But let me get

back

to the point.

 

So each little bit of old age fibrosis joins the kidney damage scar tissue to

build a fibrotic cover over these little filtering fingers. What does the

body do if it has to maintain the level of inflow near constant while the

surface area it has to filter things through is decreased? You can likely now

figure this one out for your self. To filter the same amount of liquid through

a

smaller filtering area the body needs to increase the pressure of the blood so

as to force more liquid through the filter. Simple hydro physics! And whamo

you have the first cause of high blood pressure.

 

The second cause of high blood pressure is Peripheral Vascular resistance.

In this condition the micro blood vessels in the arms and legs block with plugs

of fibrin (scar tissue material). This is the same stuff that creates the

latticework for arteriosclerotic plaque that grows in the larger arteries. As

we age and decrease our physical activity many miles of these tiny blood

vessels get plugged up. We no longer need to bring as much blood in high

volumes to

all of the working areas of the arms and legs because the muscular demand is

no longer there! There is just enough blood flow in and out to keep the area

alive but not much else. The ancient admonition to " Use it or lose it " is

working in full force here. Having the tiny micro circulation plugged up is like

having only one water tap open in the house, the pressure of the water coming

out of that tap is high. But what happens if you open wide all the taps in

the house? That's right, the pressure at the first tap goes down!

 

OK the problems have been stated. Now you may ask; How do I know which

problem is the cause of MY high blood pressure problems and what can I do about

them? Well here's the rub, you don't know which is the cause of your

particular

problem, most times even your doc does not know. Why because he / she hasn't

bothered to delve deeply enough into your case to find out. The general

attitude is that it's all taken care of by the same drugs so who cares what the

cause of it is!

 

Luckily we can apply the same caviller attitude in caring for the problems of

high blood pressure naturally and what will work for fibrosis in the blood

vessels will work for scaring in the kidney (only there the clearing effect will

happen more slowly).

 

Here's the plan:

Drink WATER, 6 to 8 full glasses a day. There's no way of getting around the

inflow and outflow thing so why fight it if it's going to hurt you to the

point of shortening your life! Soda, tea, coffee don't count. Water, juice and

nutritional drinks do.

 

Exercise.

In the late 70's I had a client who was a trader on the floor of the American

Stock Exchange, was an Ex Marine DI and carried a flask of Johnny Walker

scotch in his back pocket. His blood pressure was 200+ over 100+; he was a

water

balloon ready to pop (or an aneurysm waiting to burst). After just 8 weeks of

weight training and short aerobic work done 3 times a week his blood pressure

was a perfectly normal and average 120 over 70! His problem were clogged

peripheral blood vessels and the exercise had the effect of forcing blood

through

them clearing up the clogs and also making the body create miles and miles of

new blood vessels to feed all the new muscle he was growing. All the spigots

were being opened.

 

Take highly fibrinolytic systemic enzymes, as these will eat away at both the

fibrosis building up in the blood vessels (all of them from the tiny

capillaries to the major arteries), and the scar tissue accruing on the

Glomeruli.

Vitalzym is the strongest fibrinolytic systemic enzyme available today. Add

garlic to the diet. The equal of 2 whole cloves of either real garlic or the

tablet equivalent will also help to open the blood vessels and keep the vascular

walls strong.

 

The only cautions to this routine are these: Find an exercise physiologist to

help you with your exercise formulation. These are college trained

professionals, not people who gained a certification in " personal training " by

reading

moldy bodybuilding magazines and taking a meaningless exam.

 

If your kidneys already have substantial damage and you are holding water in

your extremities, if you are on dialysis or; if your kidneys are damaged

enough that your doc has you on " water pills " to help your kidneys to work, then

don't drink any more water than your physician has allowed for you. Also

remember that if the kidney damage is extensive enough, the damaged tissue will

die

(just as parts of the heart can die inside of you after a heart attack). In

this instance removing the scar tissue from the filtering fingers will not

restore the dead tissues life or function. Increases in BP from this are not

reversible.

 

If your wife, girl friend or significant other can't stand the smell of real

garlic on your breath or sweat, change to the odor free tablets.

 

Bringing down blood pressure naturally is not as instantaneous as what can be

had taking the BP drugs. The good effects of the enzymes, the exercise, the

garlic and the water take some weeks or even months to manifest themselves.

Once the good effects kick in, going natural allows you to avoid the side

effects of the blood pressure drugs by lowering their need or helping to

eliminate

the need for them altogether. Also, in getting to the root cause of the

problem instead of merely treating the symptoms, we become healthier, more able

and

will likely live longer.

 

Not bad results for going natural I'd say!