How to Cure High Blood Pressure and Angina (Chest Pain)

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How to Cure High Blood Pressure and Angina (Chest Pain)

Over twenty-five percent of Americans have hypertension (high blood pressure).

Over 50% of Americans over 65 have hypertension. In countries where they do not

consume lots of salt and protein, hypertension is rare. See more on this on home

page, Healthy Diet. Many people do not know that they have it.

 

Many are not on medications (drugs) for it since they do not like the side

effects. Many are taking 3 or 4 drugs for it. Some people are able to cure it

with a supplement like taking garlic or mangosteen juice. Others are able to

bring it under control with a change in diet and exercise. But here is something

that works on almost everyone. If you have a back or neck problem, that can

cause it, so see the page on that. This method involves changing the diet but

the powerful method that reverses the damage is fasting.

Read the webpage about fasting on this website with quotes from 17 MDs. So

first a person fasts for 2 or 3 weeks, then changes their diet to one with no

animal

products and no or little salt.

This info comes from an MD (Joel Fuhrman) who has spent 30 years treating

people with fasting and a change of diet. It is a diet of little or no salt, no

animal products, fruits, vegetables (plenty of greens), nuts, seeds, beans and

whole grains. This is explained in detail by the book below and someone can have

their fast supervised by Dr Fuhrman or another fasting professional. He can also

take you off drugs during the fast like he did with one guy who was on 2

medications for hypertension and yet his blood pressure was still to high. After

the fast it was normal without drugs.

This info comes from a book by Dr Fuhrman mentioned at the bottom. There are

testimonials in it by other MDs.

 

It says " Those suffering from the ravages of heart disease must be told that

there is a safe, less invasive way to get relief and prolong their lives. A

plant-based diet in conjunction with a properly conducted fast most often leads

to a total recovery

or a vast improvement in hypertension and angina. "

This book is loaded with lots of recent studies. During the fast, a person's

blood pressure goes down. People with angina (chest pain caused by

atherosclerosis [hardening] of coronary arteries) can get a complete recovery

from fasting and a change of diet.

 

The blood pressure medicines are the biggest sellers. Many do not take them due

to the varied bad side effects. People who take the medications for hypertension

do not get less heart attacks than those who do not take them for their high

blood pressure. Dr Fuhrman graduated U of Penn medical school (one of 8 Ivy

League colleges). HUP (Hospital of U of Penn) is ranked 3rd best hospital in

country behind Harvard U and John Hopkins U. His mother was fasted by Dr Shelton

who had fasted 40,000 people. Dr Fuhrman was an olympic skater who injured his

foot and fasted for 40 days to heal it. His book tells about diet to get rid of

headaches and migraines that is much more

strict than the above diet. His book also covers using fasting and/or change of

diet to cure diabetes (type 2), rheumatoid arthritis, acne, lupus, psoriasis,

osteoporosis, tinnitus, vertigo and glaucoma. The total cholesterol (TC)

levels is totally outdated since the more good cholesterol (HDL) you have the

better. Then they came out with another formula where your TC over HDL should be

less than 4.5 which is somewhat better. But Dr Barry Sears, author of The Zone

books, used the latest research that found out that there is harmful and

harmless bad cholesterol (LDL). So he took the harmless LDL out of the equation.

His formula is triglycerides over HDL. If it is around 1, it is very good. If

it is over 4, then that is not good. He says that this formula is much better

at predicting your chance of heart attacks and strokes. I just read where one

guy's number was 25. Then he tried a diet and it went up to 42. But then he

tried The Zone diet and in 8 weeks it went down to

2.2.

Dr Sears' diet emphasizes getting enough omega-3 essential fatty acids which

Americans do not get enough of. This alone can make a big difference. It is in

highly polluted fish but the best vegetarian source is flaxseeds. The webpage,

Natural Healing tells about a group that uses flaxseeds for their omega-3s. This

flaxseed oil is a more concentrated source but I use the ground flaxseeds since

it provides an extremely good fiber for the colon and also contains lignans

which are also beneficial. Dr Barry Sears suggests using pharmaceutical grade

fish oil since this has the pollutants removed. But then you are dealing with

having to kill many animals to keep you healthy. As far as a vegetarian diet see

the webpage Veg Concerns about things you could be missing and the Natural

Healing page. Here is information from the home page on healthy diet. I put it

there since hypertension is such a big problem.

 

Forty percent of Americans over age 40 have hypertension. Americans

eat much more protein than they need which is why most of them get myocardial

infarctions or cerebrovascular accidents (AKA heart attacks or strokes)

according to Joel Fuhrman, M.D. In other places in the world these are not

common problems. Americans consume 5 times the protein they need causing 50%

of them, over 65, to have hypertension (according to Joel Fuhrman, M.D.).

Yet in some places in the world, hypertension is rare. The American Heart

Association says not to eat more than 6 ounces a day of meat, fish or poultry.

The saturated fat in meat is also bad for you (increases cholesterol levels). So

in studies, they had people switch from beef to a leaner meat like chicken. But

they got more protein bite-for-bite and so had no improvement in cardiovascular

health.

 

Over 4,000 studies show that fruits and vegetables prevent cancer. Also on my

home page: LATEST NEWS: In an effort to reduce hypertension (high blood

pressure) and cardiovascular disease, the American

Medical Association is urging " the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revoke

the 'generally recognized as safe' (GRAS) status of salt and to develop

regulatory measures to limit sodium in processed and restaurant foods. "

 

I was just reading about a study showing that getting a lot of sunshine lowers

blood pressure. They think it has to do with the kind of vitamin D created by

sunlight on the skin. People are supposed to have a very high ratio of

potassium to sodium in their diet. Salt has huge amounts of sodium and throws

that off (see losing water weight on home page).

 

Jane Brody's Nutrition Book says " Hypertension is practically nonexistent in

cultures that exist in New Guinea, the Amazon Basin, the Kalahari Desert, and

elsewhere, where little or no salt is added to foods. " An avocado has 1,200 mg

of potassium and 25 mg of sodium. Since a banana has about 400 mg of potassium

it is good to eat at least one a day on an empty stomach (see home page to learn

why). Also

eat avocados which have lots of potassium (1,200 mg) and have a very healthy

fat. Michael Roizon, author of You: The Owners Manual, says that it has the

healthiest fat for middle aged men and prevents prostate cancer.

A nurse says that grapefruits lower blood pressure. A scientist that studies

the phytochemicals in berries says that strawberries reduce blood pressure and

blueberries minimize brain damage after a stroke. A stupid thing in our society

is that when a doctor prescribes a medicine like Vioxx, people have no

questions, even though Vioxx killed more Americans than the terrorists on 9/11.

 

Mention what bananas and strawberries can do and now he has to ask his doctor if

he can eat these fruits, even though they were OK to eat before he heard about

these benefits. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) has a website by

the leading botanist in the world, Dr James Duke, which lists plants that have

antihypertensive phytochemicals in them.

 

The first 2 have the highest concentration of these chemicals and the others

have the most different ones:

alfalfa plant with 5 antihypertensive chemicals in it, guava fruit 8, garlic

11, tomato 11, banana 11, onion 10, eggplant 10, beets 9, cabbage 9, endive 9,

orange 9, grapefruit 9 and sweet potato with

 

9. Celery was not on the list but many consider it one of the healthiest

foods. Research has shown that the phytochemical, 3-n-butyl phthalide, that is

in celery, can lower blood pressure in lab mice by 12% to 14%. They found that

people eating 4 stalks a day can lower blood pressure by 14%. Try to get the

organically grown since celery is one of the produce with the highest amounts of

pesticides.

 

Now is it better to eat the conventional than none at all? Well if you think

that your level of toxins is not too high than maybe it is better to eat the

conventional than none at all. Say that the blood presure reading changes and

both numbers go down. It is easy to see that that is

better. But what if it was 150 over 90 and it changes to 155 over 85. Has it

improved or got worse.

 

The doctors use 1 number to make it simple. The arteries are at the lower number

for twice as long as they are at the higher number. So they multiply the lower

number by 2 and add the higher number and divide by 3. So with the first one, it

is 110. With the 2nd reading, it is 108 so the 2nd reading is better. So a

reading of 160 over 80 is slightly better than the last one since it is 107.

Copyright 2006 by Chuck Bluestein