Articles On Natural Stress And
Blood Pressure Control

For decades, we've been advised to cut down on our salt intake for lower blood pressure. But how much is this advice is based on flimsy science and how much could it even be dangerous to our health?

Obesity has been demonized by health risks ranging from high blood pressure to diabetes to cancer. But the shocking findings of a new study reveal that these risks are myths and that the stress they cause does more harm than excess weight!

Can the reports of lower blood pressure and risk of heart attack from eating chocolate be true? If so, what about the high fat, sugar and calories that come along with it? Get the facts and discover how you can enjoy the benefits of good chocolate (and maybe other indulgences too) without guilt!

"Mind over matter" in the form of the Placebo Effect is an ever-present factor in medicine. It can help you - and also mislead you - in your quest for lower blood pressure. The effect also poses financial risks as it can play into the hands of unscrupulous peddlers of blood pressure remedies who can use it to make their products look more effective than they really are...

For decades we've been taught that cholesterol (especially "bad" LDL cholesterol) is responsible for high blood pressure and heart disease. But according to a compelling new theory, cholesterol is actually serving to protect our arteries from the ravages of high blood acidity, brought on by the modern diet. The fact is, we are never going to achieve our ambition to reduce blood pressure if we misunderstand the problem...

Dr. John Lee, a noted family practitioner writing for the Virginia Hopkins Health Watch, exposes the myths about high blood pressure, its true risks and its treatment still prevalent among his colleagues in medicine. A real eye-opener!

Another expose by a qualified medical expert, this time looking at the medications millions of us are prescribed with hardly so much as a second thought. Drugs are sometimes needed to lower blood pressure as a last resort but let's not fool ourselves about their safety and effectiveness...

If you research how to lower blood pressure naturally you will quickly discover the DASH diet. This diet is almost universally recommended by health care professionals as part of a healthy lifestyle to reduce blood pressure. While most of it is sound, there are several aspects of the DASH diet that are misleading and even counter-productive...

Are your determined effects to lower your blood pressure being sabotaged by the "healthy foods" recommended for fighting hypertension? It's ironic (and discouraging) to learn that many modern foods and dietary principles are actually far more dangerous than the so-called unhealthy foods they are designed to replace...

There are many things you can use for lower blood pressure including a good diet, exercise, supplements and stress management. The reason all these things work is no longer a surprise; there seems to be one common element behind all these methods and it involves a powerful substance we create in our bodies...

In your battle for lower blood pressure you could be forgiven for getting fed up on diet...It seems to crop up as the number one cause and solution to every single health problem. But the obsession on diet is counter-productive. Human beings can thrive on a huge range of foods and micro-managing your diet will not normally make the slightest difference to your blood pressure...

An enlarged heart is one of the most dangerous, but little understood, symptoms of high blood pressure. As the heart works harder it grows bigger and tougher, like any muscle. As a precursor to heart failure it's critical to lower your blood pressure without delay if you have an enlarged heart...

Lowering blood pressure with magnesium is a highly-recommended method of blood pressure control. Magnesium is one of the essential minerals that help to regulate blood pressure. However, the best way to get minerals is in a natural way and in balance through a healthy diet...

Buteyko, an alternative method of breathing developed for relieving asthma, may also prove useful as a natural way to lower blood pressure. It actually has much in common with a new method of lowering blood pressure called slow breathing...

Lower blood pressure: how low is too low? The goalposts keep shifting with some doctors urging absurd figures like 115 over 60! Of course lower guidelines mean many more prescriptions and profits. Surely it's not all financially motivated but the fact is that modern American blood pressure guidelines do not reflect human reality...

While we are prescribed drugs to lower blood pressure other drugs are working to raise it... and some health professionals are not even aware of it! A number of common prescription and over the counter drugs can increase blood pressure and we need to be aware of these...

It's certainly possible, though not easy, to lower blood pressure naturally. But there are some commonly believed myths about things like diet, lifestyle and drugs themselves that stand in can stand in the way of your success...

Your lifestyle is the cause of your high blood pressure! If you're fed up with hearing that lifestyle is the cause behind hypertension and every other health problem you may welcome this news. New research proves that elevated blood pressure is often linked to specific genetic factors...

Slower breathing can lower blood pressure. That's because fast, erratic breathing, often due to stress, destabilizes blood chemistry and leads to high blood pressure and heart disease. The solution is a simple and relaxing breathing session of just 15 minutes a day...

A new "polypill" composed of statins, medications that lower blood pressure and aspirin has been hailed as a way to prevent heart disease. As usual, much of the research is misleading and we can get the same results more safely through natural methods...

Lifestyle changes and other natural methods to lower blood pressure are being systematically discredited by drug company researchers in cahoots with the media. They're doing this by mis-representing certain low-level studies that appear to show blood pressure drugs more effective than natural methods than they really are...

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Blood pressure is not static but goes up and down throughout the day. What's more, slight differences or errors in measuring methods can produce widely varying readings. Even health care professionals often use the wrong procedures when taking blood pressure. There's only one way of measuring blood pressure that is genuinely meaningful...

Everyone knows that salt or sodium raises blood pressure. But it doesn't work alone; a balance of minerals is crucial for lower blood pressure and one mineral - potassium - may be even more important than sodium...

Lowering blood pressure through music is nothing new. But it was once thought that its powers were just to relax us but we now know that listening to music stimulates powerful physiological responses that not only reduce blood pressure but also drop cholesterol. It's amazing that listening to music can produce this incredible substance in the body...

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Lower blood pressure is an important defense against Alzheimers and other degenerative conditions. It's easy to visualize the problem. High blood pressure bursts tiny blood vessels in the brain. This leads to inflammation and oxygen deprivation that damages brain cells.
Luckily, this is completely avoidable...

Breathing can work in both a mechanical as well as chemical way to lower blood pressure. In a mechanical sense it relaxes muscles in the chest, allowing blood vessels to open and increase blood flow. Chemically, it balances our blood chemistry. There are simple ways that you can manipulate these processes to your advantage...

Ancient civilizations knew that breathing was the secret to a healthy heart and more. We were slow to catch up in the West but our scientific approach is finding new and better ways to harness this force for lower blood pressure and many other health benefits...

Most people get lower blood pressure the "easy" way: with medications. Side effects seem to be the most common problem with drugs but many people happily avoid all these risks... or do they? Side effects are only the most obvious problem with medications but the greatest danger is their unknown and unpredictable risks to your health...

Foods that can lower blood pressure get a lot of attention. There's a long list of them with beetroot and chocolate just two of the most recent to hit the media. But when you read all the fine print you find out that these foods are nearly always useless as practical blood pressure remedies. For natural blood pressure control its' much more useful to think of diets instead of "foods"...

Breathing extends lives... (and not just that way, smart aleck!) Turns out the gurus were right about many claims of health benefits from better breathing. Some of its effects, including neutralizing harmful stress hormones, actually extend our lives by protecting and repairing genetic material in our cells...

Studies show that listening to slow, soothing music can lower blood pressure. The results are even more pronounced when combined with slow breathing. Despite the encouraging reports, once again the media has misrepresented important aspects of the research. Find out what's missing here...

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What do you do for lower blood pressure? Advice on alcohol and blood pressure is inconsistent and confusing. One report says moderate drinking is good for the heart, the next says any alcohol can raise blood pressure. The right approach is so often just common sense...

Why is it so important to reduce your blood pressure? To avoid stroke and heart attack? Most people rightly associate high blood pressure with heart failure. But the fact is that these severe consequences rarely happen to most people. They face the more common, long-term damage of hypertension such as...

Statins, a group of drugs developed to reduce cholesterol, have been declared a "revolution" in health care. Like all drugs, they have their place in medicine but some zealots are promoting their near-universal use to "prevent" heart disease. Once again, the benefits are exaggerated while side effects and other risks of statins are under-reported...

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Breathing control is probably the most effective way to relieve anxiety and panic attacks. But the advice to "breathe deeply" so often given is counter-productive and likely to worsen the symptoms. Here's the correct and easier way to breathe to relieve anxiety, panic and severe stress...

Gregorian Chant has enjoyed a surge in popularity. This can only be a good thing; we now know that the inner peace and calm it produces is actually reflected in lower blood pressure and stress levels. You can get the benefits by listening to it or,even better, by singing it. The slow, controlled breathing required to chant is a key factor in reducing blood pressure...

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Singing, especially in a slow, controlled style like Gregorian Chant, offers many health benefits like lower blood pressure and stress levels. It's all in the breathing, as they say...

For many women, being pregnant can be both wonderful and extremely stressful. Unfortunately, severe stress can produce harmful hormones that can penetrate the placenta and affect the unborn child. It can also lead to hypertension. A method of slow breathing combined with relaxing music may be just the answer. The unique aspect of this method is that it directly benefits the child a well...

Lower blood pressure through relaxing the mind? Many people would once have scoffed at such claims but formal studies prove that practicing meditation can reduce blood pressure as well as stress levels. Results are even better when combined with a certain type of slow breathing...

"Breakthroughs" for lower blood pressure seem to appear in the media nearly every day. Just recently there has been beetroot juice, dark chocolate and even chiropractic treatment. But why is it always "here today, gone tomorrow"? Here's what you discover when you read the fine print in these studies...

Beetroot juice made a big splash in the media with its surprising ability to lower blood pressure. So is this finally a safe and viable natural remedy that everyone can use? Read the full story, warts and all, and not just snippets in the media...

Some medical experts claim that up to 95% of people with hypertension could achieve lower blood pressure without drugs. So why is the number who succeed so much fewer? What, exactly, are some of the natural methods with a proven record of success at reducing blood pressure?

The medical establishment has, in a sense, hijacked high blood pressure. It is over-diagnosed and over-medicated with no change in sight. Agressive medical treatment - and that includes drugs - should always be a last resort, not routine or even pre-emptive treatment...

It's easy to think of lifestyle changes as a bit of a drudge... self-discipline isn't much fun, is it? But here are several easy, natural ways proven to lower blood pressure that don't mean deprivation and denial...

Lowering blood pressure with slow breathing: explaining the basics of how this simple lifestyle technique is making big progress in reversing hypertension, often when powerful drugs have failed...

Can you directly connect lower blood pressure with lower stress? Doctors used to insist that the effects of stress were only temporary and without lasting effects on your health. But now research reveals that the physical damages of stress go beyond what anyone could have expected. Stress management has to be a foundation of any strategy to reduce blood pressure...

Much of what we "know" about hypertension is either false, misunderstood or conditional. Knowing about these myths can help you avoid wasting time and effort in a futile quest for lower blood pressure...

Don't worry if "relaxation CDs" with babbling brooks and birdsong are not your cup of tea because they are mostly ineffective anyway. The effects of this type of passive relaxation are temporary at best. But add slow breathing exercises to the mix and you have something very different...

A healthy lifestyle can lower your blood pressure... don't you get tired of hearing it sometimes? But while it may be true that lifestyle is often talked to death, here are 5 aspects of lifestyle that really do affect your blood pressure...

Can something as simple as relaxation lower blood pressure? Doesn't everything worthwhile take "work"? The answer is yes, relaxation can drop your blood pressure at certain times, often by huge amounts. The problem is that the effects are only temporary. But there are things you can do to increase the effects of relaxation on your blood pressure...

Pregnancy-induced hypertension can be extremely dangerous. But a new method called slow breathing with music is the ideal thing to lower blood pressure during pregnancy. The unique thing about it is that it affects both the mother and her child, maybe even for life...

Gurus and alternative health promoters were right about the health benefits of better breathing. But the devil is in the detail and scientific study reveals frequently-advised breathing practices that are misguided or even harmful...

It's true that certain ways of breathing can lower your blood pressure and offer many other health benefits. But there's no need to over-complicate it with pseudo-scientific theories or mysterious Eastern rituals. Healthy breathing is easy. Just follow these simple instructions...

Slow breathing for lower blood pressure was popularized with a computerized device. The gadget generates "musical" tones to help guide the user's breathing. Now a new take on the method uses real music along with breathing prompts. Listening to real music is relaxing and boosts the method's effectiveness...

Breathing is the key to conrolling anxiety, panic and other strong emotional responses. But much common advice about breathing is misguided and maybe even harmful. Here's the correct way to effectively relieve stress and anxiety with breathing...

Understanding the physical chain reactions that connect emotional states like stress and anxiety with blood pressure, breathing and other physiological processes...

Lower blood pressure naturally in 15 minutes a day from the barcolounger! Yes, it's true and here are the step-by-step instructions...

Lower blood pressure through a healthy lifestyle is a big challenge for some. Let's face it, modern living doesn't make it easy. Some health gurus don't have a clue what it's like for someone driving a truck (one of the unhealthiest occupations) for hours on end, six days a week, with a family to support. Still, everyone can do something and here's an effective method ideal for the lifestyle-challenged that takes just 15 minutes a day...

Slow breathing for lower blood pressure has been racking up impressive success stories for nearly 10 years and yet the majority of high blood pressure sufferers still aren't aware of it...