Am I In Danger of Getting High Blood Pressure?

By: Christian Goodman

You've just had a fight with your spouse or your kids. You're angry, your face is red, you feel your heart pounding and on top of all that, now you're getting a headache. If you took your blood pressure right now, it would be alarmingly high.

Our blood pressure increases with intense emotion, but it's a natural reaction and will quickly return to normal levels once your fear or anger subsides. High blood pressure is typically not diagnosed until it remains consistently high over an extended period of time.

Having it checked regularly, at least once every two years, is the only way to know if you have it. The following symptoms may signify that you are suffering from hypertension, or high blood pressure. It is important to note that you may also have high blood pressure even if you don't have these symptoms; that is why it is very important to have your blood pressure checked regularly.

Dizziness Chest pain Headaches Shortness of Breath Blurred Vision or other visual abnormalities

Most people in the traditional medical system will tell you that roughly 95% of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, this is termed essential hypertension. I think it's scary to consider such a big percentage unknown. Because there is something you can do about this 95%. More on that later.

There are risk factors that are controllable and there are also those that are uncontrollable. Uncontrollable risk factors are your heredity, age, and race. As you get older, your risk of developing high blood pressure also increases.

Generally speaking, hypertension most often occurs in men between thirty-five and fifty years old. In women it typically begins following menopause. Also, if someone in your family has it, your risk for getting it is increased.

Some races also have a higher incidence of hypertension, such as African Americans, who have a tendency to get it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. Those risk factors are uncontrollable and there is nothing you can do to change them.

But there are many factors that you do have control over that have a direct relation with you developing high blood pressure. Too much salt intake, excessive drinking of alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all contribute to the development of high blood pressure. Do you have many of these risk factors?

Hypertension, if not monitored and treated, can lead to much more serious problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. Delicate blood vessels in the eye can be damaged as well. Due to high blood pressure, the following life-threatening conditions can occur:

Irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias Heart attack or brain attack (known more commonly as a stroke) Chronic kidney disease, ultimately resulting in kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplant Hardening of the arteries, called atherosclerosis CHF - Congestive heart failure, a condition in which your heart becomes too weak to be efficient at pumping your blood.

The conventional way of treating hypertension is thru aggressive drug therapy, intended to push down your blood pressure, but with numerous side effects. However, more often than not, they do not even get the blood pressure down because like I said earlier, 95% of the causes of high blood pressure is unknown.

But I do and I've developed an amazing High Blood Pressure Program designed to do the same thing as the drugs without all the side effects.

With simple exercises that take no time to learn and even less time to perform, this method helps lower your blood pressure naturally and helps you handle the stress that's so often at the root of blood pressure problems. You can learn more about my program here...

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Christian Goodman is a well known natural health researcher and the creator of the Natural Health Blog. His most recent work is the Natural High Blood Pressure program, which has now cured thousands of people to lower blood pressure naturally.

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