Sunday, September 28, 2008

Natural remedies for high blood pressure

Blood Pressure

Blood pressure is variable of physiological between respiratory rate, body temperature, and rate of heart beat. A new pressure will occur when the heart squeezes and relaxes. So, it’s not constant value throughout the day.

The pressure will elevate before awake (systolic, greater than 140 mmHg) and decline during sleep or  relax (diastolic, greater than 90 mmHg). They regulate the brain, kidney, heart, blood vessels and endocrine glands.

The measurement of blood pressure expressed with two numbers, and normal levels were around 120/80 mm of mercury.
As we age, the low blood pressure (diastolic blood pressure) starts to decrease and the high blood pressure (systolic blood pressure) starts to increase. It's indicating the arteries stiffening increase throughout the body.

Cholesterol

Many people now aware with cholesterol levels. Why? This is because it has strong effect to cardiovascular health. The mechanism, there is plaques deposite in the atherosclerotic due to high amount of cholesterol attached on the wall of the vessels causing the narrrowing of arteries (coronary arteries). As a result, it will reduce the space of blood flow and eventually increase the pressure.
Finally, the risk of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis increases.

The factors that influences the raise of blood cholesterol levels are unhealthy diets, imbalance nutrient intake, lack of physical exercises, and unhealthy lifestyle, while genetical factor is rare case.

Cholesterol levels

A total cholesterol level around 199mg/dL is considered as a normal level and lower to that number is what we're looking for, while the levels up to 239mg/dL considered as medium high levels and greater to that number described as high levels.

<200> However, it doesn mean people with total cholesterol levels below than 200 mg/dl have no risk to cardiovascular diseases. This is because some of cholesterol and fats in the blood can be also carried by lipoproteins making inaccurate measurement.

Treatment

The main purpose of treatment for managing cholesterol levels is lowering the low-density lipoprotein (LDL - bad cholesterol) under 160 mg/dl for people that have no heart disease or at lower risk.
For people that have heart disease, the treatment may target under 1000 mg/dL. (Recommended by FDS guidelines).

In addition, because  low high-density lipoprotein (HDL - good cholesterol) levels may increase the risk of heart disease, then the treatment must have an ability to increase the level for more than 35 mg/dL.

The natural therapy in lowering the cholesterol levels includes regular exercise, lose weight, healthy diets, stop smoking, and limit alcohol intake.
Some traditional tips can also help lower the levels such as high doses of niacin, consuming soy protein, algae, and garlic.

In natural homeopathic treatment, products like Hypercet Cholesterol and Hypercet Blood Pressure are the best alternative or conjuntive to that natural regimens above because these products can give shortcut treatment to lower total cholesterol levels, lower bad cholesterol (LDL) levels, increase good cholesterol (HDL) levels, maintain the level of triglycerides, and lower blood pressure within normal range.

What make these supplementations effective are, they use many potent natural substances or compounds, vitamins and minerals, and amino acids such as Calcium, Magnesium, Beta 1.3d glucans, Chromium, Malic acid, Citric acid and Glycine, which is all of them have strong effects to lower and manage the levels of blood cholesterol and blood pressure. As they use 100% natural ingredients and proper doses, it has higher safety profile for long-term use.

But still, you should ask to your physician regarding to use of these supplements to prevent potential adverse effects as the health status are vary from person to person, or contra-indication to your current medications.