My High Blood Pressure Adventure

Lower Your Blood Pressure in Eight Weeks
by Stephen T. Sinatra, MD, FACC, FACN & Jan Sinatra, MSN, CNS, APRN

OK. Most of you, or at least many of you, know about my recent "high blood pressure" adventure. If not, let me recap:

I was told about 2 weeks ago that if I didn't get on high blood pressure medication immediately, I was at great risk of having a stroke. Needless to say, I kind of freaked out a little. I say, "a little" because I have known for a long time that my blood pressure is higher than the medical "normal" of 120/80. The freaked out part came when I was faced with having to swallow little pills that came with not only a laundry list of side effects - yippie - but also the fact that my "medical professional" didn't take the time to sort out the cause.

Since high school, I have been told that, "Oh, it's a little elevated." But that is as far as it ever went. Until now.

Ok, maybe last year. Last year I was told that I needed to go get blood work due to my high blood pressure reading. I did that. It was normal. I blew off the rest until March of this year when I decided to lose weight. I figured that would help the blood pressure and viola problem solved.

Well, I lost 15 lbs, and when I went to the doctor a couple weeks ago, I was told that, again, I needed blood work and to get on medication for my blood pressure.

Blood work - all normal. But the amazing thing was how the doctor so easily gave me a little bag of pills and said - take these. Bye!

Well, being who I am - and Rob being who he is - we decided to try alternative methods to get the blood pressure down. Needless to say, I did a lot of research and reading and was AMAZED at the things I wasn't doing!

The best resource to date is this book - it helped me soooo much in dealing with vitamins, supplements, herbs, food choices....

I have cut my sodium intake to less that 2000 mg a day, 1500 if I can manage it, and increased several minerals that I was severly lacking. I take potassium, magnesium, calcium, vit E, omega fish oils, and a GREAT multi (not a grocery store kind - those suck) and almost immediately I saw the change.

Here is the proof:

My blood pressure on 6/12 - 150/98

My blood pressure this morning (6/23) - 131/83

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That's only 11 days and I'm nearly normal! (Well, my blood pressure is anyway. haha)

So, if you are a person who is dealing with the prospect of medications or are already on medications for high blood pressure, give this book a serious read. It might just change your life.