I detailed these four smart strategies to lower your blood pressure naturally in a recent video on the topic. You can either watch the video now or read through the tips below:
1. Exercise: A regular, effective exercise program consisting of aerobSTM, sprint-burst type exercises, and core and strength training, can go a long way toward reducing your insulin levels and your blood pressure.
2. Eat for your nutritional type and avoid foods that raise insulin levels: Foods that will raise your insulin, such as sugar-type foods and grains, should be avoided if you have high blood pressure. This includes even whole, organic grains, as they rapidly break down to sugars.
Foods to avoid include:
• Breads
• Pasta
• Rice
• Cereal
• Potatoes
While cutting out these insulin-boosting foods, focus your diet on the healthy foods that correspond to your nutritional type.
One food in particular that can also be helpful for reducing your blood pressure is crushed, raw garlic. Many people swear by it, and it's something you can easily add to your diet.
3. Use stress management techniques. Even mild stress can raise your blood pressure. Prayer, meditation or the Meridian Tapping Technique (MTT) are all useful techniques for managing your emotions.
4. Optimize your vitamin D levels. It has recently become clear that normalizing your vitamin D levels can have a powerful effect on normalizing your blood pressure.
You’ll notice that none of the above tips includes a blood pressure drug. Well, this is to your advantage considering beta-blockers — a class of drugs frequently prescribed to manage high blood pressure — have been found to cause type 2 diabetes by decreasing your insulin sensitivity. This is actually promoting the very problem you’re trying to solve.
That said, although I hardly ever recommend the use of drugs it’s VITAL that you do go on a medication to lower your blood pressure if your blood pressure is very high! Otherwise you are putting yourself at serious risk of a stroke, and the brain damage that occurs during a stroke tends to be permanent and irreversible.
Once you begin to address the underlying causes of your high blood pressure with the tips above and your levels begin to go down, then you can slowly wean off the medication under the guidance of a natural health care practitioner.
