Hypertension

Superior methods to reduce blood pressure.

Almost 120 million Americans suffer high blood pressure, with nearly 100 million reaching levels requiring treatment.

This is an astronomically high number of people who are forced into the healthcare system and placed on medications. Despite the awareness of high blood pressure, nearly 75% of adults don’t have their blood pressure under control. Blood pressure medications cost the healthcare/insurance system over $25 billion per year.

There are many reasons for this. When you are experiencing high blood pressure (hypertension) most of the time you can’t feel it. Occasionally there will be a headache, flushing skin, or some other subtle signs. Most people have no idea whatsoever and can walk around all day with severe hypertension. I have seen patients with a blood pressure of 200/120 never know they had hypertension.

If it’s out of sight, it’s out of mind for many patients. This should not be the case.

Arteries are normally highly flexible in order to tolerate the rhythmic fluctuations in pressure as the heart beats. They expand when the heart contracts (systole) and when the heart relaxes (diastole) they reduce back to their original size. The top number in your blood pressure is systolic pressure, and the bottom number is diastolic. So if the pressure in your vessels when the heart contracts is 120 mmHg, your systolic blood pressure is 120 mmHg.

A healthy range is systolic <120 mmHg and diastolic < 80 mmHg.