Hypertension = A debilitating killer

[Mech]

High blood pressure (hypertension) caused the deaths of 42,565 Americans in 1997, and was a contributing factor in over 200,000 others. The fact is that 1 in 4 adult Americans have high blood pressure, although 31.6% of them don't know they have hypertension. These statistics are truly alarming when you consider that high blood pressure is easy to diagnose and treat -- it's one of the most preventable causes of death in the U.S. today.

High blood pressure means that your heart is working harder than normal to force blood into the arteries and through the circulatory system. In most adults, a blood pressure reading greater than 140 over 90 is considered high.


When blood pressure is elevated for an extended period of time, the inner linings of the coronary arteries become damaged. This leaves them susceptible to the buildup of fatty deposits that can narrow or block the arteries and reduce blood flow to the body's organs. When untreated, high blood pressure can lead to heart failure, stroke, kidney damage, and loss of vision from damage to the retina at the back of the eye.

Your risk for high blood pressure increases as you age and if you have a family history of heart disease. Other risk factors include: exessive mental stress, smoking, being overweight, taking birth control pills, or using excessive amounts of salt.

SYMPTOMS: If they occur, can consist of headaches, chest pain, nosebleeds, and shortness of breath. On rare occasions, people may have a stroke as the first symptom of high blood pressure.

More info:

www.jhu.edu/~shcenter/hypertension.html


Homeopathic treatment:

According to:

The Natural Remedy Bible
ISBN 0-7434-6642-X

Mike Tierra C.A. O.M.D.
John Lust, N.D.

Garlic may be used to regulate either high or low blood pressure.

One or two cloves taken daily.

Other useful herbs used in lowering bood pressure.....

Skullcap, hawthorn berries, European mistletoe, or wood betony.

[Swamp Gas]

Correct Mech,

I took, on different occasions, Procardia, Lotensin, and Vasotec. Each had horrible effects. One, Lotensin, gave me the shits so bad, my electrolytes went out of wack, and my blood pressure actually went up.

Use Garlic and Hawthorne in large amounts, and it seems to be working.

Also, juicing, which we just got back into again.

Harboring conflicting thoughts is another cause, though it mainfests as hypertension.

the new anti-aging drug ALT-711, also has zero side effects, breaks cross-links, and greatly lowers systolic
(upper #) blood pressure.

Also, Hydergine and Gingko Biloba reduce BP.

[Mech]

Al-711 sounds like a fountain of youth somewhat.

You should post a thread on it.

[Thetaloops]

The only thing that concerns me about Alt-711 is, what if you can't get the drug and you have to stop taking it? Then, from what Swamp relayed to me is that the crosslinks reform immediately and much stronger. Sounds too risky.

Although, he mentioned that by taking L-Carnosine, which removes the crosslink pieces out of the blood stream, that this would help prevent the side effect. As long as you could still get L-Carnosine.

What is your take on it?

[Swamp Gas]

ALT-711 is likened to insulin or any other life long drug. Cross-linking could be thought of as a disease, and ALT is a cure.

It is true that the if you stop taking it, the broken cross-links can re-from to make stronger, almost impossible to breal new links.

It would be better to wait until the "official"ALT-711comes out, than to get the generic, whose supply could be cut off. In that case, the L-Carnosine, combined with an alkaline diet would be the best, preventing new cross-links from forming.

[Thetaloops]

I tend to agree with you. Not to get dependent on the drugs if possible. L-Carnosine is a supplement (amino acid). Probably easier to get. So we can at least hault any new damage at the point you start taking it.

To me it's like taking St. John's Wort (herb) for depression rather than prozac or any other pharmeceutical anti depressant. Or like a cancer patient who smokes a joint to help his appetite, instead of something that has some terrible side effects.

Don't get me wrong. I think science has it's place, but as a last resort. Some drugs like Insulin are not replaceable by natural sources. At least that we know of so far.