Hypertension

The strange thing about high blood pressure is the widespread physical damage it can cause before a single symptom appears. A person can be feeling just fine, yet that hypertension (another word for high blood pressure) is increasing risk of serious afflictions, including heart attack and stroke.

Although sometimes no real cause is found for high blood pressure, basically the more blood pumped by the heart and the narrower the arteries, the higher the blood pressure. It’s determined by the quantity of blood the heart pumps and the opposition to the blood flow.

When you know you've high blood pressure, a Physician can instruct you how to control it. And the test for high blood pressure is very simple.

Traditional medicine prescribes drugs to control hypertension. The drugs result in unwanted side effects, so more drugs are prescribed to control the side effects - it becomes a vicious circle. Beta-blockers, diuretics and calcium channel blockers are most usually prescribed for hypertension, but these are classes of drugs and there are hundreds of brand names and sizes of doses.

There are natural ways to control hypertension and nutritional supplements are a main method of treatment. A leading cardiologist has suggested various supplements -actually a triad of three supplements - a combination of coenzyme Q-10, L carnitine and D-ribose have been found to bring the blood pressure to normal. Other studies have found herbal supplements that help, too

Most people can benefit from a change in diet, or at least moderation. One need not go to extremes, but a healthy diet also assists with weight management, and having a normal weight will help bring about normal blood pressure.

Just a walk around the block will make blood pressure go down. So is that a result of less stress or exercise? Both. A regular exercise program is necessary for a natural therapy for lowering blood pressure.

Combining a treatment of these effective supplements with a healthy diet and exercise can lower blood pressure significantly without resorting to drugs and their side effects.

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Feeling Like An Old Curmudgeon?

Tired, achy, feeling old? Life getting the ideal of you? Not too much can be done about the number of years that have gone by, but you can get rid of the aches and pains, the gloomy outlook and get some zest back in your life.

Chronic fatigue syndrome often carries these symptoms, but with conventional medicine there’s not much you can do about it. It’s nearly like saying, “Well, you’re just getting old,” or “it’s all in your head.”

Doctors advocate psychological counseling (to get it out of your head) and physical therapy and perhaps a dietitian and/or sleep therapist. Mostly these remedies go nowhere, because it’s not “all in your head.”

Alternative medicine offers relief based on handling underlying physical problems. For example, if you eat a lot of saturated fats and refined vegetable oils, pain will increase. Omega-3 fatty acids in fish and flaxseed oil will decrease pain. Slow-burning carbohydrates (fiber) will give your body more energy, whereas refined carbohydrates will make matters worse. How you feel is very closely related to what you eat.

Sometimes allergies arise later in life, and these can be tested for. Wheat and dairy are common offenders. Once you eliminate the offending foods, it will make a massive difference in how you feel.

A low level of neurotransmitter serotonin in the body can also cause symptoms associated with chronic fatigue syndrome and old age. If a person has a low level of this chemical in the body, it can cause the sensation of pain to be heightened. It also plays a crucial role in regulating mood and contributing to depression.

Psychiatric anti-depressant drugs don't reach the underlying cause, and therefore just mask symptoms - and additionally bring on a wide range of unwanted side effects. Natural remedies, backed by solid research (which anti-depressants are not), are much safer. St. John’s Wort, SAMe, and 5-HIP are all natural supplements that boost serotonin.

If you feel like you're becoming a grouchy old man or woman, get yourself some help. A program especially for your body with a good diet and supplements will bring you new energy for life.

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Vitamin C” The Miracle Nutrient

Amazing Therapy

Did you know the vitamin C is a natural antibiotic, anti-viral, antitoxic and immune booster? The medical literature is overflowing with evidence that vitamin C is the single most essential nutrient for achieving optimal health and also the premier agent for curing or effectively treating a Big number of infectious diseases. Vitamin C is very arguably the most important treatment that any infected patient should receive, even if the final diagnosis is being made or other medications have been started.

Vitamin C joins directly with toxins or viruses and thus makes them ineffective. This happens very quickly.

The amount of Vitamin C depends upon the severity of the disease but also on the efficiency of the victim’s immune system. Most of us wouldn't get serious life threatening illnesses if we took enough vitamin C daily. At the height of the Polio epidemic in 1949, Dr. Frederick. R Klenner, MD, published that he had successfully cured 60 out of 60 polio patients who had presented to his office. Furthermore he presented that none of them had any residual damage. He clearly demonstrated that vitamin C is optimal choice to neutralize and often help eliminate nearly any toxic chemical or substance capable of poisoning the body, including the toxins associated with several of the infectious agents. Vitamin C is undoubtedly the ideal agent for treating virtually any viral infection.

Human race genetically lacks the enzyme gulonolactone oxidase unlike rats and guinea pigs. This enzyme is needed in the last step of conversion of glucose in to vitamin C. 100% GLO deficiency is shared by all human beings.

The Process of Using Vitamin C

Dr. Klenner’s observed that when vitamin C is used but seems ineffective, the problem is insufficient amounts of vitamin C administered over too short a time period. Vitamin C can be administered as an intravenous drip. It can be used to oxidize the agents that cause disease. If it runs rapidly in the drip it becomes a flash oxidizer, and many conditions are cured in minutes. In addition to relieving infections, vitamin C is also an anti-clotting agent, an anti-histamine and a toxin neutralizer.

Vitamin C combines directly with toxin/virus. This new compound is oxidized by Vitamin C: the toxin/virus and the vitamin C are destroyed. This must be the why C has to be continued after the apparent cure.

Vitamin C Applications

Administering Huge doses of vitamin C by IV has prevented and cured he following aliments:

Chronic fatigue syndrome (Epstein Barr)

Viral hepatitis

Viral encephalitis - caused by a filterable virus and characterized by apathy and abnormal sleepiness; sleeping sickness

Chickenpox - a virus, commonly of children

Herpes infection

Viral Pneumonia

Influenza

Rabies - a viral disease that attacks the central nervous system and is transmitted by the bite of infected animals

AIDS - a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections

The common Cold - characterized by sneezing, sore throat, coughing, etc., caused by an allergic reaction or by a viral, bacterial, or mixed infection

Streptococcal infections

Amoebic dysentery - characterized by severe diarrhea, nausea, and inflammation of the intestines

Staphylococcal infections - causes boils, septicemia, and other infections.

Barbiturates, CO or pesticides or alcohol poisoning - items that injures the health or destroys life when absorbed into the system

Any toxic poisoning e.g. mercury, lead, arsenic, nickel, Aluminum

Radiation Toxicity (a systemic condition caused by excessive exposure to radiation, as from a nuclear explosion or accident

High doses of Vitamin C are pretty safe by record. Some terminal cancer patients were given high doses of intravenous vitamin C for up to 8 weeks. The blood count and chemistry revealed no side effects from this administration. In Australia some Physicians have given up to 300,000 mg with spectacular results, the only side effect is chronic good health.

The only question raised concerning side effects by conformist Physicians is a fear that vitamin C could cause kidney stones. Their reasoning was that metabolism of vitamin C results in oxalate, and nearly all kidney stones are calcium oxalate. although this objection still remains in dispute, some medical literature reports that vitamin C in fact helps break up kidney stones.

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