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    The Great Physician's Rx for High Blood Pressure
    The Great Physician's Rx for High Blood Pressure
    The Great Physician's Rx for High Blood Pressure
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    The Great Physician's Rx for High Blood Pressure

    By Jordan Rubin and David Remedios

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    The New York Times–bestselling author of The Maker’s Diet show how to keep your blood pressure in check using biblical and natural health concepts.

    An estimated one in every three American adults—sixty-five million in all—has high blood pressure, or hypertension. In general, the older you are, the greater your chance of developing high blood pressure. Once high blood pressure develops, it usually lasts a lifetime unless steps are taken to control it.

    More than two-thirds of the Americans with hypertension are taking at least one medication for their afflictions. Following the Seven Keys that make up the Great Physician’s prescription for health and wellness can set you down the right road toward lowering your high blood pressure and regaining your health. This strategy for defeating hypertension is based on the Seven Keys to unlock your God-given health potential first described in The Great Physician’s Rx for Health and Wellness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 4, 2007
    ISBN9781418571092
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      The Great Physician's Rx for High Blood Pressure - Jordan Rubin

      CONTENTS

      Introduction: Down for the Count

      Key #1: Eat to Live

      Key #2: Supplement Your Diet with Whole Food Nutritionals, Living Nutrients, and Superfoods

      Key #3: Practice Advanced Hygiene

      Key #4: Condition Your Body with Exercise and Body Therapies

      Key #5: Reduce Toxins in Your Environment

      Key #6: Avoid Deadly Emotions

      Key #7: Live a Life of Prayer and Purpose

      The Great Physician’s Rx for High Blood Pressure Battle Plan

      Notes

      About the Authors

      INTRODUCTION

      Down for the Count

      Back in elementary school, I was a huge Miami Dolphins fan who lived and died with the results of every Sunday afternoon football game. The following day in the schoolyard, my buddies and I would jabber about the exploits of our hero—golden-armed Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino. During his magical 1984 season, Marino threw for an NFL record forty-eight touchdowns (which Peyton Manning eclipsed in 2004) and 5,084 yards. You were basically at Dan’s mercy, said Ronnie Lott, the Hall of Fame defensive back.¹

      My Dolphins kept winning—they were 14-2 during the 1984 regular season—until they reached the ultimate game: Super Bowl XIX. Awaiting my favorite team were the San Francisco 49ers, led by legendary quarterback Joe Montana. Much of the Super Bowl hype focused on the passing battle between Marino and Montana, and I can still remember how excited I was—just a fourth grader— to attend my first Super Bowl party at a friend’s house.

      Unfortunately for Dan Marino and the Dolphins, Joe Montana dominated the gridiron that afternoon. Joe deftly moved the ball at will, completing twenty-four of thirty-five passes for a Super Bowl record 331 yards and three touchdowns as the 49ers cruised to the NFL championship, 38–16. Montana was named the Super Bowl MVP, and his exploits later prompted the town fathers of Ismay, Montana, population twenty-two, to temporarily rename their city Joe, Montana.

      I thought of Super Bowl XIX when I heard Joe Montana go public a couple of years ago with news that he was suffering from high blood pressure. It seems that during an annual checkup, Joe’s doctor noticed elevated blood pressure levels. When she asked a few questions about his family history, the middle-aged football star revealed that his mother and two brothers had high blood pressure and his grandfather passed away at age fifty-four because of heart disease.

      When my doctor told me, ‘If you don’t get to see the cardiologist today, then try to stay away from any strenuous activities,’ I knew that wasn’t a good sign, Montana recalled.² Later, an MRI found that one of the arteries leading to his heart—the one called a widow-maker—was clogged like a drainpipe oozing with sludge.

      In the game of life, Joe had been blindsided and sacked for a loss by high blood pressure, something that happens millions of times each year in this country. An estimated one in every three American adults—sixty-five million in all—has high blood pressure, according to the latest statistics from the Census Bureau and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.³ Even more disconcerting is that the number of US adults with high blood pressure has risen dramatically in the last decade, reversing a downward trend begun in the 1970s.

      High blood pressure—also known as hypertension— increases your risk of developing cardiovascular disease and kidney disease, as well as having a stroke. The scary thing about high blood pressure is that there are no warning signs or symptoms for this condition, which is why it has been nicknamed the silent killer. While anyone can develop high blood pressure, regardless of his or her race or gender, the risk for high blood pressure increases as one ages, and individuals with diabetes are especially susceptible. More men than women have hypertension until age fifty-five, when women start gaining on men and finally overtake them. Although there’s a prevailing perception that high blood pressure is a man’s disease, the reality is that by age seventy-five, high blood pressure is more common among women than men.⁴

      The prevalence of high blood pressure in African-Americans is among the highest of all people groups. Also at risk are obese individuals, heavy drinkers, and women who take birth control pills. High blood pressure often runs in families—an estimated 30 to 60 percent of cases are inherited—so if your parents or close blood relatives have high blood pressure, you should have your blood pressure checked regularly.

      In general, the older you are, the greater your chance of developing high blood pressure because the arteries naturally harden as people reach the middle-age years and beyond. Men seem to develop high blood pressure most often between the ages of thirty-five and fifty-five, and women are more likely to develop it after menopause, according to the American Heart Association.⁵ Once high blood pressure develops, it usually lasts a lifetime unless steps are taken to control it. The good news is that high blood pressure can be curbed, and the Great Physician’s prescription can be part of a successful treatment program.

      A BASIC CHECK-UP

      Many people don’t understand what blood pressure is or why it’s important. First of all, blood is carried from the heart to all parts of your body in vessels called arteries. Blood circulates throughout the body around the clock, feeding and oxygenating your cells, removing toxins, and defending your organs from disease and degeneration.

      You need some sort of pressure inside the arteries to keep the blood moving, just as you need pressure in a garden hose to water your plants. Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteries. For those suffering from hypertension, this pressure is abnormally high and stays elevated over time.

      Two basic things happen inside the body to cause high blood pressure:

      1. The heart is pumping blood with excessive force.

      2. The body’s blood vessels have narrowed from the buildup of plaque or cholesterol, resulting in the blood flow exerting more pressure against the vessels’ walls.

      Each time the heart beats, which happens about sixty to seventy-five times a minute when you’re at rest, it pumps out blood into the arteries. Your blood pressure is at its highest when the heart beats, pumping the blood. This is called systolic pressure. When the heart is at rest, or between beats, your blood pressure falls. This is called the diastolic pressure. For most of your waking hours, your blood pressure remains the same, except when you’re exercising, of course.

      Blood pressure is always given as a reading of these two numbers, the systolic and diastolic pressures, and both numbers mean something. When you’re escorted to a doctor’s examination room, a nurse or physician’s assistant will usually take your blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer. This device includes a black cuff wrapped around the upper arm, a pump to inflate the cuff and stop the blood flow in your artery for a few seconds, and a valve to let the air out of the cuff and start blood flowing again.

      A dial records the blood pressure reading. The first number read is for the systolic pressure, followed by a second number for the diastolic pressure. So when a nurse announces your blood pressure, she might say something like, You’re 110 over 70.

      If you hear that pronouncement, that’s good because the level you want to be is something in the neighborhood of 120/80 or less. When your blood pressure numbers push toward 140/90 or higher, eyebrows rise in the doctor’s office, because that means you’re an official candidate for high blood pressure. Your heart is working harder, your arteries are taking a beating, and your chances of having a deadly heart attack, a debilitating stroke, or significant kidney problems have dramatically increased.

      It’s All in the Numbers

      Blood pressure, which is measured in millimeters of mercury, can be categorized as optimal, normal, high normal, and hypertensive. The hypertensive category can be broken down further, according to severity.

      Two numbers are used to describe blood pressure: systolic pressure and diastolic pressure. The systolic pressure, which is always higher and listed first, measures the force that blood exerts on the arterial walls as the heart pumps blood through the body’s cardiovascular system. The diastolic pressure, which is always lower and called out second, is the measurement of force as the heart relaxes to allow blood to flow back into its chambers.

      A systolic blood pressure reading higher than 120 is

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