High Blood Pressure
Many people are aware that high blood pressure is linked to heart disease and strokes. In conventional medicine, a person with high blood pressure will be treated with medications to lower the blood pressure. The assumption is that high blood pressure causes heart disease and strokes and that lowering the pressure will protect the patient from a catastrophic event.
But what causes the high blood pressure? Obesity? Genetics? Bad diet? How does a drug like a beta blocker, a calcium channel blocker, or an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor work? Do they really protect you from heart disease?
One of the major causes of heart disease and high blood pressure is electrolyte stress. It is caused by excessive amounts of minerals, the wrong minerals, PH imbalances and lack of water in the bloodstream.
Let us examine a simple example to illustrate how this can occur.
Imagine you have a glass of water , and you started adding salt to it. Initially, the salt would dissolve in the water, forming salt water. However, if you kept adding salt, eventually the amount of salt that could dissolve in the water would be exceeded and the salt would precipitate out, landing on the bottom of the glass.
The word precipitation is used to describe rainfall or snow as well. When the amount of water in a cloud exceeds the cloud’s capacity to hold the water, it will start to precipitate.
Precipitation is a biochemistry term used to describe how minerals and other substances stay in solution.
What does this have to do with high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke?
The blood in our bodies is used to hold “stuff”. This stuff includes red blood cells, minerals, fats, and proteins. When the amount of stuff in the blood exceeds the capacity of the blood to hold it, precipitation will occur.
In addition to the volume of dissolved solids in the blood, the character of these solids is important for the blood to maintain its fluid nature. Therefore proper balance between positive (cationic) and negative (anionic) minerals is crucial, as well as proper PH balance. If any of these factors is off, the blood will precipitate.
When the blood begins to precipitate, it will start to form sludge. This sludge is unable to flow into capillaries (tiny blood vessels) and the heart must work harder to pump the blood. Therefore, the patient starts to develop high blood pressure.
Now you go to your doctor. He prescribes a drug. This drug will slow down your heart rate, or relax the blood vessels, or keep the heart from pumping as hard, or cause a dieresis (loss of fluid volume). However, none of these drugs address blood sludge.
The drug “works” for a while, the blood pressure is better. However, soon a higher dose is needed, then a stronger drug, then two drugs, then three drugs. Eventually the drugs don’t work well at all. Eventually, the patient has a stroke or a heart attack.
The reason this occurs is that the blood sludging problem was never addressed.
What causes the blood to sludge? One of the biggest culprits is too many minerals, especially minerals that are positively charged. Aluminum is a mineral that is found in many products that come in contact with your food supply, water supply and body products.
Look at a container of commercial table salt, you will see aluminum silicate listed as the number 2 or 3 ingredient. Baking powder contains this as well. Aluminum is also in antacids and deodorants. Food is packaged in aluminum foil and aluminum cans. People use aluminum pots and pans to cook. Aluminum is also used to purify drinking water, and residual aluminum can often be found in tap water. Conventional carbon filters and other types of filters do not remove this from the water.
As you can see, aluminum is ubiquitous, it is found everywhere. Only by paying close attention to it’s sources will you have any chance of avoiding it.
Many people take nutritional supplements these days. They are trying to do their best do stay healthy. They have read (or been told) that this mineral is “good for this” or that mineral is “good for that”. A few examples; “Zinc is good for colds”, “Selenium is good for your immune system”, Calcium is good for your bones”, “Copper is good for your blood vessels”, “Chromium is good for blood sugar control”. Calcium is probably the most abused mineral on the market. Remember, many high blood pressure drugs are calcium channel blockers. Calcium not only adds to electrolyte stress, but also can stimulate your sympathetic nervous system to cause vasoconstriction and rapid heart beats.
So should one supplement with minerals? Are they not good for all of these things?
Let me answer those questions this way. Yes, if you have low zinc levels, then supplementing with zinc is beneficial, if you have low selenium levels then supplementing with selenium will improve your immune system, et.
However, supplementation with excessive minerals above their nutritional level when you already have a sufficient amount can be very dangerous. This practice can add to the electrolyte load and further raise your blood pressure.
What should you do if you have high blood pressure?
Avoid all exposure to aluminum. No canned foods, canned beverages, cookware, commercial table salt, commercial baking powder, antacids, deodorants
Avoid taking minerals in dosages higher than nutritional dosages.
Drink spring water from a reliable source. This type of water contains healthy quantities of beneficial negatively charged minerals.
Drink large amounts of spring water (18-24 ounces) every morning before eating anything. This will allow your kidneys to flush out some of the crappy minerals in the there.
Optimize your nutrition in order to achieve metabolic balance and healthy weight.
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