Introduction

The use of nutrition as a tool to support body healing is as old as human history itself.

Since the advent of modern medicine in the past 100 years, modern society has rushed to this newfound method of "quick fixes" which are supposed to cure disease painlessly via pills.  It is quite amazing how the public at large quickly abandon what has been in the norm for 5000 years.

After 100 years of modern medicine, the number of people suffering, from chronic age-related degenerative diseases, continues to skyrocket despite the best medical effort.  Modern medicine has utterly failed to cure chronic degenerative diseases.

Why? Let us consider the following:

1. High Blood Pressure

Myth:  Too much fluid in the blood vessel causes high blood pressure.

Traditional Treatment: Remove excess fluid by diuretics is often the first line of treatment. This is augmented with vasodilators. Amazingly most people believe this distorted explanation without question.

Discussion: More than 43 million Americans have high blood pressure (hypertension), but less than one third of them have achieved targeted levels of blood pressure with medications.  Even among the 23.4 million who take antihypertensive medications, only 42.9% of these patients actually get their blood pressure down to acceptable levels.  This was reported in the Meeting of the American Society of Hypertension (May 2000).

Fact: One of the primary causes of the high blood pressure is the loss of fluids.  The fewer the  fluids in the body, the more the blood vessels constrict in an auto regulatory attempt to increase the pressure so that valuable blood flow and oxygen is delivered to the brain and various parts of the body. Diuretics increase dehydration. They make you lose more water, and  promote a vicious cycle of increasing blood vessel constriction which in turn higher blood pressure still exists.  In other words, high blood pressure is often a symptom of dehydration.

Nutritional Solution: Drink more water!  By adding more water to the system, the heart won't be so desperate to hang onto both sodium and water.  Increased blood volume also makes the blood more dilute.  With increase blood flow, the negative feedback system kicks in to dilate the blood vessels and open them up wider, resulting in the lowering of blood pressure.  Such a simple method consistently lowers blood pressure on a long-term basis.  My natural  Hypertension Protocol is very effective in supporting normal blood pressure.