Lowering Blood Pressure Without Pills

The most common reason for increasing blood pressure is – quite simply – increasing body weight. Being overweight does not necessarily lead to high blood pressure, but high blood pressure is a common “side effect” of being overweight.

High blood pressure is a widespread disease. Everyone knows people who  suffer from high blood pressure. Many are affected without even knowing it.

The doctor determines the high blood pressure, prescribes antihypertensive agents, the patient is left to fend for himself.

Doctors seldom inform their patients that the high blood pressure is in most cases homemade and can be lowered in the same way as it was raised: through one’s own behavior!

Of course, none of this is as easy as swallowing pills – but how useful is it to “dope” with chemicals every day when you can regulate your blood pressure naturally?

“Overpressure” from being overweight

The most common reason for blood pressure to rise is, quite simply, body weight increasing. Being overweight does not necessarily lead to high blood pressure, but high blood pressure is a common “side effect” of being overweight.

Since being overweight can result not only in high blood pressure, but also other diseases and health risks, it is more than sensible to reduce your body weight not only to lower your blood pressure.

In order not to cause additional harm to the body through unsuitable diets, one-sided diet and the resulting deficiencies, one should always seek the advice of a certified expert for weight loss.

Unfortunately, “FDH” also means “half of the vitamins and minerals” and is therefore not a suitable method for losing weight permanently and healthily.

When choosing a nutritionist, you should make sure that the sales of “powders and pills” are not in the foreground of the advice and that training is available that enables the costs to be partially reimbursed by the health insurance company.

As the body fat percentage falls, blood pressure should also fall and, in the best case, even return to normal. Regular check-ups with your family doctor to adjust the dosage of antihypertensive medication are important.

Exercise in everyday life against high blood pressure

Another very simple way to lower blood pressure is regular exercise.

This, too, leads to a long-term weight reduction, because more exercise increases the basal metabolic rate and if the additional exercise is not “balanced” by additional food, a classic digestive walk or an extended “walk” with the dog supports the weight reduction and thus lowers it the blood pressure.

Anyone who wants to do sports does even more for themselves and their health. Suitable sports for high blood pressure patients are those that involve moderate endurance: Nordic walking, swimming, cycling or cross-country skiing, for example.

Even a slightly different everyday life, which integrates more movement, works! Instead of cycling to the bakery by bike, leave the elevator and take the stairs or use little tricks to lengthen walking paths: How about a parking space at the very end of the supermarket parking lot, for example?

Often it is the little things that make a big difference in the end!

The salt from the soup

Salt is also commonly known as the “culprit” when it comes to high blood pressure. The studies on this subject are inconclusive, which is why it cannot be said with certainty that increased consumption of salt also increases blood pressure.

What is certain, however, is that reducing salt consumption can lower blood pressure. Instead of systematically adding salt to all dishes, it is a good idea, for example, to simply get rid of the salt shaker on the table.

In addition, low-salt dishes do not necessarily have to taste bland: If you use a lot of (fresh) herbs and spices instead of a lot of salt, a taste experience unfolds that makes salty food simply taste bland! And: taste is trained! Just educate your taste buds!

“Heart-healthy” wine?

Again and again one reads that red wine is “heart healthy”. Recent studies indicate that it is due to the red color of the grapes and not the wine itself. Alcohol can also increase blood pressure.

Conscious use of alcohol also helps to keep blood pressure under control and, if necessary, even to lower it. And the red grapes taste good even without alcohol!

Let go of stress!

Do not let yourself be stressed by high blood pressure, because stress can also lead to high blood pressure!

Work on reducing stress, restructure your everyday life, create moments in which you can switch off. And when that is also in the form of exercise or a walk in the fresh air, you are literally killing two birds with one stone!

So high blood pressure is not a disease that you have to indulge in, but mostly a disorder that you can regulate yourself.

However, you should always be accompanied by a doctor and never stop taking medication yourself or take lower doses.