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A few tips about "Blood Pressure" Monitoring. If you buy or use a pharmacy blood pressure monitor you can discover for yourself which factors in your daily life (nutritional or emotional) may be contributing to your hypertension. Food allergies may also contribute to blood pressure fluctuations. Most cases of high blood pressure are labeled by doctors as being "essential" hypertension, meaning "without apparent cause." Most causes of essential hypertension, however, are either caused or aggravated by hidden allergies or sensitivities to common foods. Anyone whose high blood pressure does not respond to conventional treatments can usually bring it down to normal range within five days or less by fasting. In the eliminating of all food, the problematic foods causing the hypertension have been avoided, allowing the body to normalize itself. There are less drastic ways than a total fast to discover the food-hypertension connection. Some substances are more likely culprits than others (e.g., caffeine, sugar, tobacco, alcohol). These should be eliminated first. If blood pressure has not normalized itself within five days, then it is time to look for other offenders. That is where the home monitor comes in. Take your BP readings on rising, before each meal, and at one and two hour intervals after eating. Record the readings. If they increase significantly after certain meals, then look for common patterns in the foods eaten. Be prepared for some surprises. Many cases of hypertension are correlated with the consumption of oranges, wheat, and the nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, paprika, cayenne, chili, tobacco) – depending on your unique sensitivities. (For further details about food allergies consult "One’s Food is Another’s Poison, by David Rowland. Available from Rowland Publications or email: laara@vita-quest.com for your copy. The home blood pressure monitor is also useful for measuring low adrenal function. To perform the postural (orthostatic) blood pressure test, take your blood pressure at first while sitting down and then again immediately after standing up. Under normal circumstances, there should be an increase in systolic (maximum) blood pressure reading of from 4 to 10 mm. Hg standing as compared to sitting. If this test does not produce an increase in blood pressure, or if results in a drop, then low adrenal function is highly suspect. This test works because it is the adrenal hormones that cause blood pressure to overcompensate temporarily for a quick change in body position from sitting to standing. Without adequate adrenal hormones, there will either be no change in blood pressure or a drop. The greater the drop, the more seriously under functioning the adrenal glands are likely to be. | |||
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