How Do You Lower High Blood Pressure Without Using Medication?
• Avoid Salt (sodium). Sodium causes you to retain fluids, which makes your blood have more fluid volume. When your blood has more volume, your heart has to pump harder to move that excess volume throughout the body. This causes the blood pressure to go up. Remember, it’s not just the salt that you put on your food while cooking or at the table, it’s also the amount of sodium that’s in the food that you buy. You should become “label conscious” and buy “low sodium” foods. Preserved foods, tinned foods, bakery products and MSG, all tend to have sodium content. Many American diets include up to 5,000 milligrams of sodium daily which nearly all medical professionals consider extremely unhealthy. Medical professionals often prescribe LOW sodium diets that consist of between 1100 and 1500 milligrams daily. The American Heart Association advises that the human body actually can function with as little as only 200mg of sodium daily. If one can’t live without a “salty” flavor, there are multipl
