How To Reduce High Blood Pressure

How To Reduce High Blood Pressure. Healthy habits can help reduce high blood pressure. Healthy habits include:

    * Following a healthy eating plan
    * Doing enough physical activity
    * Maintaining a healthy weight
    * Quitting smoking
    * Managing your stress and learning to cope with stress

If you combine these measures, you can achieve even better results  than taking single steps to help reduce high blood pressure. Making lifestyle changes can be hard. Start by making one healthy lifestyle change and then adopt others.

If your doctor prescribes medicines as a part of your treatment plan or you take natural remedies for high blood pressure keep up your healthy habits.

Hawthorn is perhaps the best known botanical herb used for blood pressure control -  Studies have demonstrated that hawthorn extract is effective in reducing high blood pressure and in improving heart function.

Passionflower helps reduce high blood pressure and is a mild sedative - The antispasmodic, anti-anxiety and hypotensive (blood pressure lowering) actions of passionflower leaves were clinically validated in the early 1980’s. Also,  because prolonged stress or anxiety can lead to high blood pressure, passionflower is an effective treatment to calm nerves and the brain.

In Europe, passionflower is added to many pharmaceutical formulas for anxiety, heart palpitations, high blood pressure and nervous disorders.

Beetroot Juice  - Researchers have found that beetroot juice can help reduce high blood pressure. Fourteen volunteers who drank half a litre of beetroot juice saw their blood pressure drop by 10 points within hours.  Apparently, the nitrate in beetroot makes blood vessels dilate and increases blood flow.

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