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So some of you know I have high blood pressure and cholesterol. I was diagnosed with this last year and since have been trying to lower both naturally without medications. I have successfully lowered my cholesterol to a normal level through exercise, diet, changing the way I eat completely, etc. My blood pressure has lowered some, but I am still in the prehypertension state. I was wondering if anyone here knows of natural things to take that can lower it. I still take my omega 3's, I take my vitamins daily, I don't eat much junk anymore, I use more garlic now in my food (was told garlic helps), etc. But I want to make sure the numbers go back to normal. I'm only 23, I don't want to go on liver killing medications, I don't want to have to depend on those for the rest of my life to be so called "healthy". I found this one site in my search
http://www.levodyn.com/index.html so going to do my research on it, and might give it a go. Anyone else know of any natural supplements to take that work?
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Hi Anastasia,
You could try foods high in potassium. Bananas and such.
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=7541&pid=23638#pid23638
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Yea, I eat at least a banana every morning during breakfast, been doing that for a month or so now, someone at work suggested that as well. So far with healthy eating and exercise I've went from I believe 180/105 down to now I've been around 150/85 so alot better than it was, but I still want to get it in the normal range.
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Olive leaf extract.....750 to 1000 mg a day. Tons of info on it online for both blood pressure and cholesterol. It also works fast and drastic with the cholesterol from personal experience with hubby in that area.
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I think there are garlic capsules you can take as a supplement, they seem to help.
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Thanks for the info Mel, if I can lower both that would be great. Never heard of olive leaf extract in everything I've been researching thus far, so now it's time to research that. I know I'm a research junkie, I do it with everything, not just NBE.
Bibi, yea my mom told me about the capsules, but I thought maybe if I just added more than usual to my diet that would help, I love garlic in food anyway so didn't think it would hurt to try it.
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It's pretty incredible stuff. The meds the docs give lower cholesterol gradually, but this stuff works super fast. I know someone that had a triglycerides test come back in the 600's and went on a diet and took these and a week later he tested 150.
It's also supposed to be great at killing the flu bug, ect. so nice thing to have handy for many reasons.
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09-08-2011, 03:27
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Anastasia916.)
Isabelle, I currently take flaxseed oil, have for over 2 years now, but I think when I run out I'm going to get the fish oil, borage oil, and flaxseed oil combination one and try it since it has the omega 3, 6, and 9.
Mel, I went by the store this evening to pick up some things I was running low on, bananas was one of them, so I thought of what you said about olive leaf and went to see if walmart had it. They did so I picked that up and also got some garlic capsules, I do incorporate garlic into my diet, but maybe it's not enough, so hopefully adding the olive leaf and the garlic will help.
I checked my BP while there, at first it read 144/98 (I was almost in an accident recently and I think since then my BP has raised again). Well I bought the bananas ate one, walked around for a bit, then sat down and rested for a few min, took the BP again and it was 139/91 so a little bit better but not nearly where I was a few weeks ago, grrr. I think I'm going to buy a monitor to use at home soon, I saw some at walmart for around $40, electronic ones.
As far as supplements I take right now, I take:
Flaxseed Oil 1000mg 2 capsules daily
Biotin 5mg 1 capsule daily (mainly for hair, but also read it's good for BP)
Horsetail (natural silica) 500mg 1 capsule twice daily
Maca 500mg 1 capsule twice daily
Kelp 225mcg 1 tablet daily (I started this while on BO but read it's good for health in general and is good for circulation so have continued it since)
Multivitamin once daily
Collagen+C type 1&3 I take 3 tablets daily, it says to take 3 two times per day, but I find taking it once with 3 is sufficient.
I recently started taking UB again a week or so ago, consistently. So I take 1 tablet 3 times per day.
I was taking Extenze for women, one tablet daily, but only have 3 left and want to see how I can manage without it, so not gonna buy more yet.
I am now adding 1 garlic 1000mg capsule daily as well as olive leaf extract 150mg 1 daily.
So we'll see if these help and I'll report back in a couple of weeks on the BP side of things.
