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High Blood Pressure Supplements for Hypertension Herbal remedies and supplements for High Blood Pressure - lower hypertension with herbs for the heart One in four U.S. adults has high blood pressure, but because there are no symptoms, nearly one-third of these people don't know they have it. Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to stroke, heart attack, heart failure or kidney failure. The only way to tell if you have high blood pressure is to have your blood pressure checked. In a recent study, researchers studied 17 variables known to influence blood pressure such as age, gender, weight, salt intake and exercise. The people who ate diets rich in omega-3 fatty acids had slightly lower blood pressure, on average, than people who ate diets with less of the nutrient. According to Dr. Ueshima, the effect of each nutrient is apparently small but independent, so together they can add up to a substantial impact on blood pressure. If you can reduce blood pressure a few millimeters from eating less salt, losing a few pounds, avoiding heavy drinking, eating more vegetables, whole grains and fruits (for their fiber, minerals, vegetable protein and other nutrients) and getting more omega-3 fatty acids, then you've made a big difference. Blood pressure supplements and remedies are safe and effective for treatment and prevention. One of hypertension's most insidious characteristics is the rapid pace at which it develops and worsens, setting individuals up for heart disease and stroke. Rising blood pressure is not a linear process. It goes exponentially, and as blood vessels start to respond to higher pressure, they develop hypertrophy, which causes further aggravation of hypertension. High blood pressure is listed as a primary or contributing cause of death in about 277,000 American deaths per year. About 69 percent of people who have a first heart attack, 77 percent of those who have a first stroke, and 74 percent of patients with heart failure have blood pressure higher than 140/90 mmHg. High blood pressure is the most important risk factor for stroke. Very high pressure can cause a break in a weakened blood vessel, which then bleeds in the brain. This can cause a stroke. If a blood clot blocks one of the narrowed arteries, it can also cause a stroke. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack. The arteries bring oxygen-carrying blood to the heart muscle. If the heart cannot get enough oxygen, chest pain, also known as "angina," can occur. If the flow of blood is blocked, a heart attack results. The kidneys act as filters to rid the body of wastes. Over time, high blood pressure can narrow and thicken the blood vessels of the kidneys. The kidneys filter less fluid, and waste builds up in the blood. The kidneys may fail altogether. When this happens, medical treatment (dialysis) or a kidney transplant may be needed. As people get older, arteries throughout the body "harden," especially those in the heart, brain, and kidneys. High blood pressure is associated with these "stiffer" arteries. This, in turn, causes the heart and kidneys to work harder. Grape seed extract helps lower the blood pressure in patients who were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, according to a new study by researchers at University of California, Davis. The study found that intake of grape seed extract reduced both systolic pressure and diastolic pressure in the study participants shortly after ingestion. Metabolic syndrome refers to a cluster of risk factors for heart disease including high blood pressure, excess abdominal body weight, high blood cholesterol fats and high blood sugar. 40 percent of American adults, or 50 million people, are estimated to have metabolic syndrome. A diet high in potassium is protective against high blood pressure, cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Low levels of potassium are associated with high blood pressure. Eating foods high in potassium can be therapeutic for high blood pressure. Just eating a banana a day (400mg potassium) and drinking orange juice can help lower blood pressure. Other high potassium foods include milk, yogurt, peaches, catalopes and citrus fruit. A diet high in magnesium also helps lower blood pressure and keeps the heart healthy. Wheat germ is very good and can be sprinkled on breakfast cerals and added to casseroles. Peanuts, peanut butter, almonds, almond paste, cashews and pecans are also high in magnesium. This includes peanut butter. Eating fish once or twice a week, reducing trans fatty acids and subsituting olive oil for margarine and vegetable oil also helps lower blood pressure. Terminalia arjuna, the heart herb from India, lowers both blood pressure and cholesterol, improves circulation and helps with angina, ischemic heart disease and coronary artery disease. It strengthens heart muscles and helps prevent heart attacks. A native of India, the bark of the Arjuna tree has been used as a heart tonic in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years. It is incomprehensible why it is not prescribed by cardiologists, until you realize there is no profit in it for the pharmaceutical companies. Arjuna helps maintain a healthy heart and promotes effective cardiac function. It not only regulates blood pressure, but also lowers cholesterol. Arjuna is a powerful antioxidant and contains Co-enzyme Q-10 and protects the liver. Ayurvedic Blood Pressure Formula also contains: Rauwolfia serpentina Reserpine, an extract of Rauwolfia, combats high blood pressure, and is found in such prescription blood pressure medications as Diupres and Hydropres. Reserpine also combats irregular heartbeat and has a sedative effect. Ipomoea digitata A native of India, Ipomoea root acts as a diuretic and as a mild purgative. It is helpful for high blood pressure, the liver and spleen. It is found in many Ayurvedic formulas. It contains beta sitosterol, a fixed oil and a glycoside. The tuberous root contains resin. It is considered as a tonic, aphrodisiac, demulcent, lactagogue and cholagogue. Tribulus Terrestris It is a diuretic drug useful in urolithiasis, dysurea, impotence and kidney dysfunction. It has tonic and aphrodisiac properties. It is known to increase the quantity of semen and is useful in diseases of the genitourinary tract. The plant and seeds have spasmolytic and cardiotonic activity. Magnesium According to the US Office of Dietary Supplements, magnesium is needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body. It helps maintain normal muscle and nerve function, keeps heart rhythm steady, supports a healthy immune system, and keeps bones strong. Magnesium also helps regulate blood sugar levels, promotes normal blood pressure, and is known to be involved in energy metabolism and protein synthesis. There is an increased interest in the role of magnesium in preventing and managing disorders such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. 91-0 Ayurvedic Blood Pressure Formula 120 capsules $35.95 Advanced High Blood Pressure (HI-BP)  ADVANCED Blood Pressure Formula is so effective that your physician will probably lower or discontinue your medication. For those that are borderline, the results should be very positive. Advanced High Blood Pressure Ingredients: Cassia Seed (Jue Ming), Wild Chrysanthemum (Ju Hua), Uncaria Vine (Gou Teng), Dogbane Leaf (Luo Bu Ma), Gastrodia Rhizome (Tian Ma), Eucommia Bark (Du Zhong), Prunella Spike (Xia Ku), Hawthorne May Flower, Oatsprouts (In Milky Stage), Chrysanthemum Flower, Passion Flower (Incarnaja), Celery Seed Powder (Apium), Honeysuckle Flower (Jin Yin), Gotu Kola (Hydrocotyle), Rosemary (Rosmarinus) 51-2 Advanced Hi-BP 670mg 90 capsules $23.95 Hawthorn  For moderate hypertension, use of Hawthorn can support overall heart health by:
75-2 Hawthorn 550mg 100 capsules $11.95 Jiaogulan - Advanced Cholesterol & High Blood Pressure Formula  Take Jiaogulan (a Chinese herb). It lowers cholesterol and blood pressure and increases cardiac function. Jiaogulan improves the metabolism of the heart directly as well as enhancing the release of nitric oxide in the body, which helps to relax the coronary blood vessels. 44-6 Jiaogulan – Advanced Cholesterol 650mg 90 capsules $26.95 Vitamin D  As blood levels of vitamin D drop, blood pressure increases, according to findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). The current analysis from NHANES III, which was conducted between 1988 and 1994, involved 12,644 adults in the U.S. aged 20 years and older who had blood pressures recorded and vitamin D levels measured. As reported in the American Journal of Hypertension, Dr. Robert Scragg of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and colleagues found the lowest vitamin D levels in non-Hispanic blacks, followed by Mexican Americans, and then non-Hispanic whites. After accounting for age, gender, ethnicity, and physical activity, patients with the lowest vitamin D levels had blood pressures that were slightly higher than those with the highest levels. This relationship was strongest in subjects who were 50 years of age and older. Differences in vitamin D levels explained in, large part, why high blood pressure was more common in non-Hispanic blacks than in whites, the authors state. Vitamin D levels can easily, and cheaply, be increased by a modest increase in sun exposure or vitamin D supplementation. SOURCE: American Journal of Hypertension, July 2007. But like all medicines, the right dosage is critical to reaping the rewards that sunlight has to offer without suffering unwanted consequences. Holick's argument that controlled exposure to sunshine can have powerful health benefits stems from decades of research into the many roles played by Vitamin D in the body. The main source of this essential nutrient is neither food nor dietary supplement. It is sunshine. Vitamin D is made in the skin when it is exposed to the ultraviolet B rays in sunshine, and those from tanning machines. But the amount of Vitamin D formed in a given period of sun exposure depends on the color of that skin - that is, how rich the skin is in melanin, which blocks UV rays. The darker a person's skin, the longer he or she has to be in sun to form a significant amount of Vitamin D. A U.S. study showed that 42 percent of black women ages 15 to 49 were deficient in Vitamin D by the end of winter. A very dark-skinned person may need to spend up to 50 times as much time in the sun to make the same amount of Vitamin D as someone of Scandinavian descent. For the average black person, five to 10 times as much time in the sun will be needed. Another factor is where a person lives in relation to the equator. The farther away, the less intense one's exposure to UVB rays. This is undoubtedly why people in northern latitudes evolved with light skin, to enhance their ability to absorb UVB rays, and those near the equator evolved with dark skin, to limit that absorption to a desirable amount. For Vitamin D to perform its myriad biochemical roles in body cells, it must first be converted into an activated form, Vitamin D hormone. For years it was thought that this process took place only in the kidneys, which then sent tiny amounts of the hormone to the circulatory system for delivery to other tissues. But studies by Holick and others have shown that the cells in many different organs do not have to rely on the meager supply of Vitamin D hormone from the kidneys. Rather, cells in other tissues, including the prostate, breast, colon and immune system, are also able to convert Vitamin D into the active hormone. Vitamin D is critical to the formation and maintenance of normal bones. Even if people consume enough calcium, they cannot build and maintain bone mass if they are deficient in Vitamin D. One symptom of Vitamin D deficiency is pain and weakness in the muscles and bones. Based on that symptom, Holick has suggested that some disorders diagnosed as fibromyalgia may in fact be Vitamin D deficiency. Holick noted a recent resurgence of rickets in the United States, the combined result of exclusive breast-feeding (breast milk has almost no Vitamin D) and keeping babies out of the sun or slathered with sunscreen. A sunscreen with an SPF of 8 blocks 95 percent of the skin's ability to make Vitamin D, and an SPF of 15 blocks 99 percent. In the prostate, the Vitamin D hormone has been shown to be an inhibitor of abnormal cell growth, and cells in the colon and breast have similar mechanisms for using this hormone. A Scandinavian study linked low levels of Vitamin D in the blood to a risk of developing prostate cancer that is about 50 percent higher than it is for those with normal and high levels. And in eight years of research conducted in a Baltimore study of aging, experts found that those with low levels of circulating Vitamin D had a 50 percent greater risk of developing colon cancer than those with normal to high levels. William Grant of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported that people who worked outdoors or lived in sunny climates had lower death rates from cancers of the breast, colon, prostate, ovary, bladder, uterus, esophagus, rectum and stomach. The same applies to such autoimmune diseases as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, which is usually diagnosed in children and young adults. How much Vitamin D is enough? Although the official recommended amount ranges from 200 international units for infants to 600 for the elderly, Holick and other experts say 1,000 units a day are needed, an amount that few people consume through foods or supplements. Sunshine must fill in the gap. Increasingly, researchers are learning that Vitamin D is essential in maintaining health and preventing disease, not just during the crucial growing years of childhood, but throughout life. Recent studies show that Vitamin D insufficiency may even be, in one researcher's words, "an unrecognized epidemic" among both women and men who are middle aged and older. It is therefore wise to take a Vitamin D supplement from September through May each year in order to stay healthy and avoid disease and fractures. Researchers at the Department of Nutrition Science, University of Bonn, Germany, collected fasting blood samples from 54 congestive heart failure (CHF) patients over a period of five months. Their samples were compared to similar samples taken from a group of 34 healthy subjects that did not have CHF. An analysis of the samples revealed that the CHF patients had vitamin D levels significantly lower than the healthy group. In fact some in the CHF group had D levels that were only half of the average level found in the other group. Furthermore, those with the lowest vitamin D levels tended to have the most severe symptoms of CHF. A University of California, San Francisco, study that showed how sufficient levels of vitamin D may cut the risk of heart disease in older women by as much as one-third, primarily due to the ability of vitamin D to prevent the buildup of calcium deposits in the arteries. Ingredients: Vitamin A, Vitamin D. The vitamin content is entirely derived from natural fish liver oil. 87-8 A & D Vitamins 25,000/1000 IU 120 gel capsules $11.95 80-7 Multiple Vitamins & Minerals – 60 Tablets 60 Tablets $21.95 Take Magnesium twice a day. Taking magnesium everyday lowers blood pressure and protects your heart. 62-2 Magnesium 500mg + 100mg herbs 100 capsules $10.95 Take Omega-3 Fish Oil capsules daily. 62-1 Omega 3 Fish Oil Concentrate 1000mg 90 soft gel capsules $15.95 For moderate Hypertension (140-180/105-114) take CoEnzyme Q10. Hypertensive patients demonstrated a significant improvement while supplementing with CoQ10. Before treatment with CoQ10, most patients were taking from 1-5 cardiac medications. During the study, overall medication requirements dropped considerably: 43% stopped between 1-3 drugs. Typically, diastolic and systolic blood pressures drop by about 10% with CoQ10 therapy (Langsjoen et al. 1994; Lam 2001). 41-7 CO Q10 50mg 60 gel capsules $39.95 Taking 500 mg of Vitamin C daily reduced blood pressure in type 2 diabetics, in a new Irish study. After only a month, systolic pressure (the upper number) dropped ten points-down from 142 to 132 and diastolic pressure fell about five points. Further, the vitamin C reduced the stiffness of arteries and the aorta, making them more flexible and able to dilate and contract properly. Other studies find that taking 1000 mg vitamin C lowers blood pressure in non-diabetics also. 81-7 Vitamin C with Flavonoids 200 capsules $21.95 We have organized Superb Herbs Products into the following categories: Aromatherapy, Arthritis, Allergies, Cancer, Cholesterol, Cleansing, Eucalyptus Oil, Health Conditions, Herbal Formulas, High Blood Pressure, Menopause, Natural Medicine, Pet Medicine, Prostate, Sexual Vitality, Single Herbs, Vitamins, Weight Loss, and Women's Health. 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