ABSTRACT

Controlling High Blood Pressure through Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Lifestyle, and Drugs helps prevent and treat high blood pressure and hypertension, the most common primary diagnosis in the United States and a leading cause of heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, and stroke.

Written by two leading experts in nutrition and hypertension, it takes an integrative and evidence-based approach based on scientific research and clinical studies. It explains what causes high blood pressure and includes easy-to-follow solutions for patients that help to treat and prevent it. These include:

  • The ideal drugs to reduce blood pressure with fewest side effects and optimal efficacy
  • A nutrition program to reduce weight and lower the risk of a cardiovascular problem
  • A comprehensive review of nutritional supplements to improve blood pressure control and reduce cardiovascular disease
  • A review of lifestyle changes to improve blood pressure such as a detailed exercise program.

This book is for doctors, nutritionists, naturopaths, pharmacists and other health practitioners as well as anyone with a family history of hypertension or overt blood pressure issues that would like to make better and healthier lifestyle choices.

chapter

Introduction

chapter 3|16 pages

What Is Hypertension and How Is It Measured?

A Symptomless Disease

chapter 5|8 pages

The Three Finite Vascular Responses That Cause Hypertension

Inflammation, Oxidative stress, and Vascular Immune Dysfunction

chapter 8|16 pages

How Does Excess Blood Pressure Harm Us?

Cardiovascular Diseases and Hypertension

chapter 10|6 pages

Genes, Gene Expression, Environment, and Hypertension

What You Can Expect When Your Blood Pressure Is Reduced

chapter 13|20 pages

Beyond The Dash I and Dash II Diets

chapter 14|30 pages

Putting Nutrition to Work to Lower Your Blood Pressure

The Practical Steps and Solutions

chapter 16|36 pages

Life Style Changes and Blood Pressure

Non-pharmacologic (Drug) Treatment of High Blood Pressure

chapter 18|2 pages

Workbook

What is Your Risk for Hypertension?

chapter 19|2 pages

Grand Summary and Conclusions

chapter |2 pages

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