High Blood Pressure, Causes, and Natural Remedies

High Blood Pressure, Causes, and Natural Remedies

By Clifford H Woods

As your blood circulates through the body, it presses up against the walls of the arteries. This force of pressure is referred to as blood pressure. When the pressure against the arterial walls becomes too high, these walls often become narrow or thicken and this adds an extra burden of stress on the heart.

Blood pressure may in some cases temporarily rise from stress, exercise or other emotions from joy to anger. But the pressure quickly returns to normal once the stressor has passed. But in many individuals, the blood pressure is high all the time.

Approximately 50 million Americans have high blood pressure or hypertension, with almost half of those over the age of 65. This disorder can cause very other serious conditions, such as stroke, heart disease, eye damage, diabetes, and kidney problems; so hypertension is considered one of the nation’s leading health problems.

Causes: it is believed by most doctors that the root causes deride from one of these:

1. Diet high in sugar, fat and/or salt
2. Alcohol or caffeine and any other stimulates
3. Obesity
4. Smoking
5. Inactivity
6. Pregnancy or birth control pills
7. Underlying medical disorders
8. Poisoning with heavy metal

There are natural remedies that may help any high blood pressure.
These include but not limited to:

• Hawthorne (Crataegus oxycanthae): this is an herbal medicine that dilates the artery walls and will decrease blood pressure. The berry is the part of the plant that is used and can be taken as a tincture, capsule, or tea. It is considered an excellent tonic for the heart but should not be mixed with any heart medications prescribed by your physician.
• Calcium and magnesium: these are minerals that have shown with studies to lower blood pressure. It is advised to take a combination of 500 mg of calcium and 250 mg of magnesium twice daily.
• Coenzyme Q10: studies show that this nutrient also reduces blood pressure when one takes 100 mg 2 to 3 times daily.
• Fish Oil: this is great for reducing blood pressure when taken on a long-term basis – this is usually 3000 mg 3 times each day.
• Garlic: several studies confirm garlic’s ability to lower blood pressure on a 600 mg twice-daily regimen of an aged garlic extract.
• Vitamin C: this has a mild effect with lowering of the blood pressure and also helps the body to detoxify any toxic metal, such as lead, which can contribute to high blood pressure. 1000 to 2000 mg or more daily is recommended – Vitamin C is water-soluble and the body does not store it.
• Potassium: this is a mineral that has been shown in many studies and tests to lower blood pressure. Use as part of a product that is a salt-substitute. Or else, use up to 2000 mg only under the management of a physician. Do not use potassium if you are taking any diuretic that is potassium sparing or have heart disease or kidney problems that are serious.

Other natural remedies include:

• Passionflower (Passiflora incarnate) this relaxes the nerves and is helpful for blood pressure that increases due to stress. Take 0.5 ml or 250 mg no more than 3 times daily.
• Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) very strong nerve relaxer nerve much like Valium and can lower blood pressure indirectly. Take 0.5 to 1.0 ml or 300 mg up to 3 times each day.
• Oatstraw (Avena sativa) and Chamomile (Matricaria recutita)are herbs for relaxing the nerves. They can be used as a tea throughout the day.
• Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) is extract and should be taken in 500 mg doses three times each day for a blood pressure-lowering effect.
• Dandelion leaf (Taraxacium officinale) works like a very gentle, natural diuretic that lowers blood pressure. Take 300 mg of capsule form or 2 ml up to three times daily.

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Effects of Heavy Metals and How Oral Chelation Can Help

Effects of Heavy Metals and How Oral Chelation Can Help

Clifford H Woods

Heavy Metals: Free radicals (tissue damaging molecules that cause aging and bodily deterioration) are the result of the ever-present toxins within our environment. Heavy metals are contained in these toxins and produce free radicals. They contribute to many health issues. From the moment, a person comes into the world he/she is exposed to said toxins, increasingly with the invention of new products using these threatening metals.

From the air to the materials we touch, there are harmful molecules everywhere. With age comes prolonged exposure to numerous, dangerous heavy metals, due to the natural environment or self-induced exposure (e.g., consumables or inhalants). Bone mass and muscle tissue can be extremely affected.

Adverse Effects of Heavy Metals: Effects of heavy metal toxicity range from the mildest of ailments to the most severe symptoms, even the onset of a complete neurological breakdown. We are exposed to heavy metals when we drink tap water or from the paint on our walls and fillings in our teeth. Although these may produce only low levels of exposure, small amounts accumulate within the entire body until it reaches dangerous levels, resulting in illnesses.

High levels of heavy metals, five or more times denser than water, such as lead, arsenic, mercury and aluminium can be extremely toxic. This, in turn, affects the peripheral and central nervous system, the colon, kidneys and liver, hormonal system, urinary system, cardiovascular health and even the skin.

Heart conditions and extreme stress due to heavy metals can be critical and are somewhat unpreventable with the daily exposures present. The impact of dangerous toxin levels on mental health can be detrimental, bringing on a loss of brain function or ‘craziness’. Circulation complications can surface and bring a vast array of health concerns. Heavy metals can be a highly threatening force within our body.

There is something that can reduce symptoms and detoxify the body, ridding the body tissue and organs of harmful and even deadly toxins… Oral Chelation!

Oral Chelation Can Help: As a revolutionary treatment; Oral Chelation offers an answer to adverse effects of heavy metals and, importantly, a prevention measure against the body’s toxic accumulation.
Oral Chelation is, in basic terms, a product that filters the body of harmful heavy metals, which is taken orally. Scientifically speaking, Oral Chelation removes toxic heavy metals.

Benefits: A flexible, administer anywhere therapy, Oral Chelation simultaneously replaces lost, necessary antioxidants and minerals whilst cleansing the body. This is an alternative to medical or surgical treatment, which offers ease of use.

Oral Chelation can help to stop and potentially reverse adverse effects of heavy metals. This method of cleansing is an inexpensive and non-intrusive, effective form of treatment which can provide people with a healthy body, regardless of surrounding potential health hazards and heavy metals. There are also the potential additional benefits of improved circulation; something people with cold feet will love!

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Headaches and Their Natural Remedies

Headaches and Their Natural Remedies 

By Clifford H Woods

Imagine starting your day early in the morning with some serious lack of sleep, your kids are screaming at the top of their lungs, you are navigating tumultuous traffic on every turn and corner and when you finally reach your office, you receive a sour note from your manager.


By this time, you feel like your head is about to fall off from the mind numbing and throbbing pain. These would be the typical reasons why most people experience headaches and migraines. Although it may sound common and simple that you can just take a couple of aspirin and a few hours of rest, there are different causes of headaches that you should know about.

One type of headache is called the tension headache. This is the one chronic type that most people experience. It has a nature of inducing dull pain while the site of the pain changes to different areas of the head. The head may feel as if it has a tightening sensation with a sense of tension, like wearing something heavy on top of the head. The person may experience nausea and vomiting. There are also tensions in the forehead and neck muscles.

To relieve this sort of pain, a massage would be a good idea, especially around the head and the neck area. Specifically, this kind of headache may either be caused by improper posture or positioning of the head, shoulder, neck, and ischemia which would result in somewhat continuous muscle contraction; may also be caused by excessive melancholy or anxiety with mental tension; or it can also possibly be a secondary symptom due to other pain within the body.

When it comes to migraines, it is a type of a throbbing headache that attacks recurrently. It is usually due to vasomotor dysfunction of extra-cranial and intra-cranial vessels. This condition may even be traced ahead of time by the family history of the patient. Most of the time, this is caused by women’s menstrual cycle, the intake of vasodilatation, hormonal or contraceptive drugs.

Environment-climate factors like drastic change of weather and sudden change of altitude; dietary habits and lifestyle like sleeping in late or intake of improper food selection.
Other factors such as work strain and anxiety; and physical stimulus of the outside world such air pollution or radiation exposure.

As you can see, migraines can have many different causes.

Everyone knows that it only takes a phone call to a family physician or a visit to the emergency room to ask for a prescribed medication to cure the throbbing and pounding pain. It may be the easiest way that most people know but you might end up waiting to be served by the emergency room since there are more urgent cases that need to be attended to.

The medications may also be quite costly and the side effects of some drugs can be gruesome! To save money and to avoid hospital crowds and the possible side effects of drugs, you may want to learn about the natural remedies that can soothe your headaches.

If you are experiencing headaches because of excessive tension, worries, food allergy or stress, you should apply an ice pack to your head, shoulders and neck. It would also help to drink water slowly since dehydration and heat may cause pain in the head. You can also soak or dampen a towel with ice-cold water and place them on your eyes for 10 minutes. If you want a massage, you can use peppermint oil for 15 minutes since it can soothe the nerves and revitalize ones energy levels.

For an ancient effective remedy, you can try acupressure or acupuncture; just make sure they use sterile techniques. A decrease flow of blood in the brain may cause pain, so apply a heating pad on your neck muscles.

As much as possible, take a break from work or studying and stay away from the computer or use anti-glare glasses. Relax, drink some tea, watch a short comedy film, and set up a lavender aromatherapy and get a sufficient amount of sleep so you can wake up feeling all rejuvenated. 
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Got Toxic?

By Clifford H Woods

Most households are full of toxic products that are quite hazardous to your health. These can be products that carcinogenic, and, and they are easy accessible to others in your homes. Disinfectants, air fresheners, and cleaners found beneath your kitchen sink are undeniably dangerous products, without you even giving them a serious thought. If you mix bleach with ammonia, you get a toxic fume cloud that was used by the military during World War I.


Teflon Cookware: Non-stick cookware – when these non-stick pans were introduced into American households in the 1960s, they were believed to be godsend. Gone were the days of soaking pans and scouring for hours with steel wool. But in 40 years, we have become knowledgeable on the ease of this cleaning comes at a steep price; the coating that makes non-stick in Teflon pans is “polytetrafluoroethylene” or PTFE for short. When this chemical gets hot, it gives off toxic gasses linked to many types of cancers and other health complications.

Use at Medium Heat:  the problems with PTFE-coated pots and pans happen at high temperatures, so if you have to use Teflon, cook foods on only medium heat or less. The best option is to simply avoid these non-stick pans completely.

Plastic Bottles: another problem is plastic bottles that have dangers of BPA and these BPA mimics the effects of certain hormones that can be harmful to your endocrine system. Most manufactures have switched to BPA-free plastic. Single-use plastic bottles are worse for leaching chemicals, particularly when they are left in a hot car or used in a microwave.

Oil for Plastic Bottles: every year, barrels of oil equaling one million barrels are used to manufacture the more than over 25 billion single-use plastic water bottles used in the U.S. Try to find a glass bottle or stainless steel bottle instead.


Oven and Store Cleaners: toxic chemicals in cleaners for all-purposes often contain ammonia, which is a strong oxidizer, and burns the eyes and the skin.  Another danger lies in cleaners for the oven, which can cause burns from chemicals and produce toxic fumes that are harmful to the respiratory system.  Each year 120,000 children beneath the age of 5 are involved in incidents containing household cleaners. 2006 was the most recent year for data on these toxic products.


Pest Control Products: other toxic products are those that kill pests. These all have ingredients that are harmful to humans. The active ingredient in Round Up weed killer is known to cause damage to the kidney and reproductive harm in mice. Raid, a common roach killer has cypermethrin that is known to be an irritant to skin, eyes, and respiratory system and also has negative effects on the central nervous system.

Chemical Fertilizers: toxic and harmful to health. They also are noted for causing destruction to local water supply and are a known contributor to algal blooms. When the yard is watered or it rains, the runoff goes into storm-drains and this untreated water is dumped into rivers, ocean, and streams. This creates an inequality in the delicate water ecosystem that can kill fish and degrade water quality. If you have a lawn, it is best to use organic fertilizers.

Compost Pile: another alternative to harsh chemicals is to start a compost pile to create nutrient rich soil for flowerbeds and vegetable gardens. This is your own inexpensive fertilizer that can be created by letting little food scraps and yard trimming set. This also helps to divert waste from landfills.

These are only a few of the toxic products that can damage your personal and environmental health in various manners.

Make an effort to get rid of them.

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Managing Diabetes

By Clifford H Woods

Your body needs glucose in order to get energy for cell and tissue function. Without energy, the cells do not function properly and the immune system is compromised. When your blood glucose levels are high, this could lead to Diabetes. The amount of glucose in blood it regulated by insulin. Insulin imbalances in your body cause this condition.

If the body does not synthesize enough of insulin, your cells do not get glucose that is required for energy. Similarly, if the body does not utilize insulin properly, this may lead to elevated levels of blood sugar. It is estimated that 25.8 million people both children and adults in United States suffer from this condition.

This is about 8.3 percent of the population in the country. There are other conditions, which manifest with increased glucose levels in blood. These include kidney problems, vision impairment, and nervous system complications. People with this condition exhibit symptoms like increased thirst, extreme hunger, frequent urination, and unexpected weight loss.

In addition, patients with the diseases may also show signs like fatigue due to low energy levels and impaired cellular function. Blurred vision and mild high blood pressure are other symptoms witnessed in patients with Diabetes type 1 and 2. Medical treatments, lifestyle changes, and natural remedies are ways in which patients can manage the disease.

Patients are advised to follow their treatment plans keenly and make changes in their lifestyle.

Healthy diet is essential and overweight people should try to lose weight as this can make a significant drop in blood sugar levels. A healthy diet should contain whole grains, vegetable, fruits, and legumes. Patients should limit the amount of saturated fats and use unsaturated fats, which may be obtained from olives, almonds, olive oil, and fatty fish. Exercise is also important when you are managing Diabetes, and the related conditions. Regular exercise prevents the conditions from occurring and for those already suffering the diseases, physical exercises keeps the body strong by enhancing cellular function.

Eating healthy diet not only helps in enhancing body metabolism but also keeps blood pressure and cholesterol under control.

Exercises like aerobics including cycling and dancing and resistant training such as weight lifting could help in regulating blood sugar. When aerobic exercises are combined with resistant training, the effects on reducing blood sugar are high than when only one type of exercise is done.

Obtain an exercise plan:. ask your doctor for advice about what kinds of exercise is for you. Your doctor may want to check the condition of your heart and feet before advising you and then recommend the correct balance of muscle-strengthening and aerobic exercise.

Exercise schedule: again ask your doctor about for advice on the best time of day for you to exercise so that your workout routine is coordinated with your meal and medication schedules.


Blood sugar levels: always ask your doctor what blood level sugars are good for you.

Keep a check your blood sugar levels: checking your blood sugar level before you exercise, as well as during and after is very important, especially if you take insulin or medications that lower blood sugar. The warning signs of low blood sugar can include feeling shaky, weak, confused, light-headed, irritable, anxious, tired or hungry.


Drink plenty of water while exercising: dehydration can affect blood sugar levels.


Always have food or your glucose pill with you during exercise: your blood sugar could drop too low and you may need to take a break, eat or take your pill and remember to wear a medical identification bracelet when you're working out. If you take insulin, you may need to adjust your insulin dose before any full on physical activities or wait a few hours to exercise after injecting insulin.

Always ask your doctor about the appropriate changes in your medication.

If a patient uses tobacco, quitting is the best option. Smoking increases the risk of getting other complications like heart attack, nerve damage, and kidney disease. A patient needs to reduce incidents, which could trigger stress. Stress management helps maintain low blood pressure and keeps the body immune system optimal.

Medications should be taken under strict supervision of a doctor.
A patient suffering from diabetes should have regular checkups of the blood glucose levels. This is important because it helps understand how the body is responding to treatment and when to take appropriate actions because of abnormal changes in blood sugar levels. This reduces the advancement of the condition to serious stages.

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Causes of High Cholesterol and Natural Remedies

By Clifford H Woods

The root causes of High Cholesterol is said to consist of:

• Diet that is poor, especially one high in cholesterol, saturated fats and refined carbohydrates
• Family tendency to high cholesterol
• Insulin resistance diabetes
• Hypothyroidism
• Stress
• Inactivity

You are most likely to have cholesterol that is high and that can lead to heart disease if you have any of these risk factors:

1. Smoking: Cigarette smoking causes damage to the walls of the blood vessels, making them much more likely to accumulate deposits of fat on the walls of the vessels.
2. Obesity: Those that have a BMI or body mass index of 30 or more makes the person at more risk of having raised cholesterol.
3. Diet is poor: Foods high in cholesterol, such as like dairy products that are full fat and red meat, increase the overall amount of cholesterol. Eating saturated fat in animal products and trans-fats, found in many commercially baked crackers and cookies also raises the cholesterol level.
4. Little Exercise: Exercise helps to boost the body’s HDL which is the good cholesterol while lowering the LDL or bad cholesterol. Getting very little exercise puts a person at a much higher risk of high cholesterol.
5. Hypertension or High Blood Pressure: When pressure is increased on the artery walls it damages the arteries, which may speed the buildup of deposits that are fatty.
6. Diabetes: Sugar or glucose levels that are high add to the level of higher LDL cholesterol and also lowers HDL cholesterol. High blood sugar or glucose also causes damage to the lining of the walls of the arteries.
7. History of heart disease in family: If a sibling or a parent develops heart disease before the age of 55, levels of high cholesterol can put other members of that family at a larger than average threat of also developing heart disease.

There are many natural remedies for controlling high cholesterol and seven of them are listed here.

Policosanol (is a natural extract from plant waxes): Studies have shown that policosanol decreases total as well as LDL cholesterol, lipoprotein, and raises the good HDL cholesterol. It is normally recommended that one take 10 to 20 mg each evening.

Red Yeast Rice (Monascus Purpureus): When taken at 1,200 mg 2 times daily. This is an extract that has been proven to decrease cholesterol levels and raise HDL. This type of product used in successful studies contained 10 to 13.5 mg of monacolins per day. The recommendation is that one needs take, daily, 100 mg of CoQ10 when using monacolins.
Garlic (Allium sativum): Take up to 500 mg of aged garlic twice daily. It lowers cholesterol levels and increases HDL cholesterol.

Niacin (inositol hexabniacinate, or IP6): Take up to 3000 mg daily of this no-flush form. It lessens cholesterol levels as well asraises HDL cholesterol.

Fish oil: Daily take a dose of a fish oil product that contains 480 mg of EPA and 360 mg of DHA. Fish oil decreases artery inflammation and lowers triglyceride and cholesterol levels.

Guggul (Commiphora mukul): Take daily a total of 1500 mg consistent to 5 percent guggulsterone which is equivalent to 75 mg of guggulsterones. Guggul is an Ayurvedic herb that drops cholesterol levels and raises HDL.

Antioxidant formula: Take a compound of antioxidants or a multivitamin as instructions on the container direct. Several of these antioxidants prevent the oxidation of cholesterol.

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Calcium and Bone Health

Calcium and Bone Health

By Clifford H Woods

Calcium is a mineral needed for strong teeth and bone health. It is also important in the growth of young adults and children.  The absorption of calcium as well as vitamin D, and the creation of bone reach a peak around twenty years of age.  It begins to decrease from the age of thirty when a process of draining begins.

Good intake of calcium and vitamin D increases bone mass in children and young adults, as well as decreases bone loss and improves bone health among people over 30.

Research has shown that calcium benefits by having slimming effect on the metabolism and could be important as an element of weight loss.  This research has also shown that calcium prevents weight gain by promoting the type of fat that is burned instead of the type that is stored.

Experts advise 3 servings a day as well as decreasing calories in other areas of the diet that will accommodate this increase in daily intake. Milk has also shown added calcium benefits by its antioxidant-rich properties that can prevent some cancers, such as ovarian, colorectal and breast cancer.

However, studies have also shown that extreme doses of calcium might increase the risk of some cancers as well.  This suggests that calcium supplementation is not a way to prevent cancer, but adequate intake of calcium through diet is recommended instead.

There is research suggesting that adequate intake of calcium benefits by reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease as well as hypertension.  Although 99 percent of calcium goes to the health of teeth and bones, the remaining 1 percent shows the tendency to play a role in the functioning of muscles and nerve transmission.

Deficiency in calcium can cause problems with the heart as well as high blood pressure, but so can too much calcium; so, expert suggests that the source of calcium for health needs should come from calcium-rich food and not supplementation.

Vitamin D is vital in helping the body use calcium from the diet and research also indicates the benefits of vitamin D in fighting various other health difficulties.  Low levels of vitamin D in blood have been linked with heightened risk of heart diseases and memory issues in older adults, with asthma and cancer in kids.

Research shows that vitamin D plays a part in the prevention and treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes as well as high blood pressure.

Natural sources of vitamin D and calcium for bone health also come from the sun, but spending much time in the sun currently is bad for the skin, so vitamin D and calcium benefits are both best received through several natural food sources such as some fish, egg yolks, fish liver oils, grain products and dairy that is fortified.

Experts believe that research is showing that both calcium and vitamin D are important in areas of health.

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