Participants: David DeRose MD (Host)
Series Code: LIF
Program Code: LIF000005A
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00:28 Welcome to "Lower Hypertension Naturally."
00:30 I'm Doctor David DeRose, a board-certified 00:32 specialist in internal and preventive medicine. 00:35 I'm also the president of Compass Health Consulting. 00:39 For today, I'm your host 00:42 as we look at a very important topic: 00:45 high blood pressure, also known as 00:48 hypertension. Just how important is it? Just 00:52 how many people are affected by what is really an epidemic 00:56 condition throughout the Western world? Hypertension affects 01:01 millions upon millions of people. 01:04 To give you an illustration, 01:05 let's look at what's happening in the United States. 01:08 If you look at individuals between the age 01:10 of 35 and 44, you'll find that 01:14 roughly 16 percent of them have high blood pressure. 01:18 As we get older, that percentage 01:21 continues to climb. By the time we're in our 60s, 01:25 roughly 60 percent of Americans have high blood pressure. 01:28 In our 70s, it's roughly 70 percent. These are huge numbers! 01:33 It's not just a problem that's confined to the US. 01:36 It is really a worldwide, or global, 01:40 problem. Let's look at high blood pressure in another way. 01:43 If we look at data from the United States, 01:47 high blood pressure is the single most common reason 01:51 for office visits and for the use of prescription drugs 01:55 That is, of course, if you exclude prenatal visits. 01:59 Can you see the problem? There are sweeping numbers 02:02 of people with high blood pressure. 02:04 The question is, since most of these 02:07 individuals have no symptoms, 02:10 why should we care? High blood pressure is extremely dangerous. 02:14 Over time, it takes a toll on the brain. 02:17 Maybe you've listened to my presentations 02:19 on brain health. Whether it's the 02:22 Brain Health Revolution, my 2-hour mini-series, 02:24 or an accompanying presentation to this series on 02:28 Improving Cognitive Performance, you'll hear me speak 02:31 about stroke and high blood pressure. 02:35 They are accomplices in robbing us of our cognitive performance. 02:42 Much more than that is involved when 02:44 it comes to high blood pressure. 02:46 Heart disease risk is dramatically increased. 02:48 The risk of having blood vessel problems like 02:52 aneurysm, which can cause a ballooning 02:54 of and a rupture in the blood vessel, 02:56 is increased with high blood pressure. 02:59 There are visual problems like blindness 03:01 from hypertensive renopathy, kidney failure. 03:05 High blood pressure is an accomplice with diabetes. 03:08 It destroys kidneys, putting people on dialysis. 03:11 The problems with high blood pressure are staggering. 03:15 The good news is this: controlling blood pressure 03:18 can halt the progression of 03:20 problems and can actually prevent 03:23 the complications of high blood pressure. 03:25 Whether it's stroke, kidney 03:26 problems, eye problems or heart disease, 03:29 treating high blood pressure is so very important. 03:33 The good news is this: high blood pressure 03:37 causes problems, but treating it can help. 03:41 Natural approaches are specially powerful 03:46 in dealing with high blood pressure. 03:48 Before we look at those, some of you are 03:49 no doubt wondering, "Well, how 03:51 high is too high when it comes to blood pressure?" 03:54 There's a lot of conflicting information out there. 03:56 Let me give you some simple concepts that 03:59 hopefully put this into perspective. 04:02 Before I go into too much detail, 04:05 I have a longer series called 04:07 Reversing Hypertension Naturally. It includes 04:11 about 5 hours of presentations. It's designed to be a community 04:15 presentation, a community program, to help people 04:19 in a group setting control their blood 04:20 pressure. Individuals can use it as well. 04:23 This is a distillation of some of the high points 04:26 of that program. What we're 04:27 giving you here, in this LifeStart 04:30 seminar, is something that can stand alone, 04:32 can help you have tools to control your blood pressure. 04:35 I'm also letting you know, if it seems 04:37 like we're flying through some of 04:39 this material too quickly, 04:40 we do have a series that looks at it in more detail. 04:44 With that mention, let me just 04:48 mention the Website that gives you 04:50 a host of these resources at your fingertips. 04:53 It's simply lifestartseminars.com. 04:55 Lifestartesminars.com 04:59 There's a number of free resources 05:00 there. First of all, you can get a 05:02 a transcript or a program guide for this program. 05:06 You can get information about my longer hypertension series, 05:09 as well as other resources that can help you. 05:12 We also have a free e-book that's available 05:15 at lifestartseminars.com. I'll tell you 05:17 a little bit more about that when 05:19 we talk about the natural treatment 05:21 of high blood pressure. Let's dive 05:23 back into our presentation now. 05:25 Remember, we're saying high blood 05:27 pressure can cause serious problems. 05:29 Treating it can prevent them. Natural treatment 05:33 is especially powerful. I want to give 05:35 you an idea now of how high is too 05:37 high. When should you be concerned? 05:38 What's interesting is, if you look at scientific data, 05:43 the evidence suggests that, if you are using natural 05:47 lifestyle strategies, the lower the blood pressure 05:51 the better in a healthy individual. What I mean is, 05:56 if you look at the data, getting 05:58 your pressure down to 110 systolic 06:01 or 70 diastolic clearly is better 06:05 than 120 over 80, even though everyone considers 06:08 all those numbers normal. Here's where the plot thickens. 06:13 Once you add drugs into the equation 06:16 you don't want to get your blood pressure 06:20 much lower than in the 130 systolic. 06:23 If you get the blood pressure lower than that with medication, 06:27 the side effects of the medication are worse 06:30 then the additional benefits of 06:32 getting your blood pressure lower 06:34 then around that 130-135 range. 06:37 If you have a unique situation (kidney failure), 06:40 and the nephrologist says, "I want to get your 06:43 blood pressure lower than that." I'm not 06:45 saying don't listen to the specialist. 06:46 I'm just saying on general grounds, with natural therapies, 06:50 getting the blood pressure lower is better. 06:53 As low as 110 over 70, the research suggests, 06:57 is beneficial. When it comes to treating 07:01 high blood pressure with drugs, many doctors today 07:06 are not putting people on medications 07:08 unless their blood pressure is consistently above 140 systolic 07:12 and/or 90 diastolic. 07:19 We've laid the groundwork there for you. 07:21 What I'm trying to help you see is something 07:24 very important. Lifestyle is the most powerful 07:28 approach to dealing with high blood pressure. 07:31 If you can get your blood pressure 07:33 lower with natural means, 07:35 you will put yourself in the best 07:37 position for decreasing your risk of 07:39 things like stroke and heart attack. What you're really 07:42 seeing is, although we've called 07:45 this Lower Hypertension Naturally, 07:47 this presentation might rightly be called 07:51 Optimize Your Blood Pressure. 07:55 You may not have hypertension, but if 07:57 you could get your blood pressure lower, 07:59 you could decrease your risk of problems still further. 08:03 I think this is very exciting news. 08:04 With that background, we want to launch into an approach 08:07 for dealing with high blood pressure. 08:09 If you've seen my series 08:11 Reversing Hypertension Naturally, 08:13 you know that I use a mnemonic memory device. 08:15 I walk people through a number of natural strategies. 08:18 That is, in my estimation, the most powerful 08:22 device for controlling high blood pressure. 08:25 It is a little bit more complicated 08:26 than what can be distilled in a 30-minute presentation, 08:30 like this one that I'm giving. 08:31 We're going to use another very powerful 08:34 memory device, a powerful mnemonic, a powerful paradigm 08:39 that we've found is of value 08:42 in dealing with a host of illnesses. 08:43 We simply call it LifeStart. 08:46 For this program, I want you to think in terms 08:48 of LifeStart. What does that mean? The "L" stands for 08:52 Liquids. The "I" stands for Interpersonal Relations. 08:57 The "F" stands for Foods. 09:00 The "E" stands for Exercise. 09:03 The "T" in LifeStart 09:07 is only entered into after getting to the "S." 09:11 I really can spell, as well as speak. 09:13 The "S" stands for Sunlight. 09:15 The "T" stands for Temperance. 09:19 The "A" stands for Air, 09:21 the "R" for Rest. 09:23 The "T" is for Trust in Divine Power. 09:26 I know I went through those quickly. We'll come back 09:28 to those elements. We'll give you some pointers 09:30 that can help you get your 09:32 blood pressure under control if its high, 09:34 or still higher than optimal. Let's say you're running 09:38 130 over 85, and the doctors says 09:40 you don't need to go on medication. 09:41 (By the way, I would agree with that assessment, If that's 09:44 consistently where your blood pressure is running.) 09:46 What I'm telling you in this presentation 09:48 is what the data shows. If you can get your 09:50 blood pressure down to 120 over 75, that's better 09:54 than running in the 130s over 80s. 09:57 If you want more information about 10:00 that LifeStart paradigm, 10:02 remember our Website, lifestartseminars.com. 10:08 Lifestartseminars.com. 10:09 A free e-book will walk you 10:11 through that LifeStart construct. 10:16 With that in mind, let's talk now about these 10:20 key lifestyle elements. I'm going to start right in order. 10:24 I'm going to start with the "L" for Liquids. 10:28 Why are liquids so important as we deal with blood pressure? 10:32 Many people are drinking beverages that are 10:36 actually contributing to high blood pressure. 10:38 One of those beverages, one of those 10:40 very popular beverage categories, 10:42 are alcoholic beverage. Drinking more than three drinks at a time 10:47 clearly raises blood pressure significantly. 10:50 I hear you saying, "Okay, Doctor DeRose, I've got it. 10:53 I'm going to keep my alcohol consumption to 10:57 less than two drinks at a time. That'll be really safe." 11:01 That's better, but even moderate drinking can be a problem. 11:06 Let me tell you some other reasons why. 11:08 If you are taking blood pressure medications, 11:11 alcoholic beverages can 11:13 interfere with the effectiveness 11:15 of many blood pressure medications. 11:17 They can also increase the side effects of many drugs. 11:23 One of the problems that drives high blood pressure is obesity. 11:27 If you're carrying extra weight, 11:29 alcohol has roughly twice as many 11:33 calories (gram for gram) as pure sugar. 11:36 That's right. Alcohol has 7 calories per gram. 11:40 Pure white sugar has 4 calories per gram. You do the math. 11:44 It's not quite double but almost, 4 versus 7. 11:48 Alcohol packs a powerful caloric load. If you drank water 11:54 every time you are tempted to reach for a beer 11:57 or an alcoholic beverage, do you see that could make a big 12:00 difference as far as your weight? 12:01 Furthermore, if you do have weight problems, 12:04 and you're consciously trying to control your 12:07 dietary habits, just drink a little bit of alcohol, 12:11 and you'll be much more likely to slip into the bad habits 12:14 that are contributing to your weight gain. 12:16 Alcohol is something that should be 12:18 off the list as far as beverages if you are trying to 12:22 optimize your blood pressure. You say, " Okay, Doctor DeRose, 12:25 you've taken away my alcoholic beverages, 12:27 but can I have my soft drinks? 12:30 Unfortunately, the research indicates that 12:33 soft drinks actually contribute to 12:37 high blood pressure through their effects on weight gain. 12:40 Soft drinks are one of the major drivers 12:44 of weight problems in the Western world, 12:47 especially those sugar-sweetened beverages. 12:50 Again, those are off the list as well. 12:55 You say, "well, what can I drink?" 12:57 Hopefully you see that I'm pointing you 13:00 in the direction of the optimal beverage, 13:02 which is water. You can get a huge amount of sugar 13:05 from those sweetened soft drinks. 13:09 You get a huge amount of alcohol from 13:10 alcoholic beverages. Both of those things 13:12 can contribute to weight gain. 13:14 They are indeed risk factors for 13:18 problems in the area of high blood pressure. 13:20 You say, "Well then, diet soft drinks. 13:23 No calories, Doctor DeRose." 13:25 A very interesting study, published not all that long ago, 13:29 looked at the connection between diet soft drinks and stroke. 13:34 This was a study that was conducted at 13:37 Columbia University in New York. 13:42 They studied some twenty 2,500 participants 13:46 in Manhattan (looking at a multi-ethnic sample). 13:49 Those individuals who drank more 13:52 diet soft drinks (in this case of this study, on a daily basis) 13:58 had a 40 percent increased risk 14:01 of having vascular events like heart attack, 14:04 stroke or death from a vascular episode. 14:09 The point is simply this: the answer is not 14:12 diet soft drinks. It's not caffeine, either. 14:16 Caffeine has been shown to raise blood pressure. 14:19 There was a fascinating study in 14:20 medical literature some years ago. 14:22 Let me just tell you the title. The title of the study was this: 14:36 This was an expert in the area of health, writing to his peers 14:43 physicians and other health researchers. 14:45 He was saying, guess what? 14:46 The relationship between caffeine (dietary caffeine 14:50 in amounts that people typically consume) 14:53 and blood pressure should be taken more seriously. 14:56 Caffeine does raise blood pressure. 15:00 It may not sound like huge numbers. 15:02 In this review, the researchers said it was 15:04 about 4 points systolic and 15:07 and 2 points diastolic is what caffeine 15:10 raises in a given individual's blood pressure. 15:13 You say, "4 points systolic--that's nothing." 15:15 When we talk about LifeStart, we're talking about 9 elements. 15:18 Those elements are combined together. When I talk about 15:22 Reversing Hypertension Naturally (in my longer series), 15:25 I give you some additional elements. The 15:27 point is not whether it's 9, whether 15:28 it's 10, whether it's 12 elements. If you 15:30 just lower your blood pressure a few 15:31 points, with each one, you can drop 15:33 your blood pressure significantly. 15:35 By the way, this is a great point 15:37 to stop and pause for a minute. 15:39 If you get serious about doing the 15:42 lifestyle things that I'm talking about 15:43 in this brief presentation, 15:45 you need to be in touch with your physician. Your medication 15:49 needs are going to decrease. You should 15:51 be checking your blood pressure regularly 15:54 if you're making changes. 15:55 Before you make any dramatic changes, talk with your doctor. 15:58 Let him or her know that you are 16:01 embarking on some lifestyle changes you heard about. 16:05 (You don't have to mention my name, Doctor DeRose.) 16:07 However, you're welcome to say you 16:09 heard from Doctor Derose, from others, or from 16:11 LifeStart Seminars, that you can lower 16:13 your blood pressure and you want to be more carefully monitored. 16:17 The bottom line is, we should be drinking more water. 16:19 If you want more information about that, 16:21 our LifeStart Seminars Website has 16:23 a lot a great resources, including a 16:26 series that I do called Longevity Plus. 16:28 This talks about drinking more water as being one of the things 16:32 that can lower our risk of a host of diseases. 16:35 We've just talked about liquids. 16:37 We've got still another 8 elements 16:38 in LifeStart I want to tell you 16:40 about that can help with your blood pressure. 16:42 The "I" stands for Interpersonal Relationships. 16:46 What we now know is that social support, social connectedness, 16:49 can actually help us lower our blood pressure. 16:52 A fascinating study from Switzerland 16:54 looked at 22 individuals with high blood pressure. 16:57 This was compared with 26 subjects 17:00 who had normal blood pressure. 17:02 What was found is, individuals that felt 17:04 they had lower levels of social support, 17:07 tended to have higher blood pressure. Did you catch this? 17:10 If you're not as connected with other people, 17:12 the research suggests you'll have higher blood pressure. 17:15 Let's stop right here. 17:16 The LifeStart Seminars are all about that. They're not 17:19 just about giving you good quality information. 17:21 They're about connecting you with other people. 17:23 Go to the lifestartseminars.com Website 17:28 and take a look. In your area, 17:31 there is likely to be a church, a business, a community group 17:35 offering the seminars. 17:37 I encourage you, if you're watching this online, to 17:39 make a point to go to some of the other presentations. 17:42 Other people will be attending, and 17:45 social support will actually help reinforce 17:48 the healthy blood pressure changes that you're following. 17:52 If you don't have a source of support 17:56 in your local area, connect with other people 18:00 through the lifestartseminars.com Website. 18:03 We actually have, in many parts of the country and 18:06 world, individuals who can actually 18:08 serve a coaching function. It doesn't mean they will come 18:11 to your house. Some of that may take place over the Internet 18:13 or over the phone. Connect with other people. 18:16 It's powerful, just like the Swiss researchers found. 18:19 The reason the connection was there, they said, 18:21 was likely because of stress hormone levels. 18:24 When you get social support, those 18:26 stress hormone levels go down. 18:28 This helps to lower blood pressure. 18:30 In fact, a very interesting insight was provided in the 18:33 very prestigious journal Nature in 2012. 18:37 Research actually found 18:38 that if you look at things like high blood pressure and obesity 18:42 (which is a risk factor for high blood pressure), 18:45 these things seem to be more related 18:47 to who we are connected with 18:49 (where we live, who our friends are). 18:51 The message from all of this is: connect with people 18:54 who will help support you on your lifestyle journey. 18:57 This is something that is being written 19:00 about in the literature as a reason 19:02 why we should focus on lifestyle coaching. 19:05 The medical research literature is 19:08 saying we need more lifestyle coaches. 19:10 This is one of the things on which 19:11 LifeStart Seminars is focused. 19:14 We've talked about liquids, we've talked about 19:16 interpersonal relationships. Let's move on to nutrition. 19:19 There's some key nutrition principles 19:21 that can help you lower your blood pressure for good. 19:24 One of them is eating more plant foods. 19:27 Second of all, if you're overweight, 19:29 get that caloric intake down 19:31 so you can drop some of that weight. 19:33 The third thing is to watch your sodium consumption 19:37 We don't have a lot of time to speak 19:38 about these things in detail. 19:40 Like I've said, I cover these in in ample detail in my series 19:45 Reversing Hypertension Naturally. 19:46 You don't need that series if you 19:48 can catch the points right here. 19:50 The first point is simply this: eat more plant products. 19:54 Here is the million dollar slide. 19:56 This slide has changed people's lives. 19:58 It comes from a a large data set involving nearly 90,000 people. 20:03 Look at it with me right here. This is looking at both 20:06 the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure. 20:09 Do you see what is being illustrated? 20:12 What they're showing you 20:13 is, as you move from left to right (going further right), 20:18 you are seeing individuals who are eating 20:21 progressively less in the way 20:24 of animal products. That dark blue bar 20:27 is representing individuals who are not vegetarians. 20:30 As you move just over to the right, 20:34 you can see the semi-vegetarians. 20:36 They're eating meat (red meat, fish, poultry) less than once 20:41 a week. They get benefit, they have less 20:44 likelihood of having high blood pressure and diabetes. 20:46 As you keep moving on to the pesco vegetarians, 20:49 they're using fish as well as many plant products. 20:54 Finally, at the the very end, the farthest most right bars in 20:58 both of these sets of data, are the 21:00 vegans (total vegetarians). 21:02 They have the lowest risk of 21:03 diabetes and high blood pressure. 21:05 From data like this, as well as 21:08 from what we call interventional studies 21:10 (like those reviewed by Doctors Bercow and Barnard), 21:13 over 80 scientific studies were published 21:17 in nutrition reviews back in 2005. 21:20 What they found consistently: eat less animal products, 21:24 more plant products and your blood pressure will go down. 21:28 Make fruits, grains and vegetables your friends. 21:32 You will get some tremendous benefits as far as lowering 21:36 blood pressure and doing it very significantly. 21:39 We need to hasten on to some of those other 21:41 dietary-related practices. 21:43 I mentioned to you losing weight. 21:46 We actually take quite a bit of time in the LifeStart series 21:51 talking about addictive behaviors, 21:52 talking about things that can help you 21:54 lose weight. We have a program on obesity and 21:58 controlling weight naturally. I really recommend that to you. 22:01 Again, lifestartseminars.com. 22:04 There's free resources, free 22:06 seminars. Take advantage of those. 22:08 I think if you're carrying those extra pounds, 22:11 if you're like many people, you're frustrated. 22:13 There's help available. We don't have time 22:15 to go into it in this presentation. 22:17 It is available through some of our other programs. 22:20 Let me just mention a little bit now about one other 22:22 dietary area, decreasing salt intake. Salt is actually driving 22:28 high blood pressure to a great extent in America. 22:31 It's true that not everyone is salt-sensitive. 22:33 We could decrease our salt intake, if 22:36 just by a half teaspoon a day. 22:38 Here's the data: the average American 22:40 is consuming one-and-a-half teaspoons of salt per day. 22:43 You say, "Well, that's not me, Doctor DeRose. I hardly use any 22:46 salt." Most of the salt we're consuming 22:48 is not with the salt shaker. It's not in a teaspoon. 22:52 It's in prepared, processed and restaurant foods. 22:56 That's where we're getting most of our salt. 22:58 The average person consumes 22:59 one-and-a-half teaspoons per day. 23:01 We could just cut that back by half a teaspoon. 23:03 Here's what research from the New England Journal 23:05 of Medicine said in 2010: if we could do that, 23:09 we would decrease our risk of strokes 23:12 and heart attacks, saving tens of thousands of lives each year. 23:16 We'd billions of dollars of health costs. 23:19 Salt seems like it's very inexpensive, 23:21 It is one of the most costly items in the American diet, 23:25 as far as the toll it is taking on our health. 23:28 Lose weight if you are overweight, 23:30 eat more plant foods. Cut down on the salt. 23:33 You will get some of the best of 23:36 what foods can offer for your blood pressure. 23:38 We need to move on now to speak about exercise. 23:41 Exercise has powerful blood pressure-lowering effects. 23:43 It's the fourth of those elements in LifeStart. 23:46 If you lose weight, that will lower your blood pressure. 23:50 Exercise alone will help drop your blood 23:53 pressure on average 4 to 6 points systolic, 23:56 and 3 points diastolic. For some people, 23:59 exercise alone can drop their blood pressure 15 points. 24:04 If you're not exercising regularly, 24:07 you need to do it. Get on a good exercise program. 24:10 It can make a huge difference in your blood pressure. 24:12 Remember to be talking with your doctor 24:14 if you're going to make big lifestyle changes. 24:17 It can make big changes in your blood pressure. 24:19 If you're on medicine, it's likely those medicines 24:22 will have to decrease or be discontinued. 24:24 There's something else you can do. It's 24:27 the next in our LifeStart elements--Sunshine. 24:29 Get ample sunshine, you'll make ample amounts of vitamin D. 24:34 Some of you, if you live far from 24:35 the equator, in the winter months 24:37 will have to take a vitamin D supplement 24:39 If there's any question, have your 24:41 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels checked. 24:43 Here's the message: vitamin D has 24:46 blood pressure-lowering effects. I've had patients with 24:49 high blood pressure. One of their problems 24:51 is they were vitamin D deficient. Get that 24:52 checked, get your vitamin D level up. 24:55 You'll get some of the best that sunshine has to offer. 24:58 We come now to the "T" in the LifeStart paradigm. 25:01 It refers to Temperance. 25:03 It's an ancient concept but a modern remedy. 25:06 It's simply, in a nutshell, 25:08 totally avoiding the things that are bad, 25:11 using things that are good in moderation. 25:14 One of those things I recommend 25:15 people with high blood pressure avoid 25:17 is what we call presser agents that raise blood pressure. 25:20 Of course we want to avoid that. One of the most common pressers 25:24 that most people take, unaware this 25:26 raises their blood pressure, are 25:28 those non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. 25:30 You don't know what I'm talking about? 25:32 I'm talking about aspirin. 25:33 I'm talking about ibuprofen. I'm talking about Naproxen. 25:37 Do you understand what I'm saying? 25:38 These drugs are taken so frequently 25:40 for arthritic problems and other issues 25:42 (menstrual problems). These tend to raise blood pressure. 25:46 Work with your doctor, see if you can get 25:48 off these medications. Many cardiologists are telling us 25:51 to get away from those drugs. 25:53 One exception of a pain reliever that does not have 25:56 this tendency is acetaminophen, like found in Tylenol. 25:59 So are natural things. 26:01 Natural things, like Omega-3 fats, can help control pain 26:05 and not raise blood pressure, but rather 26:08 lower it, if anything. 26:10 Tumeric, that natural herb, can help control pain 26:14 without having apparently any blood pressure-raising effects. 26:18 Another thing on our list-- Air. 26:22 Fresh air is so important. 26:23 Tobacco is one of the main things 26:25 robbing us of good quality air. 26:27 Tobacco will raise your blood 26:29 pressure significantly, as much as 25 points 26:33 from one cigarette. As much as 25 points. 26:37 This occurs within just a few minutes. 26:39 Don't dip, don't chew, 26:41 don't smoke. If you're concerned about your blood pressure, 26:44 you need to be off of the nicotine. 26:46 I know it's been a whirlwind tour. 26:49 Some love you are getting fatigued. 26:51 It's a good thing if you can go right to sleep after this. 26:53 If you've been cutting yourself short on sleep, that's 26:56 raising your blood pressure. Getting adequate rest 26:59 actually has blood pressure-lowering properties. 27:02 Don't forget it. 27:04 This brings us to our last element, 27:06 Trust in Divine Power. Did you know 27:09 many of us are raising our blood pressure with stress? 27:12 One of the best ways to control stress, 27:15 at least I found in my own experience, 27:17 is to realize that there is Someone 27:19 beyond me who's interested in my health, 27:21 interested in the things that I'm concerned about. 27:24 I can have better sleep, 27:26 I can lay my worries aside, because I've come to know 27:30 that there is a Creator that cares about me. 27:33 You may feel differently. 27:34 Let me just tell you, from someone who was once 27:37 an agnostic, look into it. Don't write God off 27:39 just because of all the nonsense that's out there, 27:42 misrepresenting God. I'm telling it to you straight. 27:45 I didn't believe in a god because of all the 27:47 ridiculous things religious people were telling me 27:50 years ago. That's a whole other subject. 27:53 Hopefully this LifeStart paradigm 27:55 has put some tools in your hands where 27:58 you can take control of your blood 27:59 pressure once and for all and do it naturally. 28:02 For more information, go to lifestartseminars.com 28:07 I'm doctor David DeRose, wishing you the very best, 28:10 as far as naturally controlling your blood pressure. |
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