Omega 3 for High blood pressure?

High Blood Pressure:

When the doctor takes your blood pressure, he or she get two reading, a high one and a low one. The first number is the systolic or contraction reading. The second is the diastolic or expanding one

A normal blood pressure reading is 120 over 80 (120/80) according to this reading when your blood pressure was 110/70 was on the low side.

Dr. Whitaker's Prescription for High Blood Pressure:

For Border to Mild Hypertension (140-160/90-104)

1. Do not take blood pressure lowering drugs.

2> Reduce weight if you are overweight.

3. Follow the Whitaker Wellness Program.

Most cases of high blood pressure can be brought under control through changes in diet and lifestyle. In fact, in head-to-head comparisons, many non - drug therapies, such as diet, exercise, and relation therapies, have proved superior to drugs in cases of borderline to mild hypertension.

The Natural Approach:

Attaining ideal body weight is perhaps the single most important recommendation to lower blood pressure. Specific dietary factors include a high sodium-to-potassium ratio; low-fiber, high-sugar diet; high saturated fat and low essential fatty acids intake; and a diet low in omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, magnesium, and vitamin C.

Some of the other important lifestyle factors that may lead to high blood pressure include coffee consumption, alcohol intake, lack of exercise, stress, and smoking.

Following the Whitaker Wellness Program provides the ideal dietary, lifestyle, and nutritional supplementation program to lower blood pressure. In fact, in most cases this is all that is needed to help you reach normal blood pressure.

For Moderate Hypertension (140-180/105-114)

1. As above.

2. Take two tablets of Rogenic (Enzymatic Therapy) three times daily

3. Take 30 to 100 milligrams of Coenzyme Q10 three times daily

4. Take an odor-free garlic preparation at a high enough dosage to provide 8 milligrams of allicin or an allicin yield of 4,000 micrograms per day

5. Follow these guidelines for three months. If blood pressure has not drooped below 140/105, you will need to work with a physician to select the most appropriate medication. If a prescription drug is necessary, calcium channel blocker or ACE inhibitors appear to be the safest.

Omega 3 is good for everybody.

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Fish oil (omega 3) thins your blood and that helps a bit for high BP but not a real lot.