Natural approaches to lowering high blood pressure can work better than drugs because you’re treating the underlying cause, and can end up having only good side effects. The number one killer in the United States and on the planet Earth is a bad diet. (That is why I’ve dedicated my life to the study of nutrition.) Killer #2 is high blood pressure. The reason it’s so deadly is that it increases your risk of dying from so many different diseases: heart disease and stroke, to heart and kidney failure.
We’re talking an exponential increase in risk of dying from a stroke as our pressures go up, starting from around 110 over 70, an exponential increase in the risk of dying from heart disease, again starting at a blood pressure of about 110/70. We used to consider a blood pressure as high as 175 to be normal––normal if you wanted to die from the normal diseases, like heart attack and stroke. A “normal” of 175 over 110 could put you at over a thousand percent higher risk of having you croak from a stroke compared to the ideal—not the normal, but the ideal, which is down around 110/70….