Normal is what is right for an individual, or what
is common or appropriate for each particular person.
What the medical profession does is make the average
normal. They measure a bunch of people’s blood pressure, divide
the added totals by the number of people they measured, and come
up with an average blood pressure. And then they say this is the
normal blood pressure for everyone.
I will let you in on a little secret. If you had
the blood pressure I have at this exact moment, you would probably
pass out. If you had the same blood pressure standing as you did
sitting, you would probably pass out. Your blood pressure changes
all the time, all day long. Your normal blood pressure needs to
be different than everyone else’s. You need the right blood
pressure for you at the right time. If you had the average blood
pressure all the time, you probably would be dead by now.
So what do you do with this? Take all the numbers
the doctors give you with "a grain of salt." Just because
their charts show that you “should be” in this range
does not mean you actually should. You are different than everyone
else. Your normal might be outside of the range of average that
they go by and still be perfectly healthy for you.
So your “high blood pressure” might
very well be normal for you. And if it is actually too high for
your normal, salt really has nothing to do with it.
Again the medical profession came up with a theory
and never really tested it before they released it as “truth”
on the world. Someone said that salt attracts water, and blood has
water in it. So if you get rid of some of the salt in the blood,
then there will be less water in the blood as well. And if there
is less volume of blood, the pressure will have to be less. That
was their theory and they began telling people to eat less salt
thinking it would lower people’s blood pressure. No real tests,
no real studies, and yet believed to be true by many.
Here is the real proof it is garbage. Try and find
one person whose blood pressure decreased because they quit eating
salt. You will be very hard pressed to find one person. Because
eating less salt does not lower your blood pressure. Just like a
Diuretic, medications that cause you to release more water than
your body wants to from your blood through your kidneys, is often
prescribed to attempt to help lower blood pressure. And again, I
dare you to try and find people who this has helped.
You see, the body is so much smarter than we are.
Many more internal factors go into what your blood pressure is than
how much water you have in your blood. Your Blood pressure is a
function of your blood vessels, the stuff in your blood, the muscles
in and around your blood vessels, your heart, and so much more.
If you force water out of the body, your body will compensate in
other ways to keep your pressure at your unique normal. Your body
knows best where your blood pressure should be. And until you change
one or some of the internal factors (and medications do not count)
your body will do everything in its power to keep things where they
are at.
Want something that is free and easy that decreases
the blood pressure significantly for many people who actually do
it? Drink Water. It often is as simple as that and here is a perfect
example of why. Imagine some really thick ketchup and trying to
suck it through a straw. Versus if you put a bunch of water in the
ketchup and mix it up and suck the ketchup through the straw. Does
it take more or less pressure to suck the watered down ketchup through
a straw? It takes less pressure. Similar with your blood. If your
blood is thick and sludgy because you are dehydrated, your body
will increase your pressure to force the blood through the little
itty-bitty vessels and capillaries.
Actually, your blood pressure is more than this.
And drinking water does so much more than make your blood thinner
so it flows through the vessels easier. Whatever the reasons, drinking
water often lowers people’s blood pressure.
