Where ever I talk about, or read about high blood pressure I hear good stories like this one. More than two years ago I had a blood pressure of 159/85 fairly consistently. I wouldn't take medication and told the last ANRP that I planned to get healthy. She insisted I take medication like she gets season tickets to "Off Broadway " from her drug rep. I decided to quit drinking alcohol because I couldn't sleep well. Three months after quitting drinking alcohol my blood pressure was 127/80. It has stayed there since then. I quit drinking 2 years and 10 months ago. I also told this story to one of our lab technicians and she said when her husband quit drinking alcohol he ended up in the hospital because his blood pressure was too low. He still takes blood pressure medication but not nearly as much as before he quit drinking. NO ONE talks about this including you. The reasons are obvious. Most people don't want to quit drinking.
Thank you for pointing out this connection. I’ll remember your story when I’m talking with clients.
You’re right I haven’t talked about it much. When I quit binge eating I also nearly quit alcohol too, without even trying. A glass of wine every month or so. I’m lucky, I just didn’t want alcohol.
Quitting drinking does so many good things for you. It’s literally a poison that your body has to deal with first before you can take care of anything else. So anything a person eats gets turned into fat and the insulin sensitivity takes a big hit. You pump out extra insulin. Between the poison of the alcohol and the insulin level, the body gets inflamed. That doesn’t even take into account what’s going on at the liver or other areas of the body.
I understand. I used to be dead set against the idea. And I fully believe that fasting is the best way to control the problem.
Unfortunately, there are many people who will never find it in themselves to follow through. So they will get heart disease or another illness and die young. We don’t know their situation and struggle. How can we tell them not to use a drug that will potentially give them an extra 10 years of life?
A lot of todays ailments that are prescribed medications for can all lead back to metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance. Change what we eat and we change our life.
Medication should be our last option. It`s easy to hate big pharma, but there are circumstances when people are dependent on it. So it`s good medication to lower blood pressure exists.
What is wrong with the system is to present medication as the only option. Doctors should ask their patients how much of a change to their lifestyle they are willing to take before blindly prescribing medication. We, as coaches, can assist the process of making lasting lifestyle changes.
The medication can get you out of a bind, but how about we treat it as a stop-gap measure that we plan on getting off of in a planned time period? If your doctor put it forth like “let’s try this, and I’ll help you get healthy again so we can cut back the pills in six months.” But your doctor doesn’t expect you to EVER get healthy, and besides, that’s a lot of work so why bother? Just take the pills and go away please.
I loved how you let your blood vessels do the talking: YOUR BODY: “What, the blood can’t get through? I’ll just dial up that pressure until it FORCES its way through. Yeah, that’s gonna cause some damage, but what else can I do? I’ll fix the damage when I got time. If that clown ever starts taking care of us…
The reason I wrote this one is because I've had several conversations where people were shocked and disbelieving that high blood pressure could ever go away. They've been programmed to believe that medication is the only way.
Many years ago I watched the Biggest Loser show and many of those folks got their health back and were able to get off the medication. I have several in my own family who eat whatever and keep taking the pills. I have seen reactions to blood pressure medicine where their faces were so swollen. Scary stuff!
Great piece. I do struggle with hypertension too but between the meds and losing a lot of weight and cleaning up my diet it’s better. Not perfect but better because sadly genetics are playing a role in that too. But all I can do is my best.
I know you have had a long journey with this stuff. People that haven't struggled with the weight don't know how much of an impossible obstacle it really is. Glad you are finding a way to deal with it.
Great article Tim✅ it’s so important to understand what good nutrition is.
My personal story is wrapped around food. Being a vegetarian for 10 years and eating far too much wheat-based pasta threw my thyroid out.
I started back on eggs, chicken and ground beef. But when I later tried a modified paleo, (butter, cheese, creamer, which paleo diet excluded)I no longer needed thyroid medication. And never felt better.
Recently, I came across this book about whole food diet and safe starches:
By getting off of processed foods and diet soda, my husband lost 50 pounds and no longer required high blood pressure medication. And he’s been holding steady for 4 years!!!
Thank you for bringing awareness that we are being pushed to eat chemicals instead of food.🙏
Another note, unhealed emotional distress also contributes to high blood pressure and can be healed with Pranic Healing along with loving kindness and forgiveness.
Great article Tim✅ it’s so important to understand what good nutrition is.
My personal story is wrapped around food. Being a vegetarian for 10 years and eating far too much wheat-based pasta threw my thyroid out.
I started back on eggs, chicken and ground beef. But when I later tried a modified paleo, (butter, cheese, creamer, which paleo diet excluded)I no longer needed thyroid medication. And never felt better.
Recently, I came across this book about whole food diet and safe starches:
By getting off of processed foods and diet soda, my husband lost 50 pounds and no longer required high blood pressure medication. And he’s been holding steady for 4 years!!!
Thank you for bringing awareness that we are being pushed to eat chemicals instead of food.🙏
Another note, unhealed emotional distress also contributes to high blood pressure and can be healed with Pranic Healing along with loving kindness and forgiveness.
Where ever I talk about, or read about high blood pressure I hear good stories like this one. More than two years ago I had a blood pressure of 159/85 fairly consistently. I wouldn't take medication and told the last ANRP that I planned to get healthy. She insisted I take medication like she gets season tickets to "Off Broadway " from her drug rep. I decided to quit drinking alcohol because I couldn't sleep well. Three months after quitting drinking alcohol my blood pressure was 127/80. It has stayed there since then. I quit drinking 2 years and 10 months ago. I also told this story to one of our lab technicians and she said when her husband quit drinking alcohol he ended up in the hospital because his blood pressure was too low. He still takes blood pressure medication but not nearly as much as before he quit drinking. NO ONE talks about this including you. The reasons are obvious. Most people don't want to quit drinking.
Blessings!
Thank you for pointing out this connection. I’ll remember your story when I’m talking with clients.
You’re right I haven’t talked about it much. When I quit binge eating I also nearly quit alcohol too, without even trying. A glass of wine every month or so. I’m lucky, I just didn’t want alcohol.
Quitting drinking does so many good things for you. It’s literally a poison that your body has to deal with first before you can take care of anything else. So anything a person eats gets turned into fat and the insulin sensitivity takes a big hit. You pump out extra insulin. Between the poison of the alcohol and the insulin level, the body gets inflamed. That doesn’t even take into account what’s going on at the liver or other areas of the body.
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I stop reading when you recommended Ozempic.
I understand. I used to be dead set against the idea. And I fully believe that fasting is the best way to control the problem.
Unfortunately, there are many people who will never find it in themselves to follow through. So they will get heart disease or another illness and die young. We don’t know their situation and struggle. How can we tell them not to use a drug that will potentially give them an extra 10 years of life?
A lot of todays ailments that are prescribed medications for can all lead back to metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance. Change what we eat and we change our life.
It seems so crazy that we find ourselves in this position though. It’s like a bad sci fi movie.
Such an important message!!!
I just want people to think about medications a bit before they blindly take them. We should be more involved in our health than that.
I am all about preventative… trying to never even need to think about medication.
Medication should be our last option. It`s easy to hate big pharma, but there are circumstances when people are dependent on it. So it`s good medication to lower blood pressure exists.
What is wrong with the system is to present medication as the only option. Doctors should ask their patients how much of a change to their lifestyle they are willing to take before blindly prescribing medication. We, as coaches, can assist the process of making lasting lifestyle changes.
Great article, Tim!
You summed it up nicely in your comment.
The medication can get you out of a bind, but how about we treat it as a stop-gap measure that we plan on getting off of in a planned time period? If your doctor put it forth like “let’s try this, and I’ll help you get healthy again so we can cut back the pills in six months.” But your doctor doesn’t expect you to EVER get healthy, and besides, that’s a lot of work so why bother? Just take the pills and go away please.
Hey Tim,
I loved how you let your blood vessels do the talking: YOUR BODY: “What, the blood can’t get through? I’ll just dial up that pressure until it FORCES its way through. Yeah, that’s gonna cause some damage, but what else can I do? I’ll fix the damage when I got time. If that clown ever starts taking care of us…
Thanks! I always wonder when we decide to tinker with what our bodies are doing, if we really understand the consequences downstream.
Very interesting about blood pressure medicine. It’s so much easier to prevent than managing a lifestyle disease.
Yes, I agree. But it only took me a few months to get mine back down to healthy levels.
That’s an awesome success story!
The reason I wrote this one is because I've had several conversations where people were shocked and disbelieving that high blood pressure could ever go away. They've been programmed to believe that medication is the only way.
Many years ago I watched the Biggest Loser show and many of those folks got their health back and were able to get off the medication. I have several in my own family who eat whatever and keep taking the pills. I have seen reactions to blood pressure medicine where their faces were so swollen. Scary stuff!
Thanks Tim. Informative as usual. Can you do a piece on epigenetics?
I did do one about it quite a while ago. But that’s a good idea, so I will revisit it soon!
Great piece. I do struggle with hypertension too but between the meds and losing a lot of weight and cleaning up my diet it’s better. Not perfect but better because sadly genetics are playing a role in that too. But all I can do is my best.
I know you have had a long journey with this stuff. People that haven't struggled with the weight don't know how much of an impossible obstacle it really is. Glad you are finding a way to deal with it.
Thanks and it’s not easy but I’m doing ok, better than I have been since 60 lbs ago 😉
Bravo Tim for this well researched essay. I appreciate how your images back up the message and thought the message from our body was perfect!
Thank you for the support! Our bodies do a miraculous job of protecting us from ourselves, but there’s only so much a body can do.
Great article Tim✅ it’s so important to understand what good nutrition is.
My personal story is wrapped around food. Being a vegetarian for 10 years and eating far too much wheat-based pasta threw my thyroid out.
I started back on eggs, chicken and ground beef. But when I later tried a modified paleo, (butter, cheese, creamer, which paleo diet excluded)I no longer needed thyroid medication. And never felt better.
Recently, I came across this book about whole food diet and safe starches:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1451699158?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
By getting off of processed foods and diet soda, my husband lost 50 pounds and no longer required high blood pressure medication. And he’s been holding steady for 4 years!!!
Thank you for bringing awareness that we are being pushed to eat chemicals instead of food.🙏
Another note, unhealed emotional distress also contributes to high blood pressure and can be healed with Pranic Healing along with loving kindness and forgiveness.
Blessings🙏
Great article Tim✅ it’s so important to understand what good nutrition is.
My personal story is wrapped around food. Being a vegetarian for 10 years and eating far too much wheat-based pasta threw my thyroid out.
I started back on eggs, chicken and ground beef. But when I later tried a modified paleo, (butter, cheese, creamer, which paleo diet excluded)I no longer needed thyroid medication. And never felt better.
Recently, I came across this book about whole food diet and safe starches:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1451699158?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
By getting off of processed foods and diet soda, my husband lost 50 pounds and no longer required high blood pressure medication. And he’s been holding steady for 4 years!!!
Thank you for bringing awareness that we are being pushed to eat chemicals instead of food.🙏
Another note, unhealed emotional distress also contributes to high blood pressure and can be healed with Pranic Healing along with loving kindness and forgiveness.
Blessings🙏