There are foods that provide vitamins and you can buy supplements too. Both foods and supplements can have a positive impact for person’s with high blood pressure problems.
The first thing to think about when taking any supplement or vitamin is, are you absorbing things properly.
Digestion is very important in anything you take, the bottom line is IF YOU CAN”T DIGEST IT – IT WON”T BENEFIT YOU. In short, you will be paying for something which you are getting little benefit from.
Studies show that more than 30 percent of what we ingest never gets into our system. It passes right through us and ends up in the toilet, which is where the money you paid for it goes too.
We mention this because folks feel at times that these natural remedies don’t work, and the reason is you are not digesting and absorbing things properly. The other part to this is vitamins and supplements take longer than drugs to work, your body heals at a different pace compared to the reaction drugs have on us.
Vitamins That Affect High Blood Pressure
Lets take a look at what affect vitamins and minerals have on high blood pressure.
Vitamin A – is a fat-soluble vitamin that, like vitamin E, works primarily in the lipid, or fat, tissues of your body. Vitamin A prevents LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) building up of plague in your arteries.
Vitamin C – protects your arteries and decreases the risk of heart disease and hypertension. It prevents the generation of free radicals which damage artery walls. It helps repair damage to the arteries, preventing the deposit of plaque at the site of injury. It also helps elevate levels of HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol).
Vitamin E – is the most active antioxidant in the fatty cells of your body. It reduces the risk of heart disease and hypertension by protecting your arteries from the effects of oxidized LDL cholesterol.
Potassium – even though it’s not a vitamin I include it because it’s easy to get and has an affect on high blood pressure. Bananas, potatoes and milk are good sources for getting potassium.
Magnesium – again, is not a vitamin but does benefit you and is a supplement easily found. People require between 300 and 400 milligrams of magnesium each day. Salmon, leafy green vegetables, whole grains and nuts are good sources of magnesium.
This gives you a good base to start from. The above items are the easiest vitamins and supplements to find, they will benefit your high blood pressure condition. Now we need to touch on the subject of quality.
How to Judge a Quality Supplement
The first thing we want to stress is – if you are taking medication and are considering going natural – check with your Doctor first.
This includes adding vitamins or supplements. There may be factors in your medical history, especially with high blood pressure, that could affect your health. Although vitamins have never killed anyone, you’ll still want to run it past your Doctor.
As you might notice the choice of vitamins is as large as the taxes taken from your check. It’s a big business and there are always substandard products, you don’t need these.
There are two things to look for in vitamins, they are processing techniques and fillers.
A cheap vitamin like vitamin C may claim they have 500 mg in it, but how much vitamin C really gets into your system after you break it down.
As far as processing it’s a lot faster to use heat compared to the slower and more efficient cold process. Using heat destroys some of the potency which means less benefit to you. The question remains, how do you know what to buy? The answer is buy what is proven to be good.
There are certain companies that are certified and adhere to a good practice seal, this is GMP certified.
The simplest way to go about this is buying from a reputable company. Here’s a few that provide quality vitamins:
- Roex
- Garden of Life
- Centrum Silver Brand
- Vita-Logic
- Natures Way
- Hypercet
If you want to dig further, you can check with consumer labs.
Having confirmation from a lab that breaks down the ingredients of a supplement is another way to check the quality of vitamins. It’s unfortunate, but there are a lot of contaminated ingredients found in vitamins which do not benefit anyone.
One containment I came across was lead. This is generally not a concern with quality vitamins because they have strict quality control measures.
Now that you have another remedy to deal with high blood pressure naturally, just make sure you buy quality products and be patient using them.
If you cannot find one of the quality manufacturers locally, you can definitely find them online.
Taking care of your high blood pressure condition correctly requires using quality supplements.
