{"id":784,"date":"2021-05-05T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.a8h.com.au\/content\/?post_type=tutorials&p=784"},"modified":"2021-05-13T13:14:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:14:28","slug":"hypertension-and-your-risk","status":"publish","type":"tutorials","link":"https:\/\/www.a8h.com.au\/content\/tutorials\/hypertension-and-your-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypertension and your risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Hypertension” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2316a085″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_single_image image=”799″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Hypertension can be either a slowly progressive disease or abruptly deadly or fatal. The majority of people with high blood pressure never know they have this important medical problem. Individuals may simply present to a doctor in kidney failure or after a stroke or indeed a TIA.\u00a0Transient Ischaemic Attacks or TIAs are a short-lasting,\u00a0‘reversible stroke’ or ‘mini stroke’ that lasts less than minutes to\u00a0hours without permanent damage to the brain. TIA’s herald the possibility of a full-blown stroke and should be treated seriously. If you have a blood pressure beyond 115\/75, you risk kidney failure, damage and blockages to your heart and peripheral arteries, strokes and TIA’s.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Prehypertension” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2316a085″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]At one point in medicine, we seemed to have a set the bar too high at 140\/90 to label someone as hypertensive\u00a0and to commence treatment. However, there is a range between normal and hypertensive\u00a0and this is called ‘Prehypertension.’ If you are prehypertensive, you need to adopt an integrative approach of diet and exercise. A weight loss of 5% to 10% could result in a reversal of this blood pressure trend. Sure, you may have genetic factors working against you but a fatalistic approach should never be taken as the saying goes,\u00a0‘genes load the gun but it is the environment that pulls the trigger’.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0The environment in this instance being diet, lifestyle and body composition (overweight\/obesity and abdominal adiposity).[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5\/6″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nSystolic (Top Figure)<\/td>\n<\/td>\nDiastolic (Bottom Figure)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Normal<\/td>\nLess than 120<\/td>\nand<\/td>\nLess than 80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prehypertension2<\/sup><\/td>\nBetween 120 – 139<\/td>\nand\/or<\/td>\nBetween 80 – 89<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hypertension\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nOver 140\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nor\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nOver 90<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Critical: Hypertensive Crisis<\/span><\/td>\nOver 180<\/span><\/td>\nand\/or<\/span><\/td>\nOver 120<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Are you a ‘dipper'” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2316a085″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Getting 24 hour blood pressure monitor readings is highly advisable. This will give you a daytime and nightime average and whether you are a ‘dipper’ or ‘non-dipper’. A dipper has blood pressure readings that fall below the daytime average and this is desirable. Those that are non-dippers have a higher risk of left heart enlargement (left ventricular hypertrophy) and increased cardiovascular risk and end-organ damage. This is all because the blood pressure never drops in non-dippers with the heart working hard 24\/7 with no respite during sleep.<\/p>\n

There is a circadian rhythm with regard to blood pressure with a surge in the early hours of the morning before awakening1<\/sup>. This is a dangerous period for individuals with high blood pressure. Many people have a stroke or cardiovascular event in the early hours of the morning or indeed, never wake up![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Treatment: Never neglect the integrative approach” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2316a085″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The importance of pharmacological approaches to hypertension cannot be stressed enough. The benefits are undeniable! However, the importance of diet and exercise in the management of hypertension and cardiovascular outcomes likewise are undeniable and to favour one over the other to me is clinical neglect.<\/p>\n

The way doctors are taught is a totally interventionist approach and no wonder they think that the only way to treat anything is through an artifical drug and that nutrients like magnesium or nitrates in food have no impact on cardiovascular health or outcomes. This assumes that dietary factors or exercise could not possibly have an effect on physiological functions like vascular tone. This is an amazingly outdated and anachronistic mindset and yet this is the model adopted in the treatment of chronic disease. In this day and age, this is unethical! Research on the effects of dietary management, weight loss and micronutrients on supporting blood pressure parameters would simply crush the unbeliever and medicolegally indefensible.<\/p>\n

From your perspective, buying into the pharmacetical approach only method which involves the\u00a0‘script-solution’ with little guidance to dietary and exercise factors means that you are putting your whole cardiovascular system at risk as there are a large number of other factors that damage your blood vessels beyond hypertension.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”The dangers of fructose” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2316a085″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]It was interesting that a study done at Australia’s Swinburne University using a SphygmoCor Sphygmomanometer to measure central arterial pressure i.e. the blood pressure near the heart in the large blood vessel called the Aorta, that even 1 glass of orange juice daily could raise central arterial pressure3<\/sup>. This central pressure is far more reliable as a determinant than the blood pressure taken in the arm (peripheral blood pressure)<\/p>\n

What people regard as a healthy thing to do, can be deadly in terms of the effect on central blood pressure and you are putting yourself at risk by consuming fruit juice regularly.<\/p>\n

This is not to say that whole fruit is bad. In fact whole fruit can be beneficial and in particular eating seasonal fruits that provide a variety not just the same fruits day-in and day-out. Whole fruit will have far less fructose than juices that have a high concentration of fructose and fructose is highly glycating as well i.e. it damages proteins 7 times more than glucose so for prediabetics or diabetics, fruit juice could be even more deadly but once again, whole fruit can be beneficial up to 3 – 4 servings a day or 3 – 4 moderately sized fruit per day.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”800″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”What should you do?” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2316a085″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1620224253694{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;border-left-color: #000000 !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #000000 !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1620723486762{border-right-width: 1px !important;border-right-color: #000000 !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Management Intervention<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Our professional team of Accredited Practicing Dietitians (APD’s) are ready, willing and able to help you with all your nutrition and supplementation needs<\/p>\n

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DASH Diet – Designed for treating hypertension<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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A one-size fits all diet that can be used to control hypertension<\/p>\n

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Personalized DASH Diet<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Assessing 1. Genetics and 2. The Gut Microbiome
\nCan enable our practitioners to tailor the diet to you personally<\/p>\n

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Exercise<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Can lower blood pressure significantly
\nOur practitioners are encouraged to form associations with Exercise Physiologists (EPs) who can design personalized exercise programs for you<\/p>\n

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Special Foods<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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There are a multitude of nitrate-rich foods that can boost Nitric Oxide (NO) production. Nitric Oxide helps relax blood vessels and higher Nitric Oxide levels in the body and blood vessels improve cardiovascular outcomes. Our practitioners can guide you and modify the DASH diet to provide a rich source of dietary nitrates<\/p>\n

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Magnesium<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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A lack of magnesium creates shifts of calcium ions into the cells lining blood vessels (the Endothelium) which increases vascular tone and damages the lining. This vital mineral should never be forgotten in the treatment of hypertension and should be used as an adjunct in treating this condition. Blood pressure treatments may fail (refractory to treatment) because factors such as magnesium deficiency are forgotten in the management of disease states.\u00a0 Read ‘Magnesium Matters<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

Supplementation in the face of abysmal Western diets should NOT be ignored — See\u00a0MagFX For Public Viewing<\/a>
\nand\u00a0MagFX for Registered Viewing (Product shown)<\/a><\/p>\n

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L-Citrulline<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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This is an amazing amino acid that can boost the levels of L-Arginine in your tissues far more effectively than taking L-Arginine itself. L-Arginine is rapidly metabolized to Urea in the liver leaving precious little to be converted to Nitric Oxide (NO). L-Citrulline bypasses the liver in a very important and clever way to be converted to L-Arginine and then distributed directly into the bloodstream bypassing what is called ‘First-Pass Metabolism’ where oral L-Arginine is taken up in the bowel and then passed to the liver before getting into the blood stream. The liver ‘chews’ up the L-Arginine. See\u00a0L-Citrulline Malate for Public Viewing<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0L-Citrulline Malate for Registered Viewing<\/a><\/p>\n

For men with erectile dysfunction, Citrulline may be tremendously helpful and can be used in conjunction with Cialis\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0or Viagra\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0using small amounts initially and with guidance by our practitioners and by your medical practitioner.<\/p>\n

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Phytochemical Complexity<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Phytochemicals are plant chemicals. They work through a gentle process called ‘hormesis’. This is where these plant chemicals trigger gene expression to produce amazing health benefits. With 95% of people getting nowhere near the number of servings of veggies and fruit, there is a tremendous deficiency of phytohemical intakes and these plant chemicals also affect the gut microbiome. The obvious advice is the eat a range of multicoloured vegetables or fruit with an optimum intake of 8 -10 servings of vegetables (approx 8 – 10 cups) and 3 – 4 servings of whole fruit. This may seem impossible for many who will never allow a ‘green thing’ to touch their lips. There are amazing products like\u00a0NanoGreens<\/a>
\nthat provide a massive ‘hit’ of highly bioavailable phytonutrients<\/p>\n

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  2. https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/prehypertension\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20376703<\/li>\n
  3. Pase, M. P., et al. (2015). “Habitual intake of fruit juice predicts central blood pressure.” Appetite 84: 68-72.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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