What Should My Blood Pressure Be?

Being alive raises blood pressure (BP). And you usually don’t need
medications to adjust it. Unfortunately though, far too many people have
been drugged by their doctors to curb the natural rise. This is a
dangerous game of roulette. Understanding what a normal, healthy BP is
will help you make better decisions about medications and their natural
alternatives.

For the first year of life, the average BP is 100/70. The top number is
known as systolic and represents the amount of pressure placed on the
arteries when the heart contracts. The bottom number is known as diastolic
and represents the pressure when the heart relaxes.

If you’re lucky enough to age, your BP will continue to rise. In most
cases there’s nothing to fear.

For decades, Big Pharma has been pushing us to drive our blood pressure
lower and lower, even pushing doctors to suggest a systolic of 120. These
guidelines of “lower is better” has been at war with the scientific
evidence, which proves that “lower is not better,” as we age.
In other words, high blood pressure—as defined by anything over
140/80—is not a death sentence. Evidence for this was uncovered over a
century ago.

Underscoring this fact in Circulation of the Blood: Men and Ideas,
cardiovascular research pioneers Fred Mahomed, Clifford Allbutt, Henri
Huchard, and others demonstrated from 1874 to 1893 that hypertension may
occur without overt renal disease and may even be present before hardening
of the arteries or blockage, signaling that rising BP is no sign of
illness. These early scientists coined the term, “essential
hypertension” to describe the elevation of blood pressure as a normal,
compensatory reaction to healthy aging.

In a 1912 speech to the Glasgow Southern Medical Society, Sir William Osler
made the following statement about high blood pressure associated with
atherosclerosis: “In this group of cases it is well to recognize that the
extra pressure is a necessity–as purely a mechanical affair as in any
great irrigation system with old encrusted mains and weedy channels. Get it
out of your heads, if possible, that the high pressure is the primary
feature, and particularly the feature to treat.”

These very early biological observations were the eventual basis for
scientists to discourage the development of blood pressure drugs. And in
2016, The British Medical Journal published findings that confirmed these
sentiments and warnings!

Independent researchers in Sweden conducted a systematic review and
meta-analyses guided by recommendations of the Cochrane Collaboration.
Comparing about 74,000 blood pressure patients, they concluded, “This
systematic review and meta-analyses confirms if systolic blood pressure is
less than 140 mm Hg, we found no benefit, but potential harm, with an
increased risk of cardiovascular death.”

The harm they reported was from prescription drug side effects, a classic
story of the cure being worse than the so-called disease. In addition to
putting a spotlight on the dangers of meds, it also proved that essential
hypertension is no cause for drug use.

To assert that we all need to be lower than 140/80 is nothing more than a
ploy to sell drugs. As a former pharmaceutical chemist, I saw this far too
many times…and to further disprove the lower is better dogma of the
medical community, you can look at lifespan among those who adhere to it.
If high blood pressure were dangerous, then lowering it with hypertension
drugs would increase longevity.

But the opposite is true as I showed in my book, Over-The-Counter Natural
Cures Expanded. Studies in older people found that those who reduced their
systolic pressure to less than 140 fared no better than those who reduced
it to between 140 and 160.

Worse, as seen in previous research, the medicated suffered undue side
effects…like always. These included obesity, diabetes, kidney disease
and cancer as a direct result of using drugs like beta-blockers
ace-inhibitors and calcium channel blockers. Quality of life was eroded
exponentially, despite the “doctor approved” lower is better numbers.

In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Suzanne Oparil, director of
the vascular biology and hypertension program at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham School of Medicine affirms the risk, saying, “Medications
that lower blood pressure can have effects that counteract some of the
benefits. The mantra of blood pressure experts in the past has been that
lower is better. Recent studies don’t seem to support that.”

In an article titled, Hypertension Guidelines Can Be Erased, Panel Says,
The New York Times wrote that, “New guidelines suggest that people over
60 can have a higher blood pressure than previously recommended before
starting treatment to lower it. The advice, criticized by some physicians,
changes treatment goals that have been in place for more than 30 years.”

In sum, past, previous and current research supports the early theory of
chemists and doctors that prescription drug side effects outweigh benefits
of using meds to lower blood pressure. Therefore, it’s completely
natural for the first number (systolic) to be 100 plus our age. Diastolic
pressure has shown no correlation to early death. But if it goes to 100,
you may or may not have poor kidney health. Otherwise, rising blood
pressure is simply essential hypertension.

The exception to the rule would be if you have rising blood pressure
coupled to obesity, heart disease or Type II diabetes. In this case,
rising blood pressure may not be “essential,” but instead a dire warning!

If you have rising blood pressure coupled to any of these, then
hypertension can be a sign of illness and early death at worst - at best a
sign that your lifestyle habits - smoking, drinking, lack of exercise,
eating too f@#$cking much - are eroding away your longevity.

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