Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally: Step 2
This webpage is a companion to Step 2 of our book:
Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally – The Complete 9 Step Guide
Step 2 discusses how the start your day to ensure the maximum blood pressure benefits, including what to eat and supplements which may be useful. Start the way you mean to go on!
Click here for more information on the book: Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally
Starting the Day Right: Morning remedies for high blood pressure
Supplements in general
As discussed in the Appendix (pages 10-12), the issue of supplements – whether to take them and how much – can be a tricky one! Here’s some resources which might be useful.
Dr Sarah Brewer – a UK doctor and nutritionist – articles on supplements and healthy eating (a website recommended by one of our readers)
Our post – Supplements that help reduce high blood pressure (an overview of the issues and general debate)
Hawthorn supplements
Advocates of hawthorn recommend supplements of 100-250mg, taken three times a day. Some also recommend that hawthorn supplements contain at least 10% procyanidins – a key group of antioxidants.
Hawthorn tablets:
Nature’s Way make ‘Heart Care’ tablets with 80mg hawthorn extract from the leaf and flower and lots of procyanidins, so these could be good to start with.
Nature’s Way Hawthorn extract tablets (Amazon.com)
Nature’s Way Hawthorn extract tablets (Amazon.co.uk)
Make your own hawthorn tincture:
Watch our video about making your own hawthorn tincture
Buying Supplements
The Appendix for Step 2 gives detailed information for each key nutrient about the best form of this supplement to buy. However, it can still be tricky knowing which brand of supplements to buy as there are now so many out there!
BUYING SUPPLEMENTS IN A STORE OR ONLINE
If you want to buy in person, then the best plan is to go to your local health food shop. The staff there will be able to help and inform you, plus health food shops in general stock better quality supplements than those you can buy in the supermarket or large retail stores.
Natural News website has some informative (and opinionated) articles about buying supplements written by their ‘Health Ranger’:
Where to Buy Supplements – Natural News
You can often get good deals buying supplements online, as the companies are selling directly to you, rather than having the overheads of running a store.
Their ‘Health Ranger’ also advocates using what are called ‘whole food’ supplements as much as possible. These are concentrated forms of natural substances, containing a range of nutrients which work together, and may be more effectively used by the body than isolated vitamins and minerals supplements.
Whole food nutritional supplements – Natural News
Here are a couple of (US-based) companies which sell high quality supplements online:
Send us your ideas and suggestions
If there are other websites, resources or products you’ve found useful and you think would be useful to others, please email them to us and we’ll include them: simon [at] highbloodpressurebegone.com
NOTE: This page is designed to be a companion page to Step 2 of our guide, ‘Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally’. As such, it only contains supplementary resources rather than being a full discussion of morning remedies for high blood pressure.
For more information on starting your day right, you can further browse this website or, of course, buy the guide..!
Click here for details: Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally – The Complete 9 Step Guide
ANOTHER NOTE: We’ve supplied Amazon links to those products that may be a little trickier to find, as Amazon is popular and convenient to use. However, Amazon aren’t known to be the most ethical company (we do not endorse them ourselves) so we recommend buying your healthy products in your local shops if you can!
