Participants: Curtis & Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00192A
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00:01 If I told you that there was one disease
00:03 where your lifetime risk of being diagnosed 00:06 is at 90 percent. And also it is the number 00:11 one reason for prescription drugs, 00:13 one last clue it is also called the silent killer 00:19 have any guesses. Well, today's program is entitled 00:22 the pressure's on. We'll be right back. 00:52 Hi, welcome to the Abundant Living 00:54 and this is Curtis Eakins your co-host, 00:56 which means I have another host too, 00:58 my wife Paula Eakins. How you doing today, honey? 01:01 Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. 01:02 Alright, you are looking wonderful today. 01:03 Thank you. Well, thank for being with me 01:05 on these programs. You started off with 01:08 some heavy stuff there on the pressure's on 01:10 and I am sure that by this time someone's 01:13 hopefully kind of knowing where this program 01:15 is gonna be going. You think they have an idea 01:18 of what we are talking about, you know, 01:19 it could be arthritis, it could be diabetes. 01:21 What do you think, baby? No, no, no the pressure's 01:23 on means that we gonna be talking about high 01:25 blood pressure. High blood pressure. 01:27 High blood pressure. Okay. Let's start. 01:29 I guess we settled that. Let me before you, 01:31 with your questions, honey, yes, this is 01:33 gonna be a series called the, 01:35 a clean heart series. Okay. Alright. 01:39 So the next few weeks we're gonna be talking about 01:41 not just heart but the cardiovascular system 01:44 in general. So but today's program is of course 01:47 high blood pressure or the medical term is 01:49 hypertension. So a clean heart series, 01:52 so you want to stay with us for the next 01:54 few weeks dealing with the cardiovascular system. 01:56 Well, moving right into the area of high blood 01:59 pressure. Let's go ahead and define 02:01 the term high blood pressure. 02:04 Okay, good question. Let me first before 02:08 we define the term high blood pressure. 02:10 Let's first talk about blood pressure, alright, 02:14 in blood pressure every time the heart beats, 02:16 blood goes through the vessels and provides organs, 02:21 glands the nutrients that these organs and glands 02:24 need on day-to-day basis, but now sometimes 02:28 that pressure against that artery wall was 02:30 very thin as some problems and that pressure 02:34 when it's high is called high blood pressure. 02:37 Okay, okay. In medical term of course is hypertension. 02:39 There are two types of high blood pressure; 02:41 one is called essential which has no real medical 02:45 reason or cause for that and the other one is 02:48 called secondary which due to maybe renal failure, 02:52 endocrine problems whatever. So, in today's program 02:55 we're gonna be zeroing in on essential high blood 02:57 pressure or hypertension. Now as far to the numbers 03:00 are concerned. Now there are three groups of numbers 03:03 that we need to look at and of course this is in 03:05 your work book as well. Number one let's look at 03:09 the normal blood pressure. Now the top number systolic 03:15 where the heart is beating that number should be 119 03:21 or less, that's the top number systolic. 03:25 What about the bottom number? 03:27 Okay, now the bottom number should be 79 03:30 or less, alright, so let's say, with top number 03:34 systolic is let's say 126 and bottom number is 78 03:39 then it's not normal, okay, both need to be below 119, 03:43 not 119 or lower 79 and lower top and bottom. 03:47 Now the next phase of the system of high blood 03:52 pressure is pre-hypertension, 03:54 alright, the top number is either 120 to 139 04:01 and the bottom number is 80 to 89. 04:07 So now therefore if the top number is normal 04:12 but the bottom number is abnormal then the 04:14 person is still pre-hypertension, 04:17 alright, still have pre-hypertension, 04:19 alright. Now stage one is 140 to 159 04:25 and 90 to 99. And this also in your work book 04:29 as well because we all way down to stage four. 04:31 Normally those who are in the pre-hypertension 04:35 of phase that's about 30 percent of the population. 04:39 We're talking about 60 million people. 04:41 Those who are on stage one said to be 04:43 "hypertension" it's another 30 percent 04:47 which another said to be 60 million people as well. 04:49 So therefore, with that in mind look at those 04:52 two stages together. The pre-hypertension 04:55 and stage one, look at about a 120 million people, 05:00 that's why it's the nation's number one 05:02 reason for drug prescription, alright, 05:05 and it will go down like I said before to stage 05:08 four and of course it can be very damaging 05:10 to the system. People often say, 05:14 I don't know when to take my pressure, 05:15 okay, whether morning, afternoon, when I go to 05:19 the doctor, what is the tip on how to take your 05:22 blood pressure, or when to take it? 05:24 Oh! When to take it, yeah. 05:25 Well, you know we've been to a lot of health fairs 05:27 and we've been to a lot of health fairs 05:28 and sometimes folks health fairs may not be the best 05:31 place to take your blood pressure. 05:32 I mean you're walking around eating all kinds of 05:35 foods and drinks and cokes and whatever I mean 05:37 take a blood pressure and almost as you say have 05:39 a heart attack looking at your numbers, alright, 05:41 So, that may be not be an accurate thing to do, 05:43 but a lot of people are not taking the blood pressure 05:45 at home. If you do that it's very easy to do 05:48 but there are certain thing that we need 05:50 to be mindful of while we do take our blood 05:52 pressure. Number one, you need to have the 05:56 right cuff, if the cuff is too small you have a 06:00 false high number. If the cuff is too large you have 06:03 a false low number. In cold temperatures, 06:07 if the body is cold, coming from the cold whatever 06:09 take your blood pressure it's gonna be a false 06:11 low number. Also you need to have your feet 06:15 flat on the ground, do not cross your legs, 06:18 no talking, turn off the radio, turn off the TV 06:23 and be quiet for at least 5 minutes. 06:27 A lot of times people really don't do all of these. 06:30 Right, right, so you may have some false positives 06:32 and false negatives in doing all of this as well, 06:34 and so with that in mind. And now America Heart 06:37 Association they suggest this. 06:39 Take your blood pressure standing up two times 06:44 and then take a average. Take your blood pressure 06:46 sitting down two times and take a average. 06:50 You take the average of the one that you were 06:52 sitting down. The one standing up is just a 06:54 reference. So, they suggest that as well. 06:57 And so therefore one blood pressure reading 07:00 may not be accurate one you want to take 07:02 at least twice and so but there is different ways 07:05 of doing it but the main things is that we want 07:07 to make sure that we take an accurate reading 07:09 every time. And sometimes in the doctor's office 07:12 you know you're rushing to the doctor's office 07:14 you're looking for a parking place, you know you 07:17 dropped the kids off or whatever, 07:18 the husband off to work and you go into the 07:20 doctor's office and you wait there for 30 minutes 07:22 and you know, you're stressed out and here 07:24 comes the doctor with the white coat 07:26 and take your blood pressure. You're now 07:27 waiting for five minutes and wow it maybe too 07:30 high, it maybe a false positive. 07:32 So you want to take all those into consideration 07:35 taking your blood pressure. Well, I 07:36 know from me, I know when you talk me go have 07:38 a physical done. It's the same thing, 07:40 we know it's called the White coat syndrome. 07:42 Yes right, I have learned that I 07:45 need to be calm and when I go into that 07:47 office I actually once I see him doing my 07:50 blood pressure I start saying the Lord is 07:51 my shepherd I said the prayer. 07:53 Oh! That's good. Lord is my shepherd 07:54 I shall not want, I just lay this, 07:56 you know try to calm myself down because it is true. 07:58 They'll do a reading, it'll be high. 08:00 And yet I know what my pressure, 08:02 my blood pressure is normally. 08:04 And then it will go back again or he ask me 08:07 to go back again later on, to it better, 08:08 but I found it just by just having 08:10 that peace of God. Yeah, that's true. 08:12 He helps calm me down. Now that's a good point 08:14 that you're saying a Bible verse, The Lord is my 08:16 shepherd; I shall not want. That's right. 08:18 Yeah, calm me down. Okay. If it goes 08:21 untreated, a lot of people know they have high 08:23 blood pressure, okay, what can happen if it 08:25 goes untreated. Okay, we have a picture 08:28 on our screen here, and those are a lot of things 08:31 that can happen if blood pressure goes untreated. 08:33 Let's look at this and it's very important 08:35 to understand this graphic here. Number one, 08:37 again left untreated, number one, you increase 08:42 dramatically stroke, and reason for this is that 08:46 when there is pressure against your artery 08:48 wall in the brain then it causes the vessels in the 08:53 brain to rupture causing a stroke. 08:56 Now we're gonna have a program later on, 08:58 later on in several weeks entitled different strokes 09:02 for different folks. We will go into more that later on. 09:05 Let's go back to the graphic let's see what else 09:07 we can what happens to the damage of blood 09:09 vessels if left unchecked. Blood vessels damage 09:13 of course Arteriosclerosis it can damage blood 09:16 vessels, any blood vessels to clean the heart as well. 09:20 Heart attack or congestive heart failure, 09:23 even the kidneys, renal failure again this pressure 09:27 against our artery wall, so any time there's gonna 09:30 be a major organ there, it's gonna damage that 09:32 blood vessel, it's gonna damage also that organ. 09:35 So, it puts some undo stress on the kidneys as well. 09:39 So it can cause renal failure, heart attack, 09:42 strokes and congestive heart failure as well 09:46 just by having high blood pressure and a lot of 09:51 people don't even know they have high blood pressure, 09:53 left unchecked, those are the some of the 09:55 damages right there. So you are going to your 09:58 doctor you find you have high blood pressure 10:00 and of course at that point they're going to put you 10:03 on some type of medication if it's high, 10:05 yes, so what about medication? Yeah, 10:07 like I said before it's the number one reason for 10:09 prescription drugs is high blood pressure. 10:12 The medication for high blood pressure can be 10:15 a problem in our self. We listed several things in 10:18 our work book, but just to summarize it in may be 10:21 30 seconds and so. There are several different 10:23 categories of high blood pressure. You have the 10:26 ACE inhibitors this causes dry cough and etc. 10:30 You have the diuretics, potassium loss, muscle pain 10:35 and cramps and you have the blockers are called 10:39 the ABC blockers. A: Alpha blockers; B: Beta blockers; 10:45 Calcium channel blockers. All those held 10:49 a list of side effects and I counted at least 40. 10:52 Dizziness, fatigue, muscle cramps, loss of appetite, 10:57 weight gain, libido, low sex drive, renal failure, 11:02 liver disease, rapid pulse rate, cold hands, 11:08 extremities, and even can be very fatal as well. 11:12 And that's just the good news. So, a lot of people 11:16 looking for other alternatives other 11:18 than that as well. And let's talk about quickly 11:20 about the sodium I know there are lot of people 11:22 when we talk about high blood pressure, 11:24 we talk about the sodium. And let's talk about sodium 11:26 as salt, table salt and what people are taking in 11:29 and what shall we take on a daily basis. 11:31 Well, you know when we talk about the sodium levels. 11:34 One of the things that people are very surprised 11:35 that when we do in our program and that is 11:37 the 1/4 of teaspoon of sodium is over 590 milligrams. 11:45 1/4 of the teaspoon, okay, 1 teaspoon is over 2360 11:52 milligrams of sodium, oh! My goodness, 11:53 I am giving you those numbers because believe 11:56 it or not the average person should not take in more 11:59 than 2500 milligram of sodium and you say, 12:03 okay, what does that mean. What it means 12:05 that when you go and buy your foods you can 12:07 always see the amount when it comes 12:09 to sodium in milligram amounts. It takes 1000 12:13 milligrams to equal 1 gram of sodium so you 12:16 can see already about 590, 1/4 of teaspoon. 12:19 Then you're moving, you're moving, okay, 12:21 and people don't measure out there sodium. 12:24 What they usually do as they just take the salt 12:26 shaker and they shake, shake, shake. 12:27 Shake, shake, shake. And they shake it more 12:29 than two or three times a day. A person is salt 12:31 sensitive however I've said 2500 milligrams 12:34 sodium a day. But if you're salt sensitive 12:36 we are actually recommend that you not do more than 12:38 1500 milligrams of sodium a day. And so you can 12:42 actually count by looking on your labels. 12:44 Seeing exactly how much sodium is actually there. 12:46 And you can keep a count where you are. 12:49 How about the average American. 12:51 The average American is taking in anywhere 12:53 from 6 to 8 grams of sodium a day. 12:58 I said 6 to 8 grams. Oh! My, grams. 13:00 Grams of sodium a day, alright, which is also 13:03 causing a problem with these high numbers 13:05 you're seeing now of high blood pressure whether 13:07 it's by salt you're actually sprinkling extra salt on 13:09 your food, there is already salt on your processed 13:12 foods, that kind of thing. These are the ways in 13:15 which we can get more sodium in our diet than 13:17 we actually need to have and I guess one of the 13:20 things I want to ask you then okay, it's how do you 13:22 actually go about selecting low sodium foods. 13:25 Okay, there is a easy way of doing folks 13:27 and there is one number you need to remember 13:30 selecting foods that has the right amount of 13:33 sodium that you need particularly those 13:35 who are already hypertension. 13:36 One number, that number is 15. Now we look at 13:41 a package container of food in the grocery store. 13:44 You want to look not so much at the milligram 13:47 amount of sodium but you want to look at the 13:49 far right column, okay, it may have the letters DV 13:55 or the words daily value as a percentage. 13:59 You go down to sodium, go across to the far right 14:04 column you see a percentage there. 14:07 That percentage needs to be 15 or less. 14:12 15 or less you know this a right amount of sodium 14:16 that the percentage, particular person's 14:18 hypertension. If you are not even hypersensitive 14:21 it still need to good to have that percentage 14:23 around 15. Sometimes you can go up to 14:26 20 percent, even 25 percent and with that 14:28 in mind regular table salt is 25 percent, 14:34 regular table salt so that's way past the 15. 14:36 So but you have also some white salt which is 14:39 down to about 12 percent, so that's one way of doing 14:42 that as well. So just looking at the labels 14:44 15 is that number you need to understand for 14:46 looking at the sodium amount that the body 14:49 needs on a daily basis. Several studies have 14:52 come out. They have talked about potassium foods, 14:54 okay, potassium versus sodium type foods. 14:57 Explain to us... I understand that potassium foods 15:01 are also there to help lower our blood pressure, 15:03 so talk about that. Okay, yeah, quickly 15:09 low sodium diets can lower blood pressure what 15:11 they discovered now they say, published in 15:13 Archives of Internal Medicine that when we have foods 15:17 that has a high potassium and a low sodium ratio, 15:21 blood pressure drops even further. 15:24 So with that in mind we have the whole list of 15:26 foods in our work book but so with foods that 15:28 has a high potassium and a low sodium you have 15:31 the lima beans, you have bananas and the orange, 15:34 but they has high potassium and a low sodium, 15:38 the ratio, the higher the potassium the lower 15:41 the sodium. Foods that have a high sodium 15:44 and a low potassium food will raise your 15:48 blood pressure. Those foods are mostly your 15:51 flesh foods and your sea foods. Your flounder, 15:54 salmon, your cod and chicken and roast beef, 15:58 those have a high sodium and a low potassium 16:03 and those foods will raise your blood pressure, 16:05 it's very damaging to the system. 16:07 So now we have idea of the foods that can 16:09 raise your blood pressure and foods that can 16:12 lower your blood pressure. So, we are seeing once 16:13 again the fruit, vegetables, the whole grain will do 16:15 that, that's true, yeah, what about botanical 16:17 medicines then? Yeah, botanical medicine 16:19 again what we need to do is, let's go to our 16:22 graphing, let's look at botanical medicine. 16:24 I want to see this graphic first of all because our 16:27 blood vessels are very elastic. If they are wider 16:31 or if they are dilated the blood pressure comes 16:34 down. If they constrict themselves and the blood 16:36 pressure goes up. So with that in mind, 16:39 there is one herbal medicine out there that can simply 16:44 dilate the arteries. Now, as the arteries are 16:48 dilated the blood pressure comes down, right, 16:52 alright. So, with that in mind there is one herb 16:55 or botanical medicine we call it, that can simply 16:57 dilate the arteries which causes the blood 17:00 pressure to come down. Let's go to the screen, 17:01 look at that herb at this time. Here it is, 17:04 botanical medicine "Hawthorn has played 17:08 a role in the prevention and treatment of 17:11 hypertension, hyperlipidemia and 17:15 congestive heart failure." So it is very powerful 17:20 as far as that's concerned looking that about 17:22 600 milligrams per day on a daily basis and let you 17:25 health care profession be aware that you have taken 17:27 this botanical medicine so that they can make 17:29 their adjustments as far as your blood pressure 17:31 medication is concerned. So it is very important, 17:34 I think we are apart go into the kitchen 17:35 and at this time and maybe talk a little bit about 17:38 cause physical emotional stress can also raise your 17:43 blood pressure as well. So we probably talk about 17:45 that in the kitchen. Well, we are not finished 17:47 with this subject. We're gonna go into the kitchen 17:49 and we're gonna do a Spicy Oven Baked Vegetables. 17:53 Get your paper and your pencils 17:55 and see you in the kitchen. |
Revised 2014-12-17