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Lower Hypertension Naturally

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Participants: David DeRose MD (Host)

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00:28 Welcome to "Lower Hypertension Naturally."
00:30 I'm Doctor David DeRose, a board-certified
00:32 specialist in internal and preventive medicine.
00:35 I'm also the president of Compass Health Consulting.
00:39 For today, I'm your host
00:42 as we look at a very important topic:
00:45 high blood pressure, also known as
00:48 hypertension. Just how important is it? Just
00:52 how many people are affected by what is really an epidemic
00:56 condition throughout the Western world? Hypertension affects
01:01 millions upon millions of people.
01:04 To give you an illustration,
01:05 let's look at what's happening in the United States.
01:08 If you look at individuals between the age
01:10 of 35 and 44, you'll find that
01:14 roughly 16 percent of them have high blood pressure.
01:18 As we get older, that percentage
01:21 continues to climb. By the time we're in our 60s,
01:25 roughly 60 percent of Americans have high blood pressure.
01:28 In our 70s, it's roughly 70 percent. These are huge numbers!
01:33 It's not just a problem that's confined to the US.
01:36 It is really a worldwide, or global,
01:40 problem. Let's look at high blood pressure in another way.
01:43 If we look at data from the United States,
01:47 high blood pressure is the single most common reason
01:51 for office visits and for the use of prescription drugs
01:55 That is, of course, if you exclude prenatal visits.
01:59 Can you see the problem? There are sweeping numbers
02:02 of people with high blood pressure.
02:04 The question is, since most of these
02:07 individuals have no symptoms,
02:10 why should we care? High blood pressure is extremely dangerous.
02:14 Over time, it takes a toll on the brain.
02:17 Maybe you've listened to my presentations
02:19 on brain health. Whether it's the
02:22 Brain Health Revolution, my 2-hour mini-series,
02:24 or an accompanying presentation to this series on
02:28 Improving Cognitive Performance, you'll hear me speak
02:31 about stroke and high blood pressure.
02:35 They are accomplices in robbing us of our cognitive performance.
02:42 Much more than that is involved when
02:44 it comes to high blood pressure.
02:46 Heart disease risk is dramatically increased.
02:48 The risk of having blood vessel problems like
02:52 aneurysm, which can cause a ballooning
02:54 of and a rupture in the blood vessel,
02:56 is increased with high blood pressure.
02:59 There are visual problems like blindness
03:01 from hypertensive renopathy, kidney failure.
03:05 High blood pressure is an accomplice with diabetes.
03:08 It destroys kidneys, putting people on dialysis.
03:11 The problems with high blood pressure are staggering.
03:15 The good news is this: controlling blood pressure
03:18 can halt the progression of
03:20 problems and can actually prevent
03:23 the complications of high blood pressure.
03:25 Whether it's stroke, kidney
03:26 problems, eye problems or heart disease,
03:29 treating high blood pressure is so very important.
03:33 The good news is this: high blood pressure
03:37 causes problems, but treating it can help.
03:41 Natural approaches are specially powerful
03:46 in dealing with high blood pressure.
03:48 Before we look at those, some of you are
03:49 no doubt wondering, "Well, how
03:51 high is too high when it comes to blood pressure?"
03:54 There's a lot of conflicting information out there.
03:56 Let me give you some simple concepts that
03:59 hopefully put this into perspective.
04:02 Before I go into too much detail,
04:05 I have a longer series called
04:07 Reversing Hypertension Naturally. It includes
04:11 about 5 hours of presentations. It's designed to be a community
04:15 presentation, a community program, to help people
04:19 in a group setting control their blood
04:20 pressure. Individuals can use it as well.
04:23 This is a distillation of some of the high points
04:26 of that program. What we're
04:27 giving you here, in this LifeStart
04:30 seminar, is something that can stand alone,
04:32 can help you have tools to control your blood pressure.
04:35 I'm also letting you know, if it seems
04:37 like we're flying through some of
04:39 this material too quickly,
04:40 we do have a series that looks at it in more detail.
04:44 With that mention, let me just
04:48 mention the Website that gives you
04:50 a host of these resources at your fingertips.
04:53 It's simply lifestartseminars.com.
04:55 Lifestartesminars.com
04:59 There's a number of free resources
05:00 there. First of all, you can get a
05:02 a transcript or a program guide for this program.
05:06 You can get information about my longer hypertension series,
05:09 as well as other resources that can help you.
05:12 We also have a free e-book that's available
05:15 at lifestartseminars.com. I'll tell you
05:17 a little bit more about that when
05:19 we talk about the natural treatment
05:21 of high blood pressure. Let's dive
05:23 back into our presentation now.
05:25 Remember, we're saying high blood
05:27 pressure can cause serious problems.
05:29 Treating it can prevent them. Natural treatment
05:33 is especially powerful. I want to give
05:35 you an idea now of how high is too
05:37 high. When should you be concerned?
05:38 What's interesting is, if you look at scientific data,
05:43 the evidence suggests that, if you are using natural
05:47 lifestyle strategies, the lower the blood pressure
05:51 the better in a healthy individual. What I mean is,
05:56 if you look at the data, getting
05:58 your pressure down to 110 systolic
06:01 or 70 diastolic clearly is better
06:05 than 120 over 80, even though everyone considers
06:08 all those numbers normal. Here's where the plot thickens.
06:13 Once you add drugs into the equation
06:16 you don't want to get your blood pressure
06:20 much lower than in the 130 systolic.
06:23 If you get the blood pressure lower than that with medication,
06:27 the side effects of the medication are worse
06:30 then the additional benefits of
06:32 getting your blood pressure lower
06:34 then around that 130-135 range.
06:37 If you have a unique situation (kidney failure),
06:40 and the nephrologist says, "I want to get your
06:43 blood pressure lower than that." I'm not
06:45 saying don't listen to the specialist.
06:46 I'm just saying on general grounds, with natural therapies,
06:50 getting the blood pressure lower is better.
06:53 As low as 110 over 70, the research suggests,
06:57 is beneficial. When it comes to treating
07:01 high blood pressure with drugs, many doctors today
07:06 are not putting people on medications
07:08 unless their blood pressure is consistently above 140 systolic
07:12 and/or 90 diastolic.
07:19 We've laid the groundwork there for you.
07:21 What I'm trying to help you see is something
07:24 very important. Lifestyle is the most powerful
07:28 approach to dealing with high blood pressure.
07:31 If you can get your blood pressure
07:33 lower with natural means,
07:35 you will put yourself in the best
07:37 position for decreasing your risk of
07:39 things like stroke and heart attack. What you're really
07:42 seeing is, although we've called
07:45 this Lower Hypertension Naturally,
07:47 this presentation might rightly be called
07:51 Optimize Your Blood Pressure.
07:55 You may not have hypertension, but if
07:57 you could get your blood pressure lower,
07:59 you could decrease your risk of problems still further.
08:03 I think this is very exciting news.
08:04 With that background, we want to launch into an approach
08:07 for dealing with high blood pressure.
08:09 If you've seen my series
08:11 Reversing Hypertension Naturally,
08:13 you know that I use a mnemonic memory device.
08:15 I walk people through a number of natural strategies.
08:18 That is, in my estimation, the most powerful
08:22 device for controlling high blood pressure.
08:25 It is a little bit more complicated
08:26 than what can be distilled in a 30-minute presentation,
08:30 like this one that I'm giving.
08:31 We're going to use another very powerful
08:34 memory device, a powerful mnemonic, a powerful paradigm
08:39 that we've found is of value
08:42 in dealing with a host of illnesses.
08:43 We simply call it LifeStart.
08:46 For this program, I want you to think in terms
08:48 of LifeStart. What does that mean? The "L" stands for
08:52 Liquids. The "I" stands for Interpersonal Relations.
08:57 The "F" stands for Foods.
09:00 The "E" stands for Exercise.
09:03 The "T" in LifeStart
09:07 is only entered into after getting to the "S."
09:11 I really can spell, as well as speak.
09:13 The "S" stands for Sunlight.
09:15 The "T" stands for Temperance.
09:19 The "A" stands for Air,
09:21 the "R" for Rest.
09:23 The "T" is for Trust in Divine Power.
09:26 I know I went through those quickly. We'll come back
09:28 to those elements. We'll give you some pointers
09:30 that can help you get your
09:32 blood pressure under control if its high,
09:34 or still higher than optimal. Let's say you're running
09:38 130 over 85, and the doctors says
09:40 you don't need to go on medication.
09:41 (By the way, I would agree with that assessment, If that's
09:44 consistently where your blood pressure is running.)
09:46 What I'm telling you in this presentation
09:48 is what the data shows. If you can get your
09:50 blood pressure down to 120 over 75, that's better
09:54 than running in the 130s over 80s.
09:57 If you want more information about
10:00 that LifeStart paradigm,
10:02 remember our Website, lifestartseminars.com.
10:08 Lifestartseminars.com.
10:09 A free e-book will walk you
10:11 through that LifeStart construct.
10:16 With that in mind, let's talk now about these
10:20 key lifestyle elements. I'm going to start right in order.
10:24 I'm going to start with the "L" for Liquids.
10:28 Why are liquids so important as we deal with blood pressure?
10:32 Many people are drinking beverages that are
10:36 actually contributing to high blood pressure.
10:38 One of those beverages, one of those
10:40 very popular beverage categories,
10:42 are alcoholic beverage. Drinking more than three drinks at a time
10:47 clearly raises blood pressure significantly.
10:50 I hear you saying, "Okay, Doctor DeRose, I've got it.
10:53 I'm going to keep my alcohol consumption to
10:57 less than two drinks at a time. That'll be really safe."
11:01 That's better, but even moderate drinking can be a problem.
11:06 Let me tell you some other reasons why.
11:08 If you are taking blood pressure medications,
11:11 alcoholic beverages can
11:13 interfere with the effectiveness
11:15 of many blood pressure medications.
11:17 They can also increase the side effects of many drugs.
11:23 One of the problems that drives high blood pressure is obesity.
11:27 If you're carrying extra weight,
11:29 alcohol has roughly twice as many
11:33 calories (gram for gram) as pure sugar.
11:36 That's right. Alcohol has 7 calories per gram.
11:40 Pure white sugar has 4 calories per gram. You do the math.
11:44 It's not quite double but almost, 4 versus 7.
11:48 Alcohol packs a powerful caloric load. If you drank water
11:54 every time you are tempted to reach for a beer
11:57 or an alcoholic beverage, do you see that could make a big
12:00 difference as far as your weight?
12:01 Furthermore, if you do have weight problems,
12:04 and you're consciously trying to control your
12:07 dietary habits, just drink a little bit of alcohol,
12:11 and you'll be much more likely to slip into the bad habits
12:14 that are contributing to your weight gain.
12:16 Alcohol is something that should be
12:18 off the list as far as beverages if you are trying to
12:22 optimize your blood pressure. You say, " Okay, Doctor DeRose,
12:25 you've taken away my alcoholic beverages,
12:27 but can I have my soft drinks?
12:30 Unfortunately, the research indicates that
12:33 soft drinks actually contribute to
12:37 high blood pressure through their effects on weight gain.
12:40 Soft drinks are one of the major drivers
12:44 of weight problems in the Western world,
12:47 especially those sugar-sweetened beverages.
12:50 Again, those are off the list as well.
12:55 You say, "well, what can I drink?"
12:57 Hopefully you see that I'm pointing you
13:00 in the direction of the optimal beverage,
13:02 which is water. You can get a huge amount of sugar
13:05 from those sweetened soft drinks.
13:09 You get a huge amount of alcohol from
13:10 alcoholic beverages. Both of those things
13:12 can contribute to weight gain.
13:14 They are indeed risk factors for
13:18 problems in the area of high blood pressure.
13:20 You say, "Well then, diet soft drinks.
13:23 No calories, Doctor DeRose."
13:25 A very interesting study, published not all that long ago,
13:29 looked at the connection between diet soft drinks and stroke.
13:34 This was a study that was conducted at
13:37 Columbia University in New York.
13:42 They studied some twenty 2,500 participants
13:46 in Manhattan (looking at a multi-ethnic sample).
13:49 Those individuals who drank more
13:52 diet soft drinks (in this case of this study, on a daily basis)
13:58 had a 40 percent increased risk
14:01 of having vascular events like heart attack,
14:04 stroke or death from a vascular episode.
14:09 The point is simply this: the answer is not
14:12 diet soft drinks. It's not caffeine, either.
14:16 Caffeine has been shown to raise blood pressure.
14:19 There was a fascinating study in
14:20 medical literature some years ago.
14:22 Let me just tell you the title. The title of the study was this:
14:36 This was an expert in the area of health, writing to his peers
14:43 physicians and other health researchers.
14:45 He was saying, guess what?
14:46 The relationship between caffeine (dietary caffeine
14:50 in amounts that people typically consume)
14:53 and blood pressure should be taken more seriously.
14:56 Caffeine does raise blood pressure.
15:00 It may not sound like huge numbers.
15:02 In this review, the researchers said it was
15:04 about 4 points systolic and
15:07 and 2 points diastolic is what caffeine
15:10 raises in a given individual's blood pressure.
15:13 You say, "4 points systolic--that's nothing."
15:15 When we talk about LifeStart, we're talking about 9 elements.
15:18 Those elements are combined together. When I talk about
15:22 Reversing Hypertension Naturally (in my longer series),
15:25 I give you some additional elements. The
15:27 point is not whether it's 9, whether
15:28 it's 10, whether it's 12 elements. If you
15:30 just lower your blood pressure a few
15:31 points, with each one, you can drop
15:33 your blood pressure significantly.
15:35 By the way, this is a great point
15:37 to stop and pause for a minute.
15:39 If you get serious about doing the
15:42 lifestyle things that I'm talking about
15:43 in this brief presentation,
15:45 you need to be in touch with your physician. Your medication
15:49 needs are going to decrease. You should
15:51 be checking your blood pressure regularly
15:54 if you're making changes.
15:55 Before you make any dramatic changes, talk with your doctor.
15:58 Let him or her know that you are
16:01 embarking on some lifestyle changes you heard about.
16:05 (You don't have to mention my name, Doctor DeRose.)
16:07 However, you're welcome to say you
16:09 heard from Doctor Derose, from others, or from
16:11 LifeStart Seminars, that you can lower
16:13 your blood pressure and you want to be more carefully monitored.
16:17 The bottom line is, we should be drinking more water.
16:19 If you want more information about that,
16:21 our LifeStart Seminars Website has
16:23 a lot a great resources, including a
16:26 series that I do called Longevity Plus.
16:28 This talks about drinking more water as being one of the things
16:32 that can lower our risk of a host of diseases.
16:35 We've just talked about liquids.
16:37 We've got still another 8 elements
16:38 in LifeStart I want to tell you
16:40 about that can help with your blood pressure.
16:42 The "I" stands for Interpersonal Relationships.
16:46 What we now know is that social support, social connectedness,
16:49 can actually help us lower our blood pressure.
16:52 A fascinating study from Switzerland
16:54 looked at 22 individuals with high blood pressure.
16:57 This was compared with 26 subjects
17:00 who had normal blood pressure.
17:02 What was found is, individuals that felt
17:04 they had lower levels of social support,
17:07 tended to have higher blood pressure. Did you catch this?
17:10 If you're not as connected with other people,
17:12 the research suggests you'll have higher blood pressure.
17:15 Let's stop right here.
17:16 The LifeStart Seminars are all about that. They're not
17:19 just about giving you good quality information.
17:21 They're about connecting you with other people.
17:23 Go to the lifestartseminars.com Website
17:28 and take a look. In your area,
17:31 there is likely to be a church, a business, a community group
17:35 offering the seminars.
17:37 I encourage you, if you're watching this online, to
17:39 make a point to go to some of the other presentations.
17:42 Other people will be attending, and
17:45 social support will actually help reinforce
17:48 the healthy blood pressure changes that you're following.
17:52 If you don't have a source of support
17:56 in your local area, connect with other people
18:00 through the lifestartseminars.com Website.
18:03 We actually have, in many parts of the country and
18:06 world, individuals who can actually
18:08 serve a coaching function. It doesn't mean they will come
18:11 to your house. Some of that may take place over the Internet
18:13 or over the phone. Connect with other people.
18:16 It's powerful, just like the Swiss researchers found.
18:19 The reason the connection was there, they said,
18:21 was likely because of stress hormone levels.
18:24 When you get social support, those
18:26 stress hormone levels go down.
18:28 This helps to lower blood pressure.
18:30 In fact, a very interesting insight was provided in the
18:33 very prestigious journal Nature in 2012.
18:37 Research actually found
18:38 that if you look at things like high blood pressure and obesity
18:42 (which is a risk factor for high blood pressure),
18:45 these things seem to be more related
18:47 to who we are connected with
18:49 (where we live, who our friends are).
18:51 The message from all of this is: connect with people
18:54 who will help support you on your lifestyle journey.
18:57 This is something that is being written
19:00 about in the literature as a reason
19:02 why we should focus on lifestyle coaching.
19:05 The medical research literature is
19:08 saying we need more lifestyle coaches.
19:10 This is one of the things on which
19:11 LifeStart Seminars is focused.
19:14 We've talked about liquids, we've talked about
19:16 interpersonal relationships. Let's move on to nutrition.
19:19 There's some key nutrition principles
19:21 that can help you lower your blood pressure for good.
19:24 One of them is eating more plant foods.
19:27 Second of all, if you're overweight,
19:29 get that caloric intake down
19:31 so you can drop some of that weight.
19:33 The third thing is to watch your sodium consumption
19:37 We don't have a lot of time to speak
19:38 about these things in detail.
19:40 Like I've said, I cover these in in ample detail in my series
19:45 Reversing Hypertension Naturally.
19:46 You don't need that series if you
19:48 can catch the points right here.
19:50 The first point is simply this: eat more plant products.
19:54 Here is the million dollar slide.
19:56 This slide has changed people's lives.
19:58 It comes from a a large data set involving nearly 90,000 people.
20:03 Look at it with me right here. This is looking at both
20:06 the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure.
20:09 Do you see what is being illustrated?
20:12 What they're showing you
20:13 is, as you move from left to right (going further right),
20:18 you are seeing individuals who are eating
20:21 progressively less in the way
20:24 of animal products. That dark blue bar
20:27 is representing individuals who are not vegetarians.
20:30 As you move just over to the right,
20:34 you can see the semi-vegetarians.
20:36 They're eating meat (red meat, fish, poultry) less than once
20:41 a week. They get benefit, they have less
20:44 likelihood of having high blood pressure and diabetes.
20:46 As you keep moving on to the pesco vegetarians,
20:49 they're using fish as well as many plant products.
20:54 Finally, at the the very end, the farthest most right bars in
20:58 both of these sets of data, are the
21:00 vegans (total vegetarians).
21:02 They have the lowest risk of
21:03 diabetes and high blood pressure.
21:05 From data like this, as well as
21:08 from what we call interventional studies
21:10 (like those reviewed by Doctors Bercow and Barnard),
21:13 over 80 scientific studies were published
21:17 in nutrition reviews back in 2005.
21:20 What they found consistently: eat less animal products,
21:24 more plant products and your blood pressure will go down.
21:28 Make fruits, grains and vegetables your friends.
21:32 You will get some tremendous benefits as far as lowering
21:36 blood pressure and doing it very significantly.
21:39 We need to hasten on to some of those other
21:41 dietary-related practices.
21:43 I mentioned to you losing weight.
21:46 We actually take quite a bit of time in the LifeStart series
21:51 talking about addictive behaviors,
21:52 talking about things that can help you
21:54 lose weight. We have a program on obesity and
21:58 controlling weight naturally. I really recommend that to you.
22:01 Again, lifestartseminars.com.
22:04 There's free resources, free
22:06 seminars. Take advantage of those.
22:08 I think if you're carrying those extra pounds,
22:11 if you're like many people, you're frustrated.
22:13 There's help available. We don't have time
22:15 to go into it in this presentation.
22:17 It is available through some of our other programs.
22:20 Let me just mention a little bit now about one other
22:22 dietary area, decreasing salt intake. Salt is actually driving
22:28 high blood pressure to a great extent in America.
22:31 It's true that not everyone is salt-sensitive.
22:33 We could decrease our salt intake, if
22:36 just by a half teaspoon a day.
22:38 Here's the data: the average American
22:40 is consuming one-and-a-half teaspoons of salt per day.
22:43 You say, "Well, that's not me, Doctor DeRose. I hardly use any
22:46 salt." Most of the salt we're consuming
22:48 is not with the salt shaker. It's not in a teaspoon.
22:52 It's in prepared, processed and restaurant foods.
22:56 That's where we're getting most of our salt.
22:58 The average person consumes
22:59 one-and-a-half teaspoons per day.
23:01 We could just cut that back by half a teaspoon.
23:03 Here's what research from the New England Journal
23:05 of Medicine said in 2010: if we could do that,
23:09 we would decrease our risk of strokes
23:12 and heart attacks, saving tens of thousands of lives each year.
23:16 We'd billions of dollars of health costs.
23:19 Salt seems like it's very inexpensive,
23:21 It is one of the most costly items in the American diet,
23:25 as far as the toll it is taking on our health.
23:28 Lose weight if you are overweight,
23:30 eat more plant foods. Cut down on the salt.
23:33 You will get some of the best of
23:36 what foods can offer for your blood pressure.
23:38 We need to move on now to speak about exercise.
23:41 Exercise has powerful blood pressure-lowering effects.
23:43 It's the fourth of those elements in LifeStart.
23:46 If you lose weight, that will lower your blood pressure.
23:50 Exercise alone will help drop your blood
23:53 pressure on average 4 to 6 points systolic,
23:56 and 3 points diastolic. For some people,
23:59 exercise alone can drop their blood pressure 15 points.
24:04 If you're not exercising regularly,
24:07 you need to do it. Get on a good exercise program.
24:10 It can make a huge difference in your blood pressure.
24:12 Remember to be talking with your doctor
24:14 if you're going to make big lifestyle changes.
24:17 It can make big changes in your blood pressure.
24:19 If you're on medicine, it's likely those medicines
24:22 will have to decrease or be discontinued.
24:24 There's something else you can do. It's
24:27 the next in our LifeStart elements--Sunshine.
24:29 Get ample sunshine, you'll make ample amounts of vitamin D.
24:34 Some of you, if you live far from
24:35 the equator, in the winter months
24:37 will have to take a vitamin D supplement
24:39 If there's any question, have your
24:41 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels checked.
24:43 Here's the message: vitamin D has
24:46 blood pressure-lowering effects. I've had patients with
24:49 high blood pressure. One of their problems
24:51 is they were vitamin D deficient. Get that
24:52 checked, get your vitamin D level up.
24:55 You'll get some of the best that sunshine has to offer.
24:58 We come now to the "T" in the LifeStart paradigm.
25:01 It refers to Temperance.
25:03 It's an ancient concept but a modern remedy.
25:06 It's simply, in a nutshell,
25:08 totally avoiding the things that are bad,
25:11 using things that are good in moderation.
25:14 One of those things I recommend
25:15 people with high blood pressure avoid
25:17 is what we call presser agents that raise blood pressure.
25:20 Of course we want to avoid that. One of the most common pressers
25:24 that most people take, unaware this
25:26 raises their blood pressure, are
25:28 those non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
25:30 You don't know what I'm talking about?
25:32 I'm talking about aspirin.
25:33 I'm talking about ibuprofen. I'm talking about Naproxen.
25:37 Do you understand what I'm saying?
25:38 These drugs are taken so frequently
25:40 for arthritic problems and other issues
25:42 (menstrual problems). These tend to raise blood pressure.
25:46 Work with your doctor, see if you can get
25:48 off these medications. Many cardiologists are telling us
25:51 to get away from those drugs.
25:53 One exception of a pain reliever that does not have
25:56 this tendency is acetaminophen, like found in Tylenol.
25:59 So are natural things.
26:01 Natural things, like Omega-3 fats, can help control pain
26:05 and not raise blood pressure, but rather
26:08 lower it, if anything.
26:10 Tumeric, that natural herb, can help control pain
26:14 without having apparently any blood pressure-raising effects.
26:18 Another thing on our list-- Air.
26:22 Fresh air is so important.
26:23 Tobacco is one of the main things
26:25 robbing us of good quality air.
26:27 Tobacco will raise your blood
26:29 pressure significantly, as much as 25 points
26:33 from one cigarette. As much as 25 points.
26:37 This occurs within just a few minutes.
26:39 Don't dip, don't chew,
26:41 don't smoke. If you're concerned about your blood pressure,
26:44 you need to be off of the nicotine.
26:46 I know it's been a whirlwind tour.
26:49 Some love you are getting fatigued.
26:51 It's a good thing if you can go right to sleep after this.
26:53 If you've been cutting yourself short on sleep, that's
26:56 raising your blood pressure. Getting adequate rest
26:59 actually has blood pressure-lowering properties.
27:02 Don't forget it.
27:04 This brings us to our last element,
27:06 Trust in Divine Power. Did you know
27:09 many of us are raising our blood pressure with stress?
27:12 One of the best ways to control stress,
27:15 at least I found in my own experience,
27:17 is to realize that there is Someone
27:19 beyond me who's interested in my health,
27:21 interested in the things that I'm concerned about.
27:24 I can have better sleep,
27:26 I can lay my worries aside, because I've come to know
27:30 that there is a Creator that cares about me.
27:33 You may feel differently.
27:34 Let me just tell you, from someone who was once
27:37 an agnostic, look into it. Don't write God off
27:39 just because of all the nonsense that's out there,
27:42 misrepresenting God. I'm telling it to you straight.
27:45 I didn't believe in a god because of all the
27:47 ridiculous things religious people were telling me
27:50 years ago. That's a whole other subject.
27:53 Hopefully this LifeStart paradigm
27:55 has put some tools in your hands where
27:58 you can take control of your blood
27:59 pressure once and for all and do it naturally.
28:02 For more information, go to lifestartseminars.com
28:07 I'm doctor David DeRose, wishing you the very best,
28:10 as far as naturally controlling your blood pressure.


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