Keeping blood pressure healthy ​

1. Increase activity and exercise: When exercising you increase your heart and breathing rates, over time your heart gets stronger and pumps with less effort. 

2. Reduce sugar and carbohydrates: Many scientific studies show that restricting sugar and refined carbohydrates can help you lose weight and lower your blood pressure.

3. Increase potassium and decrease sodium 

4. Reduce excess stress: Finding ways to reduce your own stress is important for your health and your blood pressure.

5. Quit smoking

6. Plants and herbs: Plants and herbs that are used by cultures throughout the world to lower blood pressure:

• black bean (Castanospermum australe)

• cat’s claw (Uncaria rhynchophylla)

• celery juice (Apium graveolens)

• Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida)

• ginger root

• giant dodder (Cuscuta reflexa)

• Indian plantago (blond psyllium)

• maritime pine bark (Pinus pinaster)

• river lily (Crinum glaucum)

• roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa)

• sesame oil (Sesamum indicum)

• tomato extract (Lycopersicon esculentum)

• tea (Camellia sinensis), especially green tea and oolong tea

• umbrella tree bark (Musanga cecropioides)