Hypertension: How an integrative, problem-solving approach can help
LIVE HYPERTENSION - HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE - MY EXPERIENCE IN THE OFFICE
In a live held in 2016, I explain everything about the subject of hypertension (high blood pressure).
INSTAGRAM POSTS ON THE SUBJECT:
JULY 2026:
⚠️ What You Need to Know Most
(in my well-founded opinion):
✅ The best way to keep your blood pressure under control is to drink enough water every hour, exercise regularly, and reduce stress (or cope with it better)
✅ Yes, many people have high blood pressure due to a lack of magnesium and potassium in their diet and/or supplementation (when necessary)
✅ Except in emergencies, no one should just take “blood pressure medication” without investigating the causes and addressing them: high blood pressure may just be a sign of something potentially more serious—in these cases, simply taking the medication “masks the symptoms,” but it doesn’t “put out the fire” (which will one day resurface in a much more intense and damaging way)
✅ Poor diet, lack of sleep, and inflammation can also cause or worsen blood pressure problems. So can smoking and drinking too much
✅ The more body fat you have, the greater your chances of developing high blood pressure
✅ No one can control their blood pressure in a truly healthy way just by taking medication
✅ You know that woman who always had blood pressure that “tended to be low,” but as she’s gotten older, her blood pressure has “become normal”? She may develop high blood pressure in a few years: the walls of her arteries are likely stiffening and becoming increasingly clogged with plaque,
✅ An unhealthy lifestyle is the leading cause and contributing factor to high blood pressure worldwide. Address this issue with the free guide at https://dominesuasaude.com.br/
✅ People who take diuretics may experience increased dehydration and the loss of vitamins (B and C) and minerals through urine: it is best to assess this and, if necessary, replenish them
✅ Fluctuating blood pressure even while taking medication (sometimes even getting too low) = likely incomplete treatment of the underlying causes
✅ Drinking hibiscus tea 2 to 3 times a day can help regulate blood pressure
Please share these simple tips as widely as possible—they could save someone’s health or even their life!
And feel free to leave a comment or ask a question.
JUNE/2023:
It's very common for patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) to think that when they take antihypertensive drugs (drugs to “lower the pressure”) they are treating the causes of their high blood pressure... They're not. These drugs “force” the body to reduce blood pressure, but most of the time they do NOT act on the causes.
⚠️ Resolving these ERRORS can help solve the problem or at least improve treatment results.
- Improving Life Habits (icaro.med.br/12Habitos), above all drinking water properly and regularly, maintaining an exercise routine, improving diet, avoiding abuse of alcohol, smoking and stimulants / energy drinks and reducing stress (and learning to deal with it better).
- Optimize levels of magnesium, potassium and vitamin D in the body
- Correct hormonal disorders (thyroid, cortisol, testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, etc.)
- See which other drugs may be raising your blood pressure
- Take the necessary supplements for your case, such as Omega3, Coenzyme Q10, Vitamin C, curcumin, resveratrol, quercetin, berberine, pomegranate, etc (icaro.med.br/supplementation)
- Fighting overweight and obesity
- Detailed periodic check-ups (imbalances/diseases in other organs and systems can raise blood pressure), especially with good (and up-to-date) cardiologists
- Avoid excessive consumption of “common salt”
If you only take medicines to prevent and/or treat, you're missing out on a lot of important things
Hypertension = High Blood Pressure Our pressure naturally rises in various situations, such as at the start of physical activity, in stressful situations, when we ingest too much common salt, among others - in several cases this rise is necessary, above all to improve the arrival of blood to various areas of the body; in other cases, when the body experiences it, it uses mechanisms to reduce/balance the pressure, such as triggering thirst, increasing kidney function, etc.
In isolated episodes of increased blood pressure, when they cause symptoms such as headache, dizziness, impaired vision, chest pain (among others, some of these or associated), the most common thing is for people to go to the emergency room (or their trusted doctors) and resort to pressure-lowering drugs, the antihypertensives.
The problems with this approach (only medicating when there is an increase) are: - There are significant increases in pressure, potentially dangerous, without associated symptoms. Watch out! Regularly measure your blood pressure and identify the disorder when it is apparently “silent”; - Often, those who have sporadic episodes of high blood pressure do NOT try to resolve the CAUSES of these episodes and, as a result, over the years, the condition worsens and they end up developing chronic hypertension, with all its complications; - Unfortunately, often there is not even “time” to develop the chronic condition: some patients progress straight to a stroke or heart attack and end up with sequelae or even dying.
We most commonly refer to the DISEASE “high blood pressure” or hypertension in relation to the CHRONIC condition of elevated blood pressure, i.e. basically when the pressure is increased in several measurements, at different times on different days in the near future. If the diagnosis is simple, however, the treatment is not so much: most people think that treating high blood pressure is mainly “taking medication for life” and this is WRONG!
Medicines HELP reduce blood pressure, but they don't work “miracles on their own”: medicines that “lower blood pressure” do NOT solve the causes of high blood pressure and can therefore “lose their potency” over time, so they have to be changed or their doses increased or combined with others in order to continue controlling the pressure.
🧑🏻⚕️ I treat many patients with hypertension in my office and I see that many can reduce their use of medication (and, in some cases, even stop needing it) when they pay proper attention to these factors... Your good doctor will know how to address them in the best possible way, ok?
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