Andreas Moritz on Borderline Hypertension aka High Blood Pressure

Here is what Andreas Moritz, a healer I trust, says on www.curezone.com regarding the question of a woman regarding her husband’s “borderline hypertension aka high blood pressure”.

http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=493274#i

Question:

Hi Andreas. My husband was diagnosed with borderline hypertension a few months ago. He has watched his eating habits (though he’s certainly not perfect), flushes his liver on a regular basis, and regularly gets out stones. He’s taking fish oil, coq10, and eats reasonably healthy, as I already stated.

I have read here at Curezone that hypertension is relatively easy to cure by doing a kidney cleanse and detoxing. Is this true to your knowledge? Hulda Clarke said that usually hypertension can be traced to cadmium overload, and that a kidney cleanse always helps.

We purchased one of those blood pressure monitors and his blood pressure fluctuates from 122/80 to up to 135/95. There isn’t a lot of consistancy. We don’t know if his treatments are making matters better or no, because of the fluctuations.

What is the root cause of hypertension, Andreas? Is it heavy metal toxicity, which can be easily remedied by a kidney cleanse? Should he up his dose of fish oil? What do you advise people to do in this type of situation?

Thanks so much for your wisdom and advice. I hope you don’t have to keep working 12 hour days indefinitely!
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Answer:

You didn’t mention his age. His borderline blood pressure may actually be
completely normal for him, and for his age. The recommended “normal blood
pressure” has been “adjusted” so many times that I would not give any
credence to those who claim they know what is normal for a person.
Different body types have different blood pressures. Plus,they fluctuate
all the time. There are millions out there who suffer from a false
positive hypertenstion diagnosis. I wrote quite a bit on this subject in
my book Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation (ener-chi.com). See
the excerpt below.

The biggest cause of hypertension is not drinking enough water and
avoiding real salt (normal table salt should be avoided). Lack of water
consumption thickens the blood, reduces blood volume and thereby forces
the blood vessels to tighten, which increases the blood pressure. Also,
eating proteins foods leads to thickening of the basal membranes of blood
vessel walls, also tightening the blood vessels. If this happens in the
kidneys, it can damage them and lead to permanent hypertension. The
kidneys greatly benefit from the kidney cleanse (see my book The Amazing
Liver and Gallbladder Flush, ener-chi.com) ,which also help balance
elevated blood pressure.

” Hypertension Produced in the Doctor’s Office?

If your visit to the doctor is accompanied by the fear of anticipating a
serious physical problem, your anxiety may trigger a stress response and
raise your blood pressure. This phenomenon is known as “white-coat
hypertension.” While the doctor is measuring your blood pressure (using
the old system of measurement), the pressure of the inflating cuff against
your blood vessels and accompanying nerves raises it even more. By the
time the pressure in the cuff is lowered to read the pulsation level, you
inevitably have an artificially raised blood pressure. Both factors, the
anxiety and the taking of the blood pressure, may be sufficient to “make”
a person hypertensive.

A healthy blood pressure can vary tremendously – as much as 30 mm Hg –
over the cause of any day. To be really certain that you are hypertensive,
the doctor would either have to take several readings each day over a
period of six months (as recommended by the WHO) or give you a portable
electronic device to do the same. Another problem arises because the
systolic blood pressure may vary between each arm by as much as 8 mm Hg.
In some cases the difference can be up to 20 mm Hg.

Also, there is the question whether the doctor or health care worker takes
the blood pressure while the person lying down, then sitting, then
standing? If the person is asked to stand, how long does the doctor wait
before taking the blood pressure? And, is he checking the person’s heart
rate in the three different positions? Just taking a blood pressure when
the person is sitting will not tell him much about what happens when he is
standing for any amount of time. But who is the patient that asks his
doctor to do all that? The general mode of behavior I in a doctor’s office
is to let the doctor do his job without questioning him. A recent study
revealed that more than 70 percent of health care workers failed to use
the proper arm position established by the American Heart Association.
This position calls for the elbow to be slightly flexed and held at heart
level.

In a study from the University of California, San Diego, 100 subjects were
given six blood pressure readings in different positions. The researchers
found that when subjects were seated with the arm perpendicular to the
body, hypertension was recorded in 22 percent. But when the same subjects
held the arm parallel to the body, 41 percentshowed BP readings indicating
high blood pressure. This raises a very important question: “How many
people leave the doctor’s office or hospital with a blood pressure
prescription in hand who ‘suffer’ from high blood pressure because the
doctor or nurse didn’t follow the proper measurement guidelines?” My
conservative estimate is, hundreds of thousands of them.

With regard to testing the blood pressure in pregnant women, there is no
consensus as yet on which of the several available tests are truly
reliable.

Furthermore, high blood pressure often is a temporary stress-related
phenomenon and returns to normal after things calm down. In the case of
white-coat hypertension, your blood pressure may drop to normal levels
soon after you leave the doctor’s surgery. But whether your blood pressure
is chronically elevated or not, you may be asked to take anti-hypertensive
drugs that have little or no effect on your real condition, but may
produce severe side effects including headaches, lethargy, nausea,
sleepiness, and impotence. Anti-hypertensive drugs are so popular today
because patients believe that just by swallowing a pill a day they can
prevent a possible heart attack. Research published in 1997 by the Journal
of the American Medical Association found that drugs for high blood
pressure may be over-prescribed, especially if blood pressure measurements
are taken by the doctor instead of by the portable device used for
ambulatory monitoring.

Mass-producing Hypertensive Patients

What is more disturbing in all that is that the medical system is trying
to create a problem where there is none. What is considered to be “normal”
blood pressure has been modified nearly a dozen times in the past 30
years. The American Medical Association’s recommendations now cite
anything over 115/70 as being “high.” Just 6 years ago, that number was
140/90, which is actually still quite low. Perhaps, soon everyone with
100/60 may be considered at risk. How far do they want to take this
deception before everyone is declared as being in the risk group for high
blood pressure?

We are certainly heading in the wrong direction with our medication
policies in the U.S. other countries. We have indiscriminately turned huge
portions of the population into hypertensive patients that in actual fact
are not sick at all. According to a recent Reuters online article, a Ben
Gurion University study with 500 subjects showed that patients over 70
years old with what modern standards call “mild hypertension” actually
thought more clearly and creatively than those with lower blood pressure.
Both men and women in the study whose blood pressure was deemed high
enough to warrant treatment with prescription drugs – and also those with
clinically uncontrolled (untreated) hypertension – performed significantly
better on tests of cognitive function, memory, concentration, and visual
retention. Surprisingly, those with “normal” blood pressure showed the
worst performance among all three groups in the study. The research
clearly implies over-medication of senior citizens, not just for blood
pressure. Just as we have seen with blood cholesterol levels, a normal
blood pressure among the elderly population is naturally higher than it is
for the younger population. Suppressing their blood pressure down with
side-effect causing drugs is not only harmful to their brain cells and
other parts of the body, but it is highly unethical, too.

It is a well know fact that high blood pressure is not responsible for
causing heart disease; it is heart disease that causes high blood
pressure. Despite the large amounts of hypertensive drugs and other heart
medication being pushed by the medical industry, mortality rates have not
improved. Quite to the contrary, the side effects are often severe and
include collapse of the lungs and heart attacks.

By contrast, there are many controlled studies, which show that relaxation
therapies, and a change of diet and lifestyle can lower a person’s blood
pressure faster and more consistently than medication. Going on a balanced
vegetarian diet alone can normalize blood pressure on a permanent basis.
The water therapy described earlier on is also a natural and quick method
to restore normal blood pressure. The daily full body oil massage and all
the other cleansing methods described in this book can significantly
improve blood pressure, too. In many cases, a series of liver cleanses and
one or two kidney cleanses are sufficient to eliminate hypertension
altogether.

There is one more widespread myth about blood pressure that most people –
and their doctors – don’t seem to know about:

While research has established that mortality rates remain uninfluenced by
the drugs, their side effects are often severe and include collapse of the
lungs and heart attacks. By contrast, there are many controlled studies,
which show that relaxation therapies, and a change of diet and lifestyle
can lower a person’s blood pressure faster and more consistently than
medication. Going on a balanced vegetarian diet alone can normalize blood
pressure on a permanent basis. The water therapy described earlier on is
also a natural and quick method to restore normal blood pressure.
Furthermore, the daily full body oil massage (especially with sesame oil)
greatly benefits blood pressure. Also if taken internally as a cooking oil
or salad dressing, sesame oil helps reduce high blood pressure and
dependence on medication. According to a recent study, participants
(average age 58 years) consumed 35 grams of sesame oil a day for 60 days
and thereby lowered their blood pressure readings from an average of
166/101 to 134/84.”

Andreas