How can I reduce my blood pressure naturally?

[Rasel Ali (IT)]

All the answers talking about healthy eating, exercise, keeping your weight down and so on are absolutely right. I should say that I'm extremely sceptical, though, about the whole “Going to the Gym and Taking Exercise” thing, and the chances of your losing weight by exercising are minimal, so please don't put your faith in that. It's a money-making industry, mostly being sold to people worried about their weight and blood pressure.

As someone whose childhood years were spent in the postwar, post-rationing environment of the UK, I was conditioned almost from birth not to leave anything on the plate, and to like filling, carbohydrate-laden food. Our parents and grandparents had known real shortages of food, and were determined that we would never go hungry. There's an entire generation of people like me, and a great many of us have always struggled to keep our weight down. I'm fortunate in having excellent health, but I have had high blood pressure for at least twenty years - kept within reasonable bounds by tablets, but only just. We eat very healthily, we go for walks, I don't smoke at all and don't drink much, but despite this, still high blood pressure.

A few weeks ago, my GP wanted to do her annual review of my medication, and asked me to check my blood pressure twice a day for a week. I was amazed - I haven't seen BP figures like that for over 20 years, perhaps nearer 30! So what's changed?

As lots of my friends on here know, I've had two knee replacement operations in the past few years. I hadn't realised how painful my knees were, until they weren't! I can move so easily and freely now, and feel so fit and energetic - I feel at least 20 years younger, perhaps nearer 30.

20, perhaps nearer 30. Now there's a coincidence of numbers…

We all know that correlation is not proof of cause and effect. But I did Google this, and yes: there is increasing evidence that sorting out arthritic knees and hips works wonders for blood pressure. I'm not consciously “taking exercise,” and I've still never gone to a gym, but I'm just far more active than I was. I do old-fashioned things like walking to the shops, rather than taking the car, from choice, because I feel like it; I just want to be up and doing.

And that costs nothing and works wonders for blood pressure

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