managing hypertension
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States today. Although men with heart trouble have attracted attention for years, cardiovascular disease also claims 500,000 women's lives per year, more than all cancers combined. Yet despite these staggering statistics, cardiovascular disease is totally preventable.
Western society suffers from what can best be described as diseases of excess. These include diabetes, hypertension, gout, and hyperlipidemia, all of which are major risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Unfortunately, we live in a society that has many addictions, including food, tobacco, alcohol, and even stress. These addictions are frequently the underlying cause for many of these medical problems.
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of heart attack and stroke. It is appropriately referred to as "the silent killer", since many people have hypertension and don't know it. Treating hypertension, like treating all of the other risk factors for cardiovascular disease, requires a multidisciplinary approach. This means getting to the underlying cause of the problem and making the necessary changes to reset the body toward health.
Although diet and exercise are important first step in improving blood pressure as well as decreasing blood sugar, weight and cholesterol, they are just a piece of the puzzle. We know from the American Institute of Stress that 75 to 90 percent of all visits to health care providers result from stress-related disorders. Stress leads to the release of hormones originally evolved assist us in an emergency situation. For example, if you have an auto accident and are bleeding, your body produces adrenaline to keep the blood pressure up, increase the heart rate to pump more blood to your vital organs and constrict the blood vessels to minimize blood loss. The stress hormones should absolutely be released in a state of true emergency such as this, because they can be lifesaving.
The problem is that we have evolved to a point inner culture where we are predicting these stress hormones on a daily basis and in response to events that don't even come close to being life threatening. Meetings, deadlines, rushing through traffic and answering cell phones, e-mails and faxes is just a short list of how our society is accelerating. The end result is that our body senses a threat much in the same way as if we were bleeding or being chased by a tiger.
The intriguing question is this: How can we change our responses to stress and still maintain a system that will protect us in life-threatening situations? We can offer you a unique opportunity in the area of stress management because we teach you techniques that can be learned quickly and applied immediately. The simple end result is a decrease in stress hormone production with a resultant decrease in blood pressure and heart rate. You will improve not only your physiology but your cognitive brain function as well.
Western society suffers from what can best be described as diseases of excess. These include diabetes, hypertension, gout, and hyperlipidemia, all of which are major risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Unfortunately, we live in a society that has many addictions, including food, tobacco, alcohol, and even stress. These addictions are frequently the underlying cause for many of these medical problems.
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of heart attack and stroke. It is appropriately referred to as "the silent killer", since many people have hypertension and don't know it. Treating hypertension, like treating all of the other risk factors for cardiovascular disease, requires a multidisciplinary approach. This means getting to the underlying cause of the problem and making the necessary changes to reset the body toward health.
Although diet and exercise are important first step in improving blood pressure as well as decreasing blood sugar, weight and cholesterol, they are just a piece of the puzzle. We know from the American Institute of Stress that 75 to 90 percent of all visits to health care providers result from stress-related disorders. Stress leads to the release of hormones originally evolved assist us in an emergency situation. For example, if you have an auto accident and are bleeding, your body produces adrenaline to keep the blood pressure up, increase the heart rate to pump more blood to your vital organs and constrict the blood vessels to minimize blood loss. The stress hormones should absolutely be released in a state of true emergency such as this, because they can be lifesaving.
The problem is that we have evolved to a point inner culture where we are predicting these stress hormones on a daily basis and in response to events that don't even come close to being life threatening. Meetings, deadlines, rushing through traffic and answering cell phones, e-mails and faxes is just a short list of how our society is accelerating. The end result is that our body senses a threat much in the same way as if we were bleeding or being chased by a tiger.
The intriguing question is this: How can we change our responses to stress and still maintain a system that will protect us in life-threatening situations? We can offer you a unique opportunity in the area of stress management because we teach you techniques that can be learned quickly and applied immediately. The simple end result is a decrease in stress hormone production with a resultant decrease in blood pressure and heart rate. You will improve not only your physiology but your cognitive brain function as well.
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Give yourself and everyone around you a gift.