2 Simple Things Lowered My Blood Pressure Without Meds

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Facebook will notice the main page of the contest. Go to Twitter, Instagram or tick tock if you want a 60 second version of our show and we'll also have the podcast available just to let you know. You'd think we'd never done this before, that's right, anyway, let's keep going, Brad, I was finding that my blood pressure was going up a little bit, it wasn't terrible, but it was. I had some measurements that were in the 140s for right systolic and uh, it was up to 88 like diastolic 88, yeah, so it's starting to get there, yeah, yeah, well, you're getting into that warning sign, and no.

I know if it's because of working with you or well, that could be it. a problem that is always uh that's what my wife says anyway, I tried a few things and uh I really don't know which one of them worked best. I hope she doesn't watch this video, yeah, I hope she doesn't watch us. Sorry, so I tried two things and one thing that worked for my wife was eating ground flax seeds and she just takes a couple tablespoons of that in the morning, I think two tablespoons in the morning and you just mix it with your know your oats or that's what I put in it I put it in my yogurt you put it in your yeah because I started taking it a few months ago and you're supposed to take the dirt, the ground kind, yeah I get the organic dirt, yeah, You know, if you eat the whole seed, it's probably like this, a Canadian study found that eating 30 grams of flax seeds a day for six months reduced systolic and diastolic pressure by 10 millimeters per mercury and seven millimeters per mercury, respectively, so that up and down, yes, up and down. the bottom, and you know, I've had more than that, I have more gout than that, so I think maybe both of those things are working, so the second thing, do you want to hear it?

So, the first thing was flaxseed. linseed, okay, the second thing was: do you remember that book you lent me about breathing? Oh, yeah, yeah, so in this book about breathing they did an experiment where the guy actually covered his nose, his nose and his friend's nose, because I thought it was a month. I don't remember how much time passed, but he was so he was just reading the mouth during that time his blood pressure went up a lot his anxiety levels went up a lot everything was bad, right? I remember yeah the book is breath I think it breathes it breathes or something in the yellow book yeah it breathes there and it does uh there's a number of studies in there that say that's it so I also looked online and yeah , there are studies that support that those who breathe through the nose have lower blood pressure than those who breathe through the mouth. breathe now, I've been a mouth breather my whole life and I believe it, and part of it is because I don't breathe through one of my basils, you're clogged a little bit on that side, yeah, congested or deviated septum there. you say, yeah, so I started and you mentioned this and that's where I got it from and I don't know if you got it from the book, but I started at night by covering my mouth with duct tape, yeah, my wife really appreciates this very well.

I have done it and so has my wife and you have a nice tape here yes this is the tape we are using where is that? Yeah, next care, next care, it's just a surgical tape like uh uh, it doesn't hurt and it's hyperallergenic. It's for sensitive skin, yes, yes, so to be honest with you, I've actually used duct tape. I'm surprised you don't use it well. It's a little cheaper than this. Yes, it will work fine. I just thought I'd put it up. there like that, yeah, that's what I do, yeah, oh, it's a little weird, no, it's weird, but it works and the only thing I found and sometimes I had trouble breathing through my nose at night.

I wake up, yes, and you, if you have trouble breathing. your mouth separates enough to start breathing through your mouth again, right, you don't seal it, yeah, so I started using the breathing rights, yeah, well, the other one, I wanted to mention about them, the recording here , I was doing it because of dry mouth. Oh right, I woke up and my mouth felt like it was sandpaper, it's not fun, but it was useful for that, I don't eat it anymore, I don't have that problem, you know, the same thing seems to be correct too, I might be wrong . this, but it seems like my teeth are whiter, like no, I don't know, no, I'm serious, I think Dennis, you have to control your blood pressure, this has a lot of benefits, yeah, so anyway I started to use the Breath Right strips, it is right here where yes, they pull you, they have a spring, you stick them with adhesive tape and they separate the nostrils.

I had never had a mother before. I thought it was a group of people that I thought it was like that, it feels like you open them, now the only problem I have with these brads is, one, no, you keep buying them, but two, they start to irritate the skin a little. I started just sitting in that well. it's because you are sensitive yes I have a sensitive boy so again we continue to breathe well through the nose so blood pressure my daughter recommended these are called nose vents they are plastic I don't know what they are hard plastic oh , soft, they are soft, yes, so you can stuff them into your nostrils.

I know this is gross, yes that is gross, but now it works. The only thing they remain quite good at. Yes, they actually work better than those. I think the breathing rate, but sometimes they can fall off and you find them in bed, you know, but I prefer these, so I put this on and took the tape, so all of this led to my blood pressure being 142 over 88 and down. up to 117 over 78 pretty consistently, so I think you know that, so it wasn't the flaxseed, it wasn't part of that fall, they were both good, so I don't know which one did it or I think.

They both did, yeah, to be honest, because, if you're already on blood pressure medication, you want to make sure that you can get your doctor to check you well, yeah, exactly. Blood flax seeds also lower blood pressure in people who were also taking medications, so you want to make sure it's okay to reduce them further. Oh, right, you don't want to go too low, that's for sure, and flaxseed has a lot of other nutrients, other nutrients that you know are healthy. You have some fiber, yeah, it's good for gut health, yeah, and for your microbiome, so brad coil massage, uh, massage bob and brad pressure, blood pressure cup, it's very easy to use, It actually does a few things like it tells you which direction the shoulder is facing. is and where they are we should be easy to use easy to use now the thing is I don't know if you can hear that measure, it actually talks to you, yes, then it answers if no, yes, so it does. easy so you know where you're right and at the end it tells you the measurement and tells you if it's high or low it's fine so if you have vision problems or are unsure understand that my only criticism of our own unit. here is it fills up very slowly oh you know they used to have music remember yeah I didn't like that at first but after a couple of times like oh yeah it's a little relaxing but you know this is something you shouldn't do when you're in a hurry, no , you should take your blood pressure in a relaxed state, you should sit and relax for a few minutes, but I've heard five minutes, five minutes and you should sit at 90 so your feet aren't dangling, you don't have your feet on, you know, Bob It's 90 degrees, oh, look at that 107 over 74.

Yeah, very relaxed around you, well, yeah, look, I didn't think it was me with a pulse of 67 over normal, yeah, that's normal, no, I didn't. I liked these units because I always felt they weren't very accurate, but I just had my blood pressure taken in the hospital and it correlated with this and I've been using this. one for months and it stayed stable, my wife was going up and down because she was lying down while doing this sitting all day and like you said it should be the same time every day, you want to make sure you are in the same position, because I know the Mine gets weird when I go to bed, yeah, oh sure, it's just physics at work, yeah, sure, your heart doesn't have to pump and whatever, huh, but anyway, yeah, I always get I like to take mine in the morning in the same chair in the same position and I do the same thing I put a pillow because in my recoverer I put a pillow there you want to have it close to heart level yeah, the cup so here we go friends, okay, good luck with your blood pressure, yeah let's see if we can get ourselves down, I tried a couple of these things, you know you really can, your partner in bed will be really delighted with you, yes, yes, but remember you don't want to get too low either, well I No.

I don't think most people are worried about that issue, but there are some people that if they're taking blood pressure medication they have to worry about it, so okay, good luck and be careful, yeah.