Controlling High Blood Pressure through Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Lifestyle, and Drugs

Controlling High Blood Pressure through Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Lifestyle, and Drugs helps prevent and treat high blood pressure and hypertension, the most common primary diagnosis in the United States and a leading cause of heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, and stroke.

Written by two leading experts in nutrition and hypertension, it takes an integrative and evidence-based approach based on scientific research and clinical studies. It explains what causes high blood pressure and includes easy-to-follow solutions for patients that help to treat and prevent it. These include:

• The ideal drugs to reduce blood pressure with fewest side effects and optimal efficacy
• A nutrition program to reduce weight and lower the risk of a cardiovascular problem
• A comprehensive review of nutritional supplements to improve blood pressure control and reduce cardiovascular disease
• A review of lifestyle changes to improve blood pressure such as a detailed exercise program.

This book is for doctors, nutritionists, naturopaths, pharmacists and other health practitioners as well as anyone with a family history of hypertension or overt blood pressure issues that would like to make better and healthier lifestyle choices.