I just had a gratifying visit in the office.? I have many patients who would like to shuck their medications for natural approaches to healing their many complex and chronic conditions.? This particular lady, like many others was taking blood pressure medicine for a blood pressure that exceeded the safe guidelines that are well-known to every primary care doctor and cardiologist.? Her blood pressure was running from 160-170 over 100 plus off and on and then returning to the more healthy range below 140/90. We offered the standard promise that we would do our best to help her become as healthy as possible and address all the possible nutritional problems we could discover.? We also prayed with her that she would find the peace she needs to let her body rest as it heals while we dealt with troubling emotional roots like those that almost everyone else has.
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Surprise, surprise, surprise!? By restoring normal sleep patterns with nutritional support, adding fish oils (6 grams per day) for mood and cardiovascular support, magnesium malate for smooth muscle relaxation and general health enhancement diet and exercise advice her blood pressure (unmedicated) was 132/72 this morning (she had been checking it at home and it showed a steady delicne over the last two months).? I used to think that it was fairly rare to be able to take people off their blood pressure medication because the roots of hypertenaion are so poorly understood.? It seems I was wrong again.? The roots of?most maladaptive physiology can be unearthed through applying healthy recovery techniques like diet, execise, supplementation and emotional healing work.? It definitely worked in this case.
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This was the second patient this year that came with this exact health problem and desire.? I used to be reluctant to encourage them to hope for a "non-drug" solution to their problem.? They were both willing to take on their health challenges and conquer their hypertension.? It depends heavily on the commitment of the individual that has the need.? High levels of commitment result in better outcomes across-the-board.? When people are ready to "do whatever it takes" they usually wind up getting those "miraculous results!"? The traditional medical approach makes the assumption that all people have similar levels of motivation and therefore need a "standardized" type of care.?? These ladies proved that the opposite is true.? Every person deserves to be offered the highest possibility as well as the least common denominator.? I like to think that my patients have chosen to reach for the stars when it comes to their health.? If everyoen did, it would be a different world out there.
