Lower Blood Pressure Naturally

Lower Blood Pressure Naturally

Discover How Ganoderma lucidum May Lower Blood Pressure Naturally!

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 50 million people over the age of six, 1 in 4 adults, and two thirds of Americans age 65 and older have high blood pressure.

What is even more amazing is that 30% of those with high blood pressure do not even know they have it. This is because high blood pressure has no symptoms, thus the name "the silent killer".
High blood pressure is the number one risk factor for stroke and contributes to the development of heart disease, heart failure, atherosclerosis, aneurysm, kidney failure and can damage the brain and eyes.

So let's get educated and learn about blood pressure, high blood pressure, what the numbers mean, and how Ganoderma lucidum may help lower blood pressure naturally.

What Is Blood Pressure?

When your heart beats, it forces blood into the arteries and this forcing of the blood into the arteries creates pressure. Another contributing factor to blood pressure is the arteries natural resistance to the flow of blood through them.

The pressure of your blood rises with each heart beat and falls when your heart rests between beats and constantly changes depending on what you are doing. It will rise when you are active and falls when you are at rest or sleeping.
Another thing that causes your blood pressure to rise and fall is specific nerve impulses that cause your arteries to dilate or contract. If your arteries are dilated (relaxed) blood can flow very easily but if they are contracted (tightened) blood flow is diminished and the pressure in the blood system goes up. We will see later that this is the main way Ganoderma help with high blood pressure.

Blood pressure is made up of two pressure readings:

Systolic pressure, this is the pressure when the heart is actually beating.

Diastolic pressure, this is the pressure between beats when the heart is resting.

The systolic pressure is always listed first and the diastolic pressure second.

What Is High Blood Pressure?

Blood pressure is measured in mmHg (millimeters of Mercury). Unlike a normal reading of 120 over 80mmHg, high blood pressure is defined in adults as a systolic reading of 140mmHg or greater and a diastolic reading of 90mmHg or greater.

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What Do The Numbers Mean?

American Heart Association recommended blood pressure levels:

SYSTOLIC DIASTOLIC DIAGNOSIS

less than 120 and less than 80 Normal

120-139 or 80-89 Pre-hypertension

140-159 or 90-99 Stage 1 High

160 and higher or 100 and higher Stage 2 High

Who Is Likely To Have High Blood Pressure?

High blood pressure can occur in any one of any age but is most common in those 35 and older. It is also more common in African Americans, middle aged, the elderly, people who are obese, heavy drinkers of alcohol, women on birth control and people with diabetes.

Remember just because your high blood pressure is not eliciting symptoms does not mean that it is not doing damage. Like mentioned before it is the silent killer and as your blood pressure goes up so does the chance of developing a risk factor. The risk doubles for every increase of 20mmHg of systolic pressure or 10mmHg of diastolic pressure.

So How May Ganoderma lucidum Lower Blood Pressure Naturally?

Traditionally Ganoderma lucidum has been used for atherosclerosis, heart problems, blood clots, insomnia, nervous conditions, toxic liver, stomach problems and to lower high blood pressure naturally.

In Terry Willard's book Reishi Mushroom (Ganoderma lucidium) Herb Of Spiritual Potency And Medical Wonder. He talks about a six month clinical trial in Japan involving patients with high blood pressure being treated with Ganoderma lucidum.

At the end of the study 10% had their systolic pressure decrease 20-29mmHg. 47.5% had a decrease of systolic pressure of 10-19mmHg.

For diastolic pressure 17.5% decreased 10-14mmHg and 42.5% had a decrease of 5-9mmHg.

There was another benefit in this test in that there was a mean reduction in cholesterol from 216.2 to 201. The reduction was seen in the bad LDL cholesterol not the good HDL cholesterol.

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It is believed that the many different triterpenes that Ganoderma has are responsible for the anti-hypertensive properties that Ganoderma lucidum seems to exhibit may help Ganoderma to lower blood pressure naturally.