Re: high blood pressure question

[Guest guest]

Redmond Salt IS real sea salt! In the United States in the area of

Utah there was once an inland sea which covered a very large area of

land extending far beyong the present boundaries of the state of

Utah. All that's left now of the sea is the great Salt Lake. But

that's just the water... not the sea bed and shores which were and

are rich with sea salt which has been covered over by earth. This is

pure sea salt which has not been contaminated. I have been using it

for may years. It is available over the internet and in health food

stores as well as in many high end grocery stores. It isn't better

than the other pure and properly handled sea salts I don't think.

It's simply another good option from which to choose.

Good info ! Thanks!

Astrea

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> SALT: Sea salt is best: highest mineral content. When you add

salt to

> water, use a measuring teaspoon. The rule of thumb is 1/8 teaspoon

for

> every 16 oz.; 1/4 teaspoon for every 32 oz (1 quart); 1/2

teaspoon for 64

> oz., or 1 full teaspoon for 1 gallon. (Some people will need less

salt,

> others more). This is a starting point, not a set rule. You can

just add

> the salt to your food or add the salt to the water and shake or

stir it.

> The best way is to just throw the salt into your mouth and chase it

with

> water.

>

> this is taken from the watercure2.com site.

> I am presently drinking half my weight in oz of water, and I do

salt my

> food etc with Real Salt, and I had a hard time drinking that salty

of water

> so I cut the salt in half.

> Our naturpath has said that you can drink a lot of water, but your

body

> doesn't hydrate unless it has some salt in it.

> so presently, I am doing 1/4 tsp per 64 oz of water. The site

also says to

> divide the amount you need to drink into 5 or 6 times a day, and

drink that

> amount within a couple minutes, do not just sip it. I set my

timer for

> every 2 hrs and drink it down.

> K

> >>

> >> But how MUCH sea salt?

>

[Guest guest]

If you go and join the adrenals site

(NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS ) there is a whole protocol

on what supplements to take etc. they were recommending I believe 8,000

mg's a day.

So I bought 1000 mg capsules and also the powered Vit C.

SeaLady

[Guest guest]

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> my mother in law has been experiencing pain in her left arm during the

> past week and her blood pressure was measured at 220/120. doc put her

> on blood pressure meds and she is going in tomorrow for a work up to

> check her heart.

>

> anyhow, she is very much into alternative medicine but was scared

> enough by her blood pressure to go on meds, but wants to pursue

> alternative healing routes as well.

Is it possible she has any neck/spinal misalignment issues? These

accumulate with age and in older people they can be very severe at

times. Even modest and highly reversible misalignments can cause

increases in blood pressure. She may want to get examined by a

chiropractor to see -- I personally would recommend a NUCCA

chiropractor. They are few and far between but if you google " NUCCA "

you'll come up with the web site and you can click through it to find

a practioner in your area. There was a recent study that found one

subtle NUCCA adjustment had the effect of two blood pressure meds

combined in people with neck misalignment and high blood pressure.

> any suggestions? her diet is pretty clean and has been for i would say

> about 5 years. she mostly eats meat and veggies. I was thinking she

> should work with someone like Dr. Cowan?

Does she use added salt? Salt doesn't inherently increase BP, but in

a large portion of people with high BP, it does. Also, in healthy

people given potassium-deficient diets, it also does. Some other

minerals, especially magnesium, might lower blood pressure. So she

might try reducing sallt and increase magnesium and potassium.

Chris

[Guest guest]

here's an article by Dr. Cowan.

http://www.westonaprice.org/askdoctor/high-bloodpressure.html

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> hi all,

>

> my mother in law has been experiencing pain in her left arm during the

> past week and her blood pressure was measured at 220/120. doc put her

> on blood pressure meds and she is going in tomorrow for a work up to

> check her heart.

>

> anyhow, she is very much into alternative medicine but was scared

> enough by her blood pressure to go on meds, but wants to pursue

> alternative healing routes as well.

>

> any suggestions? her diet is pretty clean and has been for i would say

> about 5 years. she mostly eats meat and veggies. I was thinking she

> should work with someone like Dr. Cowan?

>

> thanks,

>

>

[Guest guest]

By the way, it is possible that eating a low-PUFA diet would help.

The first attempt to induce essential fatty acid deficiency in a human

was in a graduate student named Brown in the lab of Burr and Burr who

discovered and named the EFAs. He ate a highly purified, rather

abominable, diet for six months that had virtually no EFAs whatsoever

(and not any significant fat either). Total saturation of his blood

lipids went up, or put another way, unsaturation decreased by 25%

(because his body was making SFA and MUFA from carbohydrate), and

linoleic and arachidonic acids decreased 50%. He suffered no adverse

symptoms, but his considerably high blood pressure normalized and his

life-long problem with migraines disappeared. When he went back on a

normal diet, the migraines never returned, but his blood pressure went

back to being quite high.

Chris

[Guest guest]

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I have become a huge believer in magnesium. That would be the first

thing I'd have your MIL try. Read The Miracle of Magnesium by Dr.

Carol Dean. She should use Magnesium Citrate (less irritating to the

bowels) and basically take it to bowel tolerance initially. Within a

few days of taking large doses of Mg I was able to get of heart

medication that I'd been on for 25 years and avoid adding blood

pressure meds. It truly is a " miracle " mineral.

>

> hi all,

>

> my mother in law has been experiencing pain in her left arm during

the

> past week and her blood pressure was measured at 220/120. doc put

her

> on blood pressure meds and she is going in tomorrow for a work up to

> check her heart.

>

> anyhow, she is very much into alternative medicine but was scared

> enough by her blood pressure to go on meds, but wants to pursue

> alternative healing routes as well.

>

> any suggestions? her diet is pretty clean and has been for i would

say

> about 5 years. she mostly eats meat and veggies. I was thinking she

> should work with someone like Dr. Cowan?

>

> thanks,

>

>