Hi everyone,

I suffer from high blood pressure. I've been trying various things to get it down. These have included:

Eating 2 to 3 'teeth' of garlic a day.

Not adding salt to anything.

Taking a 500mg Potassium Orate tablet daily.

Just recently I've tried drinking loads of green tea.

Imagine my horror this evening when I measured my blood pressure and it was not its sometimes 140/80 to its 150/100 but had climbed to 165/100

Could this be the green tea (or the caffine in it) speeding up my metabolism? In all the literature I've read on green tea it says it reduces high blood pressure.

I'm going off green tea for a few days to see if that's the culprit.

Any ideas anyone?

Regards,

Robert

Hi Robert,

The short answer would be yes, caffeine would do that. I drink decaffeinated green tea. Green and black tea contains antioxidants.

You are seeing a doctor for your HBP, right?

Cheers!

Thanks Kristine,

I'll get some green tea extract when I go back to Britain at Christmas and stop drinking the real stuff.

I saw my doctor a few months ago. I asked not to be put on medication for the time being and promised to try to lose even more weight and try some natural remedies. I've lost a bit more weight but the natural remedies (garlic, green tea etc) haven't worked.

Guess I'll have to go back to him again.

Thanks again,
Robert.