Wed, Jul-30-14, 17:38
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Senior Member
Posts: 7,582
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Plan: EF/Fung IDM/keto
Stats: 375/225.4/175
BF:
Progress: 75%
Location: NE Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nancy LC
Even worse than cholesterol is blood pressure. If you're even a little high, they're ready to push the BP meds at you. The drugs are just as bad too... or at least almost as bad.
Most MD's offices they don't even take the BP correctly.
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Hmm, curious about what the "correct" way is. I know they don't always use a bigger cuff on me, which I really need.
But I often think about BP numbers - even LC-oriented doctors who think totally out of the box regarding diet, cholesterol, etc all still seem to adhere to the CW about blood pressure. Yet I've read conflicting ideas as well. I think it was Barry Groves(?) perhaps who said the *old* conventional wisdom for BP was "100+your age" for the upper number, and he didn't think people had any more strokes or heart attacks (and maybe fewer) than they do now with the newer guidelines, and he likened the constant lowering of BP guidelines as being as off-the-mark as cholesterol numbers.
I've always suffered from "white coat hypertension" so always get really high readings in medical offices, so doctors always want me on BP meds! And I have my doubts about most of them also - and the ones I've tried have always given me bad side effects.
But even using most of the LC bag of tricks I can't get my BP to the "below 120/80" conventional wisdom numbers. Just took my BP as I was looking at this post and got a reading of 146/76 - which is about what I run without any meds, but I refuse to get too worried. I have enough other things to worry about
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