Blood pressure baloney - part 1 Everyone knows I hate to say, "I told you so." Honestly, I
do. All it means is that nobody in the mainstream listened to
me the first time (or the fiftieth time) and in many cases,
people are dead because of it. All the same, I wish I had a
dime for every article I've written that contains a variation
of the phrase: "I've been warning people about this for over 30 years!" Here's another 10 cents in my pocket: For more than three
decades now, I've been telling anyone who'll listen that high
blood pressure DOESN'T CAUSE HEART DISEASE. Yes, you read that right. Despite what "unbiased"
conventional medicine - which generates millions from the
treatment of hypertension, mind you - maintains, evidence
showing a conclusive linear link between elevated blood
pressure and the incidence of heart disease is almost non-
existent. In fact, the data from most studies on the subject
suggest that hypertension is a symptom of cardiovascular
disease (CHD), not its cause. Just about everyone in the medical community agrees that CHD
is due in large part to a buildup of plaque in the arteries,
reducing their diameter - which in turn causes the blood
which flows through them to increase in pressure. Here's a
good analogy: When you turn on the spigot outside your house,
the water shooting out of your garden hose squirts 30 feet or
more. Why? Because it's under a lot of pressure after being
forced into a tiny 1-inch hose… But what would happen if that hose were, say, a foot in
diameter? The exact same volume of water would slosh out at a
very low pressure. It's the same way with your heart and arteries. Your blood
pressure increases in response to arterial constriction - it
doesn't cause the constriction. Elevating the blood's
pressure is your heart's way of compensating for clogged
up "hoses" to make sure your organs, brain and extremities
are adequately supplied with blood. When you look at it this
way, it just doesn't make sense to try to artificially lower
your blood pressure using expensive, potentially harmful
prescription drugs. Unfortunately, this entirely natural process is treated by
mainstream medicine as a "cause" of CHD, while the real
causes of arterial clogging - things like dietary trans-fatty
acids in the bloodstream or chlorine "scarring" of the
arterial walls - often go untreated… With deadly consequences, unfortunately. (I'll have more to say about the fads, fashion, and facts of
hypertension drugs in the next Daily Dose.). Looking out for what's really harmful,
William Campbell Douglass II, MD | 
