Masters of Health Magazine February 2019

by Lady Carla Davis, MPH

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

Heavy metals, blockages, stress, drugs/medications, and a junk food diet are major factors in high blood pressure. A hair analysis can determine your long-term body chemistry, mineral levels and ratios, and heavy metal contamination. Work and personal relationships can be both a blessing and killer. If either are causing you distress, reduce exposure or bless them out of your life.

You have three kinds of blood vessels:

•Arteries carry blood from the heart to organs

•Veins carry blood from organs and limbs back to the heart

•Capillaries connect the two.

Together, they are all long enough to go around the world more than twice.

The Aorta is the largest artery in the body. It is the size of a garden hose and runs from from the heart to the abdomen. This is where most aneurysms occur.

Healthy arteries are flexible and elastic. When the arteries lose their elasticity, thicken, or harden, arteriosclerosis occurs. Artherosclerosis is a specific type of arteriosclerosis that occurs when fat and cholesterol clog the arteries and turns into plaque, which restricts blood flow. It can occur anywhere in the body. A blood clot can completely block blood flow and trigger a heart attack or stroke.

Symptoms depend on which arteries are damaged. For example:

•If you have it in your heart arteries, you may have chest pains (angina).

•If you have it in the arteries leading to your brain, you may have sudden numbness or weakness in your arms or legs, difficulty speaking or slurred speech, temporary loss of vision on one eye, or drooping muscles in your face. These symptoms signal a transient ischemic attack (TIA) that can progress to a stroke.

•If you have it in the arteries leading to your kidneys, you develop high blood pressure or kidney failure.

•If you have it in the arteries in your ams and legs, you may have peripheral artery disease, (leg pain when walking (claudication).

Most heart disease occurs when the heart, blood vessels, and liver are damaged (from diet, drugs, environmental toxins, etc.); malfunctioning because they are polluted with heavy metals or chemicals; and/or are deficient in protective nutrients such as: vitamins C and B complex, bioflavanoids, silica, zinc, potassium, magnesium, manganese, iodine, essential fatty acids in balance, enzymes, sunshine, full spectrum daylight, and pure, structured water.

Once damaged, clumps build up on the inner walls of an artery as a protective mechanism, like a scab does in a cut. Those clumps are naturally removed when the body (liver etc.) has the nutrients necessary to function and repair the damage.

Consuming refined sugar and carbs, damaged fats and oils, caffeine, soda, fluoridated water, alcohol, tobacco, distorted lightwaves, deplete the very nutrients that protect the heart. Insulin resistance, or diabetes, obesity, smoking, inflammation from various diseases, lack of sleep, EMFs, unhappy relationships, over work, and worry produce stress hormones that break down the body and stress the heart, which can trigger a heart attack or stroke. In fact, refined sugar is the leading cause of heart disease.

According to a 2005 study in the European Journal of Epidemiology, Monday is the most common day of the week for heart attacks. Is it the stress of returning to work or from the effects of a boozy weekend? Other frequent heart attack days are Christmas, the day after Christmas, and New year’s Day. So most likely, it is the consumption of alcohol and an unhealthy overload of sugary foods.

Male pattern baldness is another sign of heart disease. Men with crown hair loss have a 23 percent higher risk of heart disease than men with a full head of hair. That risk increases to 36 percent for men with complete loss of hair on top of the head. And, that risk increases even more if a man has high blood pressure or excessively high cholesterol. Scientists and nutritionists believe this is because of an imbalance of hormones. The condition of your hair is an indication of hormones in the testicles if you are a man and ovaries if you are a women.

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