@jamezb46 said:
@yerrag If you desperately need to lower BP why not use an ARB like Losartan
It's very tempting to do that and call it a day but Losartan does nothing to address the main causes of high blood pressure. It only addresses the symptom which is high blood pressure. But the consequences of lowering blood pressure would be terrible in the long run.
For one, it goes against the wisdom of the body, which adapts to what is wrong in the body. In order for the body to survive in the short term. But it's doing thst at the expense of long term health.
The very root causes of low grade infection and inflammation remain, and the longer these condition stay unresolved, the more the body degenerates even as the infection morphs into more virulent forms, from bacterial to large fungal forms that make them more parasitic, which I believe becomes the starting point for cancer.
But even before cancer takes hold, simply lowering blood pressure overrides the body's wisdom in determining what blood pressure is needed to enable full perfusion of blood to its organs. If nutrient delivery is compromised, and waste retrieval from the organs is hindered, the vital organs will begin the process of dying slowly.
But our doctors can huff and puff, and say there is no proof to what I say. But it only takes common sense and logic to deduce cause and effect relationships.