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Hello everyone! My name is Richard and I am here to ask for advice regarding my 54 year old mother. Ever since she gave birth to me 21 years ago as her first child she has had suffered from chronic hypertension with in the last 8 years it has become more stubborn and higher on a daily basis. She has had 5 babies in total including my younger brother and sister with 1 miscarriage and 1 pre-emptive abortion. As my concerns for her health grew I decided to convince her to use several dietary supplements in order to make a difference. This grew into a plethora of different supplements all helping her in a different way. These are them with her daily intake:
L-Arginine 5 grams and L-Citrulline 200mg combined (as ProArgi-9+)
Vitamin D3 3000 IU
Nascent Iodine 1,950 mcg (3 drops)
Magnesium Chloride (Zechstein Magnesium) 5 grams foot baths together with 2 grams Sodium Bicarbonate
2 Liters tap water spread out over the day and 1/4th teaspoon Celtic Sea Salt in water (Based on the Water cure by Dr. Batmanghelidj)
2 softgels Vitamin B Complex (probably cheap synthetic ingredients, using these since she can't swallow most pills and capsules)
30 mg Zinc Picolinate (most days she takes these with some random days leaving them)
1 softgel Super K by LifeExtension
1 softgel Astaxanthin 12 mg
3 Minami Platinum Omega 3 fish oil softgels (around 3 grams of Omega 3)
2 tablespoons of Cod liver oil
200 to 300mg Jarrow Formulas natural Ubiquinol
1000 to 2000 mg Vitamin C as a effervescent tablet in 2 glasses of water
She is 54 years old, has a midlight tanned skin from natural genetics, is of Dutch and mixed Indonesian (South East Asian) descent and also has a lot of other descents mixed in her blood like English, Chinese. She weighs 62Kg and is around 1,66metres long. She uses her home cycle trainer each day to bicycle while watching tv for around a hour even though she does it in a slow place and on a setting which makes her to cycle quite heavy. She also has a tanning bed which she goes under once in a while. And also now she goes walking on her treadmill for around a hour on about 3 days in her week. She eats a lot of greens and avoids fried foods and tries to eat not too much meat. Also she has cut back her salt intake completely. She eats alot of bread with margarine butter throughout the day which I have told her is unhealthy, and she stopped eating grains for 1 week which resulted in her craving bread and sweet food so she went back to eating bread. This resulted in no big changes in blood pressure measurements the last day of her stopping grains.
1 year ago she has been prescribed Nifedipine Retard 30mg per day which is a Calcium Channel Blocker, and a timed release version of Nifedipine. Nifedipine is a Dihydropyridine variant of Calcium Channel Blockers. Even though the side effects have lessened she still does not like taking this medicine, because of the bad stories we read on the internet about it too. She has tried stopping them cold turkey for a day a while ago and what happened is that she had heavy edema in her face and legs the day after and she felt tense and sick and had lots of headache which after we decided to continue the Nifedipine Retard again.
In the beginning around a year ago when she did not start medication or supplements or therapy yet she had bloating water edema in her face and arms and legs, and her blood pressure measured around 176/115 which is quite high. Later on with medication after 6 months it lowered to a stable 156/110, from which on I started giving her the supplements and therapy named above. With this, having given her all of the above for 2 months straight we have managed to lower her blood pressure to a steady 137/80, yet I have made the mistake of letting her take Swanson Sunflower Lecithin these last 2 days, which she had taken according to the recommended intake, yet after these 2 days I could see her body detoriate somehow, and I think this is the TMAO's doing their work. So she has quitted the Sunflower lecithin. Her eyes are always slightly blueish and at times a bit yellowish and have a lot of cracks so it seems and they seem watery, and red veins running through them. A few days ago she had sudden leg edema which we pointed Iodine to be the culprit of and that was the moment she started taking Ubiquinol which clears out the edema.
I am asking here for any advice at how she could reach a healthy stable blood pressure of 120 systolic pressure without Nifedipine Retard, and how she can quit this medicine and any medicine for good. And what she could do or take to accomplish this, as it is quite frustrating having her take and do all these things and yet still have a lingering 137 systolic pressure and these stressed out looking damaged eyes (from the high blood pressure probably) and also this slight puffy appearance and red flushing (the latter was only today noticable after the Sunflower Lecithin).
Also as I have read on here before Vitamin E could be really useful to persons with high blood pressure, would this be the case for her aswell? And which brand and product would you recommend as the best anno Juli 2016? I have a feeling that even though she could be salt sensitive, salt is not the culprit since she completely avoids it and yet with all of these supplements she still reads a blood pressure of border 140 systolic pressure.
Your advice is greatly appreciated!
L-Arginine 5 grams and L-Citrulline 200mg combined (as ProArgi-9+)
Vitamin D3 3000 IU
Nascent Iodine 1,950 mcg (3 drops)
Magnesium Chloride (Zechstein Magnesium) 5 grams foot baths together with 2 grams Sodium Bicarbonate
2 Liters tap water spread out over the day and 1/4th teaspoon Celtic Sea Salt in water (Based on the Water cure by Dr. Batmanghelidj)
2 softgels Vitamin B Complex (probably cheap synthetic ingredients, using these since she can't swallow most pills and capsules)
30 mg Zinc Picolinate (most days she takes these with some random days leaving them)
1 softgel Super K by LifeExtension
1 softgel Astaxanthin 12 mg
3 Minami Platinum Omega 3 fish oil softgels (around 3 grams of Omega 3)
2 tablespoons of Cod liver oil
200 to 300mg Jarrow Formulas natural Ubiquinol
1000 to 2000 mg Vitamin C as a effervescent tablet in 2 glasses of water
She is 54 years old, has a midlight tanned skin from natural genetics, is of Dutch and mixed Indonesian (South East Asian) descent and also has a lot of other descents mixed in her blood like English, Chinese. She weighs 62Kg and is around 1,66metres long. She uses her home cycle trainer each day to bicycle while watching tv for around a hour even though she does it in a slow place and on a setting which makes her to cycle quite heavy. She also has a tanning bed which she goes under once in a while. And also now she goes walking on her treadmill for around a hour on about 3 days in her week. She eats a lot of greens and avoids fried foods and tries to eat not too much meat. Also she has cut back her salt intake completely. She eats alot of bread with margarine butter throughout the day which I have told her is unhealthy, and she stopped eating grains for 1 week which resulted in her craving bread and sweet food so she went back to eating bread. This resulted in no big changes in blood pressure measurements the last day of her stopping grains.
1 year ago she has been prescribed Nifedipine Retard 30mg per day which is a Calcium Channel Blocker, and a timed release version of Nifedipine. Nifedipine is a Dihydropyridine variant of Calcium Channel Blockers. Even though the side effects have lessened she still does not like taking this medicine, because of the bad stories we read on the internet about it too. She has tried stopping them cold turkey for a day a while ago and what happened is that she had heavy edema in her face and legs the day after and she felt tense and sick and had lots of headache which after we decided to continue the Nifedipine Retard again.
In the beginning around a year ago when she did not start medication or supplements or therapy yet she had bloating water edema in her face and arms and legs, and her blood pressure measured around 176/115 which is quite high. Later on with medication after 6 months it lowered to a stable 156/110, from which on I started giving her the supplements and therapy named above. With this, having given her all of the above for 2 months straight we have managed to lower her blood pressure to a steady 137/80, yet I have made the mistake of letting her take Swanson Sunflower Lecithin these last 2 days, which she had taken according to the recommended intake, yet after these 2 days I could see her body detoriate somehow, and I think this is the TMAO's doing their work. So she has quitted the Sunflower lecithin. Her eyes are always slightly blueish and at times a bit yellowish and have a lot of cracks so it seems and they seem watery, and red veins running through them. A few days ago she had sudden leg edema which we pointed Iodine to be the culprit of and that was the moment she started taking Ubiquinol which clears out the edema.
I am asking here for any advice at how she could reach a healthy stable blood pressure of 120 systolic pressure without Nifedipine Retard, and how she can quit this medicine and any medicine for good. And what she could do or take to accomplish this, as it is quite frustrating having her take and do all these things and yet still have a lingering 137 systolic pressure and these stressed out looking damaged eyes (from the high blood pressure probably) and also this slight puffy appearance and red flushing (the latter was only today noticable after the Sunflower Lecithin).
Also as I have read on here before Vitamin E could be really useful to persons with high blood pressure, would this be the case for her aswell? And which brand and product would you recommend as the best anno Juli 2016? I have a feeling that even though she could be salt sensitive, salt is not the culprit since she completely avoids it and yet with all of these supplements she still reads a blood pressure of border 140 systolic pressure.
Your advice is greatly appreciated!
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