Top Supplements for Blood Pressure
Learn more about Blood Pressure:The Basic Approach to Blood PressureMore about Leptinal® More about Muscle Mag and RelaxaMag More about Q10 Expanding Beyond Basic Blood Pressure Nutrients Performa Plus, Nitric Oxide, and Blood Pressure Cardio Helper, Vascular Integrity, and Blood Pressure Carnosine, Body Weight, Kidney Health, and Blood Pressure Immune Plus, the Lymphatic System, and Blood Pressure Vitamin D and Blood Pressure The Basic Approach to Blood PressureDiet, exercise, stress management, and dietary supplements form a terrific approach to healthfully managing your blood pressure fitness. It is very important to follow the Five Rules of The Leptin Diet as failing to do so excessively elevates blood fats between meals (triglycerides) which place too much sludge in your circulation and thus your system has to push harder to move important nutrients. Exercise is important because muscle contractions are just as important for pumping blood around your body as your heart -- it is a real team effort. If you don't use your muscles consistently you force your heart to work harder and do more than its fair share. Some stress is fine and normal, even helping your cardiovascular system to condition itself as a form of fitness. However, too much stress causes inflammation and irritation that reduces the flow of blood and causes your body to compensate by once again pushing harder to move nutrition around your body. Stress management skills, including getting 7 hours of restful sleep per night, are important. Basic dietary supplements for blood pressure fitness provide the key nutrients that are oftentimes lacking in your diet, used up by stress, or decline with age.* More about Leptinal®Leptinal® provides nutrients that are vital for your circulatory system. The endothelial cells that line your arteries send out signals that work with your heart and muscle contractions to create the ebb and flow of your blood pressure (systolic=higher number and diastolic=lower number). These cells accomplish this by using regulatory signals called prostaglandins. Leptinal® contains the important essential fatty acids of DHA and GLA, both of which are needed for normal prostaglandin regulation of blood pressure. One friendly prostaglandin is called PGE3, which is supported by DHA supplementation. The other friendly prostaglandin is called PGE1, which is supported by GLA supplementation. The synergistic balance of DHA and GLA in Leptinal are fundamental nutrition for healthy artery function and maintenance of normal blood pressure fitness. Since DHA and GLA are generally lacking in the American diet, supplementation is a convenient way to boost dietary intake.* DHA plays additional vital roles in maintaining the flexibility in the structure of your arteries. It is a preferred fatty acid for the structure of cell membranes that comprise the arteries and overall lining of the circulatory system, contributing to proper structural integrity of arterial walls. DHA in these cell membranes helps to maintain natural flexibility of the circulatory structure that in turn enhances the normal flow of blood through your circulation. DHA has also been shown to support healthy heart function. GLA is the most important omega 6 essential fatty acid, also helping to build healthy cell membranes, including those cells lining the walls of arteries.* Stress chemicals and pollution of all types typically enter the general circulation and act as irritants that pose a challenge to healthy blood pressure fitness. A variety of nutrients, typically antioxidants, help modulate this form of stress. In Leptinal® we place several of the finest circulatory antioxidants known to work synergistically with the vital essential fatty acids. Our pomegranate extract contains the antioxidant power of the punicalagins found only in pomegranate, a proven circulatory support nutrient. This important antioxidant is degraded in juice products and lost almost entirely by pasteurization. In Leptinal®, it's potency is maintained and standardized, helping to maintain healthy circulation and protecting your cardiovascular system from free radicals.* The tocotrienols in Leptinal®, a special type of vitamin E, are also protective to the lining of your circulatory system, helping to promote normal and healthy function.* Simply put, Leptinal® is a stellar cardiovascular support nutrient providing an array of the finest nutrients known to support healthy blood pressure function.*
More about Muscle Mag and RelaxaMagMagnesium deficiency is one of the most common problems facing Americans, due in part to a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables in the diet as well as soils depleted of this vital mineral because of poor farming methods. Magnesium is readily lost by stress and sweating (a vital supplement for avid exercisers and athletes). Magnesium is the most important mineral that stabilizes electrical signals to the heart as well being needed for the smooth muscles of the arteries to naturally relax. Without adequate magnesium the cardiovascular system struggles to find its natural state of relaxation.* Many individuals take a cheap magnesium salt called magnesium oxide -- which I think belongs in the trash. Oxides generate free radicals and use up your important heart-friendly antioxidants. It is far better to take magnesium in a form that is useful to your body and actually friendly to your circulation. I designed Muscle Mag to support optimal muscle function and reduce muscle fatigue. This is because the magnesium is bound to malic acid, an important nutrient for aerobic muscle performance. I designed RelaxaMag to help neutralize the feeling of stress during the day and when taken at night to help promote restful sleep. This is because the magnesium is bound mostly to glycine, a relaxant amino acid. You can use either product, depending on your personal needs, not only to boost magnesium but to simultaneously address other issues that are very important for healthy blood pressure function.*
More about Q10A 2007 meta analysis of all Q10 clinical trials relating to blood pressure showed that Q10 is indeed a helpful nutrient for blood pressure fitness. It is well known that Q10 is highly concentrated in the heart and a great nutrient to support the energy production needs of the heart. An efficiently working heart muscle is required for optimal blood pressure function. Because Q10 helps to make energy and offset fatigue it is especially helpful in any person who is tired.* Q10 also works in the general circulation. As an antioxidant Q10 works synergistically with vitamin E, helping to neutralize free radicals that could otherwise be a cardiovascular irritant. By helping to energize cells membranes it assists those cells lining your arteries to work more efficiently. The net result of the multiple actions of Q10 is that it helps the natural movement of circulation, supporting healthy blood pressure fitness.*
Expanding Beyond Basic Blood Pressure Support NutrientsMany individuals have particular needs that indicate they can benefit from more comprehensive blood pressure support nutrition. For example, if you cannot follow The Leptin Diet then nutrients contained in the Leptin Control Pack are likely to help you do so and thus manage weight more effectively, in turn having a synergistic value for blood pressure support. Likewise, nutrients that help you exercise and become more fit, as contained in the Rejuvenation Pack, will have a similar synergistic value in supporting healthy blood fitness. The same is true for nutrients that help you manage stress -- if stress-related wear and tear is an important issue.* In addition to such general categories various nutrients support healthy blood pressure for a variety of important reasons and can be added to basic blood pressure support to achieve a broader degree of assistance. Performa Plus, Nitric Oxide, and Blood PressureI formulated Performa Plus to help keep your circulation in a more relaxed and less tense condition, building on the foundation that magnesium helps provide. The endothelial cells lining your arteries routinely produce a substance called nitric oxide (NO), which is also known as endothelial-derived relaxing factor. As the name implies this natural compound is another important substance that helps keep your circulatory in good condition. In order to make this compound your body combines the amino acid arginine with oxygen under the directions of the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS). Performa Plus provides the arginine as well as two nutrients, grape seed extract and panex ginseng, that have been proven to activate the NOS enzyme. Additionally, grape seed extract is a well known cardiovascular antioxidant which also supports the integrity of the collagen that comprises the circulatory system and heart. The flexibility of collagen is vital to healthy arteries. Grape seed extract has numerous studies showing it directly offsets heart-related wear and tear.*
Cardio Helper, Vascular Integrity, Fluid Retention, and Blood PressureThe physical fitness of the heart and the integrity of arteries, veins, and capillaries are important to maintain in good health for blood pressure to work properly. Under the influence of stress or general wear and tear your small capillaries may become too permeable or weakened, allowing fluid to escape and build up in the extremities or within connective tissue. You may notice your rings are tighter or there are sock lines on your legs. Such mild fluid retention can often be corrected with nutrients that help to reduce stress in the circulation and "seal up" the leaky capillaries, thus supporting healthy blood pressure fitness.* Cardio Helper contains both Hawthorn berry and Horse chestnut, two herbal nutrients that nourish the lining of the arteries and capillaries so that their integrity is enhanced. This helps keep water correctly within the circulation and thus helps maintain correct blood pressure. Vitamin B1 and potassium round out this unique formulation, two more nutrients that help move water correctly in metabolism.*
Carnosine, Body Weight, Kidney Health, and Blood PressureCarnosine is an antioxidant dipeptide made up of the amino acids beta-alanine and l-histidine. It occurs naturally in the brain, heart, kidneys, and muscles. Nerves must stimulate stored fat (white adipose tissue) in the process of normal metabolism. However, if a person is overweight then nerves tend to excessively stimulate stored fat because that fat is somewhat numb and less metabolically responsive. Unfortunately, extra nerve drive is a form of stress to the kidneys that can strain blood pressure fitness. The kidneys are a blood filter and must work efficiently to support proper blood pressure function. Salt sensitivity (too much fluid retention after salt intake) is also a sign of related kidney stress. Carnosine has been shown to directly protect the kidneys from such nerve-driven and salt-related stress.* Carnosine has a general rejuvenating effect on body tissues, helping them to maintain elasticity. Carnosine also protects collagen-rich tissues from sugar residues that may promote stiffening. These anti-caramelizing and thus anti-aging properties of carnosine are the subject of intense scientific study.* The various nutritional functions of carnosine make it a welcome addition as a nutrient for heart strength, kidney integrity, and blood pressure fitness especially if you are working on weight management program and/or you notice you are salt sensitive.*
Immune Plus, the Lymphatic System, and Blood PressureThe lymph system has no direct pump, it runs on body movement and muscle contractions, and indirectly relies on the heart to maintain force of pressure on lymph movement. Once again, if you are not consistently active your heart has to work harder to keep lymph moving -- which is not its preferred task. Problems on this "back end" of the circulatory system may promote fluid retention, vein stress, and lymphatic congestion. Because the lymph system is a pressure sensitive system, this can feel as if pressure is building in the shoulder area or back of the neck (in proximity to the two main lymphatic thoracic ducts on either side of the spine). Eating close to bed will always make this problem worse, as dietary fat enters the lymph system and promotes stagnation/congestion during sleep. Healthy blood pressure fitness is much easier for your body when your lymph system is not sluggish or stagnant.* Immune Plus is our best product to support natural lymph movement (along with consistent exercise). Taking 1 tsp to 1 rounded tsp at bed and again in the morning, if needed, is usually enough to help keep any lymph-related sluggishness in good shape.*
Vitamin D and Blood PressureA January 2008 study showed that older white Americans with the highest levels of vitamin D had the healthiest blood pressure levels. Vitamin D supplementation may be quite important for those living in the northern climates especially during the winter, as there is little chance of getting vitamin D from the sun during colder months.* Our Bone Helper supplement contains 400 IU of vitamin D per capsule along with other nutrients that not only support bone health but heart health as well. For example, Bone Helper contains the finest standardized extract of boswellia (5-Loxin®), a nutrient that has been shown to protect the lining of arteries as well as helping with moderate aches and pains.* During the winter months a person may want to strive for 1200 IU to 2000 IU of vitamin D when adding it up from their various supplements. Vitamin D is also in the Daily Super Pack, Daily Energy Multiple Vitamin, Daily Bone Xcel, and Daily Builder.
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