Blood Pressure medication can certainly provide relief for the sufferers. But recently, I decided to inquire about the additional effects it brings with it. This is only a partial list, but some of the common words and phrases I found are: feeling faint, diarrhea, dry cough and joint pain.

Other even more severe effects include "ankle swelling, weight gain, cardiac arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, gastrointestinal bleeding and so on." It just kept getting worse.

The benefits are then touted as still making the risks worth it.

And maybe they are. But I'm puzzled at how much benefit one gets from impotence and liver damage.

Now let me say that there is no question that many of the drugs that lower blood pressure have been proven to be quite effective. And it's certain that many people have been helped by the results of lowered blood pressure. But maybe there is more to be considered than just the effectiveness.

Needing to urinate more often due to diuretics can be more than just inconvenient. It can also reduce the amount of potassium in the body leading to other side effects such as leg cramps and feeling worn out.

For others, particularly diabetics, diuretic drugs may force an increase of the blood sugar level. At this point additional drugs are required to add potassium to the body or to counter act the effects on the blood sugar level.

Now the patient that walked in with high blood pressure walks out with high blood pressure AND a potassium deficiency AND elevated blood sugar and who knows what else.

Given the array of drugs that can be prescribed, just how many other side effects might we actually be dealing with?

I couldn't help but think about the most simple way to avoid having to worry about this host of other problems. If we could just head off the hypertension to begin with seems to fit the bill.

It was at this point in my thought process that I began to realize that preventing high blood pressure would have to be the easiest solution by far. Loss of weight, reduction of stress, walking to the moon and back. whatever it takes, there is nothing in terms of a preventative measure that would be tougher to 'cope' with than kidney damage or impotence.

By incorporating my hypertension program into your daily regimen, the resulting blood pressure reading may just amaze you.