Is there any natural method/treatment that is effective, clinically proven to reduce blood pressure?

Question

Specifically, stage 1 hypertension. Please cite references. Thanks.

Answer 1

Supplements:

Calcium, Magnesium, Garlic, L Carnitine, L glutamic acid, L glutamine, Selenium, Co Q10, EFAs (flaxseed oil) Vitamin C, Lecithin granules and Vitamin E.

A strict salt-free diet is essential, and all animal fats (meat and dairy) must be avoided.  Broiled white fish and skinless chicken may be consumed in moderation only.  Primary protein sources should be from vegetables, grains and legumes.

Avoid all alcohol, caffeine and tobacco.

Fast for three days each month to periodically cleanse and detoxify the body.

Get regular exercise, and keep your weight down.

Answer 2

Exercise is a natural reducer of blood pressure. While you exercise it goes up but then the after effect is lower than when you started. Over time it will reduce it overall.  

Answer 3

Red Yeast Rice Supplements

It was prescribed to me by my naturopath to help reduce my cholesterol, along with the usual recommendates of diet changes and exercises.

Even though it's considered a food supplement, it's now illegal for natural health food stores to sell them (at least in Canada).  They worked too well.  I buy it at my naturopath's office.  

Answer 4

celery juice helps a lot.

Answer 5

Stress and nutrition are significant contributors to hypertension. While it is not always possible to avoid stressful situations, you can determine your response to it. By allowing yourself to become angry, you become more stressful. Relaxation, slow, deep breathing is one way of comfortably resolving stress when you can't avoid it.

By controlling your sodium intake, you are making a major effort to keeping your pressure down.  Learn to read labels - processed foods and box mixes have excessively high sodium content. Read the label on a package of raman noodles or those  products that you simply add water to, then eat. Processed sandwich meat has more sodium in one serving than normally recommended for a days intake.

Unless you are a confirmed vegan, fresh meats, fish and fowl are good in moderation, and learn to use herbs and alternate seasonings, but avoid salt substitutes. Grilling, broiling and sauteing is good, and use light pan spray, rather than grease. Don't try to eliminate totally foods that you enjoy, such as meat or deserts or the like, just use common sense and don't put yourself out on a limb so that you can't enjoy your food.

Add a slight amount, couple drops of lemon juice to fresh cooked veggies- wondeerful and different taste. Many tout the advantages of fresh garlic (not the stuff you buy in a pill bottle)

Also, avoid fried foods.

Healthy diets have many other good benefits.