Someone asked me recently about depression treatment. He purchased the High Blood Pressure Program and jokingly asked if he could be depressed from it.
It may sound unbelievable but the link between high blood pressure and depression has actually been studied quite a bit. And the conclusion is that it goes both ways.
If you suffer from anxiety or chronic depression, you’re three times more likely to develop high blood pressure than if you don’t.
Many people suffering depression also engage in unhealthy activities such as smoking, drinking and over eating. And they’re less likely to seek treatment for conditions such as hypertension.
However, surprisingly, even the people involved in the study who did not engage in poor eating habits, smoking etc. also suffered from high blood pressure.
Therefore, it is thought that hormonal changes due to the long term depression may be a factor in the increased blood pressure.
Another factor are medications taken for depression which can have high blood pressure as side effects.
Given these factors, there is a link between depression and high blood pressure.
Now we’ll look at hypertension as the initial issue.
If you read on the label of many blood pressure medications, you’ll see that one of the side effects most of them have is DEPRESSION. That’s the main reason why high blood pressure caused depression.
This shows us clearly how often trying to solve one issue actually creates another.
Although the person initially was kind of joking, it’s no question he was right assuming there may be a connection between the two conditions.
We know very well that stress is the cause of so many different conditions. It’s therefore no surprise that it also causes high blood pressure and depression.
Methods that can help lower blood pressure – and it doesn’t matter what causes it:
Avoid too much alcohol consumption. It depends from person to person how much you can drink. Sometimes blood pressure sky rocks after only one or two drinks. If that’s the case, people shouldn’t drink at all.
Don’t smoke. Quick and simple. High blood pressure is only one of many bad things smoking does to you.
Eat good healthy food. Raw vegetables and fruits should be the first on your list.
I also recommend many of my natural health guides. To lower blood pressure, you should try my natural blood pressure exercise program and to control weight, you may want to check out my weight loss breeze program. It uses method unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
