Are High Blood Pressure
Supplements Good For You?

Unfortunately, so many claims are made for supplements it's hard to judge, but let's cover the subject the best we can. The short answer is "no," but they might make lowering blood pressure easier for you. I take them for good measure in my high blood pressure diet.

Why not? There is something to these high blood pressure supplements, so I would take some of them to lower blood pressure naturally. Maintaining normal blood pressure may well depend on adding some of these supplements to your normal blood pressure diet.

You hear a lot about fish oil benefits, omega 3 benefits and flax oil benefits from people who sell those items. The claims are mostly valid, though sometimes exaggerated. If you followed all recommendations, opinions and sales pitches for these and other products, you would be taking way too many vitamins.

Therefore, I'm going to mention only the most recognized of these supplements and, following that, make some specific suggestions.

Here's the list starting with the vitamins: vitamin C, vitamin D, folic acid, niacin, vitamin B12, vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, calcium lactate, fish oil, flax oil, other omega 3 oils and fats, coenzyme Q10, nattokinase, nitric oxide producers.

For where to get these and other blood pressure supplements, check out Supplements, Cardiovascular Health, Dr. Weil's Vitamin Advisor, Invite Health, Balanced Antioxidants, Puritan Pride, Vitacost, and Vitamin World on the shopping page.

Most authorities would agree that supplements work best when added to an already balanced diet. A balanced diet is one that provides the full spectrum of vitamins, minerals, fats and oils and other nutritional factors from the foods you eat.

Currently, I take all the above list of supplements to lower blood pressure naturally except for flax oil (although I use ground flax seed occasionally), nattokinase, and nitric oxide producers.

Here's a starter list for you: vitamins C, B complex, magnesium, full spectrum calcium supplement, fish oil, and coenzyme Q10.

Coenzyme Q10 is critical to the proper functioning of all parts of the vascular system - heart, arteries, veins and capillaries.

I have had a dramatic effect from coenzyme Q10, probably a five point drop in systolic pressure.

Up until we are about 20, the body makes gobs of CoQ10, but after that it makes increasingly less year by year. I know that's not fair, but that's reality. So, we need to supplement.

With the B complex, if you can get it containing niacin rather than niacinamide, do it. People take niacin for high blood pressure, not the man made chemical niacinamide.

The potassium and high blood pressure connection is firmly established, but you may not need supplementation because most recommended foods are potassium rich.

Omega 3 oils have multiple benefits from blood thinning to keeping platelets from adhering to the inner blood vessel walls.

Calcium is necessary for the integrity of heart and blood vessels.

Add nattokinase if you have blood clots. Of course, you should be seeing a doctor if that's the case. See if you can convince her/him to try the nattokinase before he puts you on blood thinning drugs.

Visit Nutrition-Health-Supplements for more great supplement information.

Give supplements a try. Take them for a while to see if they are doing you any good. By "a while," I mean more than a day, more like three months. That amount of time gives the body a chance to like them ;)