Definition of Responsibility,
Healthy Lifestyle Factors,
and your Normal Blood Pressure

Your definition of responsibility should include working healthy lifestyle factors into your day because that will reward you with normal blood pressure for life. I hate to saddle you with the responsibility for that, but who else is going to do it? Let's look at how it can play out for you.

I remember when my systolic blood pressure first hit 130. Previously, it had ranged from 110 to 120. I thought that 130 was an anomaly, nothing but a weird variation or error.

At my next annual physical, it was over 140. The doc said it was a little high and that I should watch it. A year later it was 170. The doc put me on lisinopril.

I looked up the "side effects" of that drug, then decided, "no way."

It was right at that point that I took some responsibility for my blood pressure.

That you are even reading this tells me that you, too, are taking responsibility to some degree for your blood pressure.

Let me see if I can help you along.

There are several definitions, but the one we'll use here is this - The condition where someone is willing and active in being the cause of something.

If you desire your spouse, your doctor, this website, or anything else to be the cause of your maintaining normal blood pressure, you are avoiding responsibility for it.

Now, that's a hard fact.

It's not so bad though.

I'll give you some tips.

Actually, that definition of responsibility is our first step. Just decide that you are the cause of maintaining normal blood pressure.

The next step is to educate yourself so that you can make proper decisions. Spend some time going through this site and other good sites. Build up your knowledge on the subject.

The final step is to take control of your treatment. The best explanation of this is to show you the opposite.

Your doctor gives you a blood pressure medication prescription. Like an automaton or robot, you get it filled and take it by the clock, fully trusting the whole medical process.

That's not taking control. Do you see that?

Taking control could include closely reading the information the pharmacist gives you about the medication, looking it up on the Internet, trying it for a while with attention to what effects it produces on you, talking to the doctor about that, and so forth, then deciding whether to take it or not.

And of course, you'd make sure you looked into your diet options.

I hope that by now you have taken to heart your responsibility for ensuring you have normal blood pressure.

On this site, you will find many options you can try to carry you through to that goal.

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