High Blood Pressure and Climate

By Christian Goodman

A client recently wrote to me questioning if there was a link to hot climates and an increase in blood pressure. My initial thought was, “no,” as an increase in blood pressure among different countries is usually always related to diet and exercise level.

A couple of recent studies, however, decided that blood pressure in aged patients already suffering from high blood pressure (hypertension) was actually dramatically lowered when exposed to hotter climates than normal but only during daytime hours.

In the evenings, however, the systolic number (top number) actually increased significantly. I suspect that this is because the subjects were in air conditioned environments in the evening. This was not the case so a role wasn’t played by temperature.

Patients not suffering from high blood pressure had no affect either way by the higher daytime temperature.

A different study showed a minute increase in blood pressure when introduced to colder temperatures however, the subjects were able to acclimate relatively easily and blood pressure returned to original levels.

Additionally, rates of strokes and heart attacks do not decrease during summer months. This could be for two reasons. First, experts have found that people tend to decrease their blood pressure medication during the summer months.

Second, overwhelming evidence indicates that over time, people adapt to their surroundings and blood pressure is not an exception.

A number of my clients, however, stated that they used an ambulatory blood pressure cuff (these can be acquired at any pharmacy) and recorded the time of day and outside temperature. During summer months the daytime readings did in fact go down.

Upon closer scrutiny, though, I found that most of my clients doing this were also much more active during the summer daylight hours. I won’t name names but many of these same clients also told me they simply stopped taking their blood pressure medicine when their numbers started to go down.

You all know that I do not believe in taking medicine to control a health problem when a natural cure can be found. That said, I DO NOT believe in simply stopping any prescribed medication without first talking it over with one’s doctor.

These medicines are potent and have serious side effects when taken as instructed. Altering dosage or stopping all at once can have devastating effects. If you truly want to get off the medicine, discuss weaning yourself off the medicine with your doctor first.

Don’t be amazed if your doctor is against doing this. Remember, there was a reason your doctor prescribed the drugs in the first place. Left untreated, high blood pressure can damage all of the major organs, eyes and other tissues, which can in turn lead to stroke, heart attack, blindness and other ill health effects.

If you are looking for a alternative solution to your hypertension, I highly recommend my High Blood Pressure program. It’s all natural and easy to follow. Once your high blood pressure lowers, you can bring this evidence to your doctor and he/she will have to acknowledge that a natural solution exists!

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Christian Goodman is a well known health researcher and the author of several revolutionary natural health alternative methods. One of his breakthroughs is his natural method for treating high blood pressure. You can learn more about Christian on his Natural Health alternatives Blog.

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