ALLERGIES: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
Allergies can cause muscles to go into spasm. A muscle spasm (often referred to as a cramp) causes the muscle fibres to contract and remain in a contracted state. Muscles can remain in spasm for as long as an allergenic substance (food, chemical, drink, pollen, mould) is irritating them. The walls of all the arteries are made up of three layers of circular muscles and if they spasm (cramp) the shortening of their fibres causes the circumference of the artery to reduce. This causes the circumference of the hollow centre (called the lumen) of the artery to reduce. Because there’s no concomitant reduction in the volume of the blood passing through the artery the narrowing of its hollow centre compresses the blood, thus raising the blood pressure in the artery.
Removing the offending allergens from the diet and environment sees an immediate relaxation (expansion) of the tight artery muscles and an increase in the size of the hollow. The blood pressure drops accordingly.
Blood pressure can return to normal quickly and dramatically when allergies are treated, which is why you must always treat them under a doctor’s supervision. If you’re on blood-pressure-lowering drugs the pressure can come down too quickly and even drop below normal if your doctor isn’t monitoring your progress and reducing the drugs appropriately.
Don’t take yourself off blood pressure drugs because artery muscle spasm may not be the only cause of your blood pressure problem. There may be atheromas, kidney problems, carbon dioxide excess and/or hardened arteries as well. If these exist you won’t improve as quickly as I’ve indicated. It’ll take longer and you’ll need to keep taking the drugs, weaning yourself off them slowly as you improve.
The heart is a muscle and is as prone to spasm as any other muscle. Some cases of diagnosed angina are the result of the cramping pain of a heart muscle in spasm. Removing the allergens sees the disappearance of the pain as well as the return of a strong regular heartbeat. People with allergy-based high blood pressure usually have headaches as well. The tendency to focus their allergies into the muscles sees these people with tight back, neck and scalp muscles. Tension in these particular muscle groups produces tension headaches that can endure for prolonged periods of time. The recurrence of tension headaches in allergenic people occurs often if their allergies are not treated by the methods outlined in this book.
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