Hello, everyone.
Dr. Marcuam here once again with another biblical prescription for life.
Today, I'm going to talk about something that I've been wanting to talk to you
about a long time, and that's hypertension, high blood
pressure, specifically the way that COVID affects it, the virus itself,
as well as how the vaccine affects it as well.
This lining right here
that you see is called the in the endothelium.
We've talked about that before.
That's what regulates.
It's like a highway that regulates what goes in and out of cells
when it's damaged.
Things like heart attacks, aneurysms,
damage to the organs, lack of blood flow can occur.
So this inner lining is very important.
And think about it logically.
High blood pressure from the numerous
causes damaged this lining of the blood vessel.
And when it's damaged, bad things can happen.
So it's very important that we talk about this high blood pressure,
its effect on the endothelium.
And what does the COVID star's virus have to do with it?
And what does vaccines have to do with it?
And what are some natural things that we can do
to help lower blood pressure today?
So first of all, I want to share a few articles with this.
And this one article talks about blood pressure
increase following the COVID 19
virus.
And what they looked at is they both looked at people that were in the hospital
who had both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
That's that blood pressure.
That's the high number and the low number.
And they looked at that in people that were in the hospital with COVID,
and there were conclusions.
And they looked at over 200 patients, not a large study,
but this was published August of 2022, and they found out
that these patients with COVID, they had blood pressures
that were significantly higher in the post
COVID 19 period, then on admission.
And in these patients, new onset hypertension never been seen
before were observed in 18 patients after the admission.
So COVID itself increases blood pressure,
the exact mechanism we can only speculate.
Then what about the vaccines?
Well, this was a study that was published May of 2020
to a very good study, in my opinion.
And what they looked at was they looked
at the corona disease vaccines.
They looked at the adverse events.
We not we know that anything we put in our body
hopefully has benefits but also has adverse events.
We know now
more than ever that the vaccines increase, especially in younger males,
the myocarditis, pericarditis and other things.
But let's look at this study.
And what they looked at was they looked at six separate studies
looking at increased blood pressure after a COVID 19 vaccinated
and this was reported as a possible adverse side effect from the vaccines.
So they looked for six studies, entered their final analysis.
And overall, the studies approved
357,000 subjects
with 13,444 events
of abnormal or increased blood pressure.
So after exclusion of outlier studies, the pooled estimates proportion
of abnormal increased blood pressure after vaccination was 3.2%.
And their conclusion
and this was published by Angeli
in the journal Cardiovascular it's here for you to look at.
They showed that abnormal blood pressure
is not rare after COVID 19 vaccination.
But the basic mechanism of this phenomenon
are still unclear and require further research.
3.2% have high blood pressure.
High blood pressure is not good.
It damages the endothelium, increases the risk of heart attack, aneurysms,
vascular damage, damage to this highway that moves goods in and out of cells.
So with that said, I think it's pretty clear that COVID 19, the virus
itself, the vaccines itself, both increase the risk of high blood pressure,
damaging the endothelium increases the risk of vascular complications.
And these might include heart attack aneurysms,
blood clots,
inefficient flow of oxygen,
nutrients into organs and out of organs
via the damage of this endothelium from prolonged blood pressure.
So not only after we identify the cause
of high blood pressure and there's many different causes.
In addition to this, there are causes like sleep apnea, too much sodium stress,
different
hormonal abnormalities, many different causes of high blood pressure.
But how can we treat it?
Well, there's many different ways to treat it, including
finding the cause, eliminating that.
We could also give medications, but there's also some things
that we can do naturally to lower blood pressure.
And I wanted to go over that.
So no matter where your high blood pressure's coming from,
there are some simple things we can lower that have very little risk.
Number one, weight loss can lower blood pressure.
So losing a few pounds will lower the blood pressure.
Plant based diets in some studies,
they can lower the blood pressure by much as 18 points.
So plant based diets, they have greens with nitrates
that dilate the blood vessel, lowering blood pressure.
Fasting is also another way of lowering blood pressure.
Exercising for up to three months can lower blood pressure.
So you might want to get in an exercise or movement program.
Lowering sodium processed food
can lower blood pressure by as much as 16 points.
Think about it.
The average person takes in 3500 grams of protein.
A person only needs 500 grams.
So that's seven times more than you need.
That could raise the blood pressure.
So lowering sodium, especially in processed foods, can lower blood pressure.
Lowering meat intake can lower your blood pressure.
Of course, lowering alcohol can lower blood pressure.
Taking in 8 to 10 fruits and veggies a day can lower blood pressure.
Foods like flax greens,
hibiscus tea can all lower blood pressure.
Did you know that?
Just deep breathing.
That can lower blood pressure.
It relaxes the body.
See how much stress, less adrenaline and cortisol is pumping through your body
when you're relaxed by deep breathing.
Some studies have shown that pets
having a purpose can lower blood pressure.
And we also know that worship,
worship, like we have done today, worship can lower it.
Which brings me to a text I want to share with you.
And that text is Psalms 119 verses 66,
teach me good judgment and knowledge for,
I believe, your commandments or your teachings.
So a biblical prescription worship can lower blood pressure.
God teach me good judgment
to make good decisions about how to lower blood pressure, what's causing it?
Teach me this.
Give me knowledge about this.
I don't want to depend on worldly knowledge, even though I can use that
if you direct me to, but help me to have this knowledge for,
I believe, your biblical prescriptions.
Well, those of you out there that have high blood pressure
from whatever the cause, here are some natural ways that we can bring it down.
And one of the things I want to do before we go is pray for you, Father God.
All of those
that might need healing, might need lower blood pressure or have other needs.
Father, I want to pray for them
and have them go to your word for biblical prescriptions, for life.
Amen.
And don't forget this text.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge.
So that has to be taught by God.
Well, how is it taught?
Through his word, through these biblical prescriptions.
And then it ends for, I believe
in your commandments and your precepts and your teachings.
I believe these more than worldly things.
So don't forget, here's a group of ways to lower the blood pressure.
I think everyone should get out, move more,
eat more grains, cut back a little bit on the sodium.
These are things that can lower your blood pressure.
There's a really good side that I got most of this from.
It's called nutrition facts dot org.
If you go how to lower your blood pressure in that, that will give
you even more information on ways to lower blood pressure.
Because we now know based on these articles that both
the COVID 19 virus, as well as the vaccines
in these studies, 3.2% of people have high blood pressure.
Well, this is an adverse effect.
We need to do something about it.
Here are some things we can do about it if this doesn't work.
Talk to your physician.
We might even find the right medications to lower it
until some of these natural interventions can be
mediated or until we can find out other things
that we can do to lower it depending on the cause.
So I want you to share this with your friends and neighbors.
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Please put your comments and your experience about how
some of these ways to lower blood pressure, whether it's helped you.
And I'll be back soon
with another biblical prescription for life.