Blood Pressure Down: The 10-Step Plan to Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Weeks--Without Prescription Drugs Paperback – May 7, 2013

Dr BRILL’s book “Blood Pressure Down” is easy to understand and great at explaining high blood pressure and things that I can do to change my blood pressure immediately. I’ve included exercise by walking right now because that’s the easiest for me to do and I’ve mapped out my course that I can walk and I get a good mile in every time I do this which is at least probably 3 to 6 times a week. I had been walking and what I thought was a good amount of space but I timed it and got a smart watch to help me figure out how many steps I was taking and it actually wasn’t enough. So now I’m plugging 1 mile every time I walk.This book has helped me focus on myself my stress, changing my personal habits like exercising/walking more, which is really easy. Makes me feel great my dog loves it too etc. etc..She includes easy to make recipes that all sound good and mostly have just a few ingredients which is nice. Most of the ingredients are easy to get. They’re not exotic.The biggest plus for the recipes is she includes all of the nutrition breakdown of each recipe -12 total nutritional ingredients - which are critical. This nutritional information is needed to fully understand how much of the minerals, calories, potassium, fats, etc you’re getting.This way you can realistically gauge how well you are doing. And also right now since I’m still reading through the book to get all the base of knowledge, I can easily plug in these ingredients that are helping me lower my blood pressure just by swapping out something for whatever I’ve planned to make already.Excellent book! Highly recommend!I know far more about blood pressure now than I could find out poking around online. I haven’t read the entire book yet but so far I have learned so much and just spot reading throughout the book I have incorporated her info into my every day. I’ve greatly expanded my knowledge thanks to her extremely well written and articulate book (what a breath of fresh air - someone who knows how to write, spell and punctuate!!!) making Bp easy to understand and the simplicity of changing it. I have already started changing my food intake.I wish Dr. BRILL would write a book about the DASH Diet as I am finding far too many that are just slapped together with a few simple recipes with no real nutritional breakdown.Rather a joke in my opinion, if you wanna “kinda do something”, then definitely order one of these no info dash books that has three pages of information about the dash diet.I’ve ordered a few books about the dash diet and they are so lacking in this area it is just not funny.But doctor BRILL includes all of the information that is critical if you want to bring your blood pressure down and eat healthy.I highly recommend her back. It is the best! It is easy to understand so that you know the ins and outs of blood pressure and includes the recipes which are very helpful and life changing. With a complete nutrition breakdown, super big plus!

A lot might be old news if you have been managing your blood pressure for years, but if you're new to the game, this should prove useful. You can use this as a loose guide and work with your doctor to do what's best for you.

a simple guide to information to lower blood pressure. It was recommended to me from a librarian.

I have high blood pressure. I do not fit the profile; rather slim, active, and eat well. In a nut shell, reduce sodium intake, increase potassium, magnesium, and calcium uptake. Reducing sodium pretty easy. The other three present problems when one begins to count %’s of daily ingestion. Potassium ingestion is the easiest, calcium next, and then magnesium. My point of contention is wherever the fruits, vegetables, cocoa etc are grown, do the soils contain these valuable minerals? If soils are depleted, the platform of this book is defunct. The positives of this book include reducing sodium ingestion, eating more wisely, and increase activity, which are all common sense, but sometimes we all require that kick in the head. To assure that I am receiving enough magnesium in my diet, I have reverted to using magnesium chloride, the element of the three essentials required that seems to be the toughest to find.I must also add, that for some of us, the issue of hypertension is more than just diet and exercise. Genetics enters the picture. One can try life style changes, stress reduction (difficult to do if work or family issues hang over one’s head like the Sword of Damocles) and some form of medication will be necessary. However, If one has elevate blood pressure this book is probably as good a place as any to begin to address the situation.

This is a book that I will use over and over again as I combat high blood pressure in my life. The book is very detailed, providing you with all the scientific information regarding blood pressure, exercise, and diet. She doesn’t give you a quick method, but a suggestion to change your lifestyle and eating. I now eat potassium rich foods as a way of life and it is making me eat more vegetables. I recommend the paperback version if you are going to start so that you can make notes and refer back easily.

It worked. I found I had high blood-pressure quite by accident when I went to get new glasses and technician checked me. 154/81. I made the guy check me 2 more times, sure enough, it was high. Two months of herbs and exercise, checking my BP with a home machine, it was coming in between 174/84 and 150/81 every time, except very first thing in the morning. I bought this book, went to the grocery and checked every label for sodium. It was sad. Say good-bye to cheese and most bread. I tracked nutrients on MyFitnessPal.com, which I use with my Fitbit anyway, and once you get a menu in there, you can just replicate it day to day. Good news. 5 days on the diet I'm at 127/79 - 124/81. Consistently, different times of day. Exercising at least 1/2 hour a day. Sodium was tough, and I'm not ready to go out to dinner yet, but here's the thing, 5 days I'm in the normal range. You are going to eat a LOT of greens. Spinach and arugula for me, and a LOT of bananas, to get your potassium up to 4700mg a day. I've only made it one day, and that's with smoothies and stuff -- but it has worked. It's going to be tough to stay on this diet. Some tips. There is a low sodium ricotta cheese available you can sort of press into service. And balsamic vinaigrette and balsamic vinegar reduction are about the only salad dressings that have no sodium. Commercial dressings ridiculously high in sodium. The ranch dressing I like is over 650mg per serving, so that's over a 3rd of your daily allowance for 2 tablespoons of dressing. Not acceptable. Mrs. Dash helps give your food some flavor, too. In short, this plan works, and works fast. Now I need to see if I can stick with it.