I recently received an email from a person asking me if there was possible a link between depression and high blood pressure. He was kind of joking.

Research does reflect a link between the two. Both ideas have been studied; hypertension leading to depression as well as depression leading to high blood pressure.

It has been proven that people suffering from depression are three times more likely to to develop hypertension than those who don’t suffer depression.

What makes things worse is that people who have depression are more likely to over eat, smoke and drink too much. And they’re less likely to seek treatment for high blood pressure.

But as strange as it may seem. Even people suffering depression that lived otherwise healthy live, also were more likely to suffer high blood pressure.

Therefore, researchers have concluded that change in hormones due to anxiety and depression can be a huge factor in causing high blood pressure.

The medication taken for depression can cause high blood pressure as side effect. This is also another factor.

Given these factors, there is a link between depression and high blood pressure.

Let’s see what makes hypertension to cause depression.

High blood pressure can cause depression because the medication taken for hypertension will cause depression as side effect.

Once again, we see that in order to solve a problem we create a new problem.

Even though the person was joking, he was right assuming there may be a connection between the two conditions.

And the main underlying cause for so many problems is stress. There is no wonder hypertension and depression can therefore also be caused by stress.

Practices that can help high blood pressure regardless of the cause:

some people see a spike in blood pressure after just a drink or two, and in those cases drinking is not recommended at all. Therefore, you should stop excessive drinking.

Smoking is the main creator of blood pressure. So stop smoking.

Eat good healthy food. Raw vegetables and fruits should be the first on your list.

I have created several natural health guides. Including my natural blood pressure exercise program and weight loss breeze - which uses simple exercises to increase the oxygen level in the body and improve metabolism.

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Christian Goodman is a well known researcher and the creator of the reduce blood pressure blog. His recent work is the Lower Blood Pressure program, which has now assisted thousands of people in prevent stroke .

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