These Vitamins Heal High Blood Pressure!

There is an attack on your body happening right now, and it causes high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, and other serious conditions.

Fortunately, there is one type of vitamin that quickly fights off this attack, helps brings your blood pressure down, and improves your arteries to reach optimal health.

Antioxidant vitamins are the gatekeepers of oxidative stress, a condition that is commonly blamed for many chronic diseases, including high blood pressure.

Simply put, oxidative stress is the result of free radical damage, which occurs partly because of inadequate protection by antioxidants.

What does this mean for high blood pressure?

Humans live by burning (oxidizing) food, and the byproducts of that oxidation can damage our DNA, leading to high blood pressure.

Thankfully, the body makes its own antioxidant called glutathione, which should be sufficient when coupled with a diet that is rich in antioxidant foods.

The most powerful antioxidant vitamins are A, C, and E. You can get these vitamins in high-quality supplements from your local health food store or from food sources.

The National Institute of Aging has developed something known as an ORAC Score (oxygen radical absorption capacity), which assesses the power of a plant to absorb and eliminate free radicals.

The following foods are the highest in antioxidants, based on 100 grams (3.5oz) of each food:

Goji berries – 25,000 ORAC Score

Dark Chocolate – 21,000 ORAC Score

Pecans – 17,000 ORAC Score

Blueberries – 14,000 ORAC Score

Elderberries – 14,000 ORAC Score

Cranberries – 9,500 ORAC Score

Artichoke – 9,400 ORAC Score

Kidney Beans – 8,400 ORAC Score

Blackberries – 5,300 ORAC Score

Note: This list is an attempt to highlight edible foods. When measured by weight, certain spices are the richest sources of antioxidants. Ground clove, for example, has one of the highest ORAC values. However, it is doubtful that anyone will ever attempt to eat 100g of cloves in one sitting!

Surprisingly, a set of simple blood pressure exercises have been found to be even more powerful than antioxidants in battling high blood pressure. Learn these simple blood pressure exercises here…