I have had BP as low as 100 over 60, But often at the doctor’s office it would be around 130/75. Then I learned that talking raises blood pressure and listening lowers it. Now when I go in I try to avoid talking until after that measure and am always in the 120s. Age 86 last time measured. Live in a 4 story house, kitchen and laundry in the basement, bathroom on second, and friend on the 3rd floor. Stairs are my exercise. For the past 50 year I have been studying supplements, and at this point take quite a few morning and evening.
Assigned Levothyroxin which I don’t always remember to take. Try to eat mostly very healthy foods. Small servings of something sweet my only indulgence. After last Thanksgiving I bought a large pecan pie on sale. I ate a small piece daily for 3 weeks. Levo is my only medication, everything else is supplements. I can still jog 100 feet to catch the bus. Over the years I have added supplements as I researched new symptoms to fix, which has always worked.
During the first 10 years after I started studying and using supplements, I read about 20 books on therapeutic nutrition. Back then my Gynochologist when I asked about a few things I was taking said, “I don’t know much about supplements, but you seem fine and I see you regularly, so can tell you if anything seems to be a problem.” My current GP would probably be shocked if he knew how many different ones I was taking, but I experiment with many different ones. When I told my opthalmologist I had improved my Cataracts by about 70 to 80% by adding 5 supplements to my routine, his only comment was a scornful one, “they have not done any double blind studies on those supplements.” Who does double blind studies on 5 supplements at the same time? My previous Opth. had increased the spacing on my regular driving eye exam from one to two years. If the new guy is still around, I am afraid he may cut me back to 1 year for spite. Three years ago, I grew back up one inch. I think it may have been one or more of those cataract helping supplements. Twenty years ago I was 5’5”, I shrunk down to 5’3” and was stable there for about 10 years after adding boron and other items. A year ago, I was still 5’4”. Need to have my annual physical soon, will see then if I have grown some more or remained stable. I have never told my most recent assigned GP what supplements I am taking.
I need to get a legal statement requiring a hospital to let me arrange my own supplements. I think a hospital killed my best friend because they would not let her take the supplements she had added to her cancer treatment that along with chemo were shrinking the tumors as they had done with my brother’s metastatic liver cancer. Unfortunately his 4th Covid shot quickly had him on a fast slide to death.
I have had BP as low as 100 over 60, But often at the doctor’s office it would be around 130/75. Then I learned that talking raises blood pressure and listening lowers it. Now when I go in I try to avoid talking until after that measure and am always in the 120s. Age 86 last time measured. Live in a 4 story house, kitchen and laundry in the basement, bathroom on second, and friend on the 3rd floor. Stairs are my exercise. For the past 50 year I have been studying supplements, and at this point take quite a few morning and evening.
Assigned Levothyroxin which I don’t always remember to take. Try to eat mostly very healthy foods. Small servings of something sweet my only indulgence. After last Thanksgiving I bought a large pecan pie on sale. I ate a small piece daily for 3 weeks. Levo is my only medication, everything else is supplements. I can still jog 100 feet to catch the bus. Over the years I have added supplements as I researched new symptoms to fix, which has always worked.
During the first 10 years after I started studying and using supplements, I read about 20 books on therapeutic nutrition. Back then my Gynochologist when I asked about a few things I was taking said, “I don’t know much about supplements, but you seem fine and I see you regularly, so can tell you if anything seems to be a problem.” My current GP would probably be shocked if he knew how many different ones I was taking, but I experiment with many different ones. When I told my opthalmologist I had improved my Cataracts by about 70 to 80% by adding 5 supplements to my routine, his only comment was a scornful one, “they have not done any double blind studies on those supplements.” Who does double blind studies on 5 supplements at the same time? My previous Opth. had increased the spacing on my regular driving eye exam from one to two years. If the new guy is still around, I am afraid he may cut me back to 1 year for spite. Three years ago, I grew back up one inch. I think it may have been one or more of those cataract helping supplements. Twenty years ago I was 5’5”, I shrunk down to 5’3” and was stable there for about 10 years after adding boron and other items. A year ago, I was still 5’4”. Need to have my annual physical soon, will see then if I have grown some more or remained stable. I have never told my most recent assigned GP what supplements I am taking.
I need to get a legal statement requiring a hospital to let me arrange my own supplements. I think a hospital killed my best friend because they would not let her take the supplements she had added to her cancer treatment that along with chemo were shrinking the tumors as they had done with my brother’s metastatic liver cancer. Unfortunately his 4th Covid shot quickly had him on a fast slide to death.