Suneel Dhand is a British physician who has been openly critical of pandemic policy in many a YouTube video and now focuses his critical eye on another common medical issue: blood pressure.
“I believe it’s absolutely ludicrous that we would have this one size fits all approach to blood pressure [of ] 120 over 80.”
“Every passing year the guidance from the medical establishment gets more and more aggressive and on many levels this is a complete money grab…”
After retina surgery, i got constipated and questioned the eye doc about the steroids in the eye drops. He poo-pooed that, but the dosage adds up over several weeks at 4x per day.
My blood pressure also went up during recovery, approaching 140, while being physically dormant on that medication.
All good now. Sceptical of western medicine drug dependence.
My 90lb grandmother had chronic high blood pressure. I have no idea what medication she was taking … but she passed away quietly in her sleep at age 93. Oh yeah, and she was a heavy smoker till about age 68. I inherited her high blood pressure gene, and first presented with high blood pressure at about age 18, when I was in the best physical shape of my life, playing rugby and running the hills.
I can’t recall what drug I was put on by my Doctor … but it literally made me faint and pass out, it was so WRONG for me. In my later life, I was put on an ideal dose of Lisinopril – an Ace inhibitor. It works very, very, well for me and my blood pressure is always around those “ideal” numbers.
But I do agree with the primary point of the Doctor … that some “ideal” numbers are arbitrary constructs. Kinda in the same way that our weather and temperatures … our climate … has some ideal settings. Ohhhhhhh mommmmaaaa … EXTREME weather and EXTREME blood pressure!! Oh my!
I have no idea what my blood pressure is. I don’t go to doctors.
High BP may have benefits in some cases. Elderly folks need higher BP to dirve blood flow out to the small blood vessels, including those in the brain. Personally have seen more than a few cases where cognitive deficits were driven by lack of blood flow
A lot of physicians are questioning the usual dogma pertaining to a variety of accepted norms in healthcare and nutrition. These benevolent “heretics” have stepped out of their lane to illuminate a variety of conditions that big pharma has groomed the medical establishment to accept as conditions requiring patients to become life-long slaves to their products. High LDL cholesterol and the knee-jerk statin response is another example. So is high blood sugar and diabetes meds.
Doctors are healers, not preventers. There is no money in prevention. I’m not trying to indict doctors here. Many of them have had an epiphany regarding their training and have moved their focus to prevention.
Many conditions for which medication is prescribed can be dealt with through diet and exercise. Avoid carbohydrates -particularly the simple ones such as bread, pasta, potatoes and all things with sugar like processed foods, soda-pop, fruit juices desserts etc. Avoid seed oils and alcohol. Eat 1g of protein per pound of ideal weight and learn to love fats. The human animal only needs protein and fat. Lift weights. Do squats and push-ups daily. Jogging is overrated.
Jesse Chappus at The Ultimate Health Podcast has possibly the best podcast available to educate yourself on these subjects. Dr. Dhand is also a great source on YouTube as are many others.
I have had good luck with Beet Root Pills
Drops my BP down 10-15 points – enought to pass a medical 🙂
When my husband turned 60 all of a sudden is normal colesterol and Blood pressure became an issue, had a couple of tussles with his doctor over how they keep changing the “Acceptable” margins to get more people to take drugs.
Is this where I start my rant about … RSV!?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/rsv-vaccine-could-protect-high-risk-adults-under-60-pfizer-says/ar-BB1lkMcr
Effing-A !!! Note: this news story is being reported in the BUSINESS news … not the “medical” pages. My HMO now repeatedly chides me to get my:
COVID booster #9
Seasonal Flu vaccine
Shingles vaccine
Pneumonia vaccine
… and now the RSV vaccine will be added to the list?
Good gawd! How did mankind evolve to get THIS FAR without treating EVERY potential ailment?
Had cancer and the follow up treatments for the last three years so I’ve had my blood pressure professionally taken more than many, almost all by a private hospital. They would always use the manual cuff and stethoscope. My BP was normal and sometimes below the 120/80.
My annual VA doc appointment uses the machine and my BP is always high with them. Around 150/90. Every time. They won’t let me leave until the machine reads my BP 120/80 which only occurs after I sit there for an hour or someone eventually comes in with the cuff/stethoscope. VA doc put me on a low dose of BP medication.
I asked the private hospital’s nurse last time I was there, why don’t they use the machines? She said they have never used them because the devices seem to consistently return high numbers.
So I don’t even know what an accurate reading is. Machine or cuff? 120/80? 150/90? I can hardly believe I am the only one with conflicting BP readings with the machine vs cuff to where the VA doesn’t recognize a problem. Or maybe I’m just lucky.
Same scenario with osteopenia/osteoporosis drugs. I’m a mid-80s female with osteopenia. Last time I had a bone density scan, nothing had changed. My family doctor keeps pushing me to take Actonel and believes I’m being unreasonable in opting not to. When you read the long term consequences of these drugs, it’s scary. If you need dental surgery, your dentist will insist on you being off the drug for at least 6 months due to possible jaw necrosis!
“Dead Doctors Don’t Lie”
https://youtu.be/esaSKqO27II?si=IGX9vrnSiITvAY4z
Very much worth a listen.
Listened to this doc 30 years ago. One of the best men to listen to about your health.
Good to know. Mine is somewhat elevated but at 64, I still hammer 2 hours on the bike along with 4 hours/week of modest weights. Never felt better. Now, if I could just lay off the beer…
I can’t help but feeling real good of having avoided visiting a doctor for the last 27 years and ignoring all the medical advice from family and the media. It’s about time that doctors hang up that white lab coat or the blue scrubs and put on a yellow shirts with cotton overalls so everyone can recognize them for the Big Pharma minions they really are.