Major Causes For High Blood Pressure

Major causes for high blood pressure are as varied as blood pressure reading can be. There are a number of reasons why we get in trouble with hypertension; one of the main reasons is that we fail to take care of ourselves the right way.

Since we were kids we would eat anything and everything. It didn’t matter, if it looked good and smelled good, we were eating it. Sometimes it didn’t have to look good or smell good, and we would still eat it. However that story is for another time.

As we got older we continued to eat like that into our twenties and thirties. However, we just don’t bounce back like we used to and we start to feel a little different physically. We start to feel sluggish and fatigued.

By the time we have reached our forties and fifties, if we’re lucky. We start noticing that we can’t do the same things physically that we used to do. That doesn’t seem to strange though that comes with age. However when you are having trouble breathing and feeling dizzy, then you know something’s wrong.

Remember how you worry so much over everything or maybe you don’t worry over everything or maybe you just have a few things that really bother you. Those things have caught up to you and now your not only expercing the emotional effects you are experiencing the physical damage done to your body by the stress.

Remember how your Mother or Dad would complain about how they felt. Then if you think back, you can still hear stories about your Grandmother or Grandfather or even that Aunt or Uncle having the same kind of problems; perhaps genetics.

I just gave you some examples of what causes high blood pressure, let’s review. Your diet has caught up with you, and you decided not to change it. You now not only have high blood pressure, you have high cholesterol on top of it and very likely are overweight.

Since you became a little older you decided because you felt a certain way, which is from the way you eat, by the way. That you can’t do the things you used to do, so you don’t exercise anymore. Well, not exercising has now caused your blood pressure to sky rocket.

Remember how you like to worry about every little problem you have. These problems have caused you stress, and stress can not only raise your blood pressure, you can get depression and other ailments that you do not want.

Now here is something that really no one can help. You know when you were younger and you heard your parents complaining about it and even your grandparent’s. That’s right genetics. You can’t help of where you came from and who they came from and so on and so on.

There it is folks, the major reasons for high blood pressure. Inproper diet, lack of exercise, stress, and genetics, the thing is, you can fix these problems. You may ask, what about genetics? Well just because your body was made a certain way doesn’t mean you can’t change it.

So, no excuses, you know what you’ve done. Now you know what you have to do to fix it.

Learn more here on the site about Blood Pressure and the problems when it is too high or too low, as well as the most common causes symptoms and treatments.