every few months you take up the latest natural miracle everyone is raving about. You get your hopes up only to discover sooner or later that it does nothing at all for you. But hey, there's always another one coming along just in time. And so it goes… I was once a serial herb and supplement user myself. AtDo you want a lifestyle prescription or do you want lower blood pressure?

"Lose weight! Exercise! Stop eating junk from fast food joints!" Don't you get tired of hearing it sometimes?

Sure, we all know the importance of a healthy lifestyle, especially for keeping our blood pressure under control. But a lot of "experts" don't seem to live in the real world. Shifting a hundred pounds doesn't happen overnight. And what about the sales rep or the truck driver stuck behind the wheel 10 hours a day? What if you're a desk jockey putting in overtime to put bread on the table? (and wouldn't you know it? – healthy fare is often more expensive than junk food!) Or what if you simply enjoy one or two guilty pleasures?

In the past, if you were "lifestyle-challenged" you didn't have any encouraging prospects for dealing with hypertension. You could go the medical route and test-drive a dizzying array of powerful prescription medicines. Success (for your doctor, anyway) would come with just the right drug and dosage to keep you perched between hypertension and intolerable side effects. These could be anything from mildly annoying to life-altering (particularly for the gents!).

Or you could go the alternative route: every few months you take up the latest natural miracle everyone is raving about. You get your hopes up only to discover sooner or later that it does nothing at all for you. But hey, there's always another one coming along just in time. And so it goes… I was once a serial herb and supplement user myself. At

er control. But a lot of "experts" don't seem to live in the real world. Shifting a hundred pounds doesn't happen overnight. And what about the sales rep or the truck driver stuck behind the wheel 10 hours a day? What if you're a desk jockey putting in overtime to put bread on the table? (and wouldn't you know it? – healthy fare is often more expensive than junk food!) Or what if you simply enjoy one or two guilty pleasures?

In the past, if you were "lifestyle-challenged" you didn't have any encouraging prospects for dealing with hypertension. You could go the medical route and test-drive a dizzying array of powerful prescription medicines. Success (for your doctor, anyway) would come with just the right drug and dosage to keep you perched between hypertension and intolerable side effects. These could be anything from mildly annoying to life-altering (particularly for the gents!).

Or you could go the alternative route: every few months you take up the latest natural miracle everyone is raving about. You get your hopes up only to discover sooner or later that it does nothing at all for you. But hey, there's always another one coming along just in time. And so it goes… I was once a serial herb and supplement user myself. At

– healthy fare is often more expensive than junk food!) Or what if you simply enjoy one or two guilty pleasures?

In the past, if you were "lifestyle-challenged" you didn't have any encouraging prospects for dealing with hypertension. You could go the medical route and test-drive a dizzying array of powerful prescription medicines. Success (for your doctor, anyway) would come with just the right drug and dosage to keep you perched between hypertension and intolerable side effects. These could be anything from mildly annoying to life-altering (particularly for the gents!).

Or you could go the alternative route: every few months you take up the latest natural miracle everyone is raving about. You get your hopes up only to discover sooner or later that it does nothing at all for you. But hey, there's always another one coming along just in time. And so it goes… I was once a serial herb and supplement user myself. At

prescription medicines. Success (for your doctor, anyway) would come with just the right drug and dosage to keep you perched between hypertension and intolerable side effects. These could be anything from mildly annoying to life-altering (particularly for the gents!).

Or you could go the alternative route: every few months you take up the latest natural miracle everyone is raving about. You get your hopes up only to discover sooner or later that it does nothing at all for you. But hey, there's always another one coming along just in time. And so it goes… I was once a serial herb and supplement user myself. At

every few months you take up the latest natural miracle everyone is raving about. You get your hopes up only to discover sooner or later that it does nothing at all for you. But hey, there's always another one coming along just in time. And so it goes… I was once a serial herb and supplement user myself. At least natural remedies are (usually) safe and free of side effects. On the other hand, they can be even more expensive than prescription drugs!

So what are you to do? Try not to fret about it too much, for one thing, or it might raise your blood pressure even further! But on the positive side, finally, there's a natural method that's proven to work consistently regardless of your level of hypertension, your medications or your lifestyle.

This method is truly different because you don't consume anything. Nor is it time consuming, tedious or strenuous and, best of all, you can even do it for free. It's called slow breathing and it only takes 15 minutes a day.

Now, for those inevitable few who may be thinking: "Oh no! Not another flaky alternative therapy" let me assure you that slow breathing is the first natural method clinically proven to lower high blood pressure. Its success has been verified repeatedly in randomized, double-blind trials – the same kind of testing as used for drugs.

Slow breathing is simple, like most things in life that really work. The technique involves just two things:

1) breathing slowly and deeply at a rate below 10 breaths per minute (around 6 per minute is ideal), and
2)