Moore - The high blood pressure solution: a scientifically proven program for preventing strokes and heart disease

This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. George Garceaua gentlemen, a scholar, a great friend, and a fine human being.

Praise for The High Blood Pressure Solution

I have been giving copies of your book to my hypertensive patients. Everyone wants to be able to have normal BP without medications, and now your book tells them how to accomplish that goal.

I am very excited to hear of the Finland experienceon a large scale it confirms your work. In February and March 2000 I worked at a mission hopital in Zambia. There the people are subsistence farmers in a rural area. We saw virtually no hypertension, strokes, or heart attacks and diabetes was very uncommon. Their natural diet and active lifestyle (no cars so people walked long distances every day) seemed to protect them from those western diseases.

Russell Tweet, M.D.

I have had such incredible results in reducing my blood pressure with the K Factor program that I feel compelled to write.

I am a 43 year old woman, with a history of hypertension in my family. My father suffered a massive stroke at age 68 that has left him paralyzed on one sidepermanently disabled. His doctor had treated him for years with medication. My blood pressure started to creep up during the past few years. When I told my doctor about my concernsI had gotten readings as high as 160/100he also was concerned and immediately suggested medication. I told him I preferred to try diet first.

I decided to do diet research myself and turned up the DASH diet. I followed that for two months and saw only a minor drop in my blood pressure. I was terribly frustrated. I was looking online for information on hypertension and came across your chat on WEB MD. It made so much sense to me. I immediately went out and bought your book, The High Blood Pressure Solution. It has changed my life. I started a little over a month ago on the K factor diet. I dont really think of it as a diet, though. It is a lifestyle change that I know will be with me forever. It is not even difficult to follow. I have kept track and had weekly K factor averages between 6.5 and 9.4 these past 5 weeks. My blood pressure the first week averaged 147/87 and has dropped in 5 weeks to last weeks average of 130/80. I even had one reading last week of 122/77. What I have found amazing is that nobody knows about this. Just last week I heard on the news that the DASH diet has proven to be successful. It must be frustrating for you to have one more piece of the puzzle and doctors and nutritionists are still very much unaware.

Thank you for writing the book. I feel better than I have in years and hope you find my immediate success heartening.

Kristen Thornburg

My name is Bob Brown and I am a practicing optomotrist in Yuma, Arizona. After having somewhat elevated blood pressure for 69 months, I bought your book as well as the American Heart Association Low-Sodium Cookbook. Through applying the principles you teach and using the above listed cookbook, I now have normal blood pressure and have lost 35 pounds in 6 months.

I just wanted to write and say THANKS. I cant believe more people dont do this. You really have this thing figured out.

Bob Brown

I had a history of hypertension and low HDL (200 mg total cholesterol, 8 mg HDL) since 1992. At the time I was 45 and only a little overweight. My father, his brother, sister, and mother had all died of heart disease before they were 50. I believe I walked into the doctors office with something like 160/100. He put me on Pravachol (20 mg) and Lozol (1.25mg) and eventually Accupril (10 then 20 mg) and even atenolol. My BP settled down to around 140/85, but I really didnt feel too great. My cholesterol went down to 170 mg total, but still only 8 mg HDL. I insisted to my doctor that I drop the atenolol since it made my heart rate go to under 50 beats per minute most of the time, which I felt was unnatural. My BP was still in the same range. So was my cholesterol.

I started an exercise program and switched doctors. My HDL went up to 10still not great. Then I started taking Zocor (20 mg), and the doctor put me on Cardura (1 mg) in addition to all the other medications. It didnt help that much.

Then I came across your book at the local bookstore. Within a week of undertaking your eating suggestions (no refined sugar, no added sodium chloride, a concentration of high K-factor fruits and vegetables), my BP numbers started to go down to regions I had assumed were unattainable for my personal physiology. I was averaging 125/80 after two weeks. I called my doctor and told him I wanted to drop the Cardura. He agreed. My average BP actually continued to DECLINE. We were now looking at a 120/80 AVERAGE. I asked the doctor if I could reduce the Accupril dose. We settled on 20 mg. Still my BP trended down. Now, after about three months, the median BP is about 115/70. My weight has gone to about 150and I really dont starve myself. The BEST part is that my latest cholesterol numbers were 117 mg total and 35 mg HDL!!

I cannot believe that my doctor has no interest in how I have changed my diet. He seems preoccupied with treating the symptoms and not their underlying cause. Your book has greatly benefitted me. Your work has also benefitted my 13 year old. By the time I was his age, my father had been dead for 3 years.

Andrew Leinoff

Acknowledgments

N o one can do anything worthwhile alone. Much of the research that led me to write this book could not have been done without the collaboration of several students, two excellent technicians, and four bright, dedicated young Ph.D.s I particularly appreciate the high quality of work done by Dr. Mark Fidelman and Dr. John Munford: their work on insulin (although we never even dreamed it at the time) has turned out to be directly relevant to hypertension.

Special appreciation goes to Barb, whose support enabled much of the research on insulin to come into this world, and to good-time Charlie, whose participation extended far beyond anything he might have imagined.

Dr. George Webb, my co-author of a previous version of this book, The K Factor: Reversing and Preventing High Blood Pressure without Drugs, was unable to assist with the writing of this present version due to prior commitments. But in spite of his busy schedule, George was very helpful in double checking some important points.

This book is dedicated to those pioneers who were way ahead of me in realizing that dietary potassium is part of the key to healthy blood pressure. Noteworthy is Dr. Walter Kempner, who in the late 1940s showed that a fruit-rice diet (which has a high K Factor) can reliably lower blood pressure back to the normal range. But especially significant is the work of Dr. Lewis Dahlan acknowledged leader in hypertension research in his own daywho recognized long before I did that the ratio of dietary potassium to sodium is a key to hypertension.

Thanks also go to author Douglas Terman and to Dr. Lorin Mullins, who was my mentor at the physics department of Purdue University. Over the years, Lorin has offered constructive criticism and helped shape my scientific outlook. It is also important to me to acknowledge Dr. George Garceau (deceased), former Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine, who not only showed me what a physician truly can be, but taught me that what is called radical may be conservative and what is called conservative may actually be radical.

I also want to express my appreciation for the generous time several physicians and scientists spent in reviewing parts of both this version and the previous version of this book. Because of the wide range of material covered, their constructive criticism in their respective areas of expertise was essential in order to ensure that the information presented is as sound and reliable as possible. They include: