Discover a Healthier You with How to lower blood pressure na

Are you ready to get your personal Lifestyle Prescription ?

Something great? ... no copays!

When I became a nurse 30 years ago, I was excited to help people get healthy and stay healthy. I taught smoking cessation classes, led cardiac rehab groups, ran a weight loss business independently, taught stress management techniques to my patients and continued to believe our healthcare system was designed to help people get and stay well.

Over time, however, I started noticing things that really bothered me. People were not being educated and encouraged anymore to take responsibility for their health. Grocery stores were filling up with more and more processed foods and patients weren't being told they were bad for them. People were prescribed medications but didn't seem to understand them or the potential side effects.

Patients who were getting four to five medications now receiving ten or fifteen a day. How could anyone know how these are affecting the patient? Or their liver and kidneys where medications are processed?

Our family diet consisted of fried bologna and spam with fake mashed potatoes and gravy as a kid. Corn flakes and Wheaties were a mainstay with Captain Crunch as an occasional treat. Canned vegetables and Tang (some of you might not even know what this is). Peanut butter and jelly or bologna sandwiches and chips. Kentucky Fried Chicken and pretty much mostly processed foods.

As a kid, I was chubby (surprise!) and had headaches. I got sick easily. My stomach hurt a lot and I eventually had terrible migraines. My parents both smoked. Every year, around holiday time, I had bronchitis.

My poor lifestyle was not something I could completely control as a kid. My parents didn't really know any better. They were on a tight budget and did what they thought was right. I had a roof over my head, food on the table and clothes on my back. 

Now, the information is available to you and everyone else. We are so fortunate. But knowing and doing can be a real challenge. I can help you with that!

The purpose of me sharing my back story is so you can know my lifestyle was not good at all and I, like you, had to learn a different way.

Remember... I said something great was going to happen today?

No one likes feeling low energy, worrying about their health and finding out they have high blood pressure or something worse. I hate it when people believe there's just no hope and they've just given up. But I get it. It's challenging in a culture that reinforces all the food in the grocery store is AOK. But it just isn't

When you decide to take control of your health, it's going to be a great day and provide many more ahead!

I have advised many patients over the years in methods to lower their blood pressure naturally and noticed in the process, they also lost weight, controlled their blood sugars and felt better. 

Many asked me why no one told them there was a way besides taking medication. Of course, medications help many people who need them, so I am not against medications, if necessary.

But in 80% of high blood pressure cases, a lifestyle prescription will enhance overall health and medication may not be necessary. The only side effect of a lifestyle prescription is decreasing your risk of heart attack, stroke, cancer and autoimmune diseases.

I specialize in educating those who are interested in learning how to use day to day choices to address the health issues that are, according to the World Health Organization, preventable 80% of the time through lifestyle choices.

80%...YES! you read that right. 

You matter to those around you and the How to Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally program can teach you how to treat yourself like the amazing person you are.  Treating your body well is the first step and is something great you can start today. Are you ready?

Martha Madrid, MEd, RN, LPS

Lifestyle Prescription Specialist