High Blood Pressure and Alkaline Water
Excerpt from Reverse Aging © 1990 by Sang Whang.
In December 1986, I was introduced to a water ionizer by a friend [a registered nurse]. She told me the alkaline water from this ionizer would lower my high blood pressure if I drank 5 cups daily. In those days, I was taking 20 mg of Vasotec a day to maintain my blood pressure at around 140/90.
I bought the ionizer and started to drink high pH alkaline water. As I was drinking the alkaline water, I monitored my blood pressure. I reduced the amount of Vasotec gradually as the blood pressure started to come down
Reducing High Blood Pressure
After 6 weeks, I stopped taking Vasotec altogether. My blood pressure came down to 130/85 without my pills
Dr. Kancho Kuninaka, one of the pioneers of the alkaline water treatment in Japan, states that virtually without exception, the patients with high blood pressure have an acidosis condition.
He has many successful clinical cases where the acid free high pH alkaline water lowered blood pressure. Since the higher pH blood contains excess oxygen, the heart doesn't have to work as hard.
Doctors know that if you take several deep breaths right before the blood pressure measurement, you can get a lower reading. You have temporarily elevated the pH of the blood by breathing in more Oxygen.
If you can lower your blood pressure by using this trick, you should be able to lower your blood pressure within a few months of drinking the alkaline water.
Heart Disease
If your blood pressure is always high, chances are that your arteries are getting narrow (atherosclerosis) and it will take a long time, possibly a year or more, for that blood pressure to come down by means of alkaline water. It takes time to dissolve plaque and cholesterol build-up, but eventually it will work.
Your heart pumps over 5 quarts of blood every minute. Acidification of the body starts in the blood.
A trick that the blood plays to prevent acidification is to change liquid acid into undissolved solid acid. Cholesterol and crystallized uric acid are examples of these solidified acids.
When high pH alkaline water is consumed, these solid acids become liquid acids bringing down the pH to a normal range.
An insufficient amount of alkaline minerals will build up these solid acids.
Reducing Stress
We need rest in order to allow our body to dispose of wastes so that we can feel better. When we rest, we discard wastes faster.
Stress creates more acid. Under tension, we burn more nutrients in a short amount of time, creating a lot more wastes. For this reason, stress speeds up aging.
The proper amount of exercise followed by a resting period helps get rid of waste products, especially if one drinks alkaline water during that rest period.
Exercise expands clogged up capillary vessels. Then the high-temperature blood dissolves old waste products that are ‘hiding’ deep within clogged up capillaries.
Mental stress can be more devastating than physical stress because there is no rest period. It is a vicious cycle. Mental stress creates more acids and the acids can make you feel more depressed.
Japanese doctors claim that drinking alkaline water can change a depressed mood into a brighter, calmer mood.
