SINK hypertension with this ‘blood flow berry’

When you’ve made it off the fairway… and you’re on the green… it’s time to switch out your golf clubs.

You don’t need your driver anymore… and you can put your irons away.

It’s time for a putter! Because you just need to TAP your ball in.

Friend, it’s the same scenario when you’re trying to control your blood pressure… and keep hypertension at bay.

If you’ve got a LONG way to go to reach your goal… it’s not very likely you’ll get a hole-in-one with ANYTHING (unless you’re Tiger Woods circa 1997).

Not even a drug.

Because too often, those BP meds cause patients to OVERSHOOT their targets… and experience numbers that drop TOO LOW.

That means you’ve got to BACKTRACK… and keep SWINGING…

And along the way, you just might hit a sand trap.

Even if you’ve only hit the links a couple of times, you know it’s better to work your way SLOWLY and STEADILY towards getting your ball holed.

Here’s how that lesson from “tee time” can be applied to beating back hypertension.

Traditional Chinese physicians have been treating patients with a “berry bush” known as hawthorn for over 2,000 years.

Part of the rose family, hawthorn berry has been used as a heart tonic for HUNDREDS of years in Europe… particularly in Germany.

And here in North America… well, we were a little behind the rest. We’ve got a little more than a CENTURY of hawthorn use under our belts… and REAL scientific research didn’t really start until the 1960s!

You’ve read right here in eAlert how hawthorn could help turn heart failure around… and even LESSEN dependence on traditional pharmaceutical medications.

But hawthorn could also come in handy in LESS EXTREME circumstances…

Like if you need a little help IMPROVING circulation… BOOSTING blood flow… and LOWERING blood pressure.

A 2020 meta-analysis out of Australia found that hawthorn could help BRING blood pressure numbers down in patients with either prehypertension or hypertension…

And with NO serious adverse effects.

It’s not just the berries that exhibit cardiotonic properties… but also the flowers and leaves of the hawthorn plant (in fact, more so!).

They ALL contain antioxidant compounds called OPCs… which are also the key to grapeseed extract and its ability to fight hypertension.

They work by keeping blood vessels WIDE (a.k.a. vasodilation)…

But they’re not the ONLY beneficial compound in hawthorn’s bag of tricks.

It also contains quercetin, another antioxidant that helps keep vessels FLEXIBLE (a.k.a. vasorelaxation).

Now, you could eat hawthorn berries raw…

But for a more concentrated source of the active compounds, drink a tea brewed from the berries, flowers, and leaves…

Or take hawthorn supplements… which are widely available at health food stores and online.

A studied dosage is 500 to 1,200 mg daily.

The most researched species of hawthorn are Crataegus oxyacantha and Crataegus pinnatifida (a.k.a. Chinese hawthorn)…

But there are HUNDREDS of members of the Crataegus genus.

It might take a couple of months for your doc to notice a difference in your readings…

But that’s because hawthorn works GENTLY to NUDGE you towards your BP target… just like that putter I mentioned earlier.