Hypertension

Lower High Blood Pressure and Reduce Medication

In just two weeks, the Pritikin Program can ease blood pressure such that a great majority of men and women who enter the Pritikin Longevity Center on hypertensive medication no longer need it upon graduation. The key components of the Pritikin Program--exercising, limiting fat and salt intake, drinking less alcohol, and eating more fruits and vegetables--are without question the ideal lifestyle plan to control high blood pressure.

Just ask graduate Monty Preiser. A few years ago, the blood pressure of this trial attorney from Florida was an alarming 240/160. Only 44 years old, scared, agonizingly aware that he could lose his life and all who were dear to him, he called his father, a long-time alumnus of the Pritikin Longevity Center, and said, "Dad, I'm on my way to Pritikin."

Within one day, he was hooked. "I planned on staying two weeks and ended up staying three. I never had so much fun. I loved everything--the gym, the cooking classes, the staff. The stress management workshops were terrific; the personal time in the pool, phenomenal. I even looked forward to the soups in the middle of the day!"

More fun, yet, was watching both weight and blood pressure plunge. It's been almost five years since Monty began his healthy new life. He's 52 pounds lighter, and his blood pressure is well under control. "I can't even begin to tell you what Pritikin has meant for me. People tell me I look 35 years old, and I feel 30. I truly do."

The Pritikin Longevity Center may be your best assurance that you, too, can start life anew--healthy, strong, free of soaring blood pressure numbers, and quite possibly, free for the rest of your life of the crippling strokes and heart problems that so often disable those with high blood pressure.

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