High Blood Pressure: Lower Your Blood Pressure with Milk Protein in Just a Few Hours

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, affects one person in every five in the UK. This condition is often dubbed the silent killer since it usually causes no symptoms but if left untreated, it can lead to heart attack, stroke or kidney failure.

Doctors link only five per cent of hypertension cases to a specific cause. The other 95 per cent are described as essential hypertension, meaning that the cause is unknown. Some people may experience symptoms such as headaches, or nosebleeds, but most only discover they have hypertension when their blood pressure is taken during a medical check-up.

Blood pressure, the force needed to pump blood through your body, is measured as two figures. The first is the systolic pressure, when your heart is contracting, and the second is the diastolic pressure when the heart relaxes. Normal blood pressure is around 120/80 or less, with 140/90 and above being considered as hypertension.

The big news if you suffer from hypertension is that researchers have discovered a natural compound derived from milk, called C12 Peptide that significantly reduces blood pressure. This is an important scientific advance that could lead to a new generation of natural nutritional products for treating hypertension. This amazing new treatment is now available in the UK as a supplement called Regisense.

Dont risk the multiple side-effects of hypertension drugs

As usual, conventional medicine looks to drugs as the front line of treatment for hypertension, including beta-blockers to reduce the heartbeat, diuretics to reduce blood volume and vasodilators to widen the blood vessels. But all of these come at a price in terms of an alarmingly long list of side-effects headaches, dizziness, fainting, flushing, fatigue, nausea, drowsiness, dry mouth, loss of taste, dry cough, constipation, muscle pain, breathing difficulties, reduced kidney function and even heart failure. And those are just the common ones! Whats more, the likelihood of all these adverse reactions is greater in older people.1

So it is particularly welcome that Regisense offers a natural alternative that appears to be safe and entirely free from side-effects. The active ingredient C12 Peptide is formed naturally from the milk protein casein during the production of cheese. A peptide is a molecule formed by two or more amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) linking together. C12 Peptide, as its name implies, is made up of 12 amino acids.

Now natures own ACE-inhibitor offers a safe alternative

What makes C12 Peptide active in lowering blood pressure is its ability to inhibit the action of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE). ACE catalysis the conversion of a hormone called angiotensin-1 into its active form angiotensin-2. This causes the blood vessels to narrow (vasoconstriction), which in turn raises the blood pressure. By blocking the action of ACE, C12 Peptide reduces blood pressure.

In addition to activating angiotensin, ACE blocks the action of another hormone, called bradykinin, which causes the blood vessels to relax (vasodilation). So by inhibiting ACE, C12 Peptide not only prevents the negative effects of vasoconstriction on blood pressure but also promotes the positive effects of vasodilation.

In fact, Regisense works in almost exactly the same way as the ACE-inhibitor drugs your doctor might prescribe. The big difference is that, unlike these drugs, it is safe, free from side-effects and wont push normal blood pressure down to dangerously low levels. If you have mild hypertension, Regisense could offer a gentler, more natural alternative to hypertension medication. However, you should not stop taking any prescribed medicines until you have discussed this with your doctor, especially if your blood pressure is very high.

In just a few hours, your blood pressure could drop by around
seven points!

Like all great breakthroughs, Regisense is the result of many years of painstaking research. The first trials of a milk casein derivative in hypertensive rats, carried out more than 15 years ago, found significant drops in blood pressure within three to six hours.2 In a later study, in which treatment was continued for four weeks, the average blood pressure of rats given daily doses of C12 Peptide was markedly lower than that of the control group.3 In the first clinical trial on humans, 18 patients with mild hypertension took 200 mg of C12 Peptide daily for four weeks. At the end of this study, their blood pressure had dropped an average of 4.6 points systolic and 6.6 points diastolic.4

The most recent clinical trial was carried out at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA.5 This double-blind, placebo-controlled study looked at the effects of two different doses of C12 Peptide 100 mg and 200 mg in 10 people with mild hypertension. A single dose was given on days 7, 14 and 21 of the trial, following which their blood pressure was measured continuously for nine hours. The higher dose was found to reduce average blood pressure by an impressive 6.9 points systolic and 7.4 points diastolic in a matter of a few hours.

The safety of C12 Peptide was exhaustively researched by the University of Pennsylvania scientists. No adverse side-effects were reported, neither were there any abnormal results from biochemical examination of the blood, liver or kidneys. From animal studies, it appears that C12 Peptide does not reduce normal blood pressure it only works when the blood pressure is abnormally high. This makes it very safe to use.

Weight loss and exercise 2 simple lifestyle changes that can have a real impact on hypertension

As a natural component of milk protein, C12 Peptide acts in the body as a functional food, not as a foreign substance in the way that drugs do. And if you want to keep your blood pressure under control, foods are your greatest ally. Keeping to a low carbohydrate diet (such as the one set out in Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution) will help you to lose weight, which may itself be enough to bring your blood pressure down to normal.6 It will also help you to avoid insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes, two significant risk factors for high blood pressure.

Anyone with high blood pressure should also make the effort to exercise regularly, since this increases the blood flow to the muscles and opens up the capillaries, allowing your blood pressure to fall. Start very slowly if youre out of practice and talk to your doctor first if your blood pressure is very high. Even gentle forms of exercise like walking or tai chi can make a real difference to your blood pressure reading.

What to take for best results

When combined with weight control and regular exercise, Regisense offers a great natural alternative to prescription drugs for people with mild hypertension. The recommended dose is two tablets, twice a day, preferably half an hour before meals.

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