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How do you fix high blood pressure?

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If you have high blood pressure, there are a few things that will affect high blood pressure, weight, salt, stress, alcohol. So if you are overweight you might want to try to lose weight, cut down on your salt and alcohol intake. When these things are not helping going to see your physcian to get medication might also help.

Your way of handling stress (spirituality, psychiatry), is also important. Total control can be attained by managing the last two.

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