Among the many theories on lowering blood pressure by natural methods, one of the popular theories that is gaining ground is the use of water to lower blood pressure naturally.
Many naturalists claim that drinking plenty of water everyday will help to regulate blood pressure over a period of time. Water reduces the toxins present in the body, and cleans the internal system.
The logic behind the benefits of water in control blood pressure, arises from the fact that plenty of water will allow the body to flush out the excess sodium or salt that is present in the body. Sodium generally increases water retention in the body, and so when the sodium is flushed out, the body gets cleansed up by excess water.
Even the diuretic drugs that are prescribed to lower blood pressure, work on the same principle of removing the excess sodium from the body system due to an increased volume of urine. This way, the sodium content from the blood is reduced, resulting in lower blood pressure.
Let us also consider the color of urine. If the body has not consumed enough water or fluids, or in case there has been profuse sweating, the body will pass a small volume of urine with a deep yellow color. Where as, when the body has consumed plenty of water or fluids, the color of urine will be pale yellow or transparent color like water itself.
The same principle applies to sodium. When the body passes greater volume of urine due to increased consumption of fluids, the body flushes out maximum sodium, and very small concentrations of sodium are retained in the body. This helps to lower the blood pressure within the system.
But some contrarian schools of though believe that although water therapy is good for health, but excessive water consumption does not result in lower blood pressure. Excessive water gets flushed out of the system as watery urine. So only reasonable consumption of water is good enough to keep the body hydrated, and to flush out the excess sodium from the body.
Some observers even believe that drinking excess water can in fact result in an increase in blood pressure in the short run. Though this happens only in specific cases where the patient is suffering from a particular type of low blood pressure. The phenomenon is only temporary, and does not have a long lasting effect on the blood pressure condition.
This condition or state continues only till the time water remains retained inside the body. But as soon as it is released or flushed out via urination, the blood pressure begins returning towards normalcy.
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