A personal, non-medical, blog chronicling the experiences and learnings of a regular, healthy, person diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in 2009 at age 36. Feel free to participate with your own experiences and remember that works or fails for me won't necessarily be right for you. Please don't take anything here as medical advice and always consult a doctor.
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Surefire way to reduce blood pressure without drugs
Almost by accident I've discovered that running temporarily reduces my blood pressure significantly: I've measured by before and after blood pressure 4 times now and in each case it's dropped from around 130/80 to around 115/70 (or less) after running ~2km (~1 mile) (which is around 10 minutes running for me). The effect only lasts a few hours but I'm guessing that running twice a day could help a lot in keeping the pressure down, and thus reduce the damage to the kidneys from high blood pressure. My only problem is that as well as chronic kidney disease, I also suffer from chronic laziness... but I guess it's just a matter of acquiring the habit.
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