So true.

I added a small diuretic to my Lisinopril last year. Lisinopril has never given me any issues outside of a dry cough occasionally. The diuretic is fairly low dose, but with as much water as I drink, I pee about every hour for the first half of my day. LOL. Not a horrible side effect to have, but makes road trips hell.

I was talked about a beta blocker a few years ago but said it wasn't worth it for how I like to exercise. So far so good on my current medication and diet. My BP has been much better with the diuretic added and cleaning up my diet even more.

You side effects I couldn't handle either. Wonder why that happens?

My parents have exercised daily their entire lives, maintain very health weights and eat like saints. They have both dealt with high BP starting in their 20's and 30's. High cholesterol in their 40's. They are in their 60's now and hike 5-10 miles a day....they still need their medication for these issues.

****ing genetics!!!!

Can't make rice without garlic salt.

I'm the same way. I can eat quite a bit of salt too. I even take salt tablets here in the summer or I faint. It helps for holding onto water to cool the body.

ROFL:clap:

That's funny because i was on the verge of going on Blood Pressure meds until i stopped salting my food. My blood pressure dropped back down to around normal ... about 40/20 points. I didn't change anything else about my diet or intake amount.

Doctor couldn't hide his surprise when i told him the next visit. He was expecting to start prescribing HBP meds.

I use Himalayan salt or other sea salts... the regular iodized salt isn't good for you. Sea salts have minerals, at least...

Or, I could be full of shit.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-li...t/faq-20058512

Same thing happened with my wife. They wanted to put her on meds in her 20s and she said no way. I do all the cooking so it was easy to adjust her salt intake. That was a few years ago -- she's fine now, no meds, and doesn't miss all the salt.

ROFL

:D

Awesome!

It's a tough out.

I figured out though, that when I went to college, I started cooking a LOT different than my mom (the food I grew up with). I use quite a bit more heat, and a lot less salt and butter (or other sorts of fats).

But anyway, I certainly haven't had to like FMB or Laz, but I've tried to watch it.

In my experience, the easiest thing to do IMO is veggies. Don't buy a canned veggie ever again. Even when I do canned, I don't add butter or salt, but frozen veggies are so much better and taste better without butter for sure, and potentially salt. Certainly good enough to train yourself to eat them without. I about don't do canned anymore.

I try to reduce butter whenever possible. Butter (at least the kind that tastes good) has a lot of salt. So if it is at all possible to knock off the butter. Bread, if it needs butter, find a different bread. I use jelly instead of butter on bread. And I don't use much on potatoes.

The other thing I'd recommend is buy a pepper mill. Fresh ground pepper is a lot more flavorful than packaged pepper. If you think you need salt, throw some pepper at it Some stuff may not work, but give it a go. I put virtually no salt on potatoes. Just pepper those bitches up.

I haven't quit Lawry's on steak, hamburgers, but I've managed to offset some of that with pepper.

I think the theory is that it has a stouter flavor so you are SUPPOSED to use less.

no carbs, and gluten free

Hyponatremia (too little salt in your system) is just as bad.

I'd never even think of limiting your salt unless you have a verified need.

I pretty much eat whatever I crave and my lab tests always come back extremely good. My doctor gets annoyed with me over it. He did once tell me that if I laid off the carbs I'd lose that 5 pounds of extra weight I tend to carry. I told him laying off carbs wasn't worth losing the 5 pounds.