![\"Healthy](\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Healthy_vs_Sick_Artery.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
(Tom: This is an absolutely brilliant article and if you have been diagnosed with Hypertension it is a must read!)<\/p>\n
What they never tell us about blood pressure and the medications for it<\/p>\n
Story at a Glance:<\/p>\n
\u2022Blood pressure diagnoses have exploded as guidelines repeatedly lower thresholds, resulting in half of American adults now being \u201chypertensive\u201d despite minimal evidence justifying this, and erroneous diagnoses frequently occurring.<\/p>\n
\u2022Despite aggressively treating it, medicine still does not know what causes high blood pressure. As a result, it overlooks that impaired circulation elevates blood pressure and attributes the ensuing damage to \u201chigh\u201d blood pressure rather than to insufficient blood flow to the tissues.<\/p>\n
\u2022Excessively low BP from over-treatment is dangerous, increasing risks of fainting, falls (especially in the elderly), kidney injury, cognitive decline, ischemic strokes, and mortality.<\/p>\n
\u2022Different blood pressure medicines have very different risks and benefits. Because doctors are unaware of this, they frequently push patients to take inappropriate medications and then deny that life-impairing side effects are happening.<\/p>\n
\u2022This article will explore the core issues with the conventional framework of blood pressure and what we must know to reclaim cardiovascular health.<\/p>\n
Ever since I first entered the medical field, something struck me as off about the relentless focus on blood pressure, and over time I noticed that the blood pressures people reported to me varied widely. While pondering this, a talented practitioner and mentor once told me that the current medical paradigm fixates on blood pressure because it\u2019s easier to measure than blood perfusion (healthy blood flow).<\/p>\n
Then, as I became more acquainted with the medical field, I began to notice a consistent pattern\u2014whenever a drug existed that could treat a number or statistic, as the years went by, the acceptable number kept on being narrowed, making more and more people eligible to take the drugs that treated the number.<\/p>\n