Your blood pressure is controlled by one molecule.
Nitric oxide.
When it's present, vessel walls relax. Blood flows freely. Number goes down.
When it's low, vessels tighten. Heart pushes harder. Number goes up.
The root of almost every case of elevated blood pressure is a nitric oxide deficit.
How that deficit develops depends on where you are.
On medication: Lisinopril, amlodipine, metoprolol force your vessels to dilate through chemistry. The number comes down. But the deficit keeps running underneath. That's why you feel exhausted, foggy, not yourself. The drug is compensating. Not fixing.
Tried supplements or diet: Your body converts dietary nitrates into nitric oxide — but only through bacteria on your tongue. One rinse of antibacterial mouthwash wipes out 80% of that conversion for 12 hours. Your beet supplement was arriving at a broken processing plant every single morning.
I had been using Listerine twice a day for eight years.