Blood Pressure

I recently gave a friend reishi - and her blood pressure dropped 20 points overnight. We were both shocked... then i find that nf-kappa b looks to be causing inflammation... so that is why reishi worked!

Hypotensive Effects and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitory Peptides of Reishi (Ganoderma lingzhi) Auto-Digested Extract

http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/19/9/13473/htm

Inflaming Hypothalamic Neurons Raises Blood Pressure

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413111002245

Inflammatory cause of metabolic syndrome via brain stress and NF-κB

http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v4/n2/full/100431.html

The sympathetic control of blood pressure

http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v7/n5/full/nrn1902.html

Uncoupling the mechanisms of obesity and hypertension by targeting hypothalamic IKK-β and NF-κB

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v17/n7/full/nm.2372.html

Newfound Brain Cells Linked to High Blood Pressure

http://www.livescience.com/26266-new-brain-cell-blood-pressure.html

Inﬂaming Hypothalamic Neurons

Raises Blood Pressure

http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1550413111002245/1-s2.0-S1550413111002245-main.pdf?_tid=d77ffe82-03ed-11e4-a7d9-00000aacb35e&acdnat=1404528258_d1ae881f05fc908e8afcaa5eb4c1a5a6

Prevalence of resistant hypertension in the United States, 2003-2008.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21502568

Common virus could cause high blood pressure

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/05/common-virus-could-cause-high-blood-pressure/