Hypertension

In hypertension, very often it's caused by elevated levels of an amino acid called homocysteine. You have it in your bloodstream right now. I have it in my bloodstream. When you irritate a blood vessel, it clamps down. Well if you make the pipes smaller in a fixed system, pressure goes up. It doesn't take much narrowing to drive pressure up. And so these people end up with hypertension, high blood pressure,. But they never actually looked at what raw material was missing in their body. Because the vascular system relaxes, pressure returns to normal.