High blood pressure I'm trying natural remedies to bring it down before I take tablets

thanks falcon I have done some study regarding stress. I may have some kind of inbuilt stress from childhood trauma (I've had to do a lot of psycho stuff to sort my head out over the years) I wonder if I might be better on stress pills rather than bp pills

I basically stopped using sugar and salt in 1983. Any recipes that require sugar we just put in half the amount and we don’t cook with salt or add it to our food or eat prepared meals. 

In 1993 I stopped smoking. In 2000 I suddenly developed hypertension and in 2004 I was told that I was glucose intolerant. Glucose intolerance fell out of fashion so I then became T2 diabetic. Around 2011 my cholesterol levels put me on the list for Statins that I soon stopped because of muscular pain. I also did not take Metformin for long due to its side effects. 

Seems that we can do all the right things without our bodies taking any notice. I developed aortic stenosis that was not caused by lifestyle and the valve replacement operation in 2012 put me into AF leading Warfarin that gave me pain in my weight bearing joints for each period I took it.

Some type of Therapy would be better than mind bending drugs.

Hi des, if you really get readings over 200/100, and you have not just finished pushing your car up a long hill, then yes, you might want to discuss that with a doctor.  But if you also get readings down around 130/90 then you're probably in at least reasonably good shape overall.

?As far as the stress thing, well, there are the beta blockers that may be good for both.  A small dose of beta blocker, and maybe a diuretic, and maybe those high excursions can be better controlled.

?Unfortunately the whole BP reading technology is horribly error-prone, I mean, who ever dreamed this up in the first place, squeezing your arm to measure internal pressures?  And the BP itself can jump up and down, for an hour or two at a time, depending on what you've eaten most recently.

?(btw, regarding beetroot juice, you can just eat the beets, and some of the pre-steamed fresh beets, or fresh and even raw, can taste rather better, especially if you throw them into a salad with some dressing, and it does work, for a few hours)

I cycle 20+ miles twice a week and work up and down ladders. After 3 weeks of improvement to getting 130s/90s some times it went up to 205/106 and since is generally not much better than when I started 

calibrating your bp monitor is a great tip.