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22 year old with high blood pressure

Hello everyone,i am 22 year old struggling with higher blood pressure.
My readings are really different im usually around 140/60 with heart rate of 50-65
My max was 163/65 heart rate of 70
I  have mild headaches in the back of my head like a sharp pain stabbing me from time to time.
I am training 4 times a week with weights in the gym and at least once or 2 times cardio training either stationary bike or running for about 30 minutes a week.
I don't smoke i don't drink and no i don't do steroids.And no preworkout supplements either,max 1 cup of coffee a day
So far i've checked my eyes ultrasound of my abdomen my kidneys my heart and ultrasound of the aorta all were good.
I also had 24hour holter reading came out good.
Gave my blood and urine samples all good.
My diet is really clean it's based on clean protein intake(chicken,fish,0%fat cheese,beef,eggs etc)  around 150g of protein a day 200-500g of complex carbs (white/brown rice,potatoes and outmeal) and 50-100g of omega 3 fats coming from Olive oil,lot's of nuts.And lots of veggies.And my salt intake is rly low,under 5g a day.
Oh yes and 1 more thing few months ago i had heart arrhythmias that was when i had a rly huge salt intake i was rly rly overdoing it because i love spicy foods and i didn't know the recommended dose for salt so i was rly overdoing it,i can bet i had 20~g of salt a day.One doctor told me 5g was recommended dose and once i corrected my salt intake,arrhythmias are  down to minimum,i feel it once in a month aprox maybe.
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11548417 tn?1506080564
Hi, welcome to the Medhelp forum. You do not really ask a question, but I assume you want to know how you got this elevated blood pressure?

What you describe seems a healthy lifestyle to me and there is nothing that I could pinpoint as the cause of your hypertension.
You sre however not so unique as you perhaps thought.
In many cases there is no cause found for elevated or high blood pressure. In fact, essential hypertension (also called primary hypertension or idiopathic hypertension) is the most common type of hypertension, affecting 95% of hypertensive patients.

If you, after having all lifestyle changes done to lower your bp, still have a too high bp, some medication might be necessary.
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