At 81, a Former Rodeo Champion Opens Up About Why His Blood Pressure Stayed High For Years

Hal Braddock spent most of his life on horseback. At 81, the former rodeo champion says the hardest ride of his life wasn’t in an arena — it was the years he spent watching his blood pressure readings refuse to come down.

“181 over 104. That’s what the monitor showed me,” he says.

“I’d already cut the salt. I walked every morning. I took the pill exactly when they told me to.”

“But every time I wrapped that cuff around my arm… the numbers were still there.”

“After a while, the worst part wasn’t even seeing the number anymore.”

“It was wondering what the hell was happening inside my arteries that nobody seemed able to explain.”

So, if you take your blood pressure medication every morning…

Watch the salt.

Try to walk more.

And still see numbers like 150/95… 160/100… or worse staring back at you from the monitor…

You’re NOT alone.

Especially if your doctor keeps adjusting the medication while the same problem seems to come right back.

Hal says what finally made sense to him was a free video presentation about a simple morning honey ritual — and the idea of a buildup inside the arteries that he’d never heard anyone talk about before.

We sat down with Hal to hear, in his own words, what happened.

Interviewer: Hal, a while back you had a real scare with your blood pressure. Last week we saw you out playing ball with your grandson. What happened in the meantime?

Hal: After that scare, a friend sent me a link to a presentation about what they call the Honey Trick.

I figured it was nonsense. Some old kitchen remedy, the kind of thing you see all over the internet. I’m 81 years old. I’ve had high blood pressure for years. I’ve heard every trick that’s supposed to bring those numbers down.

But I watched it anyway. I talked it over with my doctor, kept taking what he prescribed, and added the ritual to my mornings. A few weeks later I was back on the horse — and for the first time in a long while, I wasn’t checking that monitor three times a day.

I’m just an old cowboy who used to live scared of the next high reading. And now I don’t.

Interviewer: Can anyone do this at home?

Hal: You probably have the main ingredient sitting in your kitchen right now.

That’s what got me. It wasn’t another prescription. It wasn’t some expensive gadget. It was something sitting in my own kitchen that I’d been using wrong my whole life.

The presentation explains the idea behind it — what it calls “arterial cement” — and walks through the simple method using common kitchen ingredients: which ingredient, how much, and when.

You can watch it below.