Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So if you have high blood pressure, you're probably not totally excited about some of the side effects that are occurring with high blood pressure medication.

So you're probably looking for something more natural and of course check with your doctor before implementing what I'm going to tell you.

But as you research to find the underlying cause, I'm going to give you a really good solution to help bring down your blood pressure in the meantime that has virtually no side effects.

90% of all hypertension is called essential hypertension. Now, what is essential hypertension?

It basically is a type of hypertension that has an unknown cause. They don't know what causes it.

Well, I'm going to give my viewpoint on that. Most people with high blood pressure.

Either have a potassium deficiency, which will cause high blood pressure very fast, or they're low in vitamin D.

Now, both of these are very common and a lot of people have them. And if someone's on a high carb diet, they're probably going to create a potassium deficiency, as well as a vitamin D deficiency, just by the nature of what happens to the receptor for insulin.

So there's also this high insulin factor from a high carb diet that creates stiffened arteries that then lead to high blood pressure.

You can also get high blood pressure from stress and high levels of cortisol as well. But I'm just talking about the main things that cause high blood pressure. If you're low in potassium, your arteries get stiff. So potassium helps to make your arteries nice and supple and flexible and elastic.

If you're low in vitamin D, which by the way, it's not really a vitamin. It's a steroid. And it works with other hormones. You can also develop problems within the inside layer of the artery, which then can trigger higher amounts of pressure.

But there's a great solution. When I say drink one cup, I'm really saying drink a very large cup, okay, because this recipe of things I'm going to tell you about exceed just one little cup.

But here's what I'm going to recommend to put in this cup. And you're going to first blend everything except this right here.

You'll grind it and you'll just take two teaspoons and you'll grind flax seed. Now why flax seed? Flax seed has compounds that give very potent, hypertensive properties.

So it helps to lower blood pressure. Plus it's very high in something called ALA. This is a precursor to EPA in DHA, which are the omega three fatty acids. So it can help restore artery function.

So we're going to grind two teaspoons of flax seed, put it in the blender. Number two, celery. Celery has something in it called felines, okay. And this compound not only helps you lower blood pressure, but it also helps you sleep.

So if you get some organic celery, take two stocks, maybe cut it up a little bit, stick it in that blender. All right, number three avocado, why avocado is a food that has a huge amount of potassium.

And so we want to somehow spike the potassium in this drink. So you would do about a half of an avocado. You can put the whole thing in there if you want, but half will be sufficient to.

Because we're going to be drinking this each day at the meal, not an empty stomach. Okay, number four lemon juice. You can do the juice of one lemon or do one ounce of lemon juice, okay.

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