Fasting Lowers Blood Pressure
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 15 August 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about why fasting lowers your blood pressure.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is usually an asymptomatic condition. The only way to know for sure that you have high blood pressure is to test your blood pressure level with a blood pressure cuff.
There are two types of hypertension: primary and secondary. 95% of all hypertension cases are primary hypertension.
Primary hypertension is related to lifestyle choices. These are some of the things that may contribute to high blood pressure levels:
• High salt
• Obesity
• Smoking
• Alcohol
The problem is, many doctors recommend a diet that includes carbohydrates, such as fruits, whole grains, and simple sugars. In fact, their recommended diet allows 12 teaspoons (50g) of sugar per day. That’s a lot of sugar!
Keep in mind that I am not recommending that you go off your medication without your doctor's approval. Instead, I want to show you the problems with what many consider a “healthy” diet for hypertension cases.
A study called the sprint trial was done in 2015. This study found that those who are 50 years or old who take medications live longer when taking multiple medications for hypertension.
This sounds pretty good—but, they also found a significant increase in kidney disease risk.
There are many problems with this study. They only used those with severe hypertension and
Another study on 174 people who were fasting found a 90% success rate of lowering blood pressure levels naturally.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr. |
| 0:07.7 | Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:13.0 | I want to discuss why fasting can help lower your blood pressure. |
| 0:26.0 | High blood pressure or hypertension usually has no symptoms. |
| 0:29.8 | You don't know what's going on unless you get your blood pressure tested. |
| 0:33.1 | And if you're getting older, it might be a good idea to have a blood pressure cuff around just to assess this. |
| 0:38.9 | There's two types of hypertension. |
| 0:40.9 | You have primary and you have secondary. |
| 0:44.0 | 95% of all hypertension cases are primary, hypertension. |
| 0:50.3 | And that's related to lifestyle. |
| 0:52.8 | And so if you look this up, they're going to mention consuming too much salt, |
| 0:57.6 | having obesity, smoking, drinking alcohol. |
| 1:01.2 | The recommendation is consuming a healthy diet. |
| 1:04.6 | I love it. |
| 1:05.3 | But if you dig further into what they recommend is healthy diet, that's where you get the problem. |
| 1:09.1 | Because they're recommending fruits, vegetables, whole grains. |
| 1:12.9 | You have to stick the whole grains in there. |
| 1:14.8 | Less than 30% of your calories being fat. |
| 1:17.8 | And of course, they recommend avoiding the saturated fats, of course. |
| 1:21.2 | And then they recommend less than 10% simple sugars. |
| 1:24.2 | So they're allowing up to 10% of all your calories being simple sugars. |
| 1:29.7 | Wow, amazing. |
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