Welcome to Cabral House Call. I'm Stephen Cabral, Board certified naturopathic

doctor and today we're going to tackle three of your questions starting with

all right so Thomas asked today what's the best supplement to lower blood pressure?

So it's an excellent question.

What I like to say is that we never start with just supplements.

So you have to understand blood pressure in general.

You have to look at it as most likely it's a sympathetic nervous system in balance

meaning that the stress version of the body, the stress side, is the fight or flight is on overdrive.

It's constricting your blood vessels, your arteries, everything really, really tight

for too long, for too long during the day basically. You're kind of stuck in that pattern where

the parasympathetic relaxes the body it dilates the blood vessels and it just

basically makes you more calm more relaxed so when we're looking at what we can do for that,

well we have to look at we want you to exercise of course, we would ideally like that.

We want you to fix you nutrition, you're not eating inflammatory foods or foods that

can potentially spike blood pressure

themselves.

And then after that, I like to look at detoxification.

I like to look at sleep, making sure those things are going well.

Because we don't want to try to just supplement our way out of it.

That's not naturopathic medicine.

That's not natural medicine.

If a doctor is saying, well, let's use this supplement for high blood pressure and they're

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