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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Lower Blood Pressure Simply by Cutting Out Sugar

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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DATA: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9...


In this podcast, Dr. Berg talked about the connection between sugar and blood pressure. Sugar will increase the blood pressure because it increases insulin which also triggers the spike of the sympathetic nervous system (flight or fight).  


Symptoms of Sympathetic Dominance 

• Lump in throat 

• Can’t sleep 

• Increase heart rate 

• Dry mouth/eyes 

• Cold extremities 

• Nervous stomach 

• Can’t relax 

• Startle easily 

• Anxiety


Ways to Normalized Blood Pressure

1. Vitamin D 

2. Potassium 

3. Cut Sugar Out 


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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0

So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,

0:04.4

whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.

0:10.5

Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.

0:29.0

Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and high blood pressure.

0:51.0

Okay, now I've talked about sugar in so many videos, but this one's

0:55.0

specific on high blood pressure because here's really the data. I'm going to give you a

0:58.9

link down below for more information about this, but when you consume sugar, you actually trigger insulin.

1:05.3

Insulin triggers the sympathetic nervous system.

1:08.9

So what is the sympathetic nervous system?

1:11.0

It's part of the system that's on automatic. You have two parts. You have the

1:15.2

parasympathetic, which is rest and digest. And then we have the sympathetic

1:19.5

over here, which is flight or fight. When you're in sympathetic dominant mode,

1:24.8

these are some of the symptoms.

1:26.4

You get high blood pressure, lump in the throat,

1:29.4

cold extremities, can't wind down. Of course, that going to affect your sleep,

1:35.0

high pulse rate,

1:37.0

dry mouth, dry eyes, nervous.

1:40.0

I already mentioned insomnia and anxiety. So you have all these sympathetic dominant

1:46.0

symptoms that actually come from insulin. Now what's really cool is when you do the opposite

1:51.1

of this, when you go on keto, we cut down the sugar, we cut down the insulin, guess what happens?

1:58.8

We enhance the parasympathetic.

2:01.3

We help the digestion. We help the rest. We help the sleep. We take people out of

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