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Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

Q&A with Dr. Greger 14

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today on the NutritionFacts Podcast, I answer a wide variety of your questions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered if there's a natural way to lower your high blood pressure, guard against

0:06.0

Alzheimer's, lose weight, feel better?

0:08.0

Well, it turns out there is.

0:10.7

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

0:13.1

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Grecker.

0:16.2

Today, I'm back on my treadmill.

0:18.6

Sadly, my stationary treadmill, so I don't nauseate people bobbing back and forth,

0:24.1

and I am ready to answer all the great questions that you put in my way.

0:29.5

First question I have is, I get 78 hours of sleep a day, but deep sleep only 10% according to Ackle Watch.

0:39.4

Any tips on how to extend the duration of deep sleep cycles?

0:43.2

We're not even sure the implications of total sleep duration.

0:48.2

Forget individual sleep cycles, so I would concentrate your health and wellness journey

0:53.6

in areas where we have more evidence.

0:56.6

My son-in-law, 34, just told by a doctor who's blood person, 127, or 85, that's too high.

1:02.3

Ideal is 110 or 70, and that he is showing some numbers that may be serious of fatty liver disease.

1:07.2

That's not good.

1:08.5

As long as very low HDL numbers, it does matter because

1:12.5

HGL is no longer considered a causal risk factor for heart disease, but we need to get rid of

1:17.9

the fatty liver. We can do that through weight loss, decrease the intake of soda and all sorts

1:23.3

of other things, saturated fat, and you can decrease the blood pressure by cutting down on processed foods

1:29.1

which are about, contained about 70% of the sodium that Americans get all sorts of things

1:34.4

they can do.

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