The END of Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 22 October 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Blood pressure problems are very common. Today, we’re going to talk about blood pressure and the best natural hypertension remedies.
The problems with high blood pressure can extend way beyond the heart. High blood pressure can affect the brain, eyes, and kidneys. High blood pressure can also increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
In my opinion, two common causes of high blood pressure are low magnesium and low vitamin D. But hypertension could also be the result of another health issue, like hypoxia.
The typical treatment for hypertension involves lowering sodium intake or taking a diuretic. But, diuretics deplete potassium and magnesium, which could both be potential causes of high blood pressure in the first place.
Calcium channel blockers and ace inhibitors are also used to treat high blood pressure, but those come with serious potential side effects. A research study also found that taking aspirin every day may not have any benefits.
Nitric oxide, on the other hand, supports the inner layer of the arteries and may help lower blood pressure. A certain enzyme in the body helps make nitric oxide. But, this enzyme can be inhibited if you have a specific genetic variation.
One of the best natural remedies for hypertension is L-arginine. L-arginine supports the production of nitric oxide in the body.
Other great natural remedies for high blood pressure are foods like garlic and celery, which you can easily include in your diet.
You may also want to take tocotrienols to support the arteries and make sure you’re getting plenty of potassium, magnesium, and vitamin D3.
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| 0:00.0 | 90% of blood pressure is called essential hypertension and they don't even know what causes it after all of this research. |
| 0:09.0 | Today I'm going to unravel blood pressure and give you some natural solutions that may have a lot less side effects than medication. |
| 0:16.0 | Of course, check with your doctor before implementing any of these solutions. |
| 0:19.0 | So you have about a hundred thousand miles of blood vessels in your body. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, that is a lot of blood vessels and these blood vessels do go to many locations in your body, many organs. |
| 0:32.0 | In fact, all of your organs receive blood from your vascular system. |
| 0:37.0 | And so the problems of blood pressure extend way beyond just the vascular system, way beyond just your heart. |
| 0:43.0 | It can affect the brain, it can affect your eye, it can affect the kidney, increasing your risk of getting heart attacks. |
| 0:49.0 | And it definitely increases your risk of getting a stroke by a factor of three X and blood pressure problems are very common. |
| 0:55.0 | If you're over 60, you have a 50% chance of getting hypertension. |
| 1:00.0 | To me, that is just way way too high. Now hypertension can also be compensating for various things. |
| 1:09.0 | For example, if you have hypoxia, let's say in your lungs, you have COPD, you have a lung problem where you don't have enough oxygen. |
| 1:16.0 | The body is going to automatically sense that and start increasing blood pressure to get more blood in the area to get more oxygen low oxygen situation in another place. |
| 1:26.0 | So when someone then takes medication to lower the blood pressure, what happens to the lungs, right? |
| 1:32.0 | It already is not getting enough oxygen. Now it's really not going to get enough oxygen. |
| 1:37.0 | So this is one reason why people don't really feel good many times when they get on blood pressure medication, especially in the brain, because it creates other issues. |
| 1:46.0 | I mean, I think a really important question would be to understand why you have high blood pressure in the first place. |
| 1:53.0 | And this is just not emphasized very well. |
| 1:56.0 | It's more like, well, you have this disease. We don't really know what it is. Take this medication for a while, you know, drink more water, get more exercise, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 2:05.0 | From my viewpoint, there's several common reasons for blood pressure, low potassium, low magnesium, and low vitamin D levels. |
| 2:15.0 | So if I had hypertension, those would be three things that I would look at immediately, but instead in the medical profession, you're told to restrict sodium. |
| 2:25.0 | That is the primary focus, not to increase potassium to reduce sodium. |
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