The ROOT CAUSE of High Blood Pressure
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
High blood pressure is not a disease! Learn how to lower blood pressure with dietary changes and increased intake of specific nutrients that act as natural blood pressure remedies in the body. Address the root cause of hypertension rather than just treating the symptoms.
0:00 Introduction: What causes high blood pressure?
1:15 Blood pressure explained
2:10 How to lower blood pressure and address nutritional deficiencies
2:38 Natural blood pressure remedies
4:33 Fixing insulin resistance to lower blood pressure
Over 90% of hypertension is labeled as having an unknown cause, which is very profitable for drug companies.
The endothelial layer of your arteries has insulin receptors. When these receptors are damaged, your blood pressure can increase.
Too much insulin allows too much calcium to enter the cells, so calcium channel blockers are often used to lower high blood pressure. However, the connection between insulin resistance and high blood pressure is usually ignored.
A protective shield called the glycocalyx typically covers the endothelial tissue on the inside of your arteries. When this shield becomes damaged, it can cause a cascade of problems, including cellular damage, inflammation, calcium buildup, and excess clotting. The glycocalyx is vulnerable to damage from glucose and fructose.
A low-carb diet and intermittent fasting can help you get healthy and lower your blood pressure quickly. Insulin resistance creates serious nutritional deficiencies that must also be addressed to lower blood pressure.
To help reverse high blood pressure, increase the following nutrients:
•Vitamin D
•Magnesium glycinate
•Potassium
•Sulfur
To fix insulin resistance and lower blood pressure, it’s important to avoid carbohydrates, sugar, starch, and seed oils. Remember that it may take a few weeks to notice blood pressure changes. A food log can help keep you on track.
If your blood pressure is decreasing, but you notice that the top number remains high, focus on reducing stress. Ensure you sleep enough, take long walks, or try ashwagandha to lower your stress levels.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
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| 0:00.0 | High blood pressure, hypertension is not a disease. It's a symptom. 90% of hypertension is |
| 0:06.8 | unknown cause. Well, today I'm going to tell you what the cause is. When you start telling people |
| 0:11.0 | that 90% of hypertension is unknown, you make the drug companies rich because you turn the person |
| 0:16.4 | into an ATM for certain medications. It's very profitable if you don't let people know what the primary cause is. |
| 0:22.3 | Let me show you what the primary causes. Okay, so here we have an artery. You have a certain layer. |
| 0:28.3 | It's called an endothelial layer of cells. That cell layer has these little tiny receptors for |
| 0:34.9 | insulin. And insulin triggers something that causes the artery to relax. When that receptor |
| 0:42.9 | becomes damaged, you get high blood pressure. But the problem is, if you fix insulin resistance, |
| 0:48.4 | sometimes it doesn't lower the blood pressure. The question is, why? Because when you damage |
| 0:52.9 | that receptor, the receptor won't let insulin in |
| 0:55.0 | anymore. Now it's really hard to regulate and relax the blood vessel. Also, insulin causes too |
| 1:01.3 | much calcium to go inside the cells. And this is why they use calcium channel lockers. The cause is |
| 1:08.3 | insulin resistance. That's ignored because, like I said before, 90% of |
| 1:12.6 | hypertension is unknown cause. That's very interesting, but let me just give you a little bit more |
| 1:17.8 | data. There is normally supposed to be a little protective shield around that endothelium, |
| 1:24.2 | that layer. It's kind of like something on your frying pan that is a non-stick surface. |
| 1:28.9 | And when that substance becomes damaged, then we get damaged directly to cells. And then you start |
| 1:35.0 | having a cascade of issues where you get holes into the area. You get inflammation, calcium |
| 1:40.5 | buildup, excess clotting. What's that little protective shield? the glyco calyx? And that glyco calyx |
| 1:46.5 | is super vulnerable to getting damaged from too much glucose or fructose. And it's kind of weird that |
| 1:52.4 | a sugar actually destroys sugar, but it does. So when the sugar is too high or there's too much |
| 1:57.1 | starch, you start getting this rusting out of that layer. It's like acid rain. It goes in there. |
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