What Causes High Blood Pressure And How To Fix It
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
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High blood pressure—medically known as hypertension—affects about 30 percent of adults. Left neglected, it can severely damage your quality of life and set the stage for heart disease, kidney complications, or a stroke. Conventional medicine typically treats hypertension with medications that are generally effective in reducing the risk of these complications. These medications frequently come with unintended side effects, however. The good news is the right foods and nutrients can dramatically lower blood pressure without the high costs and side effects of medications.
In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I discuss the driving forces of hypertension and the Functional Medicine approach to treating it.
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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
- Normal and optimal blood pressure levels (4:07 / 1:00)
- The conventional medicine approach to treating high blood pressure (4:44 / 1:34)
- Underlying causes of high blood pressure (5:34 / 2:04)
- Does salt really cause high blood pressure? (7:30 / 4:20)
- Diet and lifestyle strategies to normalize blood pressure (11:09 / 8:00)
- Supplements for lowering blood pressure (14:18 / 11:07)
- Exercise and blood pressure (14:40 / 11:30)
- Stress, sleep, and blood pressure (15:14 / 12:03)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy. |
| 0:03.5 | If you eliminate all the processed food, if you eat |
| 0:06.5 | up potassium rich foods, if you get enough magnesium, |
| 0:09.4 | you get to make it free fats, if you deal with insumresistence, |
| 0:12.2 | if you exercise a little and deal with stress, |
| 0:14.8 | blood pressure is really a very treatable condition. |
| 0:19.7 | One of today's sponsors is Butcherbox. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm always being asked how I get enough high quality protein into my diet |
| 0:25.3 | and where to find it. |
| 0:26.4 | With all of the conventionally raised animal products flooding the market, |
| 0:29.3 | it can be hard to find meat that actually supports your health goals, |
| 0:32.1 | instead of making you further away from them with use of antibiotics and hormones |
| 0:36.1 | and an unnatural inflammatory fetal diet. |
| 0:39.3 | And that's why I love grass-fed ground beef from Butcherbox. |
| 0:42.1 | Ground beef is probably the easiest protein out there |
| 0:44.9 | that can be worked into any type of dish. |
| 0:47.3 | I love how quickly it can help make up a healthy meal. |
| 0:50.5 | And when you go to the grass-fed, you're getting a great source of omega-3s, |
| 0:53.5 | vitamins and minerals too. |
| 0:54.7 | And with Butcherbox, I get 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef |
| 0:58.1 | delivered right to my doorstep. |
| 0:59.3 | They also offer free range organic chicken and wild carolaskin salmon, |
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