Why Does Vitamin D Lower Blood Pressure

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 31 May 2020

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about vitamin D and blood pressure. I want to cover why vitamin D can potentially help someone with hypertension.

Never stop taking your blood pressure medication unless you’ve checked with your doctor. But, if you’re on blood pressure medication and you’re not taking vitamin D, you might want to consider taking it.

One of the most commonly prescribed drugs for hypertension is an ACE inhibitor. This drug inhibits the angiotensin-converting enzyme. This enzyme relates to an entire system in your body, which is called the renin-angiotensin system (RAS).

The RAS helps regulate:

• Blood pressure

• Fluid balance

• Electrolyte balance

Vitamin D actually helps lower the RAS. My theory is that the reason this system could be high in the first place is that the person has a vitamin D deficiency. 75% of the population has some level of vitamin D deficiency.

What might help lower blood pressure (research and talk to your doctor about it):

***10,000-20,000 IUs of vitamin D3 with vitamin K2

• If you do 10,000 IUs of vitamin D3, then consider 100 mcg of vitamin K2.

• If you do 20,000 IUs of vitamin D3, then consider

• 200 mcg of vitamin K2.

• You could also consider adding 1000 mg of potassium a day.

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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 losing healthy weight. Let's answer the question why does Vitamin D actually help someone with
0:48.7	hypertension and by the way anything that they say is not meant to
0:51.6	replace your medical care.
0:52.8	Don't stop taking your drugs unless you check with your doctor.
0:56.0	But if you are a medication and you're not taking Vitamin D, then you might want to consider taking it, especially after what I'm going to tell you.
1:05.6	There is a tremendous amount of research, which I'll put down below, on this one topic.
1:11.0	One of the most commonly prescribed drugs for hypertension is an ACE inhibitor.
1:16.5	Now I just released a video on the ACE receptor as it relates to COVID-19. You should check that out if you haven't seen it.
1:24.4	Hypertension is one of the top risk factors for having complications from COVID-19.
1:31.0	And out of all the people that are taking medication for hypertension, 48% of them are taking
1:38.4	ACE inhibitors as the first medication to help them lower the pressure.
1:44.0	All right, what is A stand for?
1:46.0	Angio Tenson converting enzyme.
1:48.7	So this drug inhibits this enzyme.
1:51.7	And this enzyme relates to an entire system in your body which is called
1:56.8	renin angiotensin system RAS. I don't want to explain anything else other than this system helps regulate blood
2:05.9	pressure, fluid balance, electrolyte balance. So that's all you need to do. The next thing to know is this. Vitamin D lowers this system.
2:18.0	Tons and tons of research, okay? Now my thought is that, and this is just my theory, that the reason why this
2:27.4	is high in the first place is the person has a Vitamin D deficiency. Now why do I say that?
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