Why is Hypertension the Most Common Underlying COVID-19 Condition?

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

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In this podcast, I want to talk to you about hypertension and the coronavirus. In a recent survey, 88% of people with COVID-19 had more than one illness. After being put on a ventilator, the mortality rate jumps up to 80%. These are not promising statistics.

Here’s the question: why is high blood pressure the primary driver of severe COVID-19 symptoms? According to one study, 69.1% of people with coronavirus also had high blood pressure. Another study showed that 53% of people coronavirus patients have HBP—it’s always at the top of the list.

It has to do with the ACE2 receptors. ACE2 receptors are on the outside part of the cells—they are like the doors which COVID-19 can get into a cell.

Those who have high blood pressure often take ACE inhibitors. ACE inhibitors create a situation where more of these ACE2 cells or “doors” are created, which allows for more severe COVID-19 infection.

Keep in mind that I am NOT recommending that you come off of your medication.

To reduce your risk of COVID-19, it’s important to get your blood pressure under control. The question is, what causes high blood pressure?

90% of high blood pressure cases are considered “essential” hypertension. What this really means is that the cause is “unknown.” However, the problem might actually be a vitamin D deficiency. Numerous studies have shown that, when you take vitamin D, your blood pressure levels stabilize.

Following this reasoning, it’s not far off to consider that vitamin D deficiency could be the leading cause of coronavirus complications.

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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. So here's a question. Why is hypertension the primary driver of severe symptoms of COVID-19. In a recent survey of 5,700 patients, 88% of them had more
1:01.0	than one illness, which is actually quite interesting, and the general mortality rate of being put on a ventilator is 88%.
1:11.0	The statistics are not very good that you're going to actually survive.
1:14.0	The more illnesses that you have, the more risk you are of being put on a ventilator.
1:20.0	Here's my question. Why is the most common chronic underlying condition
1:25.5	high blood pressure?
1:27.1	If you look at one study, it's 69.1%
1:31.8	And another study, it's 53%. It's always at the top of the list of being the most common symptom of COVID-19.
1:42.0	The next one would be obesity, that's 42 percent, and then we have diabetes,
1:47.0	32 percent, and then we have morbid obesity, which is a severe obese situation, 19%, and then 10% would be heart disease.
1:57.5	But why is it the hypertension?
1:59.6	There's something called an ACE-2 receptor, okay. The ace 2 receptor is in the outside of your cell. It is the door or
2:09.2	the portal where COVID-19 can go into the cell.
2:14.0	Now, have you ever heard of something called ACE inhibitors?
2:18.0	There's another one called Angio TENSen receptor Blocker.
2:22.0	These are types of medication that lower blood pressure.
2:25.2	What they're finding is that when people are taking these ACE inhibitors, there is an increase
2:32.0	of up regulation, okay, by three to five times.
2:36.4	In other words, when you take a drug for a period of time,
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