Why is my Systolic Blood Pressure High?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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If you have systolic high blood pressure, you need to watch this.
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about high systolic blood pressure and the different causes of high systolic blood pressure.
There is a condition for this called isolated systolic hypertension. This is the most common type of hypertension in those over 65 reported by the Mayo Clinic.
Causes of high systolic blood pressure:
• Anemia
• Hyperthyroid
• Diabetes
• **High cortisol
High cortisol causes significant sodium retention and creates significant potassium suppression. Any time you suppress potassium, you can start getting high blood pressure from that alone. High cortisol can also affect the sympathetic nervous system. It can also cause the suppression of nitric oxide. Beets, garlic, meat, and dark green vegetables are high in nitric oxide.
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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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 why would your systolic pressure be higher than your diastolic? |
| 0:50.0 | Well there's a condition for that called isolated systolic hypertension. |
| 0:55.0 | Normally the blood pressure is 120 over 80. |
| 0:58.0 | The top number is the systolic, which is the measurement of the contraction of the heart, and the diastolic, which is the measurement of the contraction of the heart and the diastolic which is the relaxation phase. |
| 1:06.0 | So this condition is defined as the top number, systolic, going above 130, but sometimes you see it actually really high like 160 or 180. This is the most |
| 1:16.6 | common type of hypertension over the age of 65 reported by the Mayo Clinic. The question is what causes this? Well if you do |
| 1:25.4 | Google researches you'll see that it could be anemia, hyperthyroid, |
| 1:29.4 | diabetes, but you won't find high cortisol unless you dig into other references, like this book right here, |
| 1:38.8 | which is the Cibba collection of medical illustrations, volume 4, Endocrine System, page 86. |
| 1:46.0 | And this is under the section of a condition where you have high cortisol. |
| 1:51.2 | I'm going to read this to you. |
| 1:52.3 | Cortisole may be responsible for the moderate hypertension, which is |
| 1:56.8 | characteristically more of the systolic type first, gradually becoming diastolic. Now this information is very difficult to find if |
| 2:05.1 | you just do a general search on high systolic blood pressure, but if you type in |
| 2:10.2 | high cortisol in blood pressure then you get a lot more information but you have to |
| 2:14.8 | know the link between the two before you even knew to research it. |
| 2:18.0 | So what's up with this high cortisol? |
| 2:19.8 | Well, first of all it causes significant sodium retention and it also creates significant |
| 2:26.3 | potassium suppression. Anytime you suppress potassium you can start getting high blood pressure just from that alone, and it can also |
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