The #1 Nutrient Deficiency in High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to take a look at hypertension. Ninety percent of all hypertension is considered essential hypertension. This means the cause is unknown. Anti-hypertensive medication is one of the most prescribed medicines in the world.

Normal blood pressure is 120/80. Research suggests a strong relationship between potassium deficiency and high blood pressure. Many people are deficient in potassium because the requirements are so high—4700 mg daily.

You need about half as much sodium as potassium, but many people consume three times as much sodium as potassium!

Potassium directly controls the tone of the vascular system. This directly affects blood pressure. Potassium also supports the endothelial layer of the arteries and helps improve insulin resistance.

Potassium supplements often only contain 99 mg of potassium, which is incredibly low considering how much potassium you actually need.

You can get potassium from salad, but you must consume around 7 to 10 cups daily. This also provides magnesium. The combination of potassium and magnesium can help reduce high blood pressure.

Diets high in carbs and sugar cause you to lose potassium. Adrenaline and cortisol deplete potassium as well.

To support healthy blood pressure levels, try increasing your salad intake. You can also look for a high-quality electrolyte powder that's high in potassium.

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0:00.0	Boy, if you have blood pressure problems, you're going to be pretty happy you watched this video.
0:04.8	I'm going to talk about why people have hypertension, the number one mineral deficiency behind this whole thing.
0:11.1	90% of all hypertension is essential hypertension. What does
0:17.0	that mean? It means a known cause, which is very convenient for a drug
0:22.2	company who sells medications for blood pressure.
0:24.8	I mean, in fact, anti-hypertensive medication is right at the top of the list as far as
0:30.2	most prescribed medications in the world.
0:32.4	First of all, what is hypertension?
0:34.0	What is blood pressure?
0:35.2	This top number, which is systolic,
0:37.1	and the bottom number which is diastolic.
0:39.0	Normally, it should be 120 over 80.
0:41.8	And what this number represents is the contraction of the heart muscle that
0:47.5	pushes the blood throughout the whole body down to the little capillaries where it then goes through veins and eventually
0:55.0	ends up into the lungs where it gets re-oxygenated.
0:58.6	So the top number is the contraction of the heart and the bottom number is the relaxation of the heart muscle. Collectively
1:05.3	together this systolic and diastolic is a heartbeat and when you have high blood
1:11.9	pressure there's some type of a resistance going on it could be a blockage it could be a lot of things but the point is that when you have
1:19.0	any type of blood pressure issue it puts more stress on the heart there's a lot of research in
1:24.1	the relationship between a potassium deficiency personally I think a
1:28.7	potassium deficiency is behind a good majority of this essential hypertension.
1:34.8	Why do I say that?
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