High blood pressure due to blood vessel damage is one of the major causes of heart attacks and strokes. The good news is, you can lower your blood pressure by simply changing what you are eating. In this episode, Dr. Steve will provide the education and information you need to discover how carbohydrates increase blood pressure and why this is so important for you to understand. Listen now to discover the truth on how you can lower your blood pressure naturally.
[00:01 - 03:26] Reason Why You Have High Blood Pressure
Stress causes you to have high glucose
Metabolic syndrome is a combination of any 3 of the following 5 things:
High blood pressure
High triglycerides
High blood glucose
Low HDL's
Increased abdominal girth
[03:27 -09:53] Eating Carbohydrates Can Cause High Blood Pressure
High insulin levels can lead to high blood pressure.
High insulin decreases the elasticity of your arterial blood vessels.
Nitric oxide is your body's primary mechanism of decreasing blood pressure.
Nitric oxide dilates the blood vessels, which keeps your blood pressure low.
[09:54-17:47] When you have high insulin, this also causes you to have high aldosterone
Fructose raises uric acid in the blood, which could raise blood pressure.
Uric acid blocks nitric oxide, which is your body's natural anti-hypertensive.
Aldosterone is a steroid hormone. It causes you to reabsorb the sodium into your bloodstream from the kidneys. Reabsorbing sodium causes you to reabsorb water.
When you have high insulin, this also causes you to have high aldosterone.
[17:48 - 23:48] Closing Segment
Dr. Steve summarizes several different ways that eating carbohydrates causes high blood pressure.
The book "Why We Get Sick" by Benjamin Bickman.
Key takeaways: Eating healthy can reduce your blood pressure.
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Tweetable Quotes:
"The higher insulin level you have, the more issues you have with your arterial blood vessels, these issues lead to higher blood pressure." - Dr. Steve Hughlett
"When you start eating healthy, you will be able to get off of your high blood pressure medicine." - Dr. Steve Hughlett
"With your physician's knowledge, if you are on high blood pressure medication, please eliminate carbohydrates from your nutrition plan unless it is real fruit and real vegetables" -- Dr. Steve Hughlett
