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How to Lower HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE Naturally (Easy Tips)
Many claim that herbs, extracts & supplements will lower your High Blood Pressure naturally, but these do very little for your blood pressure and don't address the root cause of the problem. There is a natural way to lower High Blood Pressure and I will teach you in this video.
High Blood Pressure increases your risk of many problems and lowering your blood pressure will return your risk to normal. It is simple to lower High Blood Pressure by following this easy plan.
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00:00 – Intro to Salt & High Blood Pressure
00:40 – 06:15 Where Salt/Blood Pressure Myth came from
06:16 – 07:43 How much salt you need for good health
07:44 – 09:58 What should your Goal Blood Pressure be?
09:59 – 13:47 How to Lower High Blood Pressure Naturally
13:48 – 15:55 How to decrease your Blood Pressure medication(s)
if you came to this video expecting me to tell you to eat the least amount of salt that you can to eat a very bland salt-free diet in this video then you're in for some pleasant surprises you're going to find out that salt is not your enemy when it comes to high blood pressure and I'm going to tell you what actually is your enemy later in this video I'm Dr Ken Berry a family physician with 20 years of clinical experience and in this video I'm going to tell you how to naturally lower your blood pressure without necessarily having to take medications and definitely without having to restrict your salt intake first of all let's talk about where did this low salt equals good blood pressure where did this hypothesis even come from it started way back in the early 1900s a French physician noticed that some of his patients with very very high blood pressure were also as he called him salt fiends they love salt and ate lots of salt and so he developed an idea which he then proposed as a hypothesis that eating lots of salt raises your blood pressure now that's good science up to that point and the way science is supposed to work is when a doctor or a scientist comes up with a hypothesis then we're supposed to do controlled research to either confirm that hypothesis or refute it that's how you're supposed to do that and so the problem is is then the next Doctor we're going to talk about is Dr Louis Dahl and he came along in the 1950s and 60s and 70s he did some research in rats that showed when you feed rats a very high salt diet their blood pressure goes up now first of all you're not a rat if if you were you wouldn't be watching this video and so although that might have supported the hypothesis of the original French doctors it in no way proved this hypothesis was true it didn't support this hypothesis because it was done in rats but Dr Dahl was very closely related to the American Heart Association he actually presented in front of the 1907 these McGovern commission the same commission that Dr Ansel Keyes tried to to convince us all that eating cholesterol and eating high fat was bad for us Dr Lewis was also at that Senate hearing and he he presented his findings and his hypothesis that eating a high salt diet caused high blood pressure so what's happened in the years since then so basically there's been some observational epidemiological research that has suggested that eating a higher salt diet might raise your blood pressure by one or two points one or two milligrams of mercury which is background noise that that's not meaningful at all just imagine now take your blood pressure and then I said oh I can tell you to do something it'll lower your blood pressure one point of systolic pressure and half a point of diastolic you'd be like okay that doesn't really help me any well that's what all the meaningful research on salt reduction shows that it does for your blood pressure it lowers it about one point okay but since he was so closely related with the American Heart Association and the American Heart Association fell in love with the low salt hypothesis so they made it part of their standard fairy low fat eat low cholesterol and eat low salt they even it's it is one of the foundational principles of their DASH diet the they the American Heart Association and most other medical associations believe and promote a low salt diet thinking that it will lower your blood pressure and therefore lower your risk of a heart attack or a stroke the problem is is all the controlled research that's been done about this topic none of it has supported this hypothesis and the way science is supposed to work is you have an idea then you work that into a hypothesis and then you do some maybe some epidemiological research and if you see an association there at the end the next step in order to support your hypothesis and help it eventually become a theory or accepted fact is you do controlled research in humans and then if that research supports your hypothesis then that hypothesis is promoted to a theory uh at least that's how it works in other branches of science it seems in nutritional science that it doesn't work that way but that's how it's supposed to work but the problem with the salt blood pressure hypothesis is that all of the meaningful research that was done the control research in humans didn't support the hypothesis now what's supposed to happen in science is if there's lots of good meaningful research that's done that doesn't support that hypothesis that hypothesis is supposed to die and indeed that's what's happened to thousands of hypotheses in science over the decades is they when you actually do the meaning for research it doesn't support the hypothesis so that hypothesis falls to the Wayside and we don't talk about that anymore but what happened is the low salt hypothesis became tied up so intimately with the American Heart association's message and and their subsequent DASH diet that now they feel compelled to continue that message even though no meaningful control research in human supports it and you're you might be thinking that can't be true so yeah it's true I have a link down in the show notes below a lot of this meaningful research that was done in humans in a controlled fashion and it shows every single time that lowering your salt intake drastically May lower your blood pressure at one point but it does not decrease your risk of heart attack stroke heart failure indeed eating too low of a low salt diet can actually be harmful for your heart and your other organs salt is an essential part of the proper human diet you need to eat a certain amount of salt in order to have proper function to have optimal function and it looks like in human beings this amount is somewhere between three and ten grams of salt every day and so what I recommend that most people do what I even recommend that you do is to eat salt according to your taste if your taste buds say that something's too salty don't eat that that's your body giving you a message if you're by if you take a bite of something and your body says and this is not salty enough you need to for your health and for the deliciousness of your meal you need to add some salt to that your body needs salt just like all mammals bodies need salt mammals will walk for miles in order to find a Salt Lick that's what people out in the country call that and it could be salty mud it may be a salty rock it may be a salt block that a farmer has put out for his or her cattle sheep goats whatever or the hunters put out for the Wild game to come and get their salt and they come to that not because they're gluttons not because they're stupid not because they haven't heard about Dr Dahl's salt hypothesis they come to that salt because they need it if they don't get enough salt they will die and so will you having high blood pressure is not your fault but it is your problem and taking a handful of pills for the rest of your life is not a very elegant solution next let's discuss what your blood pressure goal should be and then I'm going to tell you how to lower your blood pressure naturally now the American Heart Association and most other Heart Association they keep lowering what is a normal blood pressure don't they and So currently the recommendations for many of these organizations is that your blood pressure should be under 120 over 80. some say even lower problem is there's no meaningful control research in humans that shows that your risk of heart attack and stroke go down meaningfully if you keep your blood pressure this low also when your blood pressure is this low in many people the risk of of lightheadedness dizziness loss of consciousness falling and breaking a bone go way up with a blood pressure this low the American Academy of family physicians did not adopt the new American Heart Association ACC guidelines for blood pressure the American Academy of family physicians still says that your goal for blood pressure should be under 140 over 90. and I totally agree with this there are many other medical associations who kept the old guidelines as well because they know when you because the only way to get many people's blood pressure down under 120 over 80 is with prescription medications there's no other way to do it and so that's going to mean that that there are millions of people running around taking one or two or three or four blood pressure medicines every day trying to get their blood pressure down to this false goal 120 over 80 under that and they're going to wind up with all kinds of medications side effects and they're going to have an increased risk of bad things happening to them because for them that's not a natural blood pressure level you need to strive to get your blood pressure under 140 over 90. that needs to be your goal there's no research that supports the 120 over 80. that's another hypothesis that the meaning for research doesn't support now let's talk about the natural way to lower your blood pressure now the majority of people I would say 80 to 90 95 percent of people who have high blood pressure if they adopt this method this natural method this delicious method they're going to lower their blood pressure back to normal which is under 140 over 90. there may be five or ten percent of people who still have to take one blood pressure medication at a low dose plus this natural method to get their blood pressure down under 140 over 90. the method that I'm talking about to lower your blood pressure back down to normal is to eat a low carbohydrate diet now a low carbohydrate diet has so many health benefits that I've started calling it the proper human diet because it looks like human beings are by Design a low carbohydrate intake mammal so what you need to do is either download chronometer or carb manager on your phone it's a free app you can download and start tracking how many carbohydrates you eat a day you need to count for total carbohydrates the average person out there watching this video is eating somewhere between 150 and 350 grams of carbohydrates a day that's way too many carbohydrates for a human to eat on a daily basis and so the first step I would counsel you to take in this natural method is to lower your total carbohydrate intake to under 100 grams of carbohydrates a day and make that your maximum amount of intake every single day now you can do this deliciously nutritiously most of the low carbohydrate foods that you're going to find that fit this way of eating are filled with vitamins and minerals and amino acids and fatty acids that your body needs for proper function now a hundred total grams of carbs may not do it for some people they may have to lower their total carbohydrate intake to under 50 grams a day some few people may need to lower their total carbohydrate intake to under 20 total grams a day in order to get their blood pressure back under normal I am one of those people I used to have high blood pressure I refuse to take medication for it even though I'm a doctor I'm also hard-headed and I've wanted to lower my blood pressure naturally and so now I eat a very very low carbohydrate uh diet and my blood pressure is beautiful on a daily basis it's well under the normal level of 140 over 90. I've also included a research Link in the show notes down below to a study done by the wonderful UK doctor Dr David Unwin who did a study in his patients and he found that when they ate a low carbohydrate diet all of their blood pressure is returned to normal and most of them were able to stop all the blood pressure medication that they were taking therefore eliminating all the co-pays and all the side effects and all the potential ramifications that come from taking several prescription medications together on a daily basis I have multiple videos on this channel that explain to you how to eat a very low carbohydrate diet all of the delicious foods that are involved in a low carb diet and all of the nutrition facts how many vitamins where to get my minerals where to get amino acid and fatty acids I have videos about those topics on this channel so please subscribe to this Channel and click the Bell notification button and then that way you can come back later after you've watched this video and you can figure out how to eat a delicious nutritious low carbohydrate diet and get your blood pressure back down to normal if you are already taking a high dose of a blood pressure medication or worse if you're taking two or three or four medications every day for your blood pressure and you start to eat a low carbohydrate diet then I would highly encourage you to buy a blood pressure cuff I'll put a link down in the show notes to a good one and check your blood pressure twice a day because as you eat your low carbohydrate diet your blood pressure is going to start to come down fairly quickly and what's going to happen is you're going to start to feel light-headed and top heavy and you might even feel like you're you might faint what that's telling you is the diet's working and that also it's time for you to either decrease the dosage of one of your blood pressure medications or to stop one of them altogether if you're on multiple blood pressure medications now I don't want you to start stop or change any blood pressure medication before you talk to your doctor I also want you to be writing down your blood pressures take it in the morning after you've been up an hour and you're calm and relaxed take your blood pressure and write it down in the evening when you're calm and relaxed take your blood pressure write it down do not check your blood pressure if you're upset or in pain or super tired because it's going to be high that's normal but after a couple of weeks when you start to feel that lightheadedness you can call your doctor's office and say hey I've been eating a low carbohydrate diet here are my current blood pressure readings can I stop or decrease the dosage of my medication and with the knowledge that you've been checking your blood pressure at home and what your blood pressure actually was your doctor will feel much more comfortable saying yeah it's okay go ahead and cut that medicine in half or go ahead and stop that other medication it sounds like you don't need it anymore but if you just stop your blood pressure medication then first of all you're going to upset your doctor and it may also cause problems for you medically so don't do that on your own without consulting your doctor I have several other videos about high blood pressure on this channel I'll put a link to them down in the show notes this is Dr Berry I'll see you next time
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Started keto this January. Had to take 3 bp pills daily but "forgot" to take them a couple of days in a row a couple of times but measured on a regular basis. Bp is in the 120s /80s most of the time, and even lower when I'm relaxed and not running around. Also, I lost 40 Ibs so far. How do I tell my doc that I don't need the pills anymore🤔???
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I’m 64 y/o and have always had 110/70 blood pressure, I mean always until a few months ago it started increasing all the way up to 167/91. I had fallen off the carnivore wagon for a while. After my last visit to the doctor and seeing my bp at its highest yet, I decided now was the time to get back to a strict carnivore diet. Within two days my bp returned to my normal. I’m sharing this for others to know that the phd is key to health.
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When I met my boyfriend he was on lisinopril and atorvastatin because he had already had one heart attack and they were trying to prevent another. He was also over 100 lb overweight, and his blood pressure stayed high despite medication. I got him on a ketogenic diet under 40 grams a day of carbs, and his blood pressure and blood work all stabilized within a few months and his doctor took him off all medications. That seemed to be a green light to him that now he's healthy so he can eat whatever he wants. Now he's back on all of the meds, and he has resistant hypertension. But I still can't get him to give up the carb addiction again.🤷
With that sodium methodology of letting your taste buds determine how much salt you should have, if i applied that to sugar I'd be in real trouble….cmon, that's just ridiculous
100% DOC!! I have noticed this too. HBP is a new thing for me brought about by a combination of factors, mainly stress. Fasting, eating one meal a day helps. I am hoping to limit my carbs to just 50 grams per meal for that one meal per day. I have medication on standby for hypertension headaches, but with fasting I don't need them. Only on those days when my anxiety flares up.
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4 years later…Has anyone had their BP taken in the doctor’s office this way: feet dangling off the exam table, over the clothes/shirt sleeve, arm hanging, right side, and having to answer general questions (talking) while they use a wrong size cuff? 😮 Look up “how to…” and this is all wrong!
Wait did he say 140/90 is normal? This has changed correct? Anything over 120/80 is no considered elevated I believe
I was feeling lightheaded, light headed ache and checked bp… 178/100😢
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go to 11:04, his recommendation is to eat a low carb diet.
I wish it was that simple. I've been on a low carb diet for over 2 years and lost 45 lbs my blood pressure is just as high now as it was before. But another video I just watched by "found my fitness" recommends taking 360 magnesium per day for blood pressure. I'm going to try that because I haven't taken magnesium supplements in at least a couple of years. We'll c how it goes! Good luck everyone!
I've been on a low carb diet for 2 years and my blood pressure is still high.
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