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i found some very interesting research

related to

how potassium can influence how much

calcium

builds up in your arteries it’s actually

quite fascinating

now one of the best tests to determine

if you have calcium in your arteries

is a cac test a coronary artery

calcification

test and that test is probably one of

the best predictors

of overall mortality not just from heart

attacks

but from overall mortality so this study

that i just reviewed

showed for the first time that low

dietary potassium promotes

vascular calcification and

aortic stiffness as well as thickness

within the coronary

arteries now i will say this study was

on mice

so if your mice start developing high

blood pressure

you definitely need to apply this

information now this is huge because

so many people do not get the amount of

potassium they need

in fact they don’t even know how much

they need they need a lot

an average person needs about 4 700

milligrams

every single day so to get that they’re

going to have to consume a good amount

of dietary potassium if you

don’t know what that is i put a link

down below for more information on how

to get your potassium

from your diet but the question is why

why does calcium deposit

on your arteries if you are low in

potassium and this is the reason

these two electrolytes potassium and

calcium work together

when you’re low in potassium calcium

tends to build up

on the inside of the cell now this is

quite important information simply

because

the number one cause of death is heart

attack

and so if a person is getting high blood

pressure

they need to start looking at potassium

if you take a look at like

calcium channel blockers which is one of

the medications that they use for high

blood pressure

the mechanics of that drug is basically

lowering calcium

but what if they increase potassium well

i have found in practice

the patients who do more potassium do

much better with their blood pressure

more potassium less blood pressure also

when you take vitamin d

your blood pressure can come down i

think a lack of potassium is part of the

problem

another problem is inflammation in your

arteries because in order for that

calcium to start depositing on the

inside of the artery

you first have to have inflammation and

that usually comes from some type of

oxidation

in combination with low antioxidants

like low amounts of vitamin d

low vitamin c which occur from consuming

too much refined flour products and then

if you combine too much sugar which is

going to create

oxidation you’re going to get the

perfect storm because you’re going to

get

number one inflammation that’s going to

start the whole process

and the calcium coming in as a band-aid

and the fact that when you’re eating

sugar and refined

carbohydrates you’re depleting your

potassium

you’re depleting your vitamin e and your

vitamin c

so it’s the perfect storm and so we have

this combination

related to heart disease we have low

potassium

we have low antioxidants coming from

eating the wrong things in your diet

and also a lack of vitamin d which can

act as an anti-inflammatory

vitamin d3 works with vitamin k2 and

also

mobilizing that calcium to make sure

that it stays in the bone

and out of the arteries so anyway i

wanted to talk about the

importance of potassium in preventing

arterial stiffness as well as

calcification building up in your

arteries

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