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so in a few of my videos I talk about the relationship between potassium and

blood pressure but I had someone recently asked why does potassium help

lower blood pressure and that’s what this video is about just some quick

background information only 2% of the population and I’m talking about

Americans get enough potassium 2% that means

98% of Americans are deficient they’re just not getting enough most of them

don’t know that they need a lot they need about 4700 milligrams a day to

achieve the RDAs for potassium and I’m not talking about bananas because

bananas only have about 300 milligrams so you’d have to consume a lot of of bananas

to achieve this and then the problem with that is all the sugar that comes

along with it but mostly you’re going to get your potassium from leafy greens

certain vegetables the problem with that is an average American only consumes one

and a half cups of veggies per day when they actually need about 7 to 10 cups

but realize when I’m talking about 7 to 10 cups I’m talking about like loose

lettuce I’m not talking about concentrated like broccoli for example

or cauliflower this would be for leafy greens so if you’re gonna do something

more dense maybe you do four cups something like that and also if you chop

this up and cut this down this is gonna come down a lot less because you’re

actually making it more dense but the point is that the more vegetables that

you eat the closer you’re gonna get to this amount you can also get potassium

from fish and some meats and nuts and it definitely avocados that’s a really good

source most people just don’t get enough potassium from their diet also when you

consume refined carbohydrates both in grain carbohydrates and sugars you’ll

deplete your potassium even more when you’re under stress you deplete your

potassium when you take a diuretic you deplete your potassium there’s many

different ways that people end up being deficient in potassium if we take a look

at sodium the opposing mineral 90 percent of Americans

are consuming too much of sodium so we’re really heavy on the

sodium very light on the potassium and what this creates is a situation where

your blood pressure is going to start going higher and higher and higher

potassium in general has a diuretic effect it’s going to get rid of fluid

potassium causes the smooth muscle in your arteries to dilate it’s a

vasodilator thus lowering the blood pressure also potassium keeps the

vascular system from being stiff because if your arteries are stiff that alone

can cause hypertension either increase the foods that are high in potassium

which I’ll put some links down below on that or take potassium as a supplement

or an electrolyte powder and you’re gonna find that your blood pressure is

gonna start coming down now the other cause of hypertension is low vitamin d3

so if you take vitamin d3 and potassium or get it from the food you will find

that your blood pressure should be coming down the other thing I’m going to

mention about potassium is it also lowers the risk of getting a stroke and

the way that that occurs is that potassium directly affects the

consistency of blood it reduces clotting as in blood clots potassium can kill two

birds with one stone of course that’s not the best analogy but it can actually

help reduce hypertension and decrease the risk for a stroke

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