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hey guys today we’re going to talk about

keto and blood pressure probably should

add in there iff intermittent fasting as

well now typically people had this idea

that high blood pressure is caused by

consuming too much sodium or salt right

because a lot of times all their

processed foods are really high in

sodium and yes that’s going to increase

more volume of fluid because salt

retains water and therefore increasing

your blood pressure okay but people can

then keep you put on a diuretic pull the

fluid out and then lower their blood

pressure so one point I want to bring up

is the relationship between sodium and

the opposing mineral potassium they both

work together okay and we need four

times as much potassium as we do sodium

so what does that mean it means that if

you want to lower sodium you want to

increase your potassium okay because

that’s automatically gonna give you the

ratios that you need rather than try to

lower your sodium okay yes you can do

sea salt which I recommend but you would

be much better off increasing your

potassium and one of the reasons is

because potassium automatically will

help you lower blood pressure or

normalize blood pressure and most people

do not consume enough potassium rich

foods and I’m not talking about bananas

I’m talking about leafy greens the

average person consumes 1.6 cups of

vegetable per day we need at least 7

cups to hopefully maybe even 10 if you

could actually do that and that would

actually give you a lot closer amounts

for your potassium and you’ll find your

blood pressure come down and I’m gonna

put a link down below that shows an

incredible paper on the relationship

between increasing your potassium and

lowering blood pressure alright let’s

talk about scenario two let’s say the

artery is calcified well that is going

to increase the blood pressure because

you have Harding of the arteries you

have plaquing a great test to determine

that would be a coronary artery

calcification skin very important to be

able to detect if you have any

calcification going on there now there

is an interesting nutrient called

vitamin k2 that works with d3 that helps

decalcify the arteries it helps remove

excess calcium from either the joints or

the arteries and puts it in the place

where it should be in the bone and this

actually comes from fatty foods

grass-fed meats or dairy which is very

interesting now you can also get it from

NATO which is a fermented soybean but I

find it interesting that the actual

vitamin in fatty foods has the remedy to

decalcify or protect the arteries from

accumulating too much calcium and a lot

of people are on a medication that

blocks calcium to prevent this it’s

called a calcium channel blocker and the

last scenario which is probably the most

common is a situation where you have

high insulin if your insulin is too high

your arteries are going to become stiff

okay and your blood pressure will go up

this is associated with insulin

resistance because when you have too

much insulin that means you’re consuming

too many carbs or eating too frequently

it’s going to eventually create a

situation where your your insulin is

going to be resisted in the receptor and

that feedback loop is going to cause

your body to make a lot more insulin

than you should of course no one ever

tests the insulin a fasting insulin test

or even a an insulin test that would be

measuring how much insulin spike after

you eat post a meal and say two or three

or four hours now that test would be

incredible but it’s really done the

point is that when you have high insulin

you’re gonna have high blood pressure

okay and so the solution would be to

decrease your carbohydrates okay another

interesting point would be when people

are on medication for high blood

pressure they’re usually a medication to

lower cholesterol okay they’re on a

statin and one of the risk factors for

statins is diabetes and insulin

resistance and elevated insulin so it

worsens diabetes because it adds more

insulin diabetes type 2 is a situation

you have too much insulin and too much

blood sugar but the side effect from

statins basically worsens this situation

right here okay keeping the blood

pressure going so you have to keep

maintaining this condition never fixing

it fully but just managing it now the

diuretics that you’re taking over here

here have a side effect too and that

would also be increased risk for insulin

resistance and diabetes and higher

levels of insulin here we go right here

feeding the Machine right here right and

then to put the icing on the cake which

I don’t want to talk about cake is that

you’re gonna retain sodium when your

insulin is high and your blood sugars

are high because you’re doing so many

carbohydrates so I believe this

situation especially if you’re not

consuming a lot of sodium is being

directly caused by this situation so

this is causing this which is probably

creating an imbalance with your

potassium - and by the way increasing

your potassium will actually help lower

your insulin and improve insulin

resistance a calcified artery usually

comes after a chain reaction from damage

from high sugar because the calcium and

the cholesterol that’s making the plaque

usually is triggered by a situation of

damage in the artery wall usually coming

from high sugar and high levels of

insulin so again this is causing this so

if you were to lower your carbs you’re

instantly gonna lose a lot of fluid and

if you lower your potassium you will not

only help with this situation but you’ll

also help with the root cause as well

all right and thank you so much for

watching

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