Keto And High Blood Pressure – Dr.Berg

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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 I’ll see you in the next video so I want to know about what you think about this video so please comment below and tell me what you think