Why Does Potassium Work for Hypertension? High Potassium Foods for High Blood Pressure – Dr.Berg

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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 hey we’re back with another amazing recipe no grains no sugar totally keto there’s no suffering on keto absolutely not Karen and it’s an immune system builder absolutely you have to check this out I think you should hurry up watch the recipe and make it yourself it’s just so easy to be keto but is it simple it’s super simple we hope you enjoy making it as much as we are enjoying eating it