The #1 Nutrient Deficiency in High Blood Pressure
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- High blood pressure is a key risk factor for heart disease - the world’s top killer, and strokes. Research shows there is one nutrient deficiency that has a massive impact on blood pressure. And it’s a nutrient few of us are getting enough of.
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The explanation of why blood pressure increases with Na is not explained using physiological/biological mechanisms by Dr Brad. Until such time, this video gives only anecdotal and correlative explanations. Does BP go further down if NaCl is completely replaced by KaCl in diet, say?
7-BANANAS PER DAY COVER OUR 4200 MG :D
Does Potassium affect pulse rate?
3 to 5 pints of coconut water per day should take care of your daily potassium needs.
bananas, orange juice, pineapple juice, and tomato juice (or V8), are all high in potassium as well. Avocados are too.
@@erichansen3641 OR SEVEN MEDIUM ORGANIC BANANAS COMPLY WITH THE 6,500 DOSE... BUT HOW DO WE KNOW THE FDA IS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR [??]
Dried apricots: 755 mg potassium in 1/2 cup
Raisins: 615 mg in 1/2 cup
Broccoli: 468 mg in 1 cup cooked
Prunes: 635 mg in 1/2 cup
White potato: 952 mg in one medium baked
Sweet potato: 542 mg in one medium cooked
Lentils: 731 mg in one cup cooked
Beets: 518 mg in one cup cooked
Black beans: 611 mg in one cup cooked
White beans: 500 mg in 1/2 cup cooked
Avocado: 560 mg in 1/2 cup
Edamame: 676 mg in one cup
Stick all those mate where the sun don't shine. You forget to mention Lectins and oxalates
what cup? what ml ? 250? 300ml? 330?
it also depends on what size of pieces in it ... the smaller it is the more you can fit in your damn cup
potatoes in french fries ok?
What kind of animal can eat all that and survive?
what form is the potassium though
Why the flip don't doctors prescribe potassium for high BP first before prescribing drugs.
Because there's no money in it for the medical industry
Because the doses in tablets are laughingly minimal, like 50 or 100 Mgs... and quite expensive to boot if you try to make up 1000 Mgs or more for one dose.
I buy the bags of powdered Potassium Citrate online... and it is quite cheap.
There is also the widespread fear that if too much Potassium is taken it can cause cardiac arrhythmias and cardiac arrest... but that is from the more potent concentrated form of Potassium that is only found in hospitals and given by IV.
They already advice a healthy diet and “5 a day”. This would generally provide enough potassium. But the average person eats a Western diet and doesn’t eat vegetables.
@@campersruincod6134 You need about 3500 to 4,000 mg of potassium a day. Make an eating plan where you get 4000 mg of potassium a day. It's nearly impossible. For some reason as the other person mentioned they limited specifically potassium to only be able to be sold with 99 mg servings. So you can't even buy a supplement that can take care of half of your daily needs.
High potassium sport drink powder mix (sugar free) and copper supplement worked miracles for me.
Blood pressure is a changing variable. It changes by the minute.
This makes total sense! I read last year we need around 4700 mg of potassium a day. I started taking a lot of extra potassium to get it up to that amount. I feel better and my blood pressure got to normal from being a little high. I also bought that blood machine u recommended. Its great!
Thank you so much for all your work! Truly appreciate it! 💙
Make sure your kidneys are healthy. Cheers
Maybe you should improve your diet rather than take supplements. I get almost 10 grams from diet alone. Stop eating junk food! Eat some potatoes, beans, bananas, etc.
@jakubchrobry3701 It takes 10 medium bananas are sweet potatoes to reach the RDA. Most people don't eat the variety of foods necessary to meet that.
Are you referring to reducing blood pressure from 170 to 165 (a 5-unit decrease) or from 170 to 120 (a much larger reduction)?
Just to be sure
People tend to be low in potassium , even if not critically low, unless they are in kidney failure. I think magnesium is also important for normal blood pressure and people tend to be low on that too, based on the labs I've seen over the years.
You haven't seen any labs
This answer needs some nuance: there are people who get ‘dealt a bad hand’ when it comes to genes that affect the kidneys. There are over 500 genes alone that affect Sodium and Potassium excretion in the kidneys. My potassium intake and absorption is fine, thanks to the Mediterranean diet, but I need the DASH diet to regulate my BP. DASH keeps sodium below 1500 mgs a day.
Thank you genius. You just basically parroted what he said. Added zero value
How do you detect potassium and magnesium deficiency with lab tests?
@ your welcome. “Unless they are in kidney failure” - wrong.
My doctor told me as well that a lot of foods don't have the magnesium they should because the soil has been depleted by insecticides and so a magnesium supplement helps. This is what I started taking when I started to get high BP and also some leg cramps in bed at nights. Leg cramps can be a symptom of low magnesium. Since taking the supplement, the cramps are gone, and BP has gone down.
An inexpensive source of potassium is potassium chloride. It's typically marketed as a salt substitute instead of a source of potassium. The brand I most often see is "No salt. "
It's typically sold in the spice section next to table salt.
I have been adding nuSalt to my water before drinking in addition to sprinkling it on my food.
Potassium is extremely hard to regulate----too little and it causes heart problems; too much and it causes heart problems. The "safe" blood level is very close to the "unsafe" blood level.
That’s odd, because if you’re on HBP Meds ….. you’re told to STAY, (Far Away) from ….. No Salt 🧂 “salt.”
How ironic is that?!
‘Low Salt’ is commonly found in the U.K. it’s my fave ❤
Paradoxically most people restricting Potassium do so because the **doctor** tells us not to mix it with hypertension meds. I worry this just creates a reliance on the meds.
Restricting both or either salt and potassium is a job and profit security for medical con industry.
It's not tough to ignore your doctor's advice once you learn he's your "pusher" as well!
It's now so bad that they have drugs to reileve the side effects of other drugs your pusher prescribes!
Rememebr: There are no "side effects" just effects; your pusher hopes the good ones outnumber the bad ones.
My mother was put on both after her stroke.
Yes because a side affect of hypertension medications is high potassium levels. Eating large amounts of potassium when on these medications will literally cause death.
@@stephen7715 Yes, it causes retention of Potassium. I should have been clearer in my post. What I was getting at was that if someone wanted to wean off the meds and increase dietary Potassium
Exercise can also help. With wall-sits and planks, my last BP measurements came in even below the new guidelines.
How many times per week did you do those exercises ?
@@lindac6147 I did 60 second wall sits once in the day, and once at night every day for the past 6 months. Somewhere around the post-lunch crash, I'd do a plank as an exercise snack.
My blood pressure is hard to control (resistant malignant hypertension). I'm on Labetalol, Chlorthalidone, Amlodipine, and Losartan. I am scared as they don't lower my pressure enough. I found out in the ER that I have mild kidney sclerosis. In your experience, do you know of any patients that have reversed kidney sclerosis? Scared.
I think in cases like yours, there is a procedure called denervication that is done to the kidney to lower bp. I heard about it a few months ago.
Thankyou. This video is life changing and will save lives.
That's why I always take 4,4 grams of potassium citrate powder (which is 30% RDA) every evening to ensure healthy blood pressure and muscle function. It was strange to me longevity experts like Dr Brad rarely talks about it, so happy to see a video about potassium.
Taking 4 g of potassium at once is probably crazy dangerous
Isnt it better to eat real food and have real salt?
@@presamickedepends on what you need most i suppose. For example, potassium citrate reduces the chance of developing kidney stones. If you’re prone to it, this can be helpful.
@@ZeerakImran We can talk about every hormone, mineral or vitamin. The point is that we need to eat food, we need to get rid of this bullshit agenda killing us. We need real land with real animals to feed us all the stuff our bodies need to function properly!
@@ZeerakImran Also ensures proper potassium intake, same way like other potassium forms.
Nervous at the doctor's office and blood pressure goes up. That's called White coat syndrome.
Take it at home every day
I blame it on the hot nurse .
Very helpful and reassuring. Thank you.
I never regret watching Dr Brad.
I started to mix potassium to salt (50-50) and my blood pressure has normalized. You need to be careful with potassium if you have kidney problems.
I also take magnesium that for sure helps.
Thanks for doing this video!
For 20 years I thought taking potassium is dangerous.
Two months ago I started taking potassium and my BP is definitely down.
I used to get readings in the 160s when i first sat down and took a reading. It would take me 5 minutes for my readings to come down 125/70.
Now my first readings are always under 140.
Thanks Brad! Always informative well presented
No he is not, he doesn't iron/press his shirts. He could at the very least iron the front part.
My blood pressure was 168/95 for years, started the carnivore diet 18 months ago, lost 30 kg and now my blood pressure is 123/82, no more joint pain, no more anxiety and depression, I feel better at the age of 43 then I did in my 20s💪🥩🥩🥩
Incredible 👌 good work turning it around when you did. Plenty try doing this much later in life when the damage is often beyond repair
Never too late
@@Rob-w5p You evolve billions of year with prime mission to surive. Your body replaces it self all the time, brain and hearth is not doing this thou.
@@presamicke to a point, yes. But we all reach a point where our cells can no longer be replaced (Hayflick limit) and, where the damage is so widespread in one of more organ systems that even a basic level of recovery requires herculean amounts of effort, often ruining ones quality of life. I've met plenty of these and whilst technically still alive, they are spiritually and mentally crushed
@@Rob-w5p Ty, my point is that people are so well trained to believe that you cannot repair and you need theese pills. So i am not a believer in spreading this message, my dad only 74 years young asked me "you dont think its to late!?".
I’ve been seasoning with 50/50 NA/K for a few years ever since studies came out showing the benefits. That and yes, fruits and vegetables.
Instead of regular salt, I use mixture of salt and potassium. Some stores have it.
I've been taking Lo-Salt (two thirds potassium chloride, one third sodium chloride) for around 30 years on my old GP's recommendation. Can't say it has made any noticeable difference to my high blood pressure. Lately I just realised that I have been lowering my sodium intake significantly by doing that and maybe I have created a sodium deficiency now, so maybe not such a great idea?
@@kevingeoghegan294 Interesting. Can you tell how does your low sodium level manifest itself? My mixture is 70% salt, 30% potassium and little bit of iodine.
@@kevingeoghegan294 have you tried L-Arginine?
@@hal9000svk Not him but every time I've tried to go "no added salt" I've felt extremely tired, as bad as having not slept the previous night tired. Takes about a day and a half to manifest and relief comes almost immediately after eating salt. I get at least 50% the RDA from whole food sources but maybe it's my water + potassium (5000mg+) intake or activity level that makes me require more salt than what some people are saying is healthy. I don't think I'm going to even try no added salt anymore.
DON'T DO THIS!!!! I got hyperkalemia from this with very disconcerting arrhythmias as a result. It is WAY too easy to overdose on this salt. Don't do this, just get it naturally from food!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this important information about Potassium and such a great explanation! Thank you
Commenting for the algorithm. Thank you Brad.
Me, too.
Im on lisinopril which raises potassium levels... should i increase my potassium intake?
Wonderful information. Thank you so much.
Being Apoe4 + it‘s even more important to keep bloodpressure optimal. Would be nice if you did a video Apoe4!
I use KCl instead of NaCl for salting a lot of my foods. The taste difference is minor, and it's both a reduction in Na and an increase in K for my diet - win/win.
Thank you, this makes a lot of sense. I used to take a supplement in my water that was magnesium and potassium. It helped my restless legs a lot. The supplement I have used for over 15 years was discontinued two years ago. Out of nowhere, my blood pressure went up when it's has always been excellent.
I supplement with potassium chloride almost every day. It helps with blood pressure but makes my dry mouth more dry. I add magnesium too
@@demonfedor3748 I wonder why the dry mouth ?
@chriscorbin1055 Due to work environment. It requires water rationing.
a big grain of Himalayan salt, or real sea salt to bottled water 16 oz, will relieve dry mouth after three days, sometimes sooner.
Too much potassium is dangerous. You must balance electrolite between potassium, salt,calcium and magnesium. Best to get it from foods.
But, but, how are doctors and drug companies going to make money if people just need to eat potatoes and bananas?
replace table salt with potassium chloride (tastes the same) and you'll be all set in no time. (don't forget magnesium glycinate)
Magnesium glycinate is stupid. It absorbs too quick and is almost all urinated out.
Magnesium oxide is best. Extremely slow absorbing. Overall you get a lot more magnesium used than mag glycinate.
Stop watching TH-cam
That would be ok if salt wasnt so important. I would never replace salt with anything, only supplement it with potassium and magnesium.
NACL-salt-is too important to cut back. There is not one study that shows excess salt raises BP! That is a MYTH!
@@hooywamd00pe95 Yes, but you can over do it with sodium very easily because it's everywhere. Also potassium chloride is generally mixed with sodium chloride.
Not exactly, KCl isn't quite the same and requires some getting used to the flavour. Most in my family complain if I use pure KCL. They often don't notice if I use a 50/50 mix.
What type of potassium: chloride, nitrate, citrate, gluconate, glycinate? They can't all work?
Well Dr Stanstead here has potassium chloride in his magic vitamin mix....
Not very much though if you Google the ingredients.
Why can't they all work? If the problem is not enough potassium then any source of potassium that can be utilized will work.
You highlighted Manganese instead of Magnesium in your comparison with Potassium intake.
I checked chat GPT - and it replied magnesium more important , and specifically has this role . A good diet gives you all three anyway , K, Mg and Mn
@@nimblegoata good diet doesn’t give you any of those. I have yet to meet anyone who gets enough mg from food alone. Let alone calcium, magnesium, zinc, potassium… foods contain them, but not as much as we would like. If you combine all the foods to get the good diet, we will be eating too many calories and realistically fail to eat that much anyway. Foods contain significantly less nutrients than they did just a few generations ago.
@@ZeerakImran I do supplement magnesium as very little downside for healthy people , also iodine in my country is low in soil, and i never add salt except for went very rarely make bread , and for no sugar bran/wholemeal muffins ( sweeten with mash banana + 1 of fresh fruit puree or pumpkin or carrot or sweet potato ). So take some iodine tabs as well . I can't speak for others but I eat a wide range of healthy foods . As a 60 year old BP is fine , as eat lots of potassium rich food . Will buy some Potassium Chlorine to add to offset things like low salt soy sauce , miso. kimchi etc .
I'm probably not normal as eat crazy amount of various greens, all colours of not non-starchy veggies , also many types of nuts and seeds ( most calories are probably avocado, nuts , and EVOL ), Add in fish , chicken , yogurt, hard cheese, beans/pulses, lentils, chickpeas etc
So yes probably projected myself onto general population
I reduce carbs by little bread, small portion of brown rice etc to balance calories - small treats tiny amount of frozen yogurt with berries etc
Given that so many eat poorly not too many young people with cracked skin, brittle nails and hair , probably saved by that it's rare to have protein deficiency in the west eggs, milk , meat and fortified junk or ultra processed food that add vitamins and minerals .
I remember vegans in the 1980s who only knew to cut out meat, eggs, dairy etc who looked anemic . They didn't have info about B12, choline , good sources of protein etc and ate too much sugar .
I don't do keto or gluten free , but people who do have more choices now that don't taste absolute horrible
I realised if i have a coffe and measure my BP its like hypertension high. And it lasts for a few hours.
I hear medical people saying yea u can have like 4 coffes a day its healthy.
That would mean ure BP would be sky high elevated all day.
You might just be sensitive to it. You will become more tolerant over time. It is a thing, its likely the caffeine as it's a potent stimulant
Caffein doesn’t exert such effects on my system, bp doesn’t budge when i had 3 expressos in the morning, i think this is just your body responding to it.
I have low blood pressure and drink half a dozen coffee a day.
My blood workup indicated a high potassium level and my cardiologist was very concerned about reducing the potassium level stating that potassium is used in death row to kill people and that it can be destructive to the body. Any thoughts or comments on this?
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Finally a video on blood pressure a silent 🔕 killer ! Very important video . Thanks for sharing that with people 👍🏻
what if we switch our salt from sodium chloride to potassium chloride? Will this be a good idea?
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Thanks for sharing
When sugars are the main source of energy, our kidneys hang on to sodium. When we enter ketosis, our kidneys let sodium go, i.e. into urine (Dr. Volek and Dr. Phinney). Does hyperinsulinemia negatively impact the kidneys ability to regulate electrolytes? Everywhere I look the details just get more amd more complex. I'm not sure that averages derived from selected studis can be applied to me. I'm leaning toward "N of 1" :
- Blood pressure monitoring is underway, at home once a month or so, in the morning, sitting down, relaxed.
- I have deliberately been in and out of ketosis for over 25 years. Blood cholesterol/triglyceride all good. Dr didn't ask what I was eating, just said: "keep doing what you're doing". Good Dr.
- When I want to lose a kg or two now, I skip breakfast focus on protein inc read meat, and up my aerobic exercise, i.e. fat-burning - it works well for me.
- Reaching autophagy is a lot quicker when your body is routinely burning fat/"Fat adapted" (Dr. Volek and Dr. Phinney)
Brad, I draw on your logical and reational reviews of supplements. Creatine, Collagen and more. Thanks! I really appreciate being able to access reliable summaries of relevant studies.
Potassium is so important, (KCL) saved my life. I found I need quite a lot, after months of suplementing KCL 3x everyday I feel way better, sleeping improved, thinking better, muscles functioning better. It took me months to recover from "very-very-very bad state". Stress was killing me. Almost died bc of insufficient K from food/diet. I take potassium now mostly with meals. I take even more KCL whenever I eat more all sort of carbs. It helps me to prevent my BP to go too high up after carb loaded meals as it was very big issue.
I take magnesium too, but not so much, and not so often like KCL.
It took me only 2-3 days to notice first signs of KCL working good for me.
(KCL, powder - like table salt. 1/4 teaspon clear KCL is the max for one time for me, I don't take on empty stomach). Hope same people will find it helpful and interesting.
Good to know! What type of muscle issues did you have?
I'm curious - why do all potassium supplements have such a small percentage of the RDA?
cuz too high potassium is extremely dangerous. they use pure potassium chloride as part of the cocktail of drugs in the death penalty to stop the heart. ur body needs a balance of sodium and potassium. otoh, lite salt, which is a mix of sodium and potassium chloride, is not dangerous at all since it has both.
Thank your government, its regulated by the FDA. Can't have people getting healthy now can we.
Thank your government, its regulated by the FDA. Can't have people being healthy now can we.
Because too much potassium kills you.
One of the forms (I think there are maybe 6 total) was found to cause (i forgot the term) micro cuts in the gut. Even though the other forms were untested for this they all were reduced to under 100mg unless you put a warning label about these cuts.
This clear failure makes people, including me believe that this is another scam by big pharma to keep us being sick and spending money.
HOWEVER, you can buy salt substitute. Nu-salt, Morton-lite salt (has iodine is 50/50 sodium/potassium), your supermarket probably has 10 different options. This means you have an option to get reasonable amounts of potassium. This too means that it is possible that salt substitute industry is the culprit of 99mg limit so that they can have the market. Regular salt tastes much better and if you could take potassium in pill form at reasonable amounts then salt substitute industry would lose a bunch of money.
sugar increases BP a lot
This makes absolute sense. My doctor prescribed Losartan and it clearly says on the bottle..Losartan potassium.
Potassium and magnesium
Carvedilol causes the body to retain potassium. In fact, the drug has warnings to avoid eating too much potassium because it may cause edema. If you have congestive heart failure, edema may worsen the problem.
You mentioned that low magnesium causes excess potassium to be excreted by the kidneys, but you did not mention that 45-65% of people in America and other countries are deficient in magnesium in their diets. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a cardologist in the U.K. (TH-cam channel: York Cardiology) says that in his practice, he has never seen a patient with low potassium who was not also low in magnesium, and he says that any treatment for low potassium through IV, diet or supplementation must also treat for low magnesium, otherwise the treatment for potassium will not be effective.
My problem is my sodium is usually on the low end of good or too low. So if I take more potassium with the intention to lower sodium, I would have too low sodium if the mechanism for BP is as is described.
Thank you Doctor-great videos!!
Mine is more complicated, I was eating over 5000 mg of potassium. Yes, my bp got too low on Amlopidine. Changed medication, and blood pressure shot up, while in transition. I'm now on an ACE inhibitor, same dose as Amlopidine, but, too low dose, it goes high, even with the potassium intake. But I have had to reduce potassium to about 3000 mg, on the new medication, and I don't eat but 1500 mg of salt a day
Yeah, he fails to mention potassium supplements are capped at 99mgs a serving. It's almost impossible to get enough potassium and that's how they want it.
If you lower your blood pressure, can your body reverse the damage already done to blood vessels?
What is the RDA for potassium?
The body needs magnesium for potassium to be used correctly. Make sure you're not magnesium deficient because that is one of the most common deficiencies in America.
That’s good! Because I seem to be getting a LOT of magnesium. I tried taking 2 capsules of 133mg Magnesium Glycinate be cause I thought I’m not getting enough of it. That is when I’m experiencing side effects like excessive farting and muscle weakness. I’m stopping for a week to reintroduce it to my body by going back to one capsule a day.
what is the best way to get 4700mg of potassium each day? why there is only 99mg potassium supplement available, and not 4000mg?
Ever think that poor hydration is a contributor to high sodium concentration? How many participants were well hydrated vs not?
It contributes a whole lot!
Are there any other symptoms that show up low potassium?
Slight off topic - The argument for fibre is false in my lived experience - in fact its likely a net negative depending on your issues. Extremely hesitantly (had to overcome a life time of instilled biases)... I went on a carnivore diet over a year ago. Doing so sorted out a bunch of minor issues and some large autoimmune ones. A need for fibre to feel full or have proper bowel movements is not true, in fact Ive found it to be the opposite.
Thanks Brad.
amazing in all your videos thanks
Glad that you FINALLY caught-up to my comment 2 years ago, that Potassium & Magnesium are significant re: Blood Pressure.
Unfortunately, you are ever FURTHER BEHIND on these BP studies/numbers:
1. "Does not Have Diabetes": Yeah, well, doesn't mean they aren't ALMOST there...Studies would have been better if they'd looked at FASTING INSULIN.
2. From #1 above, it is STRONGLY INFERRED that the BP "Number" isn't a good marker, if ALL dietary intake isn't considered. If people GOT OFF of Alcohol, excessive sugar & carbs, BP number would magically drop & when these flawed studies are re-done, they'll be buried, because Big Pharma can't peddle their precious insulin-resistance-causing BP Drugs!!!
I wonder regarding magnesium as well. My theory has to do with diets historically having higher ratio of potassium and magnesium due to eating plants more potentially.
DOC I've been taking an electrolyte powder that i imported into NZ that contains 1000mg of potassium citrate. Is that safe? I noticed no electrolyte powders over here in NZ contain anywhere near enough potassium.
Cheers Doc
Good video but you highlighted manganese instead of magnesium on the microvitamin bottle.
Thank you Dr. Stanfield, everything you say makes sense but I always wonder why my doctor tells me to avoid bananas which I know are high in potassium.
Many non-Western societies eat cooked green bananas. They are (1) rich in potassium and (2) high in fiber and (3) low in sugar/glycemic index.
NOT that rich! You'd have to eat 90 bananas a day to reach the dosage necessary.
@@EarlT357
Um..
what bananas are you talking about? Or, what level of potassium intake are you talking about?
The tiny finger sized bananas? Or the regular ones that most people in the USA buy, like what would be in a smoothie or banana split?
A regular, medium sized banana (per cronometer) x 90 bananas = 9,452 calories and comes with 38,019mg potassium, or 1,118% of the RDA.
Even changing the selection down to "very small" there is still 26,098mg potassium.
@1:51 this study shows the bottom of their range of 3,700mg potassium which would require about 900 calories of bananas or just under 9 medium bananas or 12.6 very small bananas. The recommended range was 3,500mg to 5,000mg by the AHA so the 3,700mg in the study was in the range.
How much potassium should I take daily?
The explanation of why blood pressure increases with Na is not explained using physiological/biological mechanisms by Dr Brad. Until such time, this video gives only anecdotal and correlative explanations. Does BP go further down if NaCl is completely replaced by KaCl in diet, say?
Is a standard blood test for potassium the best way to check if your level is OK? Presumably if the blood test result is within range then there is no need to supplement more? Is the "standard " range in Australasia adequate or is there a higher optimal range?
Is there a test for potassium?
Love your vitamin supplement and your videos. A baked potato has more potassium and fewer carbs than any banana that I know of.
The biggest difference is you don’t have to deep fry a banana and coat them in salt to taste really good.
Sweet potato has a natural sweetness and can be baked instead of fried.
@@siersmar
Baked potatoes, boiled potatoes. ..mashed potatoes.
@@glenntimberlake2413I love potatoes and wish I could eat them. They are very high in solanine and oxalates, which irritates my bladder and kidneys and joints. Much pain relief for me when I stay away from “nightshade family” plants and high oxalates foods.
I know it’s bad to have much processed foods but without adding more salts we get enough in foods we buy. To me it’s odd that with all the good foods I eat my potassium is low! 🤷🏼♀️
I tend to have high bp.. because of asthma medication (ventolin) eats up potassium... or so I've been told.
Nice, short video, full of useful info. Still enough left unsaid for another 9 minute video.
MTOR in older adults have been getting a lot of press lately. I like lentils, but have read that they have more Leucine than beef. Not sure if I should be eating them.
Leucine is something you actually want if you're trying to build/retain muscle. Transient spikes in mTor are not something to be worried about. Your body normally goes through cyles of building and breaking down protein.
@@Greg_Chock More true the younger you are, less true the older you become; especially in your 60s and beyond where increasingly your MTOR has a hard time turning off.
@@KTPurdy That's the first I heard of that. You also have a harder time retaining muscle after your late 50s.
No way do lentils have more leucine than beef.
@@Greg_Chock no doubt. As muscle cells get closer to a senescent state, Inflammation gets out of control. At that point, no amount of BCAAs will do any good. Older folks need to do all they can to minimize inflammation rather than focusing on maxing out their protein.
8:37 Is it Manganese or Magnesium?
He highlighted the wrong one, but his supplement has magnesium taurinate.
I just came back from my 3 mile run this morning and took my BP:
88/68. I kid you not. This is an omron BP meter that I check regularly against my physicians unit. No lightheadedness at all. The only time my BP gets over 100/70 is when I eat (goes to 115/75)
88 is not healthy. It's doctor/er time if you're in your 80's
@larryc1616 nope. All my labs (and I mean *all* as I regularly take 50 tests) are perfect and my VO2 max is in the top 10th percentile for my age. If there is some problem with my BP it isn't measurable with current technology.
@@homomorphic you need more SALT.
@loneranger7573 my sodium is 141 and my potassium is 4.8. (as of my last set of labs last week but those numbers are pretty consistent over years).
EXERCISE LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE. Try taking your blood pressure now, is bet it has elevated
I kill two birds (more Potassium and less Sodium) with one stone. I have bought Potassium Chloride and Potassium Bicarbonate in bulk and use them instead of salt (Sodium Chloride) and Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) in my cooking.
I ordered them online from America and they arrived without any drama. Please note, I also informed my GP before I started and he approved of the switch.
My blood pressure goes up more the prettier the nurse is.
So are you saying that if your labs are normal and blood pressure is high its from a different cause. Or is what labs are saying is normal is still too low?
Do you have any advice for more labile hypertension? I'm 22 and my BP readings can span from 110 to 145 systolic in a single sitting (around 10 to 15 minutes). This is even when I try to keep things consistent as well as resting 5 min before measuring.
So what role does aldosterone play in all this?
Havard Health: - 'Once upon a time, in a land not far away at all, a healthy blood pressure was thought to be 100 plus your age. That simple rule of thumb has gone the way of hats for men, cordiality in politics, and affordable health insurance. It was replaced in 1977 by a cutoff of 160/95 separating "normal" from high blood pressure. That cutoff continues to drift downward, steadily eroding what we think of as normal or healthy blood pressure'. 'Dr. B M Hegde: 60 years ago 160/110 was normal'. -"Dr. Adam J Story was taught that 160/90 was the threshold"
Can't sell more drugs if you let those "OLD tables" stand in the way!!! When the PA saw my BP, all he could do was quiver and write me a prescription for Liprinosil! I still get notices to pick up my prescription, even after a lapse two years!
@@EarlT357 Indeed, there is always the justified suspicion of profit motive, vested interest, and group think, or worse.....
It drifted down because the science showed that lower Bp is better. You ignore it at your own peril. Strokes are often life ending even if you don’t die.
Dramatically increased intake of ‘vegetable’ oils seems to have influenced our current cardiovascular health situation as well.
@@rik80280 But the American society of family physicians says 140/90 is what it should be
Blindly following these studies is good if you belong to the population norm, whatever that is. If you are an individual, not a population, you need to measure. Normal “stated” serum K “potassium” is 3.5 to 5.0mmols, however anyone with a potassium below 4.0 probably isn’t getting enough from their diet or drinking water. Getting their serum K in the 4.0-4.5 is a safer place to be. A useful way to do this is adding a glass of tomato Juice to your daily diet. For me 190g of tomato juice daily raises my K from 3.9 to 4.4, perfect for me as it eliminates all PVCs as well as controlling BP without the need for anti hypertensive pharmaceuticals.
I took 3000 mg of potassium for a week made little difference. Took 10mg of lisinopril the next day 120/80.
I take 800 mg of magnesium at night, so not deficient there.
CT scan was 40, 69 years old workout 3 - 5 x a week 25lbs overweight. Excercise has no effect on my bp.
4:13 How was the BP measured when collecting data for the study? Was it collected by a physician or was it collected by subjects measuring their BP in a setting they were comfortable in? You cant compare data collected in one environment and compare it to data collected in another environment.
Maybe subjects who dont have a significant increase in BP just because someone in a white coat is measuring it have a sympathetic nervous system that is "calmer" and less easily "triggered"... and perhaps this is why their cardiovascular outcomes are better.
Telling people that their CV outcomes will be improved if they can get the same numbers recommended by the study in the comfort of their own homes may be misleading them since their numbers are not collected in the same way.
Unfortunately extended release k-tab is Rx only
Did anyone notice the readings on the picture of the BP machine? It read a BP of 91/70 with a heartbeat of 103. Is that even possible?
I suppose there usually isn't much magnesium, potassium, calcium in multi vitamins
Can't fit all those in a multivitamin. The RDA for potassium alone is almost 5 grams. Would love to find a good multi mineral with significant quantities
Those are all bulky.
@@soylentgreenb What does that mean?
@@Sheena1234ization It means 10g unswallowable horse-pills or swallowing dozens of reasonably sized pills. It takes too much volume to fit in a small multivitamin and is more appropriate as a powder disolved in water.
@@soylentgreenb Thanks, my potassium supplement fits 498mg in 2 pills
So increasing your potassium can offset a diet that's too high in sodium?
So where can you get a quality 2000 to 4000 milligram potassium supplement ?
Diastolic blood pressure was always above 110 and stays below 100 with just 1 banana a day ... 🙈
Any update on your red light video?
Strange ... my cardiologist told me NOT to take extra potassium
Please always tell the AMOUNT OF CHANGE …. (and after that, you can mention if it’s statistically significant or not).
In a metabolically healthy individual, what has a bigger impact on blood pressure? Na or K?
Thanks informative
Almost all vegetables has a lot of potassium. I once calculated that if you eat 0.7 kg of vegetables, you get the RDA of potassium.
I don't remember exactly what RDA I used for that calculation. Probably 4 g.
Looking at potassium supplements, they seem to utilize a RDA of 2 g and need 4 capsules to get that amount.
The RDA seems to be differ oddly, somewhere between 2 -- 5 g. I guess they have some difficulty deciding that🙂
I myself would guess we need a balance between sodium and potassium. And likely between calcium and magnesium.
Electrolytes work in balance in the body. I wouldn't trust research talking about them independently!
I have high potassium 4.9, right at the edge of the max recommended, and my blood pressure is a tad higher than I'd like in the higher 130s over 170s usually but sometimes 10 lower. So not sure this is the case for most people eh. Maybe mines would be int he 140s if I didn't have high Pot eh? Maybe genetics that gave the low PB folks their below 120 readings, is really what saved them from stroke and heart attacks and not the BP number?