High Potassium Foods for High Blood Pressure – Dr.Berg
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Here’s how potassium may help reduce hypertension. Check this out.
High Potassium Foods:
• Top 7 Foods Rich In Potassium – Dr. Berg
Timestamps:
0:00 Potassium for hypertension
0:13 What you need to know about potassium
2:08 Sodium and potassium
2:27 What potassium does
2:50 What to do for hypertension
3:03 Another cause of high blood pressure
3:15 Potassium and strokes
Today we’re going to talk about why potassium may help lower blood pressure. Only about 2% of Americans get enough potassium. We need about 4700mg of potassium a day to achieve the RDAs for potassium.
Bananas only have about 300mg of potassium, and they also have a lot of sugar. Leafy greens and other vegetables may be much better sources of potassium. But people are not getting the amount of vegetables they need. We need 7-10 cups of leafy greens (like a salad) every day. If you’re eating more dense vegetables (like broccoli), or you have a dense chopped salad, you will need less. You can also get potassium from fish, certain meats, nuts, and avocados.
Refined carbs and sugar can deplete potassium, as well as stress, and diuretics.
90% of American’s are consuming too much of the opposing mineral, which is sodium. Too much sodium and not enough potassium can create a situation where the blood pressure is going to keep rising higher and higher.
How potassium can help with hypertension:
- It acts as a diuretic
- It dilates the smooth muscle in the arteries
- It keeps the vascular system from being stiff
It may be beneficial to consume more foods high in potassium or take potassium as a supplement or in an electrolyte powder.
Another cause of hypertension is a vitamin D3 deficiency. You may want to get more vitamin D3 along with potassium
Potassium may also help reduce the risk of stroke because it directly affects the consistency of the blood. It reduces clotting.
Potassium may help reduce hypertension, as well as reduce the risk of stroke.
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Thanks for watching! If you have hypertension, you may want to consider adding some more potassium to your diet.
Transcript
Potassium for hypertension
0:00so in a few of my videos I talk about the relationship between potassium and
0:04blood pressure but I had someone recently asked why does potassium help
0:09lower blood pressure and that’s what this video is about just some quick
What you need to know about potassium
0:13background information only 2% of the population and I’m talking about
0:18Americans get enough potassium 2% that means
0:2498% of Americans are deficient they’re just not getting enough most of them
0:32don’t know that they need a lot they need about 4700 milligrams a day to
0:37achieve the RDAs for potassium and I’m not talking about bananas because
0:41bananas only have about 300 milligrams so you’d have to consume a lot of of bananas
0:46to achieve this and then the problem with that is all the sugar that comes
0:50along with it but mostly you’re going to get your potassium from leafy greens
0:53certain vegetables the problem with that is an average American only consumes one
0:59and a half cups of veggies per day when they actually need about 7 to 10 cups
1:05but realize when I’m talking about 7 to 10 cups I’m talking about like loose
1:09lettuce I’m not talking about concentrated like broccoli for example
1:15or cauliflower this would be for leafy greens so if you’re gonna do something
1:20more dense maybe you do four cups something like that and also if you chop
1:26this up and cut this down this is gonna come down a lot less because you’re
1:31actually making it more dense but the point is that the more vegetables that
1:34you eat the closer you’re gonna get to this amount you can also get potassium
1:39from fish and some meats and nuts and it definitely avocados that’s a really good
1:45source most people just don’t get enough potassium from their diet also when you
1:50consume refined carbohydrates both in grain carbohydrates and sugars you’ll
1:57deplete your potassium even more when you’re under stress you deplete your
2:00potassium when you take a diuretic you deplete your potassium there’s many
2:05different ways that people end up being deficient in potassium if we take a look
Sodium and potassium
2:09at sodium the opposing mineral 90 percent of Americans
2:13are consuming too much of sodium so we’re really heavy on the
2:18sodium very light on the potassium and what this creates is a situation where
2:24your blood pressure is going to start going higher and higher and higher
What potassium does
2:27potassium in general has a diuretic effect it’s going to get rid of fluid
2:32potassium causes the smooth muscle in your arteries to dilate it’s a
2:38vasodilator thus lowering the blood pressure also potassium keeps the
2:43vascular system from being stiff because if your arteries are stiff that alone
2:47can cause hypertension either increase the foods that are high in potassium
What to do for hypertension
2:52which I’ll put some links down below on that or take potassium as a supplement
2:57or an electrolyte powder and you’re gonna find that your blood pressure is
3:01gonna start coming down now the other cause of hypertension is low vitamin d3
Another cause of high blood pressure
3:07so if you take vitamin d3 and potassium or get it from the food you will find
3:13that your blood pressure should be coming down the other thing I’m going to
Potassium and strokes
3:16mention about potassium is it also lowers the risk of getting a stroke and
3:21the way that that occurs is that potassium directly affects the
3:26consistency of blood it reduces clotting as in blood clots potassium can kill two
3:32birds with one stone of course that’s not the best analogy but it can actually
3:36help reduce hypertension and decrease the risk for a stroke
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