How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure
Aug 24, 2023
How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure
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7.12 -> high blood pressure is the number one
8.48 -> risk factor for death
10.639 -> in the world affecting nearly 78 million
13.04 -> americans that's one in three adults and
15.839 -> as we age our pressures get higher and
17.44 -> higher such that by age 60
19.92 -> it strikes more than half well if it
22.88 -> affects most of us when we get older
25.599 -> maybe it's less a disease a more just
28.08 -> inevitable consequence of aging
31.599 -> no we've known since the 1920s that high
34.399 -> blood pressure need not occur
37.28 -> researchers measured the blood pressure
38.8 -> for a thousand people in rural kenya who
40.64 -> ate a diet centered around whole plant
42.719 -> foods whole grains beans vegetables
44.8 -> fruit and dark green leafies our
46.8 -> pressures go up as we age their
49.36 -> pressures actually go
51.6 -> down
53.12 -> and the lower the better the whole 140
56.16 -> over 90 cut off his arbitrary even
57.92 -> people who start out with blood
59.039 -> pressures under 120 over 80 appear to
61.68 -> benefit from blood pressure reduction
63.84 -> if you went to your doctor with a blood
65.119 -> pressure 120 over 80 you'd get a gold
67.439 -> star but the ideal blood pressure
70.56 -> the no benefit from reducing it further
73.04 -> blood pressure may actually be 110 over
75.84 -> 70.
77.439 -> 110 over 70 is it even possible to get
80.64 -> blood pressures down that low it's not
82.799 -> just possible it's normal
85.759 -> for those eating healthy enough diets
90.079 -> for two years at a rural kenyan hospital
91.92 -> 1800 patients were admitted how many
94 -> cases of high blood pressure did they
95.28 -> find
96.079 -> zero
97.6 -> wow they must have low rates of heart
99.119 -> disease no they had no rates of heart
101.6 -> disease not a single case of
102.84 -> arteriosclerosis our number one killer
104.88 -> was found
106.96 -> rural china too about 110 over 70 their
109.28 -> entire lives 70 year olds with the same
112 -> average blood pressure as 16 year olds
115.68 -> now africa china vastly different diets
118.479 -> but what they shared in common is that
120.56 -> they were plant-based day-to-day with
123.439 -> meat only eaten on special occasions now
125.92 -> why do we think it's the plant-based
127.36 -> nature of their diets that was so
128.879 -> protective
129.92 -> because in the western world as the
132.72 -> american heart association has pointed
134.4 -> out the only folks really getting it
136 -> down that low
137.76 -> were those eating strictly plant-based
140.48 -> diets coming in
142.4 -> at about 110 over 65.
145.84 -> this is the largest study of those
147.2 -> eating plant-based diets to date 89 000
149.84 -> californians comparing non-vegetarians
152.239 -> to so-called semi-vegetarians or
154.16 -> flexitarians eating meat more on a
156.56 -> weekly basis than a daily basis
158.72 -> compared to those who eat no meat except
160.56 -> fish compared to those who eat no meat
162.64 -> at all compared to those who eat no meat
164.72 -> eggs or dairy
166.4 -> now this was an adventist study so even
168.8 -> the non-vegetarians didn't eat a lot of
170.959 -> meat and they tended to eat lots of
172.72 -> fruits and vegetables and exercised and
175.04 -> you know not smoke and so even compared
178 -> to a group of relatively healthy meat
180.319 -> eaters there appeared to be a stepwise
183.44 -> drop in hypertension rates as people eat
185.92 -> more and more plant-based
187.92 -> same thing with diabetes and obesity
190.56 -> so yes we can wipe out most of our risk
192.8 -> eating strictly plant-based but but it's
194.64 -> not all or nothing it's not black or
196.319 -> white any movement along this spectrum
198.879 -> towards eating healthier can accrue
200.8 -> significant health benefits
204 -> you can show this experimentally you
205.599 -> take vegetarians you give them meat and
208.08 -> pay them enough to eat it and their
209.76 -> blood pressures go up or you remove meat
212.799 -> from people's diets and blood pressures
214.319 -> go down in just seven days
217.68 -> and this is after the vast majority
219.2 -> reduced or stopped their blood pressure
220.64 -> medications completely they had to stop
223.04 -> their medications once you treat the
224.72 -> cause once you eliminate the disease you
227.12 -> can't be on blood pressure pills with
228.56 -> normal blood pressure you can drop your
230.159 -> pressures too low get dizzy fall over
232.4 -> hurt yourself so your doctor has to pull
234.959 -> you off the pills
236.64 -> lower pressures on fewer drugs that's
239.76 -> the power of plants
242.56 -> so
243.599 -> does the american heart association
245.04 -> recommend a no meat diet no they
247.519 -> recommend a low meat diet the so-called
249.84 -> dash diet
251.36 -> why not completely plant-based when the
254.239 -> dash diet was being created were they
255.84 -> just not aware of this landmark research
258.239 -> done by harvard's frank sachs
260.959 -> no they were aware the chair of the
263.84 -> design committee that came up with the
265.52 -> dash diet was frank sax
268.96 -> see the dash diet was explicitly
270.8 -> designed with the number one goal of
272.72 -> capturing the blood pressure lowering
274.24 -> benefits of a vegetarian diet yet
277.44 -> contain enough animal products to make
279.199 -> it palatable to the general population
281.84 -> they didn't think the public could
283.04 -> handle the truth
285.759 -> now in their defense you can see what
287.759 -> they were thinking just like drugs never
290.4 -> work
291.28 -> unless you actually take them diets
293.28 -> never work unless you actually eat them
295.68 -> so they're like look no one's going to
297.36 -> eat strictly plant-based so if they
299.24 -> soft-peddled the message and came up
301.36 -> with some kind of compromised diet then
303.68 -> maybe on a population scale they'd do
306.08 -> more good
308 -> okay tell that to the thousand american
310.72 -> families a day
312.8 -> that lose a loved one to high blood
315.36 -> pressure
316.72 -> maybe
317.759 -> it's time to start telling the american
319.52 -> public
320.8 -> the truth
342.639 -> you
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