High Blood Pressure May Be a Choice
Aug 24, 2023
High Blood Pressure May Be a Choice
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7.12 -> for the first 90 percent of our
8.8 -> evolution we ate diets contained less
11.44 -> than a quarter teaspoon of salt a day
14.16 -> because for the first nine percent of
15.519 -> evolution we ate mostly plants
18 -> we went millions of years without salt
20.64 -> shakers and so our bodies evolved into
22.96 -> salt conserving machines
25.599 -> which served us well until we discovered
27.599 -> salt could be used to preserve foods
29.92 -> without refrigeration this is a big boon
31.92 -> to human civilization of course this may
34.16 -> have led to a general rise in blood
35.6 -> pressure but who cares if the
37.12 -> alternative is starving to death because
38.879 -> all your food rotted away
40.8 -> but where does that leave us now when we
42.559 -> no longer have to live off pickles and
44.399 -> jerky
45.44 -> we are genetically programmed to eat 10
47.84 -> times less salt than we do now even many
50.96 -> low salt diets can be considered high
53.44 -> salt diets that's why it's critical to
55.12 -> understand with the concept of normal is
58.239 -> when it comes to salt having a normal
60.719 -> salt intake can lead to a normal blood
62.96 -> pressure which can help us die from all
65.199 -> the normal causes like heart attacks and
68 -> strokes
70.32 -> doctors used to be taught that a normal
72.64 -> systolic blood pressure is approximately
74.56 -> 100 plus ages systolic blood pressure
76.88 -> means the top number
78.32 -> and indeed that's about what we're born
80 -> with a baby start out with a blood
81.52 -> pressure around like 95 over 60
84.479 -> but then as we age that 95 can go to 120
87.759 -> by our 20s then 140 by our 40s the
90.4 -> official cutoff for high blood pressure
92.159 -> and keep climbing as we age that was
94.72 -> considered normal since
96.56 -> everyone's blood pressure creeps up as
98.56 -> we get older and if that's normal then
100.4 -> heart attacks and strokes are normal too
102.32 -> since risk starts rising once we start
105.119 -> getting above the 100 we had as a baby
108.96 -> but if blood pressures over 100 are
110.56 -> associated with disease maybe they
112.159 -> should be considered abnormal perhaps
115.28 -> caused by our abnormally high salt
117.52 -> intake ten times more than what our
119.04 -> bodies were designed to handle
121.28 -> maybe if we just ate a natural amount of
123.28 -> salt our blood pressures naturally would
124.96 -> not go up with age and we'd be protected
127.84 -> of course to test that there you'd have
129.28 -> to find a population in modern times
131.44 -> that doesn't use salt or eat processed
134.239 -> food or go out to eat
136.56 -> for that you'd have to go deep
139.28 -> into the amazon rainforest meet
142.64 -> the yanamamo people a no salt culture
146.64 -> lowest salt intake ever reported which
149.12 -> is to say normal for our species salt
151.84 -> intake
152.959 -> and so what happens to their blood
154.48 -> pressure they start out with a blood
156.319 -> pressure button 100 over 60 and end up
159.12 -> with a blood pressure of about 100 over
161.76 -> 60.
163.12 -> though theirs is described as a salt
165.04 -> deficient diet that's like saying they
167.44 -> have a diet deficient in twinkies
170.959 -> they're the ones it seems eating normal
173.12 -> salt intakes apparently leading to truly
175.519 -> normal blood pressures those in their
177.599 -> 50s having the blood pressure of a 20
180 -> year old
181.2 -> the percentage of the population tested
183.12 -> that had high blood pressure
186.159 -> zero
187.599 -> whereas elsewhere in brazil up to 38
189.36 -> percent of the population may be
190.64 -> affected the ana mammals probably
192.8 -> represent the ultimate human example of
194.64 -> the importance of salt on blood pressure
197.44 -> but look
198.4 -> it could have been
199.68 -> other factors they didn't drink alcohol
202.159 -> ate a high fiber plant-based diet lots
204.159 -> of exercise no obesity there's a number
206.72 -> of plant-based populations eating little
208.48 -> salt that experienced no rise in blood
210.64 -> pressure as they age so you know you
212.48 -> know what exactly is to blame ideally we
215.68 -> do an interventional trial i mean
217.519 -> imagine
219.04 -> if you took people literally dying from
221.599 -> out of control high blood pressure so
222.959 -> called malignant hypertension where you
224.64 -> go blind from believing into your eyes
226.319 -> your kidneys shut down your heart fails
228.159 -> and then you withhold from those people
231.599 -> blood pressure medication so their fate
233.2 -> is certain death and then you put them
235.68 -> on a yanamamo level of salt intake a
238.08 -> normal for human species salt intake and
240.48 -> if instead of dying they walked away
242.4 -> cured of their hypertension that would
244.56 -> pretty much seal the deal
246.64 -> enter
247.599 -> dr walter kempner in his ricin fruit
249.84 -> diet patients coming in with blood
251.84 -> pressures of 210 over 140
254.72 -> dropping down to 80 over 60.
257.759 -> now the reason he could ethically
259.759 -> withhold all modern blood pressure
261.44 -> medications and treat with diet alone
263.6 -> the drugs hadn't been invented yet this
265.6 -> is back in the 1940s
268 -> now the diet wasn't just extremely low
270.56 -> salt but strictly plant-based extremely
272.479 -> low-fat protein calories but there's no
274.88 -> doubt
276 -> that kempner's rice diet achieved
277.759 -> remarkable results and kepner is now
279.6 -> cons remembered as the person who
281.44 -> demonstrated beyond any shadow of a
283.12 -> doubt that high blood pressure can often
284.88 -> be lowered with a low enough salt diet
288.56 -> 40 years ago
290.24 -> it was acknowledged that the evidence is
292.24 -> very good if not conclusive
294.72 -> that a low enough reduction of salt in
296.4 -> the diet would result in the prevention
298.72 -> of essential hypertension that rising of
300.88 -> blood pressure as we age and its
302.72 -> disappearance is a major public health
304.56 -> problem it looks like we knew how to
306.56 -> stop this
307.759 -> four decades ago in that time
311.28 -> how many people have died
313.68 -> today
314.96 -> high blood pressure may wipe out four
316.88 -> hundred thousand americans every year
320.4 -> a thousand
321.84 -> unnecessary deaths
323.68 -> every day
346.4 -> you
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