We're talking about 5 ways to lower your blood pressure with food-as-medicine and supplement solutions. These recommendations support whole body health along with the cardiovascular system, preventing heart disease as a whole while also addressing elevated blood pressure. Food-as-medicine and targeted nutritional supplement support provides a synergy of beneficial outcomes vs combating the the side effects from a medication intervention.
Let us know in the comments what you think!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Reduce your sugar, not your salt
01:23 - Reduce stress levels
03:42 - Support methylation
05:27 - Swap coffee for tea
07:24 - Use dark chocolate
09:02 - Making it happen
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Products Mentioned:
GabaCalm (02:38)
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MethylComplete
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Flower Power Green Tea (06:31)
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You Glow Girl Tea (07:05)
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Videos Mentioned:
478 Breathing (01:58)
• 4 7 8 Breathing
Natural Electrolyte Solutions (01:16)
• Natural Electrolyte So...
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Studies Mentioned:
The wrong white crystals: not salt but sugar as aetiological in hypertension and cardiometabolic disease
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25717...
Effects of GABA supplementation on blood pressure and safety in adults with mild hypertension
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Berries containing anthocyanins with enhanced methylation profiles are more effective at ameliorating high fat diet-induced metabolic damage
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29196...
Coffee and Green Tea Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among People With and Without Hypertension
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.11...
Green tea and blood pressure effects
www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/research/pr...
Hibiscus Sabdariffa L. Tea (Tisane) Lowers Blood Pressure in Prehypertensive and Mildly Hypertensive Adults
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
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About us: Ali Miller, RD, LD, CDE and Becki Yoo, MS, RD, LD are registered dietitians using functional approaches to health with a strong belief in food-as-medicine. Ali started her functional medicine clinic, Naturally Nourished in 2011 with the approach that everything you put in your body sends a signal leading to optimal health function or dysfunction and disease.