You are 'Right-on-the- money here Dr Dave, a proven protocol by myself. My medics were telling me to reduce my Potassium levels which did nothing for my BP. A change of diet with higher potassium concentration foods solved the condition, and naturally too. No Lisinopril ACE inhibitor any more and no coughing 'side effects' either. Thanks for revealing this protocol to all who will listen.

Best explanation of the mechanism of high blood pressure I’ve seen on KZfaq! Simple and concise enough for the layman! Kudos!

Dr Clayton now you are exactly what a doctor should be. Your explanation of the root cause of HBP and the visual illustration is amazing and informative. My doctor has never even mentioned potassium and how it greatly affects hypertension. He just keeps cranking out the meds, when the real problem is not eating enough of the right healthy foods. God bless you sir! “Knowledge is Power”🙂And knowing and applying this will drastically help so many people, Thank you so very much!

I have not had this explained as plainly as you did. Thank you for sharing!

This is the best and clearest explanation off high BP I have watched . Thank you , I now know what to do to fix things .

Thank you Dr. Clayton. You are the first Doctor here to give a clear explanation even explaining Hyperaldosteronism. My Doctor gave me Spironolactone 25 mg, he also stated it's mostly passed on from parents. I am going to incorporate more potassium foods in my diet while monitoring my blood pressure. x

This doctor made the info very plain and simple. As an RN for many years, even my A&P professors stumbled through this. A true teacher, indeed. Thank you, sir.

This is the first video of yours I've watched, very informative.

This is the best explanation of what causes high blood pressure and how each category of medication works. Thanks.

Magnesium taurate helped me, along with B1 - thiamine, and I ditched the hydrochlorothiazide. Improved my hypertension immensely.

Before increasing potasium in diet its good to check actual level of potasium in blood.

Most people don't realize the time and effort Dave puts into the amazing graphics to help us understand the science behind his content. Another amazing and helpful video.

I love the root cause education! This is the best Explanation for high blood pressure. I just started watching you today and I subscribed because of this video and can’t wait to watch all the rest of your vids! Please keep it up, we need doctors who will explain root causes and helpful fixes.❤

First time ever someone explained this perfectly. I am grateful. Thanks Doc🙏👍

When I increased my potassium supplementation to 5,000 mg/day in divided doses, my BP has completely normalized. Since it’s difficult to determine my exact sodium intact, I found this amount of Potassium supplementation has allowed my Sodium/Potassium pump to find balance. BTW, I’m 70 years old 😊 🙋‍♀️💖🇨🇱

Hey congratulations on your KZfaq plaque. You have good content and a good channel.

I'm 70 and I was running a bit high (130/80) but it turned out to be a combination of dehydration and low minerals (due in part to a low carb lifestyle). There was never a need for drugs. Drank more water (3L/day) and started eating more of things like salmon, nuts, dark, leafy vegetables, avocados, yogurt, etc. and now I'm at ~115/68.

This is one of the best videos !! I just had a blood panel: deficient in Pottassium. Just subscribed. Thank you. L

Here’s a weekly meal plan compliments of Chat GPT: Creating a meal plan to meet the daily requirement of 4700 milligrams of potassium involves incorporating a variety of potassium-rich foods such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, dairy products, and lean meats. Here’s a sample weekly meal plan: ### Monday - **Breakfast**: - Smoothie with a banana (450 mg), spinach (540 mg), and Greek yogurt (240 mg) - Whole grain toast with avocado (300 mg) - **Snack**: - Orange (240 mg) - **Lunch**: - Quinoa salad with black beans (610 mg), cherry tomatoes, and cucumber - Baked sweet potato (450 mg) - **Snack**: - Handful of almonds (200 mg) - **Dinner**: - Grilled salmon (780 mg) - Steamed broccoli (460 mg) - Brown rice ### Tuesday - **Breakfast**: - Oatmeal with sliced banana (450 mg) and raisins (320 mg) - **Snack**: - Carrot sticks (390 mg) - **Lunch**: - Lentil soup (731 mg) - Mixed green salad with tomatoes and cucumbers - **Snack**: - Apple (195 mg) - **Dinner**: - Chicken breast (410 mg) - Mashed potatoes (630 mg) - Steamed spinach (840 mg) ### Wednesday - **Breakfast**: - Greek yogurt (240 mg) with sliced kiwi (315 mg) - **Snack**: - Strawberries (200 mg) - **Lunch**: - Turkey sandwich with avocado (300 mg) on whole grain bread - Side of mixed greens - **Snack**: - Celery sticks with peanut butter (250 mg) - **Dinner**: - Beef stir-fry with bell peppers (200 mg), broccoli (460 mg), and brown rice ### Thursday - **Breakfast**: - Smoothie with mango (325 mg), spinach (540 mg), and Greek yogurt (240 mg) - **Snack**: - Handful of pistachios (290 mg) - **Lunch**: - Chickpea salad (450 mg) with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and feta cheese - **Snack**: - Banana (450 mg) - **Dinner**: - Baked cod (430 mg) - Quinoa (310 mg) - Steamed green beans (260 mg) ### Friday - **Breakfast**: - Whole grain cereal with milk (380 mg) - **Snack**: - Orange (240 mg) - **Lunch**: - Black bean burrito (600 mg) with avocado (300 mg) and salsa - **Snack**: - Pear (205 mg) - **Dinner**: - Chicken breast (410 mg) - Roasted butternut squash (450 mg) - Steamed asparagus (270 mg) ### Saturday - **Breakfast**: - Greek yogurt (240 mg) with sliced banana (450 mg) and honey - **Snack**: - Handful of cashews (187 mg) - **Lunch**: - Tuna salad (270 mg) with mixed greens and cherry tomatoes - **Snack**: - Apple (195 mg) - **Dinner**: - Pork chops (600 mg) - Baked potato (610 mg) - Steamed carrots (390 mg) ### Sunday - **Breakfast**: - Smoothie with mixed berries (200 mg), spinach (540 mg), and Greek yogurt (240 mg) - **Snack**: - Handful of walnuts (125 mg) - **Lunch**: - Lentil stew (731 mg) - Side of mixed greens - **Snack**: - Kiwi (315 mg) - **Dinner**: - Grilled shrimp (240 mg) - Brown rice - Steamed broccoli (460 mg) ### Key Tips - Adjust portion sizes as needed to meet your daily calorie and nutritional needs. - Incorporate a variety of fruits and vegetables to ensure you’re getting a range of nutrients. - Drink plenty of water throughout the day.

This is very informative! I have to remember it to lower my blood pressure.

We must also guard against too much potassium or hyperkalemia. Some high blood pressure medication‘s cause your body to retain potassium. So potassium blood test while you make the transition are important. I had a value of 5.3. And had to discontinue my potassium citrate supplements because of the risk to my kidneys. I worked with my primary care physician and now I have a value of 4.8 which is high normal.

Obesity is another main cause. Not to mention all the processed foods that are loaded with sodium. Lack of exercise is another one. Stiff arteries due to low nitric oxide, plaques, age, etc... Potassium and even magnesium deficiency can also cause heart rhythm problems as well. Great video and good to hear a conventional medicine doc point this out. I'm trained in functional medicine and always looking for alternative ways to help people lower blood pressure.

Been hypertensive for almost three decades now. Am currently on Metoprolol and Amlodipine. Also on Losartan but will soon be swapped out for Lisinopril. Went through a serious change in lifestyle (food, exercise, sleep) about 18 months ago and saw improvements in just about every vital and blood panel marker over the past two physicals - HDL/LDL/triglyceride was exceptional. Potassium level was in the middle of “normal” range. BP was the only vital still a little high on first readings of the AM - about 131/83. This would eventually drop to 118/73 after about 10 minutes. I’ve been taking one daily potassium supplement (standard 99mg) for about a year but BP has now been holding fast at the low-130s/low-80s for some reason. I watch my sodium but don’t avoid it, take magnesium, zinc and boron, along with many supplements that are supposed to help with BP.

My 81yrs old FIL is going thru a terrible time with his BP. He’s having these dangerous spikes(200) almost daily. Everyday is like a rollercoaster. His meds r not helping much n he suffers from terrible side effects. It’s so very heartbreaking to watch him suffer everyday but not being able to do anything…HELP!!

I had really high blood pressure for years. I started taking just one little potassium supplement every day and my blood pressure is finally normal.

Excellent video explaining the blood pressure. Thank you Doctor. 👍

Thank you for this very important information!

Thank you Dr. Clayton, I am 68 years old and I have suffered from HBP for years, I work for years in natural herbalist supplements and I just add to my diet a potassium and NO=Nitric Oxide supplements and yes my blood pressure is now in the normal range. BTW my medication is Lisinopril 20 mg that now I am taking 1/2 cutting the pills to 10 mg. Once again thank you so much and please keep your good work we appreciate MD like you. Frank R.

Excellent explanation with visual not found anywhere else-ty

This is MUCH appreciated, Dr. Clayton. Thank you for educating us like you do. Love the science behind the recommendations!! 🙏

Never seen such an explanation. Great work...

80/20 Summary Potassium Deficiency: Major cause of high blood pressure. Kidney Regulation: Low potassium triggers kidneys to increase blood pressure. Effective Solution: Increase potassium intake through diet or supplements. Research Support: Potassium can lower blood pressure as effectively as medications.

Every person is different and also no one have the same blood pressure. Just like cholesterol. It is high because big farma can get a lot of money out of this “problem”

Totally agree Dr. None of the physicians are advising like rather they stress on taking medicine throughout the life. Thanks for the advice to all the relevant.

Wow... thank you for addressing the underlying causes! Another factor I just discovered is that like magnesium, most potassium supplements don't tell you the actual amount of elemental potassium. For example, 1000 mg of potassium citrate only provides approximately 380 mg of elemental potassium, with the rest being citrate and fillers. It seems like this should be on the label 😕

Excellent video!

Awesome video thanks!!!

Thanks!! I am 85 and have had high blood pressure since age 16. Never heard this.

Intermittent fasting seemed to work for me in lowering my blood pressure quite significantly.

Excellent review of the process and recommendations

thank you I will give it a try

Dr. Clayton, I have a tendency to have low blood pressure and have ended up in the ER because of it. The last time I was in, the Dr. found that my potassium level was low, so he stopped my water pill and also the Lisinopril. This has been over a year now and my BP has been normal since. I do eat a banana a day and I also take a supplement.

How about people with kidneys damage? Even they are still at early stage, stage 1 or stage 2. Would potassium be harmful for their kidneys. I’m a kidney patient. I’ve been told to avoid food with high potassium, such as banana, avocados, etc.

My pressure started going significantly up in my 20s. My ENTs were attempting to treat/cure my heavy pressure and vertigo inside my inner ear. They prescribed anti histamine and decongestants. Those meds immediately raised the pressure and its never come down. And I'm 71 with the same heavy pressure and vertigo. Eustacian tube disfunction

Thanks for the potassium tip.

I've got the extreme hbp...I am topped off w K...my Na is extremely low. Why? Arterial plaque. What caused it...eating so called " healthy" fats. The only fats i ate were a handful of nuts and seeds every day. Now i only eat fruits dtsrch snd greens. Some plaque has regressed. Dont make the mistake of blaming hbp on potassium deficiency. Its only one small player. I never once had k deficiency.

Great video; I really appreciated the graphics that shows how the renin system works, and the mapping of the different classes of drugs to the different parts of that system. I'm curious as to the root causes of why some of these blood pressure drugs seem to quit working over time. The articles that I read suggest lapses in lifestyle changes, but I don't know if that is the complete answer. Overtime, does the body find ways to bind the angiotensin I (or II) hormones, despite the blockers present in the medications? If the reception of these hormones into tissues are blocked by the ACE or ARBs, could that upset the renin feedback loop and cause the body to overproduce these hormones? I have no medical training but would like to understand this.

1)I did chandrabheda pranayam and saw a change.10 minutes in morning. Maybe 5 minutes in evening then later u can decrease. 2)vyaan mudra (hand mudra join first 2 fingers)for half hour. Slowly u can reduce time. Please watch KZfaq videos to know hoe to do these pranayam 😊

Thank you for the great explanation, very helpful!

The best thing me was just lossing 57 #....Ron.in.WA..which has destoryed by being a sanctuary everything started in 1959..in Burien..

Thank you so much Dr Dave. This is very informative

😮😮 thanks for your lessons 😊😊

While this may help I don’t think it is the only cause for high blood pressure. Blood pressure isn’t just about blood volume. It’s also constricted your blood vessels are which gets involved nitric oxide, the use of stimulants like caffeine, etc

I'm hearing that Potassium isn't the only factor in lowering blood pressure. Another recommendation for lowering BP is beet root. I'm hearing that "insulin resistance" is the real culprit for HBP in those who developed HBP before the age of 60. Do you believe that there is any merit to the "insulin resistance" cause claim? It would be great to see a video from you on "insulin resistance" if you care to make one.

Great video! Your supplement of 750mg of potassium citrate (@~306 g/mol) contains approx 96mg of potassium (@~39g/mol). I find it strange that the label (picture) doesn't mention the mg value for elemental potassium, but only for its compound...

You quote statistics about high blood pressure but do not say what levels in your opinion are mercury levels which would denote high blood pressure but apart from that highly informativre. Thank you!

Again: most doctors: do not explain HBP and the cause: just write a MED !! Never enough Thank You !!!

I've started beet powder twice a day, and my BP is improving.

My creatinine level is 4.8. My potassium level is also high. And my BP is not going down. It always shows more than 160/90.

Durian has high potassium. My favourite fruit.

Thank you doctor for this very informative video . Can I take more potassium even though I am on medication for hypertension?

Based on my research, here’s what a one day supply of potassium might look like: 2 bananas (800mg), 8 ounces of coconut water (600mg), 1 Avocado (800 mg), 1 Kiwi (200mg), 2 Oranges (400mg), 1 cup of dried apricots (1500 mg), 1/4 of a cantaloupe or honeydew melon (400mg). This will get you to 4700 mg.

What would be a good potassium supplement?

My mistake ! I did take 4 =four K Potassium ) pills this morning and now 22.30 I find that my BP is only 150/70, However I felt rather "headachy" all day. I will try agian tomorrow.

Hi Dr iam on telsmisartan what a can do? Can i take potasio suplements?

Thank you sir.

Hi Am 49 and I have lost 15 percent of my kidney function no kidney function decreases or stones can I eat this diet ??? Thanks

calcium channel blocker not mentioned

Can you take this potassium supplement with Valsartan?

How did you determine that 750MG was the proper daily dose for PotassiMax? Some supplement manufacturers, such as Swanson, recommend 99MG/day (one tablet).

Good to know

Why does doing Wim Hof breathing lower blood pressure?

Thanks very much for great information Doctor, please help I have hbp for over 15 years and I fast at least 12H daily and recently my calcium very high in my blood and I did few test to know the reasons we couldn't know now I am waiting to see spicalist to know why

SILK UNSWEETENED Coconut milk 🥛 contains 310 mg of POTASSIUM for only 40 calories and ZERO grams of sugar ( unlike coconut water which had a lot of sugar ) I make a smoothie every day with 2 cups of this coconut milk, 1 frozen 🍌 banana, a few pieces of other frozen fruits, like watermelon and 2 tablespoons of ground flax and my BP went from having around at 125/80 to 94/60 I’m 55 and feel sooo much better ! I’ve been drinking this drink a year now, no weight gain or bad side effects. It’s a bomb of natural absorbable electrolytes. I do not work for Silk, they are the only coconut milk that has lots of potassium. Adding potassium is life changing. I did not realize how deficient I was. I also drink a glass of coconut milk before bed. God bless 🙏🏻

140 over 90...or lower is healthy. Incorrect taking of BP.. mostly in Dr.'s offices one of main reasons for being misdiagnosed with high BP.

What is the difference between potassium bicarbonate and potassium citrate?

Good morning and thank you for the very informative video. I do have a question though, taking potassium when you are on meds is risky no? doctors say that these meds already increase your level of potassium therefore you may risk hyperkalemia...It's very confusing to say the least...how much potassium to take when you are already on Telmisartan + diuretic? Thank you.

Although I know for sure I don't get 4k+ dietary potassium, I'm hesitant to increase my potassium intake because my serum potassium tends to run a little high as it is, slightly out of range. Meanwhile my sodium has been in range. I don't know what other mechanics might be at play making my serum numbers this way.

Sodium puts up BP as well as low potassium

Is potassium supplementation good for every person

Is there any link between high insulin in the body causes high blood pressure?

Dr, Thank you for the vital information. I have a question. All that you mentioned I am currently experiencing. My potassium was low and blood pressure very high. The hospital wants to do a salt removal in my body and they think that because this hormone Aldosterne is high that I may have a tumor on my adrenal gland which they want to remove. Is this right and do I proceed from here because my goal is to get off the blood pressure tablets. Please help soon and thanks again.

Thank you.

Doctor the losartan is keep the potassium in your body and they warrant you to take potassium ...so how to do?

Pretty expensive ingredient list daily though…

Well not everyone has a good blood volume ; hypovolomia is common in people who have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and may suffer from low blood pressure and pots or alternate between high and low blood pressure.

If it is that simple, why doctors don’t prescribe potassium supplement instead of daily dose of kidney/liver harming chemicals?

Why does the elderly get higher blood pressure? It can't be only the potassium. I have heard claims like stiffening of the arteries with age. Any comments regarding this?

This sounds great. I'll start a new blood pressure spreadsheet tomorrow and plot my daily pressures as I increase my potassium consumption by 1 to 5 grams a day. I'll give it a month, if my blood pressure is no lower by then I'll forget potassium supplementing but I'm hopeful this is going to work. I do have some potassium chloride salt but I hardly ever use salt, neither sodium chloride nor potassium chloride so I'll need to find another source that won't increase my carbohydrate intake as say bananas would. I'll check with Google.

These kinds of interventions potassium or so on may have some effect may placebo but do not alleviate the need for proper antihypertensive drugs like loss of weight can reduce blood pressure in some people

Why is my blood pressure better in the summertime

It is not possible to get the RDA of 4,700 mg of Potassium per day. You have to supplement.

Used potasium for 3 days and it has made no difference to my hight blood pressure ??

Thank you for the clear explanation. However, shouldn't there be a mention of sodium too, and its relationship with potassium: the balance between the two which i have heard about? Also, a quick mention of potassium rich foods would have made the video even better: just noting that fruits and vegetables in general are high sources, maybe mentioning bananas and potatoes. Thank you for the good video.

Most potassium supplements seem to be only 99 mg or 2% RDA. Is that enough?

Will taking cream of tartar that has high potassium work?

potassium deficiency increase blood pressure too much potassium increases blood pressure, fantastic

Dr. Does high level of potassium in the blood cause damage to the kidneys ?

Can I eat potassium foods if I’m on an ACE inhibitor? I was told not to

Dr Thk you for all your great videos. I can only find Potassium supplements in 100mg/capsule. Is it ok to take maybe 3 or 4 a day??? Thk you for help. Peace 😎🙏🏼