I'm going to have to watch this video a couple more times. 😳 Packed full of great information. Gone are the days where people could sit down with their family physician and discuss these things. So thank you Dr Mike for your informative posts. It's up to us to take responsibility for our own health.

We're all gonna die. So the goal should be to improve quality of life, not the false pretence we can avoid dying. Healthy habits and proper medication can indeed contribute to extend your life expectancy, which is a bonus all of us would gladly take, but equally important at one point in one's lifecycle, focusing on mental health and general well-being may contribute even more.

As always excellent description of difficult and complicated health messaging.

That has to be the best overall presentation of this issue I have heard yet. Others have gotten into all the science - which is good, but hard to remember. If I am going to apply that science, what I need is the outline! Thanks It has taken me 2 years to improve my insulin resistance but I am finally having a breakthrough to which my BP is now responding more positively. A video like this helps me to know I am on track.

Good sleep is also critical for maintaining healthy blood pressure and insulin sensitivity

Dr. Hansen, thank you for this life extending knowledge! The rest is up to me.

With more uptake of the shot, I can only imagine how much more the increase in cardiovascular disease will be for 2023.

Brilliant explanation! Thnx.

Thank you so much Dr.Hansen for the good recomandions, God bless you.

Always fascinating us in yr explanation courage hope you will have more and more success.

Thanks doctor mike you are changing the world one video at a time

Great truthful medical Info.👍

Great medical/health content, well explained and presented, thank you!

My ideal BP is 130/80, my doc's attempts to medicate me to the "healthier" 115/60 resulted in the dizziness and blackouts. Not so many years ago, the BP used to be stratified according to your age.

Very good information. I find it sad that so many people choose to eat themselves to death rather than have a long and good quality of life.

Thank you for the information! 🙃

Thank you Dr. Hansen. This video is very helpful and a lot of information. 👍

Found Dr Hansen as a fantastic resource during the chaos of Covid. Now I am here for the rest of my health concerns because he offers science based presentation that are succinct. Really appreciate all this content doc

WOW! This is concise, easy to understand, and complete info. Love the hand drawn visuals!! Going to watch this great info several times. Thank you doctor!!! 👍👍👍👍

Great video more to avoid high blood pressure 👍 👏

Very impressive review......thx

Great video! I'd usually test at 130/85-ish. Took up meditation (110 minutes/day after 1 year, 4 months), went vegetarian, jog every day with the dog-0, and drink 2-3 liters of water per day. Now am testing at 117/67 in the clinic or before a blood donation. I'm 42 years of age. MDs could recommend mindfulness meditation to all patients. The benefits are nuts, and it feels so good.

Definitely good topic 👍

It seems natural food can be our medicine and fasting is good for the body. Less salt and no sugar are also important! 👍

Thanks for another great video, mah friend :) hope yer having a great holiday season so far.

I love your drawings.

So the real problem is not salt, its insulin resistance causing salt retention.

What a novel approach in medicine: Preventing the problem instead of throwing meds at an illness and making big pharm rich. The medical field is fairly good at treating illness but is horrible at preventing illness. Great video!

Thank you for a great video, Mike Hansen. I’m always looking forward to them.

Great channel and information. Easy to follow along and understand. Thanks Doc!

Thank you for this information I've been wondering about high blood pressure I don't have it but it's something I've been wondering about because my mom had it Do you have any videos on osteoporosis and natural treatment for osteoporosis?

I am an avid follower of time restricted feeding intermittent fasting IF (18-6) and believe in its benefits for weight loss and healthy eating. But this is the first vid that shows an IF benefit for high blood pressure. It seems like the studies must follow up on this. I hope that there are more docs that support the IF benefit of lower BP in the future. My doc is a non-believer in intermittent fasting and cautions me not to overdo it.

Really Excellent Dr Hansen - Thanks : ) One of my KEY TAKEAWAYS... Chronic INSULIN ELEVATION causes NARROWING OF THE ARTERIES...!!!

One of the leading cause of cardiovascular death is confusing the amount of salt with the amount of sodium, you expressed this concept beautifully in this video

Great video! Thank you :)

Thank you

Great stuff! I do all 3

since it is up 86% YES! 86% in ONE YEAR! (eg: myocarditis). Myocarditis causes other issues (eg: insulin issues, hypertension, hypotension, death/ heart attack). All these last mentioned are SECONDARY FROM MYOCARDITIS. You will need special equipment eg: echocardiogram or scanning to determine if there is MYOCARDITIS unlike the SECONDARY issues that only require bp cuff act. Surely, most will die and NOT know if the cause is TRULY myocarditis and NOT a secondary issue.

Summary : fasting and fight insulin solves almost if not everything. Thanks Doc

If you consistently present with over 150/90 BP, you HAVE to take medication to bring it under control, no ifs ands or buts there. But after you're on medication, then you can experiment with alternative treatments, diet, exercise, etc to see if you can reduce the dosage or get off of it altogether. Same goes with diabetes. If you don't, you're courting disaster. Believe me, I tried it. I tried to reduce my BP with the diet, exercise and other routes until one day when I was in DC driving to work over the Arlington Memorial bridge headed downtown with rush hour traffic surging around me, and all of a sudden, I realized that I couldn't see well. My heart was racing, my palms were clammy and I thought I was having a stroke. As soon as I got off the bridge, my vision cleared up and I able to drive to work. I had to pull over to recover though. I was shaking and sweating. A cop showed up and asked me if I was okay. I said yes, but it happened again and again in the next two weeks. Finally, one day, instead of going to work, I drove myself straight to the ER and I was told I had BP over 220/135. My optic nerves were being affected because my cortisol levels were rising with the driving over the bridge -- because on a bridge you can't pull over to stop so your body automatically goes into panic mode even though your mind is clueless it's happening. So every time I drove over the bridge, my BP would shoot up. The only way out was medication, and THEN a plan on doing the rest.

all your vids are clearly detailed words and sketches , easy to save and review. I understand how this affects the population as a whole , I'm an older, 76, endurance athlete, cycling, running road and trail and swim. for top performance we take a recovery drink (protein/carbohydrate 3:1)/electrolyte immediately afterward. then a meal an hour later. complex carbohydrate gels during as well liquids. 3 meals a day...on time. (Vegan) I'm not sure intermittent fasting would work for us, we can't go for a long run on a 16hr. break from nutrition we depend on. just a topic if you wish to consider. Thank you bringing all this to us for consideration

-15dbs! wow! One of the quietest videos I've come across on YT

0:04 - did the aortic valve blow out? Blood pressure - a dear friend didn't take his blood pressure meds. While sleeping, his heart exploded in his chest, I was told. That's the visual... Not taking blood pressure meds results in horror stories. Thanks for all the videos, DR HANSEN - one of the best channels on this social media!

Thank you, Dr Mike for yet another excellent video. However, I'm a little bit skeptical about the current medical paradigm on hypertension. I've never had hypertension, despite being sedentary, overweight, and consuming a lot of salt, and a little too much sugar and carbs. On the other hand, some of my family members can't get off BP drugs, even after many years on them, and even though they have greatly restricted salt and, in some cases, water, too (those prescribed diuretics). They also can't get rid of their edema. Yet we only eat moderate amounts of processed foods, mostly breads. I very much suspect that carbs, especially sugars, are much worse than salt when it comes to hypertension.

This guy is just fab

Good info 👍

You are right-- killing me --- Bad Food--no exercise. Can't fix this in 1 week. Escondido.Calif

My Essential HBP (30yrs) normalized along with reversing tupe 2 when I began doing IF and Extended Fasts and going on a LCHF diet. Exercising (began 2007) helped lower my glucose to prescribed ADA and AHA guidelines but did nothing for my insulin levels nor my HBP..

Dr Hanson, what do you believe is behind the amount of sudden deaths in the world especially all the young adults? Is this something new or we just hearing about it more due to social media. This is really concerning. I would really appreciate Your input on this matter.

And by age group what is considered a good or avg HRV score? In my research the "answer" is all over the place

Would metformin work?

Can we reverse insulin resistance? As in, if we have been insulin resistant for many years, can we "re-program" our metabolic environment and cellular response to allow for better insulin resistance?

i would like to ask the doctor whats the cause of epilepsy i had epilepsy from age 7 to age 19 and brain surgery at age 20 ?

Doesn't adrenal fatigue/insufficiency also play a role in high blood pressure?

Endurance athletes hearts have more stroke volume so they don't need to beat as much.

What about excess sugar from homemade baked goods?

Stop seed oils & HFCS being used in processed foods.

Processed foods are important for ultramarathoners. Also you need a lot of sugars before a marathon. Too much sugars without exercise is not good.

Doesn't vitamin D also help with blood pressure?

Have been doing all this for decade and thankfully managing it well. As per Ayurveda we have some amazing solution as well for controlling BP 1) Consume Tulasi / Basil daily, 2) drink Garlic slice with water empty stomach for a month, 3) Meditation & Eat Vegetables than non-veg

210/120 WAS my blood pressure (at 40), even while taking multiple prescribed BP pills. I wasn't necessarily unhealthy in comparison to so many others. I was sent to the ER every time I visited the doctor's office! I was like "that's normal for me". They were like NO you are about to stroke or have a heart attack. I said, well it does run in my family -death from heart attack and strokes. So through diet and exercise, I have it down to 140/90. I don't take any BP pills anymore. High BP is genetic for me. I guess just enjoy life while I can.

...and what reverses insulin resistance?

Thanks for making shorter videos!

I eat Natto for the MK7 but a bad side effect is low blood pressure which manifests itself in dizziness

Get a calcium heart scan to see how much calcified plaque maybe in your arteries!

How bad for you is binge eating? I generally eat quite healthily during the day but last thing at night I'll binge on chocolate and sweets 😕 Will that still cause insulin resistance?

It's quite absurd that the very moment after Dr Hansen has explained everything about proceseed food leading to insulin restistance and consequently high blood pressure - as well as all the problems blood pressure medicine causes, a commercial from McDonald appears. Couldn't KZfaq be a bit more attentive about which commercials they show in the various videos?

HBP can be reduced by increasing the amount of potassium a person gets from their diet. Potassium is vital for our heart, nerves, and kidneys to function properly. Yet, it is rarely talked about when discussion circulatory health issues...

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I have naturally low blood pressure 117/ 17. Could you do something for folks like me?

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Aren't you the same doctor who promoted safe n effective 🤔

I check my blood pressure today and it was 110 OVER 62 , wonder if that is a good numbers?

my legs swell if i have too much salt, it's painful. The heat makes me sweat so i don't pee.

Is heart rate variability “corrected” for heart rate? I mean, if my RHR is 40bpm and my variability is an average of 0.5bpm, is that different from someone with an RHR of 80bpm that has variability of 0.5bpm? It seems like it should be a ratio of some kind. I keep getting “okay” HRV numbers despite doing cardio almost every day and strength training a few times a week and my RHR is in the mid-upper 40’s.

@DoctorMikeHansen, you mentioned added sugar from processed foods is fructose and can contribute to HBP........I thought Fructose comes from fruit not from added sugar that is in processed foods....Please, Please explain this a little further because I eat fruit, especially in my smoothes and I eat red grapes a lot. ALSO what is the difference between Frutcose and Sucrose and how does the Sucrose play a part in HBP.... Thanks in advance...

I get it about the salt but how about Japanese longevity with seemingly high salt diets?

Wouldn't high heart rate variability only be evident in someone who is active? Wouldn't a healthy person who is not being active have low variability?

We're still in 2022

At age 67, I am placing a lot of emphasis on fitness, mobility and diet. I saw what falling did to the quality of life of my deceased mother. Her quality of life deteriorated after each of about 3 falls over a period of 5 years. I do around 120 hours/week of training which includes some HIIT.

Does leaving Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram would get more Walkie - Talkie than sitting in place and keeping this salt in the body?

I am ordered a neacles... And they made... And many people had Intolerant

It's not 2023 yet how does he know

I have high blood pressure and high sugar levels after covid vaccine . Never had these issues prior.

Heart disease is way too large of a category. That makes it bigger problem. Any system part that fails can end the whole system. And any part can fail because another faulty part. A fuel filter can stop a vehicle and changing the fuel is not the cause. The human system is so complex, we haven't even got started to understand it.

This video should be played before people see their medical provider. Why? Medical providers either don't talk about it, or "don't have time". This should also be on every known social media platform, news outlet. etc. Dr. Fouci should be talking about this instead of all of the other ridiculous interviews.

50 years ago, the population was about half of that it is now. And people will not quit eating prossed foods. People don't exercise. They would rather eat and become overweight. I'm 74 years old and I noticed that if I miss a day of working out, my blood pressure rises. I've noticed people on blood pressure meds become weak and frail.

Just say NO to B00$TER$

Sugar is the bad thing, worse than salt. There is sugar in everything! Even the takeout baked beans I buy from Wholeyfoodds! I love intermittent fasting. But with the holidays here, I also love Christmas Fruitcake.

It is a well known fact now that processed food is causing premature death, especially highly processed food. The average lifespan has increased approximately 33% over the last 100 years, now on current trends this current generation could be the first to decrease their average lifespan, there is an obesity epidemic, you only have to have a look around you to see this. And there is an old saying that has been around for a long time which never holds more true in todays world and lifestyle. " Eat Clean And Green ". 🥑❤🎅🎅🎅

Americans eat a lot of salt and they generally don't get enough potassium. Potassium will balance out the salt, but I wonder how the potassium deficiency alone affects insulin resistance.

Doctors like Hanson are baffled

If you PCOS, you also have insulin resistance. Nothing you can do about it then.

insulin resistance is 1# killer

Add your allergy problems--- the use of berries.

COVID vaccine needs to be included. Please be complete.

Great Doctor. Terrible sketch artist lol

Lose weight and lower blood pressure!!!

Free radicals are another cause

Try whole food plant based (and limit oil and salt) It’s a diabetes and insulin resistance reversal diet. As well as a atherosclerosis heart disease reversal diet. Watch Forks over Knives. The few times that I have eaten meat im starving the next morning.. and I can see how people would eat more and more in subsequent meals after meat meals. Where as a meal of beans and whole grains for example are slow release despite the carbs and so your calories intake is same or less but is regulated. Seems so counter to what we’re told - but the populations of the world who eat whole carbs whole food plant based are the healthiest and live the longest. Studies back what im saying.