I know hypertension patients can be cured by diet therapy. And the blood pressure is normal for several years without taking any anti-hypertension medicine. Anyone else know anything about such cases?
Hypertension is controlled by controlling the salt intake from diet and the recommended dietary allowance for hypertension petients is
we are ready to diagnose B/P greater that (>) 140/90 as the result of Insulin Resistance. We have study results that show insulin spikes produce hypertensive episodes. In fact patients who are in a "round- robin" with their physician because their B/P is fluctuating so wildly can be brought under control by controlling for insulin spikes by reducing [or eliminating] simple carbohydrates - see my article on the prevalence of insulin resistance
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SySX4DQAAAAJ&hl=en
Adopting DASH Diet which is characterized by consuming more fruits and vegetables, more skim dairy products, less red meat and 1/4 cup unsalted nuts exerted a very effective effect in reducing blood pressure.
Reema, isn't the DASH-diet effect mostly connected with decreased sodium intake? Looks like it just a risk factor control, but not a "diet-cure" from hypertension Yongsuo is talking about.
It seems to me that diet itself can help to control the BP and subsequently decrease it, but the key to "cure" stays multiple risk factor control.
In my opinion, food therapy can never be best used alone without medicines. All my patients who believed diet and lifestyle modification could replace their medicines reported back with hypertensive crisis. I would not advice that diet alone be used to combat high blood pressure.
if combine some kind of yoga say rajyoga or simple yogic procedures or even acupuncture along with addressing obesity with use of probiotics to change GIT flora which has been implicated in development of obesity,and further metabolic syndrome sequelae like hypertension ,dyslipidemi,diabates ,can get relieved ,although restricting salt does help and good physical exercize if poswsible along with diet helps to get rid of the antihypertensive if not to start with once one addresses the aetiopathogenetic factors.
I agree with Charushila Kadam, but with one exception: high protein diet lead to reduce glomerular filtration rate. in addition, the efficiency of using only diet diet moderate and limited only by the stage of hypertension without target organs damage. The effectiveness of diet therapy is maximum as preventive measure in the presence of risk factors.
I have used diet therapy to control hypertension. The best response was using a paleolithic style diet. Dr Lynda Frassetto a kidney specialist carried out studies at UC and found metabolic parameters including blood pressure improved quite quickly. She does a talk on blood pressure and diet here - a presentation from the Ancestral Health symposium 2014 at UC Berkeley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKvGf5OQ7R4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKvGf5OQ7R4
This also - an interesting group of case studies done by a UK doctor using a whole food low carbohydrate diet found it reduced blood pressure
"Blood glucose control improved
significantly (HbA1c 51±14 to
40±4mmol/mol; p42mmol/mol); even these
two had seen an average drop of
23.9mmol/mol. Simultaneously, BP
improved (systolic 148±17 to
133±15mmHG, p
I would say there are different nutritional interventions, which can be used to promote cardioprotection. Also some natural active ingredients can influence the blood pressure through mechanisms like ACE inhibition, promotion of better endothelial function etc. Just some examples:
- DASH diet (low salt, low fat, low satured fat, rich in fruits, vegetables, fibre) lowers according to a Meta-Analysis significantly the systolic blood pressure by 6.74 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure by 3.54 mmHg (1).
- Short term (2 weeks) Paleolithic diet resulted in lower systolic blood pressure -9.1 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure -5.2 mmH in obese (2).
- Acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALCAR) given to diabetic patients lowered the systolic blood pressure around 7-9 mmHg (3).
References:
(1) PMID:25149893
(2) PMID:25304296
(3)PMID:19620516
I would say there are different nutritional interventions, which can be used to promote cardioprotection and therapy for hypertension.
Always is necessary the diet, although there isn´t lower blood pressure levels.
At individual level,the following dietary and lifestyle changes are known to be protective:
Increased fruit and veggies intake
weight control
daily moderate exercise
salt reduction
and limiting alcohol intake.
la therapie alimentaire contre hypertension est possible. Mais le respect de ce regime alimentaire est indispensable pour impacter hypertension moderee. Il faut une surveillance rigoureuse parceque le patient avait son habitude alimentaire qui difficile de changer du jour au lendemain
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