- Hey, Dr. Berry here.
In this short video, I wanna talk to you
about a very important topic.
Can you eat keto if you have high blood pressure?
Can you eat the ketogenic diet if you have hypertension?
Over one in three, U.S. adults have hypertension, okay?
Hypertension puts you at increased risk of heart attack,
stroke, kidney failure, all kinds of terrible things.
So this is a big deal.
This is a question that needs to be answered definitively.
And I'm gonna use this video to put to bed
the theories on each side of the other.
Should you do keto?
Should you not do keto?
Does keto make hypertension worse or does it make it better?
Before I get started, please take one second
and share this video on your social media.
I know, you know someone with high blood pressure
who takes one, two, three four different medications
to keep their blood pressure under control.
This video is going to help them, I promise, okay?
So share this on your Facebook, on your Twitter,
on your Instagram.
Wherever you have friends who have high blood pressure.
Plus, one more thing I wanna do is make an announcement.
You guys may or may not know
that I wrote a book called Lies My Doctor Told Me.
We are in the process of releasing an audible version
of Lies My Doctor Told Me, on Audible.
And so it's gonna be read, not by me, sorry.
But it's going to be read by a guy
that you're very familiar with
if you're in the ketogenic community and you love his voice.
And so, just wait for that. That's coming.
Now, let's talk about hypertension.
Should you eat keto or not?
It's really helpful to think about hypertension
in the context of metabolic syndrome or syndrome X, okay?
And this consists of abdominal obesity, hypertension
or high blood pressure, increased triglycerides,
increased blood sugars and low HDL
or what we call the "good cholesterol", right?
So, even though your doctor just wants
to talk about total cholesterol and LDL,
that's not even in the criteria for metabolic syndrome
by any of the huge health regulatory bodies
including the World Health Organization.
The American Heart Association doesn't even mention LDL
in their definition of metabolic syndrome
nor do they mention total cholesterol.
That's how unimportant those two metrics are, okay?
So don't worry about that.
So they, everybody says without exception,
that metabolic syndrome can't be cured.
And I think what they mean by that
is it can't be cured or reversed by pills.
And they're right about that.
There is no medication that's FDA approved or otherwise
that you can take to cure your metabolic syndrome
or your hypertension.
Unless you fix the underlying problem,
it is definitely a chronic progressive disease
that leads eventually to suffering, disease and death.
But, what if there were a way
that you could lower your insulin levels
which everybody with metabolic syndrome
and almost everybody with hypertension
has elevated insulin levels.
What if there was a way you could lower your insulin level?
What about inflammation, right?
The metabolic syndrome
and hypertension are very inflammatory conditions.
And so, if you're worried about blocking up
the arteries in your brain or in your heart
or other body parts that you want to keep working,
then inflammation is a big deal.
What would you possibly do to decrease the inflammation?
Yeah, so people who are already eating a ketogenic diet know
that the ketogenic diet does both of these things.
It reduces you're chronically high insulin level,
and it reduces your chronically high inflammation level.
And that is how you reverse hypertension
and how you reverse metabolic syndrome or syndrome X.
So, elevated insulin levels and hypertension
go hand in hand.
No one's really proved yet if one causes the other,
but they're very, very highly associated
to the point where it's obvious that
what causes one causes the other, okay?
But we don't know all the details of that yet.
Research is ongoing.
But we do know that when you lower insulin levels
and when you lower levels of inflammation,
the ultimate end point.
The heart attack, the stroke, the kidney failure,
the chances of those are slashed.
And that's what we're all looking for, right?
We don't really care what all these in between
kind of middleman numbers are,
we just don't wanna have a heart attack, stroke,
kidney failure.
We don't wanna die.
And so, by eating a ketogenic diet,
you're going to lower your insulin level.
You're gonna lower your levels of inflammation,
and that's gonna slash your risk of heart attack, stroke
and other things.
The whole reason we care about high blood pressure
is it's been proven to increase your risk
of heart attack and stroke.
And so, if we can lower your insulin
and lower your inflammation
then we're gonna lower your blood pressure
because you're gonna lose weight,
you're gonna lose that belly.
You're gonna raise your HDL,
you're gonna lower your blood sugar.
You're gonna lower your triglycerides.
All these things protect you from heart attack and stroke.
So, that's what'll fix both of these.
If you wanna, if you want to lower your risk
of heart attack and stroke even more,
you can make sure your potassium level is optimized.
You can make sure your magnesium level is optimized
and you can make sure
that the chronic stress in your life is minimized.
Those are the things that are going to protect you
from a heart attack or a stroke,
not a handful of pills from Big Pharma, okay?
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Alright guys, this is Dr. Berry. I'll see you next time.