Fix Your High Blood Pressure with Food

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see the phrase? High Blood Pressure.

Stress, your heart, salt, fried foods, grandma’s chicken, I’m gonna die, cholesterol, I need to exercise, I’ll start drinking more water, no more porkchops.

Take a deep breath.

We need to clean up our diets.

Here’s a few things that will destroy high blood pressure. The foods you eat, and your approach on life.

Its that simple. The two groups of people with the lowest high blood pressure on average are vegans and monks who meditate.

This is why. The vegan diet is high in dietary fiber, of which there are two kinds, soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber has the capability to be absorbed into the body and scrub blood vessels clean of the things that can clog our arteries and veins. Insoluble fiber binds to the toxins that are in our diet. Our body may not absorb many of those toxins but they still can cause harmful effects in the colon, so having a good amount of insoluble fiber in our diets can help us with those toxins.

In short, increasing your dietary fiber intake will reduce your blood pressure. incorporate foods like; Oatmeal, Apples, Whole wheat pasta, Lentils, Chickpeas, Black Beans, Peaches, and other fruits and vegetables.

There’s also a few vegetables and fruit that make up the elite force of blood vessel protection. Beet Roots Arugula Swiss Chard all contain high levels of nitrates which help regulate blood pressure.

Dietary nitrates, expand your blood vessels and make it easier for blood to flow through an for nutrients and oxygen to arrive where its needed. The function of opening up blood vessels, is what leads to decreased blood pressure.

Incorporating more soluble fiber by way of gluten free whole grains and fruit and , eating vegetables high in dietary nitrates will lower your blood pressure.