insulin and hypertension

[Bat Spit]

We all know that in most cases a low carb diet will cause decreases in in blood pressure and in many cases people get off meds.

A very good friend of mine just had to go on meds. I'd like to give her some links to good sites that talk about the link between insulin and hypertension, and doing general searches I'm not finding what I want.

I thought some of the regulars here might have some handy.

She lives too far away to loan my books.

[pennink]

not sure about the insulin, but the drop in sodium intake and weight is what my nephrologist told me does the trick with l/c

[Nancy LC]

Nope, I don't believe that. You can eat quite high sodium on low carb and still lower your BP. I think the blood volume drops because you don't have so much glycogen and glucose. That whole diuretic thing goes on with truly low carb diets.

Bat Spit, I'd go over to Dr. Eades blog and search on blood pressure. Also the nutrition and metabolism articles would be good to search too.

[black57]

I found this site

http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/guide/high-blood-pressure

Here is a site. Also check out Dr. Eades blog.

[MandalayVA]

High blood pressure also has a huge hereditary factor too; I just posted about this in my own journal. I have two sisters who are not overweight, eat all the "right" things and still have HBP, as does my brother. I've been a HUGE salt eater all my life but it's only been in the last couple of years that I developed HBP--not helped by a huge weight gain, but basically my genetic luck running out. Mike Eades has stated on his blog that very few cases of HBP are strictly related to sodium intake. My own doctor told me that as long as I keep my fluids up my salt intake shouldn't be a factor since the body's pretty good about getting rid of excess sodium.

[pennink]

My heart is damaged due to high blood pressure. I believe the sodium that lurks in processed foods, foods we're not eating now, is a very key link to the drop along with the weight loss.

Except for munching furiously on pork rinds and pounds of cheese it might be hard to eat as much sodium as previously. It's just EVERYWHERE!!! (along with corn syrup and products)

The doctor I'm using lectures around the world, he recommends only low carb diets now and is advising all conference attendees to do the same. As he said, 'it's the ONLY diet that will save your life.'

[Nancy LC]

I wasn't a big processed food eater before going low carb and I had a big drop in BP almost right away, it didn't really correspond to weight loss. I think it was the diuretic effect of the diet.

Everyone in my family has had high BP by the time they were 40 except me. Horray!

[kebaldwin]

I was thinking that there is some much junk in your blood and arteries from all the sugar related stuff - that it raises your blood pressure.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=insulin+triglycerides+blood+pressure&btnG=Google+Search

[cs_carver]

I'm following the general precepts in The High Blood Pressure Solution, by Richard Moore, MD. His advice is to eat at a 5:1 potassium to sodium ratio, which is hard to hit eating ANY processed food (or at restaurants) but it seems to be working for me and for the person who recommended the book to me.

Lots of stuff in the book about why it is that potassium and sodium get hung up with each other, but potassium IS preferentially excreted, in comparison with sodium. I believe my BP went up after a year-long course of NSAIDs which affected my kidneys' sodium processing.

In other words, LOTS of variables, all of which can matter to any particular individual.