Medical check up reveals i was hypertensive around 160/100. Keyword is WAS. Due to my kamma managed to get it below 120/80.

Heres what i did for a week.

1) Stop coffee and beer.
2) Drink hibiscus tea regularly.
3) Snacking on pistachios(unsalted)
4) Take potassium citrate 10-15 ml everyday mixed with water.
5) Take 2 tablespoon of flaxseed daily.
6) Increase uptake of omega 3 like salmon and sardines.
7) Decrease salt intake. (minor but every bit helps)
8) Avocadoes

All this while still in keto diet, low carb high fat. From above we can infer that low carb, increasing potassium and omega 3 intake did the trick.



This post has been edited by Satanist: May 31 2023, 01:46 PM

Which hibiscus tea you take? Where you got it?

Shoppee banyak the dried hibiscus. put in a tea bag of some sort. it should taste quite tart/sour.. just drink it. will lower by around 10 points after 30 minutes..in my case.

This post has been edited by Satanist: May 31 2023, 02:17 PM

go easy on #6 because excess of that can lead to mercury toxification

u can opt for anchovies(rinsed) or sardines if you are worried.

just wondering do you include stress reduction too?

i wasnt in any stress unless you include coffee(caffeine) and beer are the stress culprits. ... nor did i change my exercise pattern. so i dont think its relevant, well at least for me....

This post has been edited by Satanist: Jun 1 2023, 04:24 PM

How old are you ts

It doesnt matter how old i am.

are you cont doing this? Or the number will shoot up again once you stop any of these

i continue la but now stop the potassium citrate and avocadoes.. still maintain below 120/80... overdo it ican get 95/67 but feel fatigue la no good.

This post has been edited by Satanist: Jun 14 2023, 01:13 PM

Any example of hibiscus tea that you're taking now?

If one week of food intake change can reduce from 160 to 120, then it means your previous food intake was really bad. Do you workout now?

i everyday walk 6 to 10km prior to med check up. whaddya think?

This walking wasn't stated in post #1. Since you are walking a lot, do you want to include workouts for your muscles to strengthen your body?

its not posted because i was already doing it before the medical check-up....so its not a factor...
walking and badminton is my thing. nothing else.

My blood pressure dropped from 140 to 110 after losing 30kg weight.

Congrats bro.

Diet plays a healthy part in reducing BP. Stress management also.

Keep it up, 108/70 is a very good BP.

Were you on meds previously?

no meds. nope.

Did you track your cholesterol and lipid fat levels ?

Nope. What for? Nothing i did to correct it involve fat.

Hi satanist, you mentioned kamma - by that, I assume that the positive outcome was achieved through your intentional actions.

Would you also consider that our present state of mind would have a profound effect on achieving positive results on our health?

There was a study/experiment conducted in the 1980s using rabbits as test subjects, called "Social Environment as a Factor in Diet-Induced Atherosclerosis" (big words/jargon, but worth looking up and reading through). The study highlights that high cholesterol levels in the blood were the same in all rabbits who were on the high fat diet. And that the cholesterol deposits were lesser in the arteries of those rabbits that were fed with kindness - meaning that rabbits that were less stressed were diagnosed as being healthier.

So aside from the changes which you have listed, do you meditate or handle daily stressors differently, since your medical check up, diagnosis? Or it was just solely the low carbohydrate, high fat ("keto diet"), with increased potassium and omega-3 fatty acids intakes that fixed your situation?

No meditation this is purely nutritional viewpoints. U can try meditation if it helps.