Over 1 in 3 US adults have hypertension. Hypertension puts you at increased risk of heart attack stroke kidney failure all kinds of terrible things. So 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. This consists of abdominal obesity hypertension or high blood pressure include 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 and their definition of metabolic syndrome nor do they make in total cholesterol that's how unimportant those two metrics are. So don't worry about that so they everybody says without exception that metabolic syndrome can't be cured. And 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.
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, and what if there was a way you could lower your insulin level and also what about inflammation. 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 this is an inflammation is a big deal what would you possibly do to decrease inflammation yeah so people who are already eating a ketogenic diet.
The ketogenic diet does both of these things it reduces your chronically high insulin level and it reduces your chronically high inflammation level, and that is how you reverse hypertension.
How you reverse metabolic syndrome or syndrome X?
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 that what causes one causes the other. But we don't know all the details of that yet bring your research is ongoing but we do know that when you lower insulin levels and when you lower levels of inflammation the ultimate endpoint the heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, and chances of those are slashed and that's what we're all looking for. We don't really care well these in between kind of middleman numbers are we just don't want to have a heart attack, stroke, kidney failure.
We don't want to 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 pressures 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 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 want to 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.
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