Interested in a safe, effective, and very cheap way to lower your blood pressure? Do not want to visit your doctor just for blood pressure? You only have to look as far as the common mineral potassium.
Potassium is the most abundant mineral inside your cells. Sodium is the most abundant in the fluids outside your cells (like your blood). A recent study took 104 subjects age 53 and divided them into two groups. One received 30 mmol/day of potassium aspartate. The second group received nothing. The results were absolutely fantastic!
The treated group dropped it is average blood pressure from 154.4/95 to 142.2/87.2. The 24-hour average blood pressure dropped from 142.7/90.8 to 134.8/84.6. Serum and urinary potassium significantly increased in the potassium group after four weeks of treatment. The untreated group had no such improvements. More potassium excretion means there is more in your body.
Hypertension is epidemic. Unfortunately, Big Pharma would have you believe it is a deficiency of petrochemical pharmaceuticals. I say most hypertension is a simple case of you not getting enough of the minerals God designed you to have.
Action to take: I almost always start hypertension treatment with potassium and it is cousin magnesium. The aspartate form is excellent. Look for a capsule containing 99 mg potassium and 100 mg magnesium, both in the aspartate form. Consider taking one capsule three times daily. Unless you have kidney failure and are retaining potassium, I know of no risk.
In a future issue of Second Opinion, Ill have a breakthrough report on oral supplements as an alternative to almost any drug you are taking for hypertension. For now, start with potassium. You will love the improvement.
Ref: Franzoni F., G. Santoro, et al. Antihypertensive Effect of Oral Potassium Aspartate Supplementation in Mild to Moderate Arterial Hypertension, Biomed Pharmacother, 2005;59:25-29.