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The cause is actually known: high amounts of fructose or sugar (which is 50% fructose) -> decrease in nitric oxide production in the liver -> high BP Like many
by sph 2y ago
The cause is actually known: high amounts of fructose or sugar (which is 50% fructose) -> decrease in nitric oxide production in the liver -> high BP
Like many things, it is diet related. It seems "unknown" because GPs are still lagging well behind modern dietary research and are often nothing more than pill pushers. Lowering your sugar and simple carb intake over the long term, and fixing potentially hidden metabolic syndrome (see skinny fat people with unhealthy livers) is how you reverse it.
- corry 2y agoHey I hear you, appreciate the perspective but I'm borderline keto most days -- almost zero sugar, very few carbs, etc -- and yet still here. So while this may explain some amount (perhaps most?) of peoples idiopathic/essential HBP I doubt it's that simple. "It's your potassium levels", "it's your homocysteine levels", "it's your fructose", "it's white-coat syndrome", "it's...." etc. Surely we're making progress but it's also not a silver bullet thing. Good thing the treatments are so safe and effective.