Reducing sugar intake is a better way to fix high blood pressure than lowering salt
What dietary maneuver can fix blood pressure even faster? How about sugar restriction? Sugar raises your blood pressure more than salt. Sugar also causes liver fat accumulation, insulin resistance, and increased diastolic blood pressure. Sugar restriction quite rapidly reduces both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, as long as the patient in question doesnāt have preexisting kidney disease. So whatās the most effective method of treatment: lowering salt, getting rid of sugar, or taking blood pressure medication? If you take processed food out, youāve lowered salt and sugar, and you wouldnāt need the medicine.
Only 20 percent of a glucose load enters the liver, and the majority is turned into glycogen (liver starch) for storage. A small amount of glucose will undergo glycolysis (the first step of glucose metabolism, which doesnāt need oxygen) to the breakdown product pyruvate. Pyruvate can then enter the mitochondria to be burned via the Krebs cycle all the way to carbon dioxide and water, capturing energy in the form of the chemical adenosine triphosphate (ATP)āthe energy is in the phosphates.
100 percent of a fructose load enters the liver. Fructose leads to loss of phosphates from ATP, generating of uric acid, which reduces nitric oxide, your blood vesselsā relaxing agent, which leads to hypertension. Most of the fructose is turned into pyruvate, the mitochondria become overwhelmed, and the excess generates liver fat, which causes insulin resistance. High insulin interferes with satiety, driving further consumption.
References
- Lustig, Robert. (2021). Metabolical Chapter 2. āModern Medicineā Treats Symptoms, Not Disease (p. 52). New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
Metadata
Type:š“ Tags: Biology / Medicine / Nutrition Status:āļø