Blood Pressure Isn’t a Salt Problem: What I Got Wrong for Years | EP 430

What if the pill your doctor handed you is silencing the smoke alarm while the real fire keeps burning?

Today on the podcast, I’m sharing what I got wrong about high blood pressure for most of my career, and why the real root cause may not be in your heart, your blood vessels, or your salt shaker at all.

I’ll walk you through the molecule that tells your blood vessels to relax, the bacteria that help you make it, and the foods that can start turning things around this week. I’ll also tell you about one nightly habit almost all of you share, and why it may be working against you.

A few highlights from today’s episode:

• The bedtime habit that’swiping out the good oral bacteria (04:17)
• How a leaky gut can stiffen your arteries, and what a study of more than 600 women found (06:37)
• The “healthy” whole grain that may stick to your artery walls like a splinter (08:33)
• The foods that may help retrain your gut buddies (10:28)
• The raw salad I call a nitric oxide machine on a plate (14:15)
• Why I’d skip the banana, and what I’d eat instead (15:13)
• The low-sodium trap that may be driving up your blood pressure (18:35)

Episode 430 Show notes/Transcript

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