Many foods that decades ago were on the “do not eat” list if you were after optimum health have been researched and researched some more- only to find out we should have been eating them all along.
One food in particular has been recently found to reduce high blood pressure as much as a dose of one of the leading ACE-Inhibitor drugs, and it’s likely sitting in your fridge right now.
Using hypertensive rats, the researchers isolated a chemical found in egg whites called RVPSL. Even after heat-treating the chemical, as would be found when cooking the egg white, researchers found that the rats’ blood pressure came down as much as it would after receiving a single dose of most popular ACE-Inhibitor drugs.
While the researchers acknowledge that more study would need to be done to see the benefits in humans, they were encouraged that the natural compounds in egg whites can be used in concert with other treatments to find effective, safer treatment for hypertension.
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What do you think about the study? Do you already include egg whites in your diet to benefit from the high protein, anti-oxidants, and other nutrients?
Surprising information indeed. The egg whites are as effective as a single dose of ACE inhibitor medications. I choose eggs over drugs…
I love this info! Finding the right foods to fight blood pressure with no medications.
We have to eat anyways so why don’t we choose the foods that can help us cure ourselves.
I am on a “blood pressure lowering diet” based on tips and advises I find on this website and I am finally
free from blood pressure lowering and other medications.
This is a new information. Normally eggs are completely avoided after the middle age because of various reasons. But this experiment with rats gives the information that egg whites are more beneficial to reduce blood pressure. A very good and practical information.
Nice to add to eggplant juice/thee which seems to do the same ace inhibitor job, maybe something in the naming
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This is no surprise to me. Why does the government keep on claiming that healthy foods that have been used for thousands of years is all of a sudden dangerous. Same goes with full fat milk.
worth trying
Your articles are very superficial with no doses mentioned, even those used in the tests. I personally eat 12 plus or minus eggs a week as they are almost the perfect food and do not disturb cholesterol or any other problem but relieving HBP? That chemical will have to be extracted and concentrated in much larger doses than we get in the eggs, in my opinion.
What we need to avoid is dangerous medications, not the foods.
However, I rather go on a special diet than start taking these horrible medication pills that are even
dangerous to our health. When you read about side effects that’s when you really get scared.
To Robert :
I completely agree with you on this one. Just eating eggs probably won’t drop your blood pressure, but if you combine it with other natural ways and foods that help lower BP, I am sure you’ll see results.
When it comes to the amount of the isolated chemical from eggs it’s hard to obtain the precise information, because this is a relatively new study. I am sure that in a near future they will be able to make a supplement out of this chemical.
At this point, it is great to know that eggs have this quality to keep it as a part of healthy blood pressure diet.
Enjoy eating your 12 eggs a week, I think it is a great amount to stay healthy 🙂
Good addition to knowledge about eggwhite
Only now are they beginning to admit that one of the healthiest diets around is the meditteranian diet.Basic wholesome foods like olives snd fish etc…duh when will we stop thinking we can do better than nature.
Great observation Fletch! Nature has given us all we need to be healthy, we just need to re-educate
ourselves about that. That is why I love Blue Heron Health News articles. Very informative and helpful 🙂