One in three adults in the United States are struggling with high blood pressure, and most will suffer with this chronic condition throughout their lifetimes.
The good news, however, is that researchers have found a solution to this endemic problem that does not lie in handfuls of pills, but rather on the end of a vine.
Researchers have long been aware of the benefits of grapes. Respected experts such as Dr. Mark Hyman have called it the “mother of all antioxidants.” But now it seems that it’s even better than was initially thought.
A recent study shows that grapes work to promote increases in glutathione levels within the heart – an antioxidant that fights against heart disease that is specifically linked to high blood pressure.
Scientists from the University of Michigan undertook a study whereby they supplemented a large amount of grape powder to a dangerously high fat diet in rats to determine what would happen.
The results were outstanding. The grape powder actually prevented the hearts of the rats from becoming enlarged and the arteries from hardening, as usually happens with humans and animals on a high fat diet.
An enlargement or stiffening of the heart vessels is quite a common side effect of high blood pressure. Due to these findings, researchers can now say with some confidence that grapes do not only lower blood pressure, but also contribute to the prevention of heart failure.
Once the scientists were aware of the positive benefits of the seemingly insignificant grape, they then went on to conduct a further study.
Now they fed the grape-rich diet to rats suffering from hypertension. This new diet lasted for 18 weeks and now the results were even more significant than before:
The grapes actually altered the very genes of the animal.
Basically, by altering the genes the grapes boosted the antioxidant abilities of the cells in the heart, thus preventing it from stiffening and suffering under the ravages of high blood pressure.
Lead researcher, Dr. Mitchell Seymour, made a statement that this study is particularly interesting because although they were aware of the positive effects of grapes on high blood pressure, and indeed on heart health, they didn’t know how they worked until now.
He went further in recommending that individuals suffering from high blood pressure should add at least a handful of these tasty fruits to their diet, as this might prevent heart disease that is related to high blood pressure from spiraling out of control.
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Dear Christian,
Which of the colors(green,yellow,etc) of grape is most efficacious in lowering High Blood Pressure? I will be very glad to know.
Regards.
You’ve published an article about grapes before but what kind of grapes were used in this study???
I began from your first article to drink, in the morning 1/3 kilograms of black grapes by processing in the juicer. My question is ¿Is the quantity correct? Many thanks.
It is strange that as a younger person living in London, whenever I was taken by either of my parents to visit a sick relative, whether that be hospital or their home, we always took “Grapes” as a get well gift.
This Modern Day Study seems to enforce what has been known for a number of years and the “Old People Of Our World Knew Things” that were at the time only traditional, but have now some scientific approval.
Much like the saying “An Apple A Day, Keeps The Doctor Away”, studies have been and are being conducted to prove the validity of this quaint statement.
For the Carnivorous among us, it was traditional to have a specific condiment with Beef, I distinctly remember My Father going out to the garden and taking or pulling up a small piece of “Horse Radish Root”, which he always grew in the Herb garden. He would grate that up finely and add a small amount of Vinegar, then we would each have some as a condiment with our dinner, to “Help The Body Digest The Beef”, it is the same with “Apple Sauce and Pork” and I would suggest a lot of older traditional remedies that have been lost in a crazy modern world.
Maybe one day someone in the not too distant future, will revive “Traditional Medicine” as an answer to Modern Man’s Maladies, that is when “We Collectively Wake Up” to the “Giant Hoax” that the “Big Pharmaceutical Company’s” are perpetrating on us…..until such times, we will have to rely on the articles written here and be thankful that at least someone out there cares enough to have such a “BLOG”, Eh Christian, keep up the good work my friend…..?
Is it the resveratrol in the grape seeds that acts as an agent, or the grape itself?
Very good news.org.
good news for those with high pressure.
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Just wondering by any chance we could be some kin,because I live in Athens ga now but I am from Greenville sc. My mom was a lomax . We had our Lomax and Brown family reunion there this weekend