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How does a permanent, 7-point drop in blood pressure sound?<\/p>\nHow does a permanent, 7-point drop in blood pressure sound?<\/p>\n
And what if we told you it only required a glass of delicious juice? Sounds great, right?<\/p>\n
Great news: a new study has proven that one specific type of juice is more effective than most blood pressure medications in dropping your blood pressure. <\/p>\n
And it comes without a trace of side effects.<\/p>\n
Scientists from the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research have just discovered that berry juice has a significant lowering effect on blood pressure.<\/p>\n
This is great news, as it is so delicious and sweet. Furthermore, it\u2019s also free from unhealthy, refined sugar.<\/p>\n
In the study, researchers split 134 volunteers into three groups: a control group that drank non-berry-juice (control group), a group that drank Polyphenol-rich berry juice, and a group that drank Polyphenol-rich berry juice combined with Polyphenol-rich blackberry juice for a much higher Polyphenol count. Each group had to drink about 500 ml of the juice daily.<\/p>\n
Their results, as published in the British Journal of Nutrition<\/em> in October 2015, were as follows:<\/p>\n \u2022 After six weeks, the polyphenol juice drinkers had lost 6.9 more systolic points than the control group. If you want to duplicate this effect at home, the juices that worked well were normal commercial brands that contained red grapes, cherries, chokeberries or bilberries. If these are among your favorite juices, then you are in luck.<\/p>\n Since the juices also reduced blood pressure variations between three measures when taken one minute apart, the authors concluded that polyphenols probably affected stress-related high blood pressure, rather than resting high blood pressure. This is good. However, as blood pressure spikes that are accompanied by stress often bring about the worst cardiovascular consequences, such as heart attacks and stroke.<\/p>\n One thing to keep in mind, however, is that berry juice is very high in natural<\/em> sugar and calories. This can be troublesome, especially if you are watching your blood sugar levels. It may, therefore, be better to eat the berries whole. At least in this way, you are adding back in some beneficial fiber.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 After 12 weeks, the polyphenol juice drinkers had lost 3.4 systolic points more than the control group.
\n\u2022 While the polyphenol juice drinkers lost 6.4 points up to week six, they lost only 0.8 points between week six and week 12. There appears to be a limit to the power of this juice, after all.
\n\u2022 There was no difference between the polyphenol juice drinkers and the extra high polyphenol juice drinkers.
\n\u2022 Compared to the subjects with normal blood pressure, those with high blood pressure experienced a much greater drop: 7.3 points more than the control group after six weeks, and 6.8 points more than the control group after 12 weeks.
\n\u2022 At both the six-week and the 12-week points, the scientists took three blood pressure measures, and this showed that the variation between the three measures were smaller for the polyphenol juice drinkers than that of the control group.<\/p>\n