{"id":22192,"date":"2020-06-07T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=22192"},"modified":"2020-05-29T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T12:01:16","slug":"this-vegetable-lowers-blood-pressure-by-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2020\/06\/07\/this-vegetable-lowers-blood-pressure-by-11\/","title":{"rendered":"This Vegetable Lowers Blood Pressure by 11%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Broccoli-328870684.jpg\" alt=\"This Vegetable Lowers Blood Pressure by 11%\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>This particular vegetable is hailed as a wonder food for a good reason.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study published in the <em>American Journal of Hypertension<\/em> proves that consuming this ONE vegetable can lower your blood pressure as much as 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>And the best part: it\u2019s dirt cheap, and you can find it in every supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>In the study conducted at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, hypertensive rats were given a compound derived from broccoli.<\/p>\n<p>On average, the rat\u2019s blood pressure decreased by 11%.<\/p>\n<p>If broccoli works anything similar with humans, we could be looking at a 10\u201315-point drop in blood pressure by consuming broccoli or the compounds found in broccoli.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So how does this work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The compound found in broccoli, called glucosinolate, produces a metabolite product, called sulforaphane, that has long been known to improve blood pressure and kidney functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Even though this compound is found in all cruciferous vegetables, broccoli has the highest concentration.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/blood-pressure-exercises-vsl\/\">If you want to learn about an even more powerful method to lower your blood pressure, check out these 3 easy exercises proven to drop your blood pressure below 120\/80 by clicking here today&#8230;.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This particular vegetable is hailed as a wonder food for a good reason. A recent study published in the American Journal of Hypertension proves that consuming this ONE vegetable can lower your blood pressure as much as 15 points. And the best part: it\u2019s dirt cheap, and you can find it in every supermarket. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":22244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Broccoli-328870684.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22245,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22192\/revisions\/22245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}