{"id":22221,"date":"2020-06-20T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=22221"},"modified":"2020-06-20T02:59:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T06:59:29","slug":"this-mineral-lowers-high-blood-pressure-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2020\/06\/20\/this-mineral-lowers-high-blood-pressure-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"This Mineral Lowers High Blood Pressure (New Study)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Potassium-351858773.jpg\" alt=\"This Mineral Lowers High Blood Pressure (New Study)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>If you love salty food, you\u2019ll love today\u2019s article.<\/p>\n<p>A study published in the <em>American Journal of Physiology<\/em> in April 2017 proves that eating a lot of another delicious mineral gives you a free pass on salt.<\/p>\n<p>These common mineral forces your blood pressure down whether or not you consume a lot of salt.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, people in isolated societies with limited imported food eat a lot more potassium and a lot less sodium than those in developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>This is unsurprising, as they eat more naturally grown fruit, vegetables, and grains than people in developed countries and substantially less food preserved in cans, jars, and packets.<\/p>\n<p>But the population studies go further.<\/p>\n<p>When the team compared studies on high-potassium populations to those on low-potassium populations, they found that consuming a lot of potassium was much more important than using little salt.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the amount of sodium they consumed, populations with a high potassium intake had lower blood pressure than those with low potassium consumption.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll find plenty of potassium in dark green vegetables, potato and sweet potatoes with their skins, mushrooms, beans, bananas, avocados, dried fruits, salmon, and yogurt.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/blood-pressure-exercises-vsl\/\">And if you want to lower your blood pressure below 120\/80 today, check out our simple blood pressure exercises found here . . . .<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love salty food, you\u2019ll love today\u2019s article. A study published in the American Journal of Physiology in April 2017 proves that eating a lot of another delicious mineral gives you a free pass on salt. These common mineral forces your blood pressure down whether or not you consume a lot of salt. 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