Always take into consideration that if you are an athlete or someone who sweats alot you need to increase your average sodium intake to replace electrolytes.
Seems like hyponatremia is kinda hoax. I'm an ultrarunner and still waiting for a clear answer from Dr Greger and Ali about that point. The main point about doing sport (and having a stressfull life, training is part of stress) is to take care about magnesium intake as it is excreted to counter stress. Care about too much potassium too, can lead to some hyper nervous activity, specially on heart at high intensity workout.
AtlantisArch I dont know if it's a hoax but what I know is when I am cycling for hours in hot climates I am thirsty for salty water. If I don't add salt in my water after a while I can just drink as much water as I want and still feel thirsty. A bit of salt in the water and the thirst is gone.
Avoid anger? No way man! Every morning I wake at sunrise and utter the words: "Hello anger, my old friend. Let's kick some ass today dude!" Find a healthy outlet for your inner-anger Falcon and you'll score triple doubles daily. Read the upside of your dark side and go beast mode with glorious purpose! Anger management, not anger avoidance. I believe in you!
Correction, 1000 year ago there was no Persia. It was part of the Islamic nation (capital was Baghdad) and that was the golden age of the nation. I know, nowadays, people avoid mentioning "Islam", but, in world of research, integrity is a must.
This channel is obsessed with high blood pressure. Any chance of a video on low blood pressure for this of us with low blood pressure that may be too low? We could eat more sodium but then that would be bad for arterial function according to this video?
Ella L. Yes, all blood tests are normal. Doctors don't care about low blood pressure as I don't pass out. I am healthy but do feel tired and weak a lot and am recently suffering from chronic dry mouth.
I use Nettle leaf and dandelion leaf herbs in an infusion to get high levels of potassium. Measure about 30g nettle leaf and add boiling water in a 500g jar and let sit for uptp 6 hours. Strain and drink one cup a day. Do the same for dandelion leaf. Job done.
Potassium is an electrolyte that is VERY important in electrical activity in the heart. Too much or too little potassium can cause fatal heart rhythm changes. In fact, Potassium is the primary drug used to stop the heart in lethal injections. For this reason, Potassium supplements should ONLY be used when monitored by a professional healthcare provider.
How did they know about hypertension/blood pressure in ancient Persia? I'm sure the didn't have blood pressure cuffs back in ancient Persia. What were the manifestations?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4268622/ "In one of the Hidayat's chapter entitled “Fi al-Imtela' (About the Fullness)”, Akhawayni described a disease with manifestations similar to those related to what is known today as hypertension. In his opinion, the disease could result from the excessive amount of blood within the blood vessels. He believed that in patients with al-Imtela', the total amount of blood is not normal. However, the quality is normal and could carry out its functions.[15] According to Al-Akhawayni, al-Imtela' can manifest itself with symptoms including the presence of a pulsus magnus, sleepiness, weakness, and dyspnea. After these general descriptions, he explained the possibility of an acute event occurring with this disease as follows: “… when severe facial blushing, engorgement of the vessels [superficially located in the head and the neck], and protrusion of the eyes occur,… there is concern that a vessel [of the brain] becomes ruptured and uncontrollable bleeding occurs, or ‘sakteh’ [stroke] occurs … and there is the threat of death …; epistaxis may occur …”. It is noteworthy that Al-Akhawayni in discussing the causes of stroke in Sakteh (stroke) chapter of Hidayat described al-Imtela' as the etiology of hemorrhage within the cranial cavity. "
but blood letting does indeed reduce hypertension....blood volume is decreased with diuretics... even a full bladder can increase the heart rate by 7bpm
Sound advice but the main reason for our Na/K imbalance is added salt. Yes get more potassium from fruit and veg but if you are getting 15 grams of salt it is going to be difficult to get the balance to 1 to 10 Na/K !
This makes sense but how come some people are apparently too high in potassium despite eating little potassium and a very high sodium diet? like my diabetic uncle who just got one of his kidneys removed because of cancer, he adds salt to everything even fast food meals, but when he went to the doctor for a hernia operation, the doctor said he was too high in potassium?
Dried apricots are double that of dates but its much easier to get more potassium from beans, sweet potatoes, coconut water, avocados, dark leafy greens ect.. because you can eat more quantity.
is storing water in copper a good idea? I'm hearing a bunch of buzz about plastics and the tap water where I live isn't so good either, we're recommended to bottled water than the tap due to high rates of people getting kidney stones said to be caused from the tap water so could I buy water and store it in glass jars or copper pots? would it make a difference? is it safer?
If lowering BP by 4 points in a week seems significant, research water-fasting. I saw minor BP benefit on a whole foods raw vegan diet consuming 2 pounds of spinach per day for 3 months, but my BP permanently dropped over 60 points during my first fast.
Was wondering if people who have muscle from working out would show a higher BP reading because it would take more pressure to squeeze their arm for the reading do to the muscle? Also if the body is upping the blood pressure to get it through the problem area, wouldn't taking blood pressure meds be adding fuel to the flame by artificially lowering it preventing the body from trying to help it self and then restricting oxygen to the brain etc?
Have you heard of the product NoSalt? Ingredients: Potassium chloride Potassium bitartrate Adipic acid Silicon dioxide Mineral oil Fumaric acid Any harm in that?
There is potassium iodide, potassium enriched salts like nosalt, magnesium chloride to provide needed chloride for the stomach and magnesium to calm the heart, and do not forget selenium as master antioxidant and many other vital trace minerals, particularly boron.
I CANT LOWER MY BLOOD PRESSURE . It pisses me off I can’t get into contact with any plant based doctors and I freaking eat no salt no oil Whole Foods plant based. Whole flax seeds ground up freaking daily dozen and nothing lowers. I’m 16!!! I’m thin!!! I’ve taken blood test and there’s nothing wrong with me except I have pre hypertension and fast pulse and I feel weak. My thyroid is finne! Wtf is wrong with me I swear
Is Potassium Chloride a safe salt substitute? Marketed as "Nu-Salt" by the Cumberland Packing Corporation, makers of the famous pink "Sweet'N Low" saccharin packets. (Over 500 BILLION of those packets produced according to wikipedia)
Steaming most vegetables is better for you, steaming reduces oxalates(especially in spinach) and kills bacteria. Dr Greger has several videos showing cooking for 4-5 minutes is better, he also has videos showing steeping tea for 4-5 minutes is best.
Do some research on what anger and emotions do to the blood, cortisol? Do some research on the effects of no sex or semin retention. What is venesection ? Old blood out and the spleen making new blood?
1:15 Also are you jumping to conclusion about blood pressure, assuming causation with blood pressure alone. It is the improved endothelial function that allows more efficiency (hence allows lower blood pressure) so blood pressure in and of itself is not preventing the cardiovascular problems. That is why blood pressure drugs, which you already know, are not effective treatments for cardio vascular problems. Moreover if endothelial function is healthy, I don't see a problem with moderate salt intake, the key as mentioned in the studies is balance. Too much potassium is moving us in another direction, too low blood pressure and not enough on demand power generation. Sodium plays its role, so does Potassium.
the more significant question is how long will the pocess take and how painful will it be? Or with how much less quality of live do I end up with? Your body can give you the answers to those, but you have got to experiment, trying to be objective. Plant based rocks ;)
OK Dr. Greger, it's fair that you reference ancestral diets for Potassium / Sodium ratio, but do remember that our ancestors of old also ate the flesh of wild animals. Just saying.
sodium to potassium ratio is even 2:1 for me. I dont know if KCl and suplementation with potassium is safe. maybe it is better to eat sodium rich foods only before workout, but it is hard
Personally, I don't think it is unsafe, but then I just sprinkle a bit here and there on my food. No hyperkalemia so far. I did get a bout of orthostatic hypotension from a single cup of hawthorn berry tea, however - which is a bummer since I liked the taste.
I prefer your older videos with less scrolling and animation. This newer style of animation is distracting and makes it harder to relax while enjoying your videos.
This video style is losing the important title and date of the study before going all powerpoint scroll crazy. Also not seeing the list of doctors or researchers so I can get a sense of what country did the research. That was always a fun tidbit. Great information as always but the super scrolling is becoming distracting and isn't working for me.
He just says that sweet potatoes are better; they contain almost as much potassium as russet potatoes (475 mg vs 550 mg per 100 g), plus lots of beta carotene and other good stuff, including anti-cancer substances: nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-cancer-potential-of-sweet-potato-proteins/
+Enfant d'Omelas watch the video i linked in my previous comment, he says potatoes are harmful. but they are very high in Potassium so i will not cut them out of my diet.
Haha how he subtly suggest salt free diet at the end! That is a real leader! He knows how to guide without shaming. However he does shame peiple who eat meat lol!
I thought you said in another video that it's a myth that bananas contain a lot of potassium, but in this video you don't. I'm wondering why you've changed your position.....I like bananas regardless, but are they really rich in potassium as we have all been led to believe throughout most f our lives or not?
Bananas have enough potassium to counter the sodium. However, compared to other foods, they are not as rich a source of potassium as people think. It's not that they don't contain a lot of potassium, it's that people think of bananas first when they think of potassium.
Oh! Thanks! :) It's just that he says in one talk that they rated lower that manufactured ice cream, and where around 20th on the list of potassium rich foods, but they had since gone down to something like a 1000th! It could be my memory! That's what had thrown me off.
I remember it coming in under a Mc Donalds milkshake or something. I didn't know it had been dropped down further. I haven't read his newest book though, so I could be misinformed also.
Confusing message, which seems to imply bacon is fine as long as eating bananas / potassium with it. Obviously not judging by the other harmful effects of bacon seen in your other videos. Thank you regardless! :)
But don't we need about 2500 ml of salt a day? I understand if one eats a lot of processed foods, but I don't. As a vegan, If I don't sprinkle some salt on my food, I'd be 100% sodium free. After all, the action potential of the brain neuron works with sodium and potassium. It seems that you're suggesting totally sodium free diet which couldn't possibly be healthy and is in fact even detrimental to one's health.
place your finger on your wrist or neck...also you feel it beating hard inside of you and can hear it by placing an ear to the chest...those people created the society you live in...they were just as smart as we are...
matchbox555 sure you can. They are very low dose, however. This is intentional, as it is dangerous to get too much potassium. You can buy no-salt, which is potassium chloride and use it instead of salt. Just don’t go crazy with it, as in don’t put a tbsp in a meal or something
3:30 Cooking beans and potatoes without salt does not sound so good. Sounds tasteless and inedible. Better to eat food that has some added salt, then not be able to get the nutrients in at all.
Buy nu salt it's made from Potassium chloride and has no sodium. If you can't handle the taste then try Morton Lite Salt. It's 50% salt and 50% Potassium chloride. The Potassium chloride cancels some of the Blood Pressure effects from the salt.
Thing is I'm not afraid of high blood pressure, I think salt is a natural balance for high potassium foods which is why it tastes good. Salt intake is also dependent on exercise levels and temperature which will determine how much electrolytes are being lost. When I lived in Thailand for example (very hot tropical place) they would actually ask if I wanted to add a quarter teaspoon of salt to my fruit smoothies, the people there even recommend it because out there people sweat buckets
Currently chowing down on a fruit smoothie with a few handfuls of kale. Plants for life!
I'm a Dr. Greger groupie.....LOL. Another excellent video!
Always take into consideration that if you are an athlete or someone who sweats alot you need to increase your average sodium intake to replace electrolytes.
What does it mean if your an athlete but rarely sweat?
The Vegan Runner
but not just the sodium.
The Vegan Runner potassium and sodium. And every other nutrient.
Seems like hyponatremia is kinda hoax. I'm an ultrarunner and still waiting for a clear answer from Dr Greger and Ali about that point. The main point about doing sport (and having a stressfull life, training is part of stress) is to take care about magnesium intake as it is excreted to counter stress.
Care about too much potassium too, can lead to some hyper nervous activity, specially on heart at high intensity workout.
AtlantisArch I dont know if it's a hoax but what I know is when I am cycling for hours in hot climates I am thirsty for salty water. If I don't add salt in my water after a while I can just drink as much water as I want and still feel thirsty. A bit of salt in the water and the thirst is gone.
3 years as a whole foods vegan, still learning. Thanks doc!
thank Yah & thank you! I refer a lot of people to your RUclips because of the well presented, evidence based "Nutrition Facts"
Avoiding anger is a great recommendation and often ignored.. Angry people make themselves very ill.. It's as deadly as any poor diet..
Avoid anger? No way man! Every morning I wake at sunrise and utter the words: "Hello anger, my old friend. Let's kick some ass today dude!" Find a healthy outlet for your inner-anger Falcon and you'll score triple doubles daily. Read the upside of your dark side and go beast mode with glorious purpose! Anger management, not anger avoidance. I believe in you!
And greens (spinach) have very high oxalate. So cannot consume with kidney stones. Is it safe to eliminate salt from diet completely?
The blood-letting was to reduce iron overload caused by consumption of animal body parts. It wasn't pointless at all.
Watching this while drinking a banana spinach smoothie
dr greger would be proud :)
same man, what are the chances
watching it over my soup of sweet potato, chard, lentils, beans, garlic, onion, with a slice of whole grain toast, and a cup of hibiscus tea :D
Watching this while eating kale salad.
Q. .Q SAME
Great info as usual. You Rock, Dr Greger!
Wow, this info can save your life!!
I love this. So enlightening. Thank you! 🍒🍓
"Take our ancient wisdom with a grain of salt". That was funny Mr. Greger!
Mark Nolan I love his puns and plays on words. Do you have his audio book How Not to Die? It's great.
I do have his audio book. I enjoyed it very much! It sounds like we're two peas in a pod! Pun intended!
But take our meals salt free?
There's so many wonderful spices to enhance your meals, you don't miss it....after a while. It even tastes bad to have it cooked into food, any more.
Thank you for this video!
What about pink himalayan salt?
I wonder how using potassium based salt substitutes may affect the ratio by adding potassium and reducing sodium chloride?
Correction, 1000 year ago there was no Persia. It was part of the Islamic nation (capital was Baghdad) and that was the golden age of the nation. I know, nowadays, people avoid mentioning "Islam", but, in world of research, integrity is a must.
I like the videos faster paced
excellent info though as always
Try clicking the cog in the bottom right of the video to alter the speed.
Would this be the same for Real Salt?
I love spinach.
This channel is obsessed with high blood pressure. Any chance of a video on low blood pressure for this of us with low blood pressure that may be too low?
We could eat more sodium but then that would be bad for arterial function according to this video?
B12deficiency.info signs and symptoms. Blood tests are spoiled post supplementation.
natureasintended B12 causing low blood pressure you mean? what do you think is the best source of B12?
Replenish Rewire
have you been to a doctor yet?
Ella L. Yes, all blood tests are normal. Doctors don't care about low blood pressure as I don't pass out.
I am healthy but do feel tired and weak a lot and am recently suffering from chronic dry mouth.
Replenish Rewire
then i would visit a cardiologist for a physical examination. ever thought about that?
I use Nettle leaf and dandelion leaf herbs in an infusion to get high levels of potassium. Measure about 30g nettle leaf and add boiling water in a 500g jar and let sit for uptp 6 hours. Strain and drink one cup a day. Do the same for dandelion leaf. Job done.
Great Video.
How about Potassium supplements?
How about Potassium rich foods?
haha
Potassium is an electrolyte that is VERY important in electrical activity in the heart. Too much or too little potassium can cause fatal heart rhythm changes. In fact, Potassium is the primary drug used to stop the heart in lethal injections. For this reason, Potassium supplements should ONLY be used when monitored by a professional healthcare provider.
DearHasanNYC STTM recommends a little cream of tartar everyday
Thank you so much for the videos Dr. Greger! Keep making a positive impact. :-)
How did they know about hypertension/blood pressure in ancient Persia? I'm sure the didn't have blood pressure cuffs back in ancient Persia. What were the manifestations?
Those eating meat did have heart disease though facebook.com/PlantBasedEvidencePaleoDiet/
When having high blood pressure, you can actually feel the pressure in your body. Also, they werent dumb.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4268622/
"In one of the Hidayat's chapter entitled “Fi al-Imtela' (About the Fullness)”, Akhawayni
described a disease with manifestations similar to those related to
what is known today as hypertension. In his opinion, the disease could
result from the excessive amount of blood within the blood vessels. He
believed that in patients with al-Imtela', the total amount of blood is not normal. However, the quality is normal and could carry out its functions.[15] According to Al-Akhawayni, al-Imtela'
can manifest itself with symptoms including the presence of a pulsus
magnus, sleepiness, weakness, and dyspnea. After these general
descriptions, he explained the possibility of an acute event occurring
with this disease as follows: “… when severe facial blushing,
engorgement of the vessels [superficially located in the head and the
neck], and protrusion of the eyes occur,… there is concern that a vessel
[of the brain] becomes ruptured and uncontrollable bleeding occurs, or
‘sakteh’ [stroke] occurs … and there is the threat of death …; epistaxis
may occur …”. It is noteworthy that Al-Akhawayni in discussing the causes of stroke in Sakteh (stroke) chapter of Hidayat described al-Imtela' as the etiology of hemorrhage within the cranial cavity. "
What if sodium is low and potassium is high?
With Bradycardia and low BP.
I don’t want to consume “salt.”
I’d appreciate any help. Thank you.
You guys ought to try coconut water, it immediately drops your bp due to its rich potassium content.
Also has decent amount of calcium and magnesium which go hand in hand :)
According to USDA it's not particularly high in any of those things...
ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3663?manu=&fgcd=&ds=Standard%20Reference
sheesh....that is coconut milk, I am talking about coconut water..
www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/truth-about-coconut-water#1
Oops my bad! Well coconut water is apparently even less nutritious.
ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3665?manu=&fgcd=&ds=Standard%20Reference
You are my new hero.
but blood letting does indeed reduce hypertension....blood volume is decreased with diuretics... even a full bladder can increase the heart rate by 7bpm
Coconut Water?
Sound advice but the main reason for our Na/K imbalance is added salt. Yes get more potassium from fruit and veg but if you are getting 15 grams of salt it is going to be difficult to get the balance to 1 to 10 Na/K !
This makes sense but how come some people are apparently too high in potassium despite eating little potassium and a very high sodium diet? like my diabetic uncle who just got one of his kidneys removed because of cancer, he adds salt to everything even fast food meals, but when he went to the doctor for a hernia operation, the doctor said he was too high in potassium?
because his kidney dont work...
Every time I track my nutrients my potassium is too low... I gotta get my shit together !
More whole fruits, vegetables and watch the numbers skyrocket :)
chk kidney function...it might be losing potassium.
try dates, much higher in potassium per g than bananas
dates are number one in potassium but with diabetes you can't have too many
Dried apricots are double that of dates but its much easier to get more potassium from beans, sweet potatoes, coconut water, avocados, dark leafy greens ect.. because you can eat more quantity.
is storing water in copper a good idea?
I'm hearing a bunch of buzz about plastics and the tap water where I live isn't so good either, we're recommended to bottled water than the tap due to high rates of people getting kidney stones said to be caused from the tap water
so
could I buy water and store it in glass jars or copper pots?
would it make a difference?
is it safer?
If lowering BP by 4 points in a week seems significant, research water-fasting. I saw minor BP benefit on a whole foods raw vegan diet consuming 2 pounds of spinach per day for 3 months, but my BP permanently dropped over 60 points during my first fast.
Was wondering if people who have muscle from working out would show a higher BP reading because it would take more pressure to squeeze their arm for the reading do to the muscle? Also if the body is upping the blood pressure to get it through the problem area, wouldn't taking blood pressure meds be adding fuel to the flame by artificially lowering it preventing the body from trying to help it self and then restricting oxygen to the brain etc?
Have you heard of the product NoSalt?
Ingredients:
Potassium chloride
Potassium bitartrate
Adipic acid
Silicon dioxide
Mineral oil
Fumaric acid
Any harm in that?
Everyone in the comment section is saying "I'm watching this while drinking a banana spinach smoothie" good for you👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
There is potassium iodide, potassium enriched salts like nosalt, magnesium chloride to provide needed chloride for the stomach and magnesium to calm the heart, and do not forget selenium as master antioxidant and many other vital trace minerals, particularly boron.
I CANT LOWER MY BLOOD PRESSURE . It pisses me off I can’t get into contact with any plant based doctors and I freaking eat no salt no oil Whole Foods plant based. Whole flax seeds ground up freaking daily dozen and nothing lowers. I’m 16!!! I’m thin!!! I’ve taken blood test and there’s nothing wrong with me except I have pre hypertension and fast pulse and I feel weak. My thyroid is finne! Wtf is wrong with me I swear
...I luv bananas: cheap, easy to prepare, quick cleanup....♥️♥️
Is Potassium Chloride a safe salt substitute?
Marketed as "Nu-Salt" by the Cumberland Packing Corporation, makers of the famous pink "Sweet'N Low" saccharin packets. (Over 500 BILLION of those packets produced according to wikipedia)
Raw or cooked leafy greens?
obviously raw!!!
Le Grand Bleu both
Steaming most vegetables is better for you, steaming reduces oxalates(especially in spinach) and kills bacteria. Dr Greger has several videos showing cooking for 4-5 minutes is better, he also has videos showing steeping tea for 4-5 minutes is best.
Le Grand Bleu both
Jeff Lebowski steeping tea for 5 minutes as opposed to more time or less time? if it's herbal, i usually steep much longer.
Do some research on what anger and emotions do to the blood, cortisol?
Do some research on the effects of no sex or semin retention.
What is venesection ? Old blood out and the spleen making new blood?
Not trolling, just curious, would a low dose NO2 supplement like weight lifters take have the same effect?
it last 2mins tho lmfao
I no longer identify myself as vegetarian or vegan; I'm Greger, Michael Greger (no meat, eggs, or dairy and no added sugar, salt, or fat : )
1:15 Also are you jumping to conclusion about blood pressure, assuming causation with blood pressure alone. It is the improved endothelial function that allows more efficiency (hence allows lower blood pressure) so blood pressure in and of itself is not preventing the cardiovascular problems. That is why blood pressure drugs, which you already know, are not effective treatments for cardio vascular problems. Moreover if endothelial function is healthy, I don't see a problem with moderate salt intake, the key as mentioned in the studies is balance. Too much potassium is moving us in another direction, too low blood pressure and not enough on demand power generation. Sodium plays its role, so does Potassium.
I bet Dr Gregor is chuffed with himself for that punchline
I ate a pound of broccoli yesterday...maybe that explains my ugh exceptional nightly bloodflow
lol i see you on all kindsa vegan yt videos. all kiiiinds
emailjwr thats weird...i dont identify as a vegan
well i guess lois was right ... cocaine is a helluva drug
Love your videos. Grain of salt and salt free lol.
That's why God gave Adam and Eve a garden, not a stove because he made us he knows what's best for us....
staying away from sex??? HELL NOOOOOOO!!!!......just eat and drink correctly....aka a wholefood vegan diet.
if i eat bacon and eggs once a week will i die
You'll inevitably die even if you don't eat bacon & eggs once a week. So, what are you worried about?
the more significant question is how long will the pocess take and how painful will it be?
Or with how much less quality of live do I end up with?
Your body can give you the answers to those, but you have got to experiment, trying to be objective. Plant based rocks ;)
i eat vegan plant based but i have bacon n eggs sometimes too
OK Dr. Greger, it's fair that you reference ancestral diets for Potassium / Sodium ratio, but do remember that our ancestors of old also ate the flesh of wild animals. Just saying.
Eating dates filled with spicey bean paste...
Eelke Aptroot
never heard of that... sounds interesting...
Eelke Aptroot right on. I had dates with red pepper hummus before, very good
Who use Cronometer and see only Sodium high-level :/
My sodium is not too high, but I find it difficult to get the recommended amount of potassium from food, so I use a bit of KCl salt substitute.
sodium to potassium ratio is even 2:1 for me. I dont know if KCl and suplementation with potassium is safe. maybe it is better to eat sodium rich foods only before workout, but it is hard
Personally, I don't think it is unsafe, but then I just sprinkle a bit here and there on my food. No hyperkalemia so far. I did get a bout of orthostatic hypotension from a single cup of hawthorn berry tea, however - which is a bummer since I liked the taste.
I prefer your older videos with less scrolling and animation. This newer style of animation is distracting and makes it harder to relax while enjoying your videos.
This video style is losing the important title and date of the study before going all powerpoint scroll crazy. Also not seeing the list of doctors or researchers so I can get a sense of what country did the research. That was always a fun tidbit.
Great information as always but the super scrolling is becoming distracting and isn't working for me.
Sources are always cited under the relevant video on his (ad free) website, that way you can take your time with it all :)
Regular potato is very high in Potassium, but he says we should avoid it -.-
Where?
He just says that sweet potatoes are better; they contain almost as much potassium as russet potatoes (475 mg vs 550 mg per 100 g), plus lots of beta carotene and other good stuff, including anti-cancer substances:
nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-cancer-potential-of-sweet-potato-proteins/
+Enfant d'Omelas watch the video i linked in my previous comment, he says potatoes are harmful. but they are very high in Potassium so i will not cut them out of my diet.
+Enfant d'Omelas Thank you very much
If you can't see the link i shared, search for "Toxins in Cooked Potatoes?" on his channel and you will find the video.
I assume that some "inteligent" people will start to eat bacon together with bananas after watching this :D
Haha how he subtly suggest salt free diet at the end!
That is a real leader! He knows how to guide without shaming. However he does shame peiple who eat meat lol!
I thought you said in another video that it's a myth that bananas contain a lot of potassium, but in this video you don't. I'm wondering why you've changed your position.....I like bananas regardless, but are they really rich in potassium as we have all been led to believe throughout most f our lives or not?
Bananas have enough potassium to counter the sodium. However, compared to other foods, they are not as rich a source of potassium as people think. It's not that they don't contain a lot of potassium, it's that people think of bananas first when they think of potassium.
Oh! Thanks! :) It's just that he says in one talk that they rated lower that manufactured ice cream, and where around 20th on the list of potassium rich foods, but they had since gone down to something like a 1000th! It could be my memory! That's what had thrown me off.
I remember it coming in under a Mc Donalds milkshake or something. I didn't know it had been dropped down further. I haven't read his newest book though, so I could be misinformed also.
It was on a talk on RUclips he said it. I could've remembered wrongly. I'll blame my brain. Either way I'm eating them.
when he came to atlanta in a live presentation he said bananas have as much potassium as twinkies and dates are #1 in potassium
Confusing message, which seems to imply bacon is fine as long as eating bananas / potassium with it. Obviously not judging by the other harmful effects of bacon seen in your other videos.
Thank you regardless! :)
3:26 avoiding anger and sexual intercourse is actually very good advice imo. Men lose life energy each time they ejaculate.
But don't we need about 2500 ml of salt a day? I understand if one eats a lot of processed foods, but I don't. As a vegan, If I don't sprinkle some salt on my food, I'd be 100% sodium free. After all, the action potential of the brain neuron works with sodium and potassium. It seems that you're suggesting totally sodium free diet which couldn't possibly be healthy and is in fact even detrimental to one's health.
reseach sodium free diet from ***** tribe they have the same blood pressure at 60yr old than the 20yr old...
I find it hard to believe that hypertension was known 1000 years ago.
place your finger on your wrist or neck...also you feel it beating hard inside of you and can hear it by placing an ear to the chest...those people created the society you live in...they were just as smart as we are...
Everyday we stray further away from potassium
im such a salt fiend.
Notice you can't buy potassium supplements.
matchbox555 sure you can. They are very low dose, however. This is intentional, as it is dangerous to get too much potassium. You can buy no-salt, which is potassium chloride and use it instead of salt. Just don’t go crazy with it, as in don’t put a tbsp in a meal or something
'When we evolved'?
the graph sort of looked like a banana. just some useless observation for you...
3:30 Cooking beans and potatoes without salt does not sound so good. Sounds tasteless and inedible. Better to eat food that has some added salt, then not be able to get the nutrients in at all.
Des Troya
i always make potato wedges without any salt - and they're edible and taste great! ;-)
Buy nu salt it's made from Potassium chloride and has no sodium.
If you can't handle the taste then try Morton Lite Salt. It's 50% salt and 50% Potassium chloride. The Potassium chloride cancels some of the Blood Pressure effects from the salt.
Thing is I'm not afraid of high blood pressure, I think salt is a natural balance for high potassium foods which is why it tastes good. Salt intake is also dependent on exercise levels and temperature which will determine how much electrolytes are being lost. When I lived in Thailand for example (very hot tropical place) they would actually ask if I wanted to add a quarter teaspoon of salt to my fruit smoothies, the people there even recommend it because out there people sweat buckets
But bananas are a very poor source of potassium!!!!
a potato contain twice the potassium but weight twice as much as a banana tho...
do you want high potassium? dates dates dates.