How to reduce high blood pressure?
When it comes to taming your blood pressure levels, the professor recommended cutting back on salt. In fact, Blood Pressure UK shares that the common seasoning is “the single biggest cause” of hypertension.
Spector said: “There are many studies on this, although it must be said studies are conflicting about how much that impacts the reduction in things like heart disease or strokes.
“But interestingly, research, published this week in a journal called Heart, looked at 21 small trials… of substituting regular salt for potassium chloride.
“[This] reduces it by about a third and found that across the board, it did tend to lower the blood pressure of participants in a small subset. [It] does make a case for potentially switching [to] potassium-based salt substitutes.”