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Series Code: HL
Program Code: HL000031A
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00:14 Welcome to "Healthy Living," I'm your host Margot Marshall.
00:19 I have good news and bad news. 00:22 The bad news is that the number of people in the world 00:25 with high blood pressure has reached 1.13 billion! 00:31 Nearly doubling since 1975 and it's no longer a disease 00:36 of just affluent countries. 00:38 The good news is high blood pressure can be reversed! 00:42 Stay tuned to find out how. 01:14 I'm hoping that all 1.13 billion people with high blood pressure 01:20 are tuning in right now because with me in the 01:23 studio to share success stories of reversing high blood pressure 01:27 is Dr. John Clark. 01:29 Welcome John, lovely to have 01:31 you on the program. Thanks for having me. 01:34 First of all, what is high blood pressure? 01:37 I mean, what are the numbers and secondly, 01:39 why should we be concerned about it anyway? 01:42 Yes, sometimes the numbers can be a bit daunting. 01:46 You look at it and you wonder, "What does that mean? 01:48 They gave me a number?" 01:49 We usually give two numbers, one is the highest - your 01:54 heart pumps pressure into your bloodstream and the other 01:58 number is at the lowest point. 02:00 And so we have a high number called "systolic," 02:04 and a low number called "diastolic." 02:06 The high number we say shouldn't be over 120, 02:10 and the lower number shouldn't be over 80. 02:13 And so those are the numbers we look at - you go over 02:15 120/80 and you're concerned. 02:18 And why are you concerned? 02:20 Because you don't feel any different. 02:23 That's the dangerous part of high blood pressure. 02:25 We say it's the silent killer because people could be 02:29 walking around with 180/150 and be ready to have 02:34 a heart attack, a stroke, their kidneys could be failing. 02:39 A number of things can go definitely wrong when 02:42 the blood pressure goes too high and yet they 02:44 don't know it and they could end up with tragic results. 02:49 Well that's certainly something to be concerned about, isn't it? 02:52 Especially because it is, as you say - "a silent killer." 02:55 How does Australians actually compare with the rest 02:57 of the world in terms of high blood pressure? 03:00 I was surprised they are almost twice the numbers 03:04 of the rest of the world! 03:06 Oh, that's awful! Yes! I didn't want to hear that! 03:09 Well, at least it gives us a goal to work on, hey. 03:13 So 1 in 3 Australians has high blood pressure. 03:17 That's not good news. 03:19 What about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, 03:22 how do they fare? 03:24 Oh they're even higher, they're about 20% more 03:27 people with high blood pressure. 03:28 It affects them, especially when they adopt 03:31 the lifestyle of the rest of the Australians. 03:34 Oh that's not something to be proud of, is it? 03:37 What about men? How do they compare with 03:41 women say for high blood pressure? 03:43 Well men are ahead in that area too. OH! 03:47 I'm sad to say, about 34% of men have high blood pressure, 03:52 whereas only about 29% of women. 03:55 All right, well that's all bad news. 03:57 Let's talk about some good news and I know you have 04:00 lots of solutions to all kinds of the problems that plague 04:03 people on this planet, but if you had to choose just one 04:08 the single most powerful lifestyle, let's say, 04:13 practice that people could adopt to avoid or to reduce 04:17 high blood pressure, what would that be? 04:19 The single most important, what would that be? 04:21 I think that it would be water, 04:23 how much water a person drinks. Water? Yes. 04:25 That just sounds a bit too simple. 04:27 It does, doesn't it? 04:28 I call high blood pressure, in many respects, 04:31 "the great water shortage." Okay. 04:35 "Dehydration" as they call it. Yes. 04:38 I remember I was giving a lecture on high blood pressure 04:41 to an audience and the lady on the front row - when I 04:45 mentioned water, practically jumped out of her seat, 04:47 said, "Water! That's it!" 04:49 And I looked at her and I said, "Really? Tell us more." 04:52 She said, "Aw, my mother called me, (now this lady 04:55 was in her 60s, so her mother must have been in her 80s), 04:58 my mother gave me a call, she said, "Nancy, (this lady's 05:02 name was Nancy), "Nancy, my blood pressure is 180/150, 05:07 what do I do?" Well Nancy was pretty calm. 05:11 The mother went on to say, "Shall I call the ambulance? 05:14 Shall I go to the hospital?" 05:16 Nancy said, "Well mom, I'll tell you what, just sit down, 05:20 drink 3 big glasses of water and when I get there in 45 minutes, 05:24 we'll check your blood pressure again." 05:26 Forty-five minutes later, Nancy walked in, 05:30 checked mom's blood pressure and it was 120/80! 05:33 Oh, truly! Nancy knew something that you knew obviously. 05:39 Well that's just amazing! 05:40 Why does that work though? 05:42 How does that happen? I mean, you know, 05:47 if you have really low hydration, if you're dehydrated, 05:52 your blood pressure can actually drop - so I'm just 05:55 intrigued to know how drinking a lot more water would 05:58 actually lower it. How does that work? 06:01 And it's true, if you don't have any water, 06:03 your blood pressure will go out the bottom. 06:05 Well yeah, I think it just stops. Yes. 06:08 And so somewhere though before it goes totally to nothing, 06:11 your body works VERY hard to get the blood pressure up 06:15 because its goal is to get the blood going 06:18 to the top of your brain. 06:19 And if the blood is going to the top of your brain 06:22 very well, several things happen - one is all of the 06:25 blood vessels in your body tighten up to squeeze the 06:28 blood up to the top of your brain - sort of like 06:30 squeezing a toothpaste tube. 06:32 The second thing that happens is your heart starts 06:35 going faster and so you get a fast heartbeat - maybe you 06:39 feel your heartbeat, maybe you think you're having 06:41 what we call "palpitations" or a heart that's signaling 06:46 you that it's working hard. 06:48 So that's how it works, well that's 06:49 intriguing and that makes so much sense 06:51 when you explain it like that. 06:52 By the way, I don't squeeze the tube - I roll it. Oh! 06:55 Just a little aside. 06:57 Are there any other natural remedies that you could suggest 07:01 that would help with people having experiencing 07:04 high blood pressure? 07:06 I had a friend whose mother always had high blood pressure, 07:08 I mean her whole life - she was on three high blood 07:11 pressure medications all the time and still went to the 07:14 emergency room frequently without a controlled 07:17 high blood pressure. 07:19 And, her son said, "Well I've been studying some of these 07:23 nice natural remedies especially for high blood pressure, 07:28 and studying drinking water," and he discovered 07:32 that if you added some lemon to the water, 07:34 that it was very helpful for high blood pressure. 07:37 So he said, "Mom, every morning start out with a liter of 07:40 water with the juice of one fresh squeezed lemon in it 07:44 and see if that doesn't work." 07:46 Well mom started doing that and within 6 months 07:49 she was off all her blood pressure medications, 07:52 and she was drinking her lemon but she got tired of lemon! 07:56 I mean it is pretty acid! 07:58 And so she and he did some more research and found a 08:01 good herb that was very similar and that is "Hawthorn berry." 08:05 Hawthorn berry has been very beneficial for a lot of people 08:09 for high blood pressure. 08:11 Some people take it as a tablet; others as a tea; 08:14 I tend to prefer a tea - that way you get the 08:15 liquid with it again. 08:17 And she found that she could control her blood pressure 08:20 on that natural remedy while continuing 08:22 to drink plenty of water. 08:25 Very, very simple things that you could hardly imagine 08:28 would be so effective - it's just amazing. 08:31 I mean huge amounts of people see the doctor 08:35 for blood pressure - I think how many would that be, 08:37 like I think I've heard you say, something like "most people 08:42 see the doctor for high blood pressure," 08:43 is that something like what you were saying the other day? 08:45 That's right! For a general practice physician, 08:48 the number one disease he's going to be 08:51 seeing is high blood pressure. 08:52 Right and to be able to control it in such a simple way. 08:56 I mean that isn't just preventing it, that's actually 08:58 bringing it down over time - so that's fantastic! 09:02 That's really wonderful! 09:03 What about exercise? What sort of a role or how does 09:05 that fit in with high blood pressure? 09:07 You know, if people don't exercise, they get stiff. 09:12 Like if we sit in these chairs too long... ha, ha, ha, 09:15 and we don't get up, we're going to feel mighty stiff 09:18 when we get out of this chair. 09:20 Well this happens to the whole body - the muscles get stiff; 09:24 the blood vessels get stiff and stiff muscles resist blood flow. 09:29 Stiff blood vessels resist blood flow. 09:32 Therefore, it takes more pressure to get the blood 09:34 to go through those stiff muscles and stiff blood vessels. 09:37 And so exercise helps to relax the blood vessels, 09:43 make them more supple - it helps relax the muscles, 09:46 make them more supple. 09:48 It also makes it so that the heart is more efficient 09:51 in each of its pumps so that the blood comes through 09:55 in a more steady fashion. 09:57 Well that's just amazing, I mean we keep hearing 09:59 about exercise is good for just about anything that you 10:03 name - to deal with the body, it's just amazing. 10:05 But I would not have known that it was so good for 10:08 high blood pressure. 10:10 You tend to think that when you actually exercise, 10:12 it sends your blood pressure up for that period. 10:15 But what you're saying is that after that, it's normalizing it 10:18 and there's nothing wrong with the blood pressure going up 10:20 while we exercise - it's very normal - so that's fantastic. 10:24 And what about foods? Are there foods 10:26 that contribute in one way or another to high blood pressure? 10:30 You know we are what we eat. Yes. 10:33 I tell people - if you don't like what you are, 10:36 physically/medically as far as diseases go, 10:38 change what you eat! 10:40 And it sort of makes sense, doesn't it? It does, yes. 10:42 And so there are certain foods that will send your blood 10:46 pressure high. 10:47 Now salt is known to be one of those. 10:50 There's a couple of reasons why salt causes high blood pressure. 10:53 One, is it hardens the arteries! 10:56 It's sort of like not getting enough exercise, 10:58 those arteries become stiff, the blood doesn't go through 11:00 them well and you end up with high blood pressure. 11:03 It also causes inflammation in those arteries, 11:06 and that can be sort of a problem with causing 11:09 the heart to go faster. 11:11 The other reason why we have trouble with high blood pressure 11:16 with salt is that salt makes you accumulate more fluid. 11:22 It raises the volume of blood and so there's more blood 11:24 coming in the heart, more blood going out of the heart, 11:27 so higher preload, higher post load. 11:30 This is another reason why salt is a problem. 11:33 But then there's a certain group of people who are 11:36 especially salt-sensitive. 11:39 It works on their nerves; it works on their body, 11:42 and it raises their blood pressure. 11:43 I had a friend who was working at a lifestyle center, 11:45 he had a patient who had sinus problems. 11:48 So they were washing his sinuses with salt water 11:52 or saline solution - it gave the gentleman very high 11:56 blood pressure - just that much salt. Really? 11:58 And so some people are very sensitive, so lowering 12:01 the salt is a strategy used in lowering blood pressure. 12:05 Oh, that's fantastic! 12:07 But I imagine that even he must have absorbed 12:11 some of that salt into his system. 12:13 Yes, it went right into his bloodstream and... 12:16 Didn't even drink it or eat it or anything like that. 12:19 Oh, that's amazing. 12:21 And so any other strategies that you have 12:24 like what we've talked about salt, 12:26 Or anything else that would affect blood pressure 12:30 or helpful or unhelpful? 12:32 Your salt is related to other seasonings such as 12:36 monosodium glutamate. 12:38 Now you'd be surprise how many foods have 12:41 monosodium glutamate in them. 12:43 They hide it under different names because nobody 12:45 goes to the supermarket looking for a product 12:47 that has monosodium glutamate in it, but it's in there. 12:52 It's in things that are highly seasoned especially salty foods 12:55 and that will raise your blood pressure pretty significantly. 13:01 But what are these names, what are these secret names? 13:04 What do they hide it under? Yeah, what do they? 13:06 Well here in Australia, they give it a number, 13:08 but it can be under "natural flavors;" it can be under 13:12 "seasonings;" it can be under "spices;" it can be 13:16 in such foods as soy sauce. 13:20 It can be in any of these foods that are very salty or 13:25 any food that has been created through rotting, spoiling, 13:29 fermenting, ageing such as vinegar; such as cheese, 13:35 and so those things will raise your blood pressure 13:37 pretty significantly too. 13:38 Yes, cheese is actually very high in salt as well, isn't it? 13:42 Very high in salt and also aluminum. 13:48 Oh, is that right? 13:50 So that's a very daunting thing. Yes. 13:53 Now other foods that will raise your blood pressure 13:55 are anything that we call "vasoactive foods," 13:59 foods that have chemicals or properties to them that 14:03 tighten your blood vessels up. 14:04 Caffeine would be the number one. Okay. 14:07 Any foods with caffeine or its related other chemicals, 14:11 theobromine or even nicotine will raise your blood pressure. 14:15 Oh well that's quite a list of things that, you know, 14:19 we can take into account. Thank you for that. 14:21 So does that cover all the foods we're going to talk or... 14:24 Well, we should also talk about good foods to eat, 14:26 so people don't just eliminate everything and, of course, 14:29 your blood pressure would go down then but... 14:31 Certain foods are especially known 14:34 to be helpful for blood pressure. 14:35 One of those is celery! Celery! 14:38 Celery, either as juice or eaten lowers blood pressure, 14:43 but any fresh fruit and vegetables are going to 14:45 help you with your blood pressure as opposed to 14:48 tinned or processed foods. 14:51 Most tinned or processed foods have added salt; 14:54 have added preservatives; have added other things 14:57 that can affect your blood pressure, whereas if you're 14:59 eating fresh fruits and vegetables... 15:01 And I usually recommend people get about half their diet 15:04 as fresh fruits and vegetables, and it's very good for 15:07 other things as well besides high blood pressure. 15:11 Yes, well that's great. 15:12 And what about the timing of meals? 15:16 I know you have something to say about that. 15:19 How does that play into high blood pressure? 15:21 My grandfather used to say he only ate one meal a day. 15:25 He just ate all day long! Oh right. 15:29 And when you're doing that, you're always 15:30 putting a little bit of food in your bloodstream. 15:33 Food in your bloodstream will cause the blood to be 15:37 thicker; it will cause it to be harder to be pumped. 15:40 Whereas if you have your meals at a regular time, 15:43 it makes it so your body gets ready for the meal; 15:45 it processes it quickly and then when it's done, 15:48 you don't have stuff in your bloodstream all the time. 15:52 Now another factor is whether or not you eat 3 meals a day. 15:57 Interestingly enough, the third meal is associated 16:01 with more high blood pressure. 16:02 So I had a gentleman who I had given him the lecture 16:08 on high blood pressure, a DVD that we produced, 16:12 and he watched that and he said he quit eating his third meal 16:17 and as long as he didn't do that, 16:19 his blood pressure went to normal. 16:21 So it was very helpful not to be eating in the evening. 16:23 If you eat in the evening, your digestion is slower; 16:26 the more the food is in the bloodstream, 16:28 it stays there overnight and your blood 16:30 pressure goes up overnight. 16:32 You gave a really good explanation of how that works 16:36 and I always think it's helpful to know why certain things 16:39 have the effect that they do, so that's very interesting. 16:43 Now a lot of people in Australia actually do skip 16:48 a meal a day but it's not usually, if ever, 16:53 the third meal - it's usually the first meal which, of course, 16:56 is the most important one, breakfast. 16:58 That's right. 16:59 And I think when people start missing that third meal, 17:05 it's easier to eat a really good breakfast 17:07 and make that the main meal. 17:09 But it would be a bit difficult if you haven't 17:11 had breakfast and you've had a light lunch to actually 17:14 do what you're saying but it's something 17:15 worth working on, isn't it? 17:17 A lot of people wake up in the morning and they say, 17:19 "I'm not hungry for breakfast," and I say, "That's because 17:23 you ate your breakfast the night before!" Laughter. 17:27 Your stomach is full, you're full of energy, 17:30 and then you can't sleep well at night and you wake 17:34 up groggy and then you don't feel like eating breakfast. 17:37 People who eat breakfast have less other diseases, 17:41 less diabetes, less heart disease, less cancer. 17:44 People who eat a big meal at night have 17:46 faster growing cancer. Is that true? Yes. 17:50 Is that right? Wow, lots and lots of reasons to do 17:55 all of the good things that you have found to be helpful 17:57 for not just one problem but many. 18:01 What else can you tell us about taking care 18:04 of high blood pressure? 18:05 You know, when you have high blood pressure and you don't 18:08 realize it, sometimes it's good to monitor it and you can get 18:12 little kits at the chemist usually 18:15 and check your blood pressure. 18:17 A lot of people have the trouble that when they 18:19 go into the doctor, they see his 18:21 white coat and their blood pressure goes up. 18:23 Yes, I've heard about that. 18:25 And we call it, "white coat syndrome." Yes, yes. 18:28 But it also has to do with people's stress, 18:31 and so we discovered that when people are under more stress, 18:35 then their blood vessels tighten up, their heart goes 18:37 faster and their blood pressure goes up. 18:40 And so stress management is a big part of 18:42 blood pressure control. Yes, yes it would be. 18:46 And some people even get an electronic biofeedback 18:50 machine to see where their stress is, 18:53 and it helps their blood pressure. 18:54 Oh okay, so that's another good strategy. 18:56 You're full of good ideas, what else can you tell us? 19:00 Well I know when I've dealt with people with high 19:03 blood pressure, that when they understand the physiology 19:07 as to why they have high blood pressure, it helps 19:10 So three reasons: #1, the blood vessels 19:13 tighten up - this can be through stress. 19:16 This can be through things they ate like caffeine or it can 19:19 even be through just always being low on water. 19:26 The second thing is the heart going faster. 19:29 Hearts go faster if you're out of shape. 19:31 People who are fit, they've been exercising - have a 19:36 slower heartbeat and a more efficient heartbeat 19:39 and have lower blood pressures. 19:41 The other thing that makes the heart go faster is if you're 19:44 having a lot of MSG - it actually tends to mess 19:47 with the heart rhythm and give you an arrhythmia 19:50 or a fast heartbeat. 19:52 Other things that will affect the heart when it's going fast 19:55 since you have high blood pressure is if 19:59 you end up always being late to appointments. Laughter. 20:04 Yes, oh yes, I think we've all done that once or twice, oh yes. 20:10 I want to mention a little bit about the effect of 20:13 medications on your high blood pressure. 20:15 They did a study on a bunch of people who were getting 20:17 high blood pressure - they wanted to see what its effect 20:20 had on their brains - they started scanning their brains 20:23 periodically and they discovered that people that were getting 20:26 high blood pressure were accumulating white matter 20:28 lesions in their brains, lesions that would 20:31 lead to Alzheimer's at a rate 10 times faster than 20:35 the normal population. 20:36 Ten times? Ten times faster! 20:39 That shows a serious problem. That's a very scary number! 20:42 So they said, "We better hurry up and give these people 20:45 high blood pressure medications." 20:47 So they put them on diuretics, commonly called, 20:49 "water pills," they put them on all these different 20:52 interesting pills. They should have talked to you! 20:55 And the result was the blood pressure did come down, 20:59 but when they continued to scan their brains, 21:01 the blood pressure medications did absolutely nothing 21:06 to slow the rate at which the white matter lesions 21:09 were accumulating in the brain! 21:10 In fact, for diuretics, it made them accumulate faster! 21:14 So in order to stop the high blood pressure and the 21:17 accumulation of the pre-Alzheimer's lesions 21:20 in the brain, you would need to change the lifestyle 21:23 factors that were creating both. 21:25 And so - drinking more water, 21:27 eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, staying 21:30 away from salt and MSG, and 21:32 caffeine and these kinds of things. 21:33 Another thing, dietarily that will create high 21:36 blood pressure is too much oil, too many fats. 21:39 It thickens the blood, makes it harder to pump; 21:42 it makes the blood so it carries less oxygen - so it has to be 21:45 pumped faster and harder to get the same effect. 21:48 Oh just say that one again, that's interesting, 21:50 what you just said about (Oils), yes and not much 21:56 oxygen in the blood - so the heart works harder 21:59 to get that amount of oxygen through. 22:01 That's right. I love the way you explain 22:04 these things because if you just said, "Don't do this, 22:06 do that and don't do that," it would be like, 22:07 "Well, you haven't convinced me," but now we 22:11 understand how this works; it's more compelling, yes. 22:15 Yes, so the oil tends to coat the red blood cells - making 22:20 it harder for them to get oxygenated. 22:22 It's also true that oil itself in digestion takes more 22:25 oxygen to become metabolized to get digested and so it 22:30 burns more oxygen; it slows the oxygen getting into the cells 22:35 and so people on a high oil diet 22:37 had a lower oxygen on their brains. 22:39 They don't think as well and the effect lasts for about 22:43 3 days after a high fat meal, so it's a slow process 22:46 of... stuff 3 days. 22:48 Three days! One high fat meal, 3 days? 22:52 Three days! That is correct. 22:55 And that's quite likely going to be an evening meal? 22:59 Often an evening meal, things that are fried. 23:03 We've got a lot of stuff going on by eating at night already, 23:06 and if it was a high fat meal, that would be 23:08 (Even worse) hmm for the problem. 23:10 That's right. That's correct. 23:12 Another thing that will raise your blood pressure 23:15 is drinking sodas or soft drinks. 23:19 Soft drinks have a lot of sugar. 23:21 The sugar often gets metabolized into uric acid, 23:24 the component of gout. 23:26 When the uric acid goes up, the blood pressure goes up. 23:29 On the other hand, feeding people pills or tablets 23:32 to take away uric acid will lower blood pressure. 23:34 So anything that would give a person gout, 23:36 would give another person high blood pressure. 23:38 Oh, is that right? 23:40 Well it's fantastic the way so many of these natural 23:43 things that the Good Lord gave us, you know, fresh air, 23:46 and exercise, good food and so on - we've interfered 23:51 a lot with the food supply, haven't we? 23:53 And I'm not just talking about genetic engineering, 23:55 I'm talking about the numbers of products on the shelf. 23:59 I don't know the numbers but it's many times, many times 24:04 as many as they used to be going back a few decades and they're 24:08 not new plants or anything like that - they're manufactured 24:13 things that have got a lot of those items in that you were 24:16 mentioning - the flavors, the salts, the sugars and 24:18 all of those other little numbers that we 24:21 need to be a bit careful of. 24:23 So we really have changed a lot in what we eat from 24:30 going back a while, haven't we? and paying dearly because 24:34 most of these illnesses that we're discussing - we're talking 24:36 about high blood pressure today but most of these 24:39 illnesses are getting worse. Right! 24:41 I haven't actually heard of one that's getting better. Right! 24:45 Have you? No, no - that's right. 24:48 So that should tell us something that, you know, 24:51 the increase is related to what, you know, 24:54 we're made of what we eat. 24:55 Modern life in this world has gotten more stressful, 24:59 and it's interesting one statistic is that if 25:01 somebody moves from the bush or the country into a 25:04 big city, their blood pressure will go up by 20 points. 25:08 On the other hand, getting away from the city 25:10 and getting out in the country and walking where there's 25:12 nature; there's birds; there's trees - your blood pressure 25:15 will go down. 25:16 For somebody that has high blood pressure and needs to 25:18 bring it down, walking out in nature is one of those 25:21 good things! Yes. 25:22 I think we'll probably have an influx of people moving to 25:25 where we are but I've lived in city environments 25:30 and we're currently living in Morisset - we're just down 25:35 the road from Morisset and we just comment frequently. 25:38 We'll go for a drive and say, "I love being in the country" 25:41 because there's trees on either side of the road, you know, 25:44 in all the places, not just dwellings and the fresh air 25:48 and no traffic jams, no we don't have traffic jams. 25:52 We've heard about them on the news most times where the 25:55 freeways are getting clogged up. 25:57 But it's beautiful, I would not want to live in 26:01 even an urban area now, suburban rather. 26:04 I wouldn't even want to do that anymore - it's just so 26:07 so nice and to have that natural environment, beautiful! 26:11 Yes and the stress is the big factor. 26:14 I was interested to know a certain study that showed that 26:17 what you believe affected your stress 26:19 and affected your blood pressure. 26:22 They studied older people and what they believed, 26:26 and if their spouse passed away and they believed 26:31 in a good afterlife, they had low blood pressure. 26:34 But if they didn't believe in a good afterlife, 26:36 they had high blood pressure. 26:38 Well isn't that interesting! 26:41 Yes, because our mind tells us lots of things, doesn't it? 26:45 And it doesn't have to be necessarily a truism, 26:47 I'm not saying in that instance, but what we believe 26:52 about an activating event is really what 26:55 triggers the response. 26:57 There's lots and lots of different aspects 27:00 that you've told us about, maybe you should just 27:02 review some of those and just go over them again 27:06 because you've told us a lot of very interesting things. 27:09 Well I'm going to make the list start with water. 27:12 Oh I'm not surprised about that and I actually did 27:15 remember that was number one. 27:17 And so water is very important keeping the blood come 27:19 to the top of your head and making sure that your blood 27:22 vessels are full of blood so that your heart can 27:25 efficiently pump it and your body isn't struggling 27:28 to get the blood to the top of your head. 27:30 The second thing is good, fresh fruits and vegetables 27:34 which are low in salt, high in fiber, a lot of 27:38 plenty of good nutrients. 27:39 We want to eat food that will sustain life and avoid salt. 27:44 And then exercise - exercise that keeps your blood 27:48 vessels supple - it keeps the heart in good condition. 27:51 It keeps the muscles from resisting blood flow 27:54 because they are also supple. 27:56 And last of all, I mentioned that meal-timing is good, 28:00 no evening meal. 28:03 Yes you did, you mentioned that. 28:05 And thank you so much, it's been a very, very 28:08 informative session. 28:09 Viewers if you would like to watch our programs on demand, 28:13 just go to our website, that's 3abnaustralia.org.au 28:18 and click on the watch button. 28:20 We hope to see you next time for more lifesaving information. 28:24 God bless you. |
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