The great secret of HTN, that doctors don’t know, is that POTASSIUM is more important than SODIUM. It’s common knowledge (although underestimated) that lowering dietary sodium improves BP. Few know (only the true philosophers, those destined for Elysian Fields) that K+ is more important than Na+. Ratio of potassium to sodium is called the “K factor.” When a population has a K factor of 5:1 or more, they hardly ever get HTN. Our ancestors likely had a K factor of around 20. Modern Americans tend to have a K factor of around .5 which is 10x lower than it should be; that’s why most Americans over 50 years old are hypertensive!
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