{"id":42108,"date":"2024-02-06T05:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/?p=42108"},"modified":"2024-02-06T05:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:17:26","slug":"secret-of-hypertension-that-doctors-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/?p=42108","title":{"rendered":"Secret of hypertension that doctors don&#8217;t know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secret of hypertension that doctors don&#039;t know\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDuAjTbqIFk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The great secret of HTN, that doctors don&#8217;t know, is that POTASSIUM is more important than SODIUM.   It&#8217;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 &#8220;K factor.&#8221;  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&#8217;s why most Americans over 50 years old are hypertensive!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Questions or newsletter sign up = email: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> PeterRogersMD@protonmail.com <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great secret of HTN, that doctors don&#8217;t know, is that POTASSIUM is more important than SODIUM. It&#8217;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 &#8220;K &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/?p=42108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secret of hypertension that doctors don&#8217;t know<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivational"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42109,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42108\/revisions\/42109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectwaistline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}