The message of this book is simple. Make sure your diet has a proper balance between potassium and sodium (as measured by the K Factor), get adequate exercise, keep reasonably trim, and avoid excess alcohol and not only will you not get hypertension, but if you already have it you can probably reverse it.
There is absolutely no doubt that the majority of strokes, heart attacks, and cases of high blood pressure can easily be prevented by maintaining the proper balance of potassium to sodium in the diet.
The latest demonstration of this is in Finland, where simple dietary changes,*1 outlined and explained in this book, have resulted†2 in a significant decrease in high blood pressure and a 60% decline in death from both strokes and heart attacks1in the whole country. You haven’t heard of this?
in basic biophysical research who, almost twenty years ago, discovered that the fundamental cause of high blood pressure is a greatly reduced ratio of potassium to sodium, the K/Na*3 ratio, or K Factor, in the modern diet.
The elevated blood pressure is a symptom, or marker, of an underlying cellular imbalance involving potassium and sodium. Moreover, it has since become clear that this potassium-sodium imbalance can cause strokes and heart attacks even when it doesn’t increase blood pressure.
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