High blood pressure is insulin telling your kidneys to keep the salt, and the pill for it is a diuretic telling them to let go.
Insulin has a second job that never makes the leaflet. In the kidney it acts on the tubule and it says hold sodium. Hold sodium and you hold water. Hold water and the volume in the pipes goes up, and the pressure with it.
That was measured in 1975. Insulin infused into healthy men, and the sodium in their urine fell while the blood sugar stayed exactly where it was.
A man on toast, pasta and fizzy pop runs his insulin high from 7am to midnight. His kidneys have been told to hold all day, every day, for 30 years.
Then the reading comes in at 150 over 95, and the first thing he is handed is a thiazide, a drug whose entire purpose is to make the kidney dump the sodium the insulin told it to keep.
The second thing he is handed is a sheet telling him to cut salt and eat wholegrains.
The wholegrains raise the insulin. The insulin tells the kidney to keep the salt. The pill tells it to let go. He is on 3 tablets by 60 and nobody has mentioned the toast.
1 in 4 British adults has the diagnosis.
A man who drops the carbohydrate watches his insulin fall, his kidneys let go of the water without being told, and his pressure come down inside 2 weeks. Ask anybody who has done it.
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So that's why you lose a lot of water weight when starting keto. Makes perfect sense.
Yes. Lower insulin releases sodium, and depleted glycogen releases the water stored with it. The first dramatic drop is mostly plumbing.
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