A regulated lifestyle and a balanced diet: Often this mixture already helps to lower high blood pressure.
Candy should also be avoided.
Anyone who continuously measures a blood pressure of 140/90 mmHg and above has high blood pressure according to the current general definition. This is considered to be the preliminary stage of various heart diseases. Too high blood pressure values favor heart attacks and strokes - which are among the most common causes of death in Germany. ACE inhibitors, beta blockers to diuretics: There are a number of drugs that are used for high blood pressure.
However, medical professionals always recommend trying to lower blood pressure naturally * as a first step.
In many cases, even slight changes in lifestyle help to get blood pressure under control without medication.
Stress should be avoided as much as possible or adequate compensation should be provided, for example in the form of yoga relaxation breaks.
Diet also plays an important role.
Sugar, salt, and saturated fatty acids (e.g. in butter and meat) should not be consumed too often
when blood pressure reaches critical levels.
And a certain sweet is also considered to be a true blood pressure driver.
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Licorice has an antihypertensive effect
If you eat licorice in large quantities, you risk dangerous physical reactions. The Ärzteblatt warns of the hypertensive effects of liquorice root extracts contained in liquorice.
Danish scientists therefore recommend that high blood pressure patients avoid licorice
, it goes on in the Ärzteblatt. Small amounts of liquorice are no longer harmful, but according to the journal, health problems must be expected from a daily consumption of 50 grams of strong liquorice. Excessive licorice consumption can even trigger licorice poisoning, which can lead to cardiac arrest. One such case was reported by US media in September 2020. According to the attending doctors, a construction worker had died of a licorice overdose. The resulting potassium deficiency had resulted in cardiac arrest.
According to Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment and the Scientific Food Committee of the European Commission recommend not eating more than 100 milligrams of glycyrrhicine per day.
This substance is contained in liquorice and therefore also in liquorice.
For the consumer, this means: the equivalent of eating less than 50 grams of strong liquorice (if the glycyrrhizine content is more than 0.2 g / 100 grams, liquorice products must be labeled as 'strong liquorice') or less than 100 grams of children's liquorice (not subject to labeling) per day .
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