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Originally Posted by Cajunboy47
Eddie:
My blood pressure used to be about 140/85, then with herbs, lowered to 125/72, with my added stress it is creeping up to about 135/78.. no danger yet, but if it continues... trouble...
when I can get back to a normal routine in a few days, hopefully, things should level out......................
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Sorry to hear you are having some issues. My pulse went from the high 80s and 90s down to the low 60s after I changed my diet. It is often now in the high 50s. However, if I have a moderate to heavy carb load it immediately shoots back up again as does my BP. My experience has been that it usually takes 3 days or more on a LC diet to get back to normal.
Although my present weight shows in my profile as 167 lbs with a target weight of 165 lbs. I am now down to 160.5 lbs and about to drop below 160 for the first time since I was a teenager. And boy do I ever feel great! I am 6 feet tall and about to turn 63. When I was initially diagnosed with T2 I was 195 pounds. I dropped to below 170 lbs within 8 months then shot back to about 183 lbs on a high carb, low GI diet. Going back to lower carbs (not as low as I am now) helped. But I still kept bouncing back and forth between the high 160s and low 170s.
Going to an LC under 30 grams/day helped. But the thing that has helped me the most was getting the right fats while reducing as much as possible the bad fats. After doing a lot of research over many years I am convinced that those on the typical North American diet are suffering from a deficiency of both the essential fatty acids (omega 3 and omega 6) and not just omega 3. Those who are supplementing with an EFA oil are usually taking flax or fish oil alone and are getting too much omega 3 and far too little good omega 6. This does not agree with the mainstream position that we get too much omega 6. We do get lots of omega 6 mainly from vegetable oils. But it is oxidized or otherwise altered or damaged. So it is of no benefit.
The current mainstream position on fish oil reminds me a lot of the evolution of the high carb, low fat diet from zero to its current status where everything else is wrong
After 2 or 3 months on an EFA supplement in the right ratio my cravings for carbs completely disappeared and my appetite waned to the point that small meals are more enough to satisfy me. Up until recently I used to be a carboholic. So this was a huge transformation for me.
While low carb is a significant step in the right direction I believe the issue is more complex than just carbs. One has to also address the fat issue (good and bad fat and especially the essential fatty acids), nutrient deficiencies (especially minerals) and detoxification.
Someone in this thread mentioned they had started taking fish oil. I have seen research that fish oil adversely affects blood sugar management among other things. In addition I have personally experienced this. So if you start taking fish oil and your BG starts going up you might want to consider this.