FAQ: Hypertension and Endurance Running

Guy Ranger. Guy Ranger. Guy Ranger. All right. Dear Jeff, Matt and Steve, what a revelation coming across your podcast. He probably doesn't think that anymore. No, he just hates us. Finding a company that is aiming to improve in the health and well-being and not worried about just looking after the bottom line. Well, you know, it's true. Since coming across your products, in brackets, I have been taking creatine monohydrate for a while, and podcast, I have been an avid listener trying to catch up, often listening to three to four podcasts a day. Holly Mackle. I apologize for the length of my mail, but any advice or insight would truly assist me so much. I have broken my question into three parts. So here's the first part. Do you want to address them in parts? Yeah, we'll see what happens. Yeah, I reckon. Shit, yeah, do point one. All right, point one. I'm 30 years old and I've always been very active. I grew up in South Africa but live in Brisbane now. I've always played sport, mainly rugby and cricket. However, over the past few years, I gave up rugby and took up running. Good on you, mate. I love it. I haven't completed about 10 standard marathons. Jeez, that all. And three ultra marathons. That's any marathon going more than 42 kilometres. About three years ago, I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. Fucking bad. and have been taking myocarditis, which is a beta blocker, a day since. I have a necessary blood test to go for a checkup every four to six weeks. My blood pressure has stabilized with my last reading being 116 over 72. That's pretty perfect. My question is, with my active lifestyle, I'm fairly clean. I stay away from white carbs, wheat, sugars, a balance of meats, greens, and fruits. Is there something I can do from a dietary point of view that I could add or remove? I enjoy two to three cups of black coffee a day with no milk or sugar. I have recently begun taking Multifood and Amp V in the mornings. Do you want to start that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because the next one's your wife. Yeah, yeah. So we'll just do this one first. So yeah, keep taking the Multifood and Amp V, of course. So when we're seeing this high blood pressure, I mean, there's quite a few things you can do. What we want to look at is there's some functional foods, but also we need to understand that most aspects of these cardiovascular disease, in particular such things as hypertension are inflammatory and oxidative stress predominantly meaning that you you're for example if your pleasure your arteries thicken up a little bit we get a bit of calcium and that sort of stuff which happens as part of stress and inflammation then you get an increased pressure because you lose that elasticity if that happens in through your kidneys then your kidneys send a message back to you your body saying that this bloke got no blood he possibly bleeding to death we put up his pressure And if it stress definitely having a couple of cups of coffee can increase it because it drives your stress nervous system and drives up that cortisol, and cortisol holds the fluid that puts up your blood pressure. Yes, that's true. If you were to switch a couple of those cups of black coffee to a particular herbal tea made on hibiscus flowers, you would notice a significant change straight up. If you did nothing else, if nothing else changed, because you're doing a lot of the good stuff. Oh, yeah. If you were to switch a couple of those cups of coffee to a big batch of hibiscus tea, the Rosella tea, because Rosella relaxes the aorta. It helps to get rid of that extra fluid that you might be holding. It doesn't interact with your medication. It also allows you to, it does a lot of good sports performance stuff. Also looks after your microbiome that's associated with these things. Very much so. I would definitely do that straight away. Yeah. I would also make sure that about 30% of your calories are coming from good quality oils. So raw nuts and seeds, essential fatty acids and that sort of stuff to make sure we've got the elasticity in the arteries, you know, immediately out of the heart that controls the top number and then typically in the kidneys that controls the bottom number to a certain degree. Also making sure you've got adequate diuretics and electrolytes, looking at things like magnesium, potassium. First thing I would do is throw in ZMST. Beauty. And I would recommend ZMST is basically a magnesium taurine supplement with a zinc and selenium to make sure those enzymes are capable capable of all working but it'll make sure you're capable of relaxing the arteries and making sure you're capable of having vasodilation and then i would basically throw in that hibiscus tea and the product that i would actually recommend that again that we can send out that'll go in his gut right yeah because you'll actually spin out if i help take the inflammation out of your gut you watch what happens to your blood pressure oh yeah it just disappears it's a good one and magnesium is a calcium channel blocker so we've got yeah it working in there that's terrific um Anything else you want to add? He's obviously exercising enough, isn't he? Yeah. No, no, no. I think that's pretty good, actually. Oh, I'll tell you one thing that would bloody work. What? And we should do this. What's that? I think we sell it. Citrulline malate. Oh, yeah, of course. See, citrulline malate is amazingly good. Citrulline malate. So citrulline malate gets absorbed. So three grams of citrulline gives you the same amount of arginine in your periphery as taking six grams of arginine, which is a very good vasodilator. Crazy shit happens when you take citrulline, though, because what happens is your body has to break down other things to make citrulline. So when you put the citrulline in, it backlogs all the glutamine and everything and maintains that in your gut wall. Also, there's a lot of research coming out of citrulline preventing gut-induced inflammation, for example, even protecting the body against sepsis. so using something like citrulline malate it's a very good state dependent vasodilator now you're a runner so you know you do not want to use a vasodilator before a marathon no otherwise you can't bloody move yeah everything gets too you know especially your lower back and your calves everything fills up but when you use a citrulline malate same as when you use like beetroot nitrates and that they have a state dependent vasodilation so they're not just going through indiscriminately dilating blood vessels if you have an area that wants more oxygen it'll tell the body to convert the citrulline to arginine that releases nitric oxide the byproduct of that reaction is citrulline yeah and that's nitrous oxide sits inside your arteries and this is important if you've got high blood pressure and that's released from the endometrium inside there and and that causes vasodilation now when you think of a hose and you think of it dilating it reduces the pressure and that's what we're after that's what i've tried to give a diagram of a something about that round i couldn't think of anything around but no not no definitely not yeah not brought out by bright Microsoft, eh, Steve-o? Absolutely not. So that's a good one. Citrulline malate, gut right, ZMST. Yeah. That's cool, man. Good one. And he's on multifood and amphi already. All right, let's talk about his wife. Well, let's talk about his wife, because my wife is also very active. Oh, active. Sorry. It says active. His name's Guy Ranger. Of course he's got a hot wife. Of course he has.