fall by 10 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure by 5 mmHg. In our Canadian intervention, studying the effects of the LCHF diet on metabolic syndrome, we achieved larger average reductions in systolic blood pressures (14 mmHg) with diet alone. Many of our subjects had also stopped taking their blood pressure–lowering medications during the trial.82 My point is that the LCHF diet might lower blood pressure more effectively than pharmacological treatments. In addition, the LCHF intervention includes many other benefits that can never be achieved by drugs, because the latter fail to address the
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