8 Vitamins and Nutrients for Blood Pressure

For millions of people throughout the country, high blood pressure is a massive problem. Also known as hypertension, high blood pressure often results from an unhealthy diet, elevated stress levels, inactivity, and an unhealthy lifestyle.

What Helps Alleviate Blood Pressure?

Blood pressure is less likely to be a problem for people who know how to manage their stress, eat a healthy diet, and work out regularly. In addition to preventing high blood pressure, each of these things also helps treat it if you’re already hypertensive. You can also help reduce and regulate your blood pressure levels by getting the right vitamins and minerals into your system. Specific vitamins and minerals reduce inflammation and protect your cells, which can lead to hypertension.

Vitamin C

Often regarded as the top super vitamin, vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that helps defend against free radicals, leading to less inflammation and oxidative stress. As a result, it may also help reduce blood pressure.

You can get vitamin C via IV or oral supplements, but you can also obtain it through certain foods such as oranges, kiwis, peppers, strawberries, and much more. 

Vitamin E

Like vitamin C, vitamin E is another powerful antioxidant that helps reduce inflammation and oxidative stress. Vitamin E also helps boost cellular protection.

You can find this vitamin in healthy nuts, fats, seafood, oral supplements, or IV therapy.

Potassium

Potassium is another powerful, versatile mineral for fighting high blood pressure. However, the way it reduces blood pressure differs from most of the other vitamins and minerals on this list. Potassium helps regulate the flow of certain fluids in your body and maintain cellular function.

More importantly, potassium also helps neutralize and counteract the effects of sodium, one of which is high blood pressure. Therefore, if you consume a lot of sodium, you should supplement it with potassium.

Calcium

In addition to being great for the health of your bones, teeth, and skin, calcium is also great for lowering blood pressure. Calcium does this in several ways, including regulating your heart rhythm, increasing blood flow, and helping your blood vessel walls contract and relax.

Magnesium

Magnesium is one of the most essential minerals for the human body. On top of its many other functions, magnesium can also help reduce and regulate blood pressure. It does this by boosting nitric oxide production, which is essential for assisting the blood vessel walls around the heart to contract and relax.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is another fantastic option if you’re struggling with high blood pressure. Although it’s not entirely clear how or why vitamin D helps with blood pressure, hypertension is more common in people with low levels of vitamin D than in those with high or adequate levels. Additionally, hypertension is more common during winter when people can’t get vitamin D from the sun. If vitamin D from the sun isn’t an option, you should consider supplements, IV therapy, or eating more red meat.

Vitamin B

We’ll round out our list of the best vitamins for combating high blood pressure with B vitamins. There are more than half a dozen B vitamins, all of which are beneficial in their own way, but B2, B6, and B9 are the most effective for reducing blood pressure.

Probiotics

Although not technically a vitamin, probiotics are natural supplements everyone should consider. While it’s true that probiotics are essential for a healthy gut, one of their additional benefits is that they help reduce blood pressure.

Oral Supplements or IV Therapy for High Blood Pressure: Which Option is Better? 

You can get most of the vitamins and nutrients on this list through dietary changes or natural bodily functions. However, you often need more of them than these methods or oral supplements can deliver. Additionally, vitamins and minerals ingested orally take longer to get into your system and are partially broken down by your digestive system before they can assist you.

Many people turn to vitamin IV therapy to get these essential ingredients into their system quickly and efficiently if they have high blood pressure. Treatments take less than an hour and require little to no downtime.

Summary

While dietary and lifestyle changes are a good start for regulating and reducing blood pressure, vitamins, and minerals can be an effective way to help manage this condition. Vitamin IV therapy can deliver essential vitamins and minerals into your bloodstream, allowing them to quickly and effectively help regulate your blood pressure.

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