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by more_corn 997 days ago
Do your hands and feet swell? If so, try drastically cutting your salt (20% of DVA) for a few days and test your pressure again. Salt sensitivity is real.
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Yes. It's actually not as simple as it sounds and involved preparing all my own meals. This said. A bottle of salt lasts a long long at home. Eating out is a quick way to get 100% of your DVA in one meal.

Disappointingly, it made no difference to my blood pressure over at least a month.

What it did do is reset my taste for salt. Any outside food tasted so salty at first it was yucky. That wore off after a while.

There is one thing that seems to make a difference and that is consciously drinking a lot of water. This lowers by BP but it has other affects I don't like.