Vascular and metabolic repair solutions: Natural dietary therapy for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes.

High blood pressure. Ultimately, high blood pressure is also caused by excess water in the body. Increased body water content leads to increased blood volume. As a result, the heart has to pump blood more forcefully, leading to high blood pressure. People with high blood pressure are often advised to control their salt intake, which is due to the same mechanism. Because salt has water-absorbing properties, once it enters the bloodstream, it draws a large amount of water from surrounding cells.

This increases the water content in the blood, thus increasing the overall blood volume. Excess water also chills the body and causes blood vessels to constrict, a major factor contributing to elevated blood pressure. Furthermore, cholesterol and fat buildup can lead to arteriosclerosis, obstructing blood flow and further contributing to high blood pressure. In addition, weakened lower body muscles cause blood to pool in the upper body, diverting blood from the lower body's capillaries, which is another cause of high blood pressure.

In other words, to normalize blood pressure, it's crucial to first eliminate excess water from the body, clear blockages in blood vessels, and engage in regular lower body exercises to ensure smooth blood flow throughout the body. Eat onions, daikon radishes, and wakame salad. Onions dilate blood vessels, promoting blood circulation and lowering blood pressure. Daikon radishes contain vitamin P, which strengthens blood vessels. Wakame not only contains blood pressure-lowering components but also abundant dietary fiber, which inhibits the absorption of fat in the intestines.

Fish and shellfish contain DHA, EPA, and taurine, all of which have anti-thrombotic effects and can effectively lower blood pressure. To control your intake of meat, eggs, butter, and milk, you should increase your consumption of fish and shellfish. Fermented foods such as natto, miso, soy sauce, and cheese are rich in the anti-thrombotic substance pyrazine, so actively consume these foods. Drink plenty of carrot, apple, and celery juice with cucumber. Carrots and celery contain pyrazine, while apples are rich in potassium, which helps the body excrete salt.

In addition, isoquercitrin in cucumbers has a diuretic effect, effectively eliminating salt, water, uric acid, and waste from the body. The brown skin of onions contains a large amount of pigments that have a blood pressure-lowering effect. Drinking a decoction of fried onion skins can lower blood pressure. To make this decoction: Take 10 grams of brown onion skins, add 600 ml of water, and bring to a boil. Simmer until the water is reduced by half, then remove from heat and strain the liquid. Drink the strained liquid several times a day.

High blood lipids. High blood lipids refer to a condition where cholesterol or triglycerides in the blood are elevated. High blood lipids inevitably lead to narrowed blood vessels, poor blood circulation, and thickened, polluted blood. Because the blood becomes polluted, high blood lipids can cause arteriosclerosis and often trigger high blood pressure. Patients with high blood lipids often receive dietary guidance, which advises them to control alcohol consumption and reduce their intake of high-cholesterol meats and eggs. However, even more important than these measures is removing excess water from the body.

Excessive water retention can make the body feel cold. Since things in nature tend to solidify when exposed to cold, a cold body will experience reduced burning of fats like triglycerides. Just as white fat solidifies on the surface of stewed meat after it cools, the same phenomenon occurs in the blood. Therefore, to restore clean blood and smooth blood flow, the prerequisite is to avoid excessive water intake and to expel excess water as much as possible to warm the body.

Based on this, change your excessive cholesterol-consuming Western-style diet to a traditional Eastern diet, actively exercising your lower body muscles to raise body temperature and promote fat and cholesterol burning. Eat salads containing onions, carrots, and wakame seaweed. Consume plenty of root vegetables and allium vegetables such as scallions, leeks, and garlic. Drink one or two cups of ginger soup every morning. To make ginger soup: take a thumb-sized piece of ginger, mash it into a paste, put it in a tea strainer, and pour in hot water. Add honey or brown sugar, and drink two or three cups daily.

Foods like mentaiko (pollock roe), dried small fish, miso soup, and soy sauce contain a lot of salt; be mindful of consuming these warming foods. Take some time for a salt bath. Diabetes. Western medicine believes that diabetes is a disease caused by insufficient insulin secretion from the pancreas. Due to insufficient insulin, the sugar in the blood cannot be fully utilized, resulting in excessively high blood sugar levels-this condition is diabetes. High blood sugar can damage the retina and kidneys, so the body tries to excrete the sugar through urination.

Because sugar is excreted through urine and can cause kidney damage, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) considers diabetes a disease of the lower body. Those who observe diabetic patients will notice that many have a much thinner and weaker lower body than their upper body. This is because they don't exercise their lower body muscles sufficiently, preventing the body from burning sugar and causing blood sugar levels to rise, thus increasing their susceptibility to diabetes. Therefore, actively exercising the lower body to improve sugar burning efficiency, while consuming foods that inhibit sugar absorption, can help treat and prevent diabetes.

Drink carrot, apple, and onion juice. Onions are rich in glucokine, a substance that helps lower blood sugar. To make carrot, apple, and onion juice: Prepare two carrots (about 400g) with the peel on. Prepare one-third of an apple (about 100g) with the peel on. Prepare one-third of an onion (about 30g). Put the carrots, apple, and onion together into a juicer to make a vegetable juice. Eat an "onion, daikon radish, and wakame salad." This dish allows you to also consume onions, which contain glucokine, for lowering blood sugar.

And wakame seaweed, rich in dietary fiber, can reduce the absorption of sugar in the intestines. In addition, soy sauce used for seasoning can warm the body and promote sugar burning. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, diabetes is a state of kidney deficiency caused by weakness in the lower body. Therefore, it is important to eat plenty of root vegetables that can improve lower body function. Yam is particularly beneficial. Additionally, drinking about 30 ml of yam wine before bed is also helpful. To make yam wine: take 200 grams of dried yam or taro, and chop it.

Pour chopped yam, 150 grams of white sugar, and 1.8 liters of white wine into a wide-mouthed jar. Store in a cool, dark place for three months. Drink about three cups of ginger black tea with brown sugar daily. Ginger and brown sugar are rich in zinc, one of the components of insulin, which can effectively lower blood sugar levels. Take a hot bath at approximately 42°C. Soak in the bathtub for three minutes, then get out and rest for five minutes, then soak in the bathtub again for three minutes, repeating this three times.