Against the Wall High: Blood Pressure

Continued from Yesterday

NOS is an enzyme that aids in the production of nitric oxide (NO) from L-arginine, an amino acid that can reduce arterial blood pressure benefit both inter-media thickness and overall endothelial function.25,26 Arginine is normally produced in the body, but is also available from several plant and animal sources of protein, such as dairy and seafood.

In 2009, Japanese researchers reported on their population-based, cross-sectional study of 7,585 subjects (3,499 men and 4,086 women, aged 40 to 69 years) and associations between dietary intakes of total, animal, and plant protein and blood pressure.27 After adjusting for age, sex, community, body mass index, antihypertensive medication use, ethanol intake, smoking, and dietary intakes of sodium, potassium and calcium, they found a 25.5-g/d increment in total protein intake was associated with a decrease in systolic blood pressure of 1.14 mmHg and in diastolic blood pressure of 0.65 mmHg; a 19.9-g/d increment in animal protein intake was associated with a decrease in systolic blood pressure of 1.09 mmHg and in diastolic blood pressure of 0.41 mmHg.

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