Chicken soup may fight blood pressure:
A research performed on rats in Japan has found that the collagen in chicken acts similar to an ACE inhibitor and reduces blood pressure. This and many such studies have raised a apotential that chicken soup could be deployed to the medical frontline in the battle against high blood pressure in human?
Chicken soup may thus take on medicinal importance based on findings of this research team published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Chicken soup has long been a popular home remedy for the common cold sometimes known as “Grandma’s Penicillin”. It may have an expanded role, alongside other methods, in fighting high blood pressure.
Dr. Ai Saiga, the Japanese scientist who lead the study and his colleagues cite previous studies indicating that chicken breast contains collagen proteins with effects similar to ACE inhibitors, mainstay medications for treating high blood pressure…
Chicken legs and feet, often discarded as waste products in the U.S., appears to be a better source of collagen proteins than chicken breast.
In the study, Saiga and colleagues extracted collagen from chicken legs and tested its ability to act as an ACE inhibitor in the laboratory studies. They identified four different proteins in the collagen mixture with high ACE-inhibitory activity.
Given to rats used to model human high blood pressure, the proteins produced a significant and prolonged decrease in blood pressure, the researchers say.
No Salt in the Broth:
Chicken and fish broth, ladened with collagen proteins may well be very useful for humans beings in regulating blood pressure.
If the broth remedy is to be useful, especially for black people, it is necessary to use only very little or no salt at all in the broth since salt is a notorious high blood pressure risk factor for people of African descent.
How does ACE inhibitor brings down blood pressure:
Human blood pressure is affected by the diameter of blood vessels. When the blood capillaries and arteries contract the blood pressure raises and after they expand it decreases.
Hypertension increases the blood pressure. This is because it contracts the blood vessels. It thus requires more force by the heart muscle to work and make blood circulate in the blood stream in opposition to the higher resistance posed by contracted blood arteries.
Researchers also suspect that a chemical known as angiotensin II produced by the body, when the chemical angiotensin is converted into angiotensin II. It affects human blood pressure. When there is more of this chemical, the blood pressure raises because angiotensin II causes the muscles round blood capillaries and arteries to contract.
ACE (angiotension converting enzyme) is responsible for converting the angiotensin into angiotensin II, which in turn leads to high blood pressure Scientists subsequently developed an ACE inhibitor, which acts to bring down excessive blood pressure. It works by stopping the production of angiotensin II by not making ACE available to angiotensin.
Sources:
http://www.highbloodpressuremed.com/blog/diet/chicken-soup-reducing-high-blood-pressure/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013110117.htm
I don’t have the severe problems described above. Mine rarely gets above 155/105, and that’s only when I forget to take my Metoprolol (i know, go ahead and slap me). When I do forget, I get light headed and a little disorientated on occasion. Anyone else get this? Is this lack of blood to the inner ear?