Identified risk factors for hypertension include high sodium intake, low potassium intake, obesity, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, and unhealthy diet.

“So here, in the abstract they go on to detail what Western medicine considers to be the risk factors for hypertension. I disagree with these risk factors and I will talk about what I believe causes hypertension later in the podcast, but this Nature Reviews in Nephrology article says risk factors include high sodium intake, low potassium intake, obesity. I would agree with that one. Alcohol consumption. I would agree with that one. Physical inactivity. Probably agree with that one. Unhealthy diet. I agree with that, but what I consider to be an unhealthy diet is probably different than the authors of this study.”