In "Ordinary World", Sun Shaoping drank vinegar to lower his blood pressure. Is it true? Doctors debunked the rumor

Many people asked me, can drinking vinegar lower blood pressure?

I said: This is very simple, try drinking it for a few days. If your blood pressure drops, it means that drinking vinegar can lower your blood pressure. If your blood pressure remains the same after drinking vinegar, it means that drinking vinegar does not lower your blood pressure.

The feedback after a while was: blood pressure was still the same and had not dropped at all.

I asked them in return, who said that drinking vinegar can lower blood pressure?

As an expert said, I would say be careful or you will shoot yourself in the foot and your job.

Some people also said it was a TV show:

1. Why did Sun Shaoping's blood pressure drop after drinking vinegar in "Ordinary World"

Many people said that they saw it on TV. In the TV series "Ordinary World", Sun Shaoping had high blood pressure during the job physical examination. He failed the physical examination and was very nervous and scared. He yelled to Xiaoxia excitedly on the phone. Later, Xiaoxia asked him to calm down and told Shaoping that drinking vinegar can lower blood pressure. So Shaoping bought apples and secretly went to the doctor for the physical examination, and got another chance to measure his blood pressure.

Before measuring his blood pressure for the second time, Shao Ping drank a bottle of vinegar, and the result showed that his blood pressure was normal, so he passed the second physical examination.

People think that drinking vinegar can lower blood pressure just because of the plot of the novel. Not to mention that this is a novel, not a medical work or a popular science work. Even if we think that Sun Shaoping's blood pressure returned to normal after drinking vinegar, we can't be so foolish as to think that drinking vinegar can lower blood pressure.

If you have read "Ordinary World", you must know that Shao Ping later went down to the mine to dig coal and became a team leader. This shows that Sun Shao Ping did not have high blood pressure at all. For children from rural areas, they care too much about the recruitment. They can instantly change from farmers to workers. In that era, it was extremely glorious, so Shao Ping cared too much about physical examinations. The first time Sun Shao Ping's blood pressure was measured, his high blood pressure was caused by nervousness, just like what we now call white coat hypertension, that is, the blood pressure is high when measured in the hospital, and it is normal when measured at home. This kind of white coat hypertension cannot be considered hypertension.

Later, Xiaoxia told him that drinking vinegar can lower blood pressure. After drinking the vinegar, Shaoping was no longer nervous. He thought that vinegar lowered blood pressure, so he was no longer nervous, and his blood pressure returned to normal.

Therefore, Sun Shaoping drank vinegar to lower his blood pressure, which only relieved his tension psychologically. When he was no longer nervous, his white coat hypertension naturally disappeared.

2. Which of the five mixed flavors can lower blood pressure?

If we have to say which one of the four flavors, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty can lower blood pressure, or which one is healthy or unhealthy.

High salt will definitely increase blood pressure, and high oil and high sugar are not good for your health; relatively speaking, less salt and more vinegar is healthier, but this does not mean that drinking vinegar can lower blood pressure.

Vinegar is an aqueous solution containing mainly 2% to 9% acetic acid. In addition to acetic acid, brewed vinegar also contains a variety of amino acids and many other trace substances. Vinegar is a fermented sour liquid condiment, mostly made from glutinous rice, sorghum, rice, corn, wheat, sugar and alcohol. Vinegar can stimulate appetite and help digestion, but there is no evidence that drinking vinegar can lower blood pressure or blood lipids or soften blood vessels.

Studies in recent years have shown that bitterness and spiciness may help control blood pressure. Of course, this is still in the stage of further research. Even if it is beneficial, it does not mean that people with high blood pressure will have normal blood pressure after eating bitter melon or chili peppers. It is only relative.

Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty are just flavors, just seasonings in our lives, and cannot directly treat diseases. Long-term healthy seasoning is conducive to the prevention and control of high blood pressure, but it cannot directly treat high blood pressure.

3. How to lower blood pressure in daily life

If you used to eat a lot of salt and then developed high blood pressure, and then gradually switched to a low-salt diet and consumed more vinegar, vegetables and fruits, your blood pressure will become lower and lower. Even mild hypertension can be improved through diet and blood pressure can return to normal. However, the credit for normal blood pressure goes to less sodium and more potassium, that is, a low-salt diet, more fruits, vegetables, coarse grains and other foods, rather than attributing all the credit to drinking vinegar.

In addition to eating a diet low in salt, oil, sugar and potassium, you also need to exercise, lose weight, avoid staying up late, quit smoking and drinking, etc. These are all conducive to blood pressure control. If it really doesn't work, you can only take antihypertensive drugs to lower blood pressure. The goal is to achieve blood pressure standards!

In short, less salt and more vinegar is healthier than more salt and less vinegar, but don't expect to lower your blood pressure by drinking vinegar!