Vegetarian = Low Blood Pressure?!

Vegetarian = Low Blood Pressure?

Could someone point me towards some good research regarding whether going vegetarian will help lower blood pressure? Or could someone share their personal experience? My blood pressure is dangerously high, and since I am starting to like meat less and less anyway, I think it would be a good option for me to maybe go all veggie. Thanks!

1 day ago
By the way, I am exercising and have been for awhile, but it doesn't seem to be helping. My entire family has blood pressure issues, so I think I'm pretty much destined to have high BP as well.

I'm sorry I don't have research, all I have is an anecdote.

When I was an omni, I always had normal blood pressure--systole between 110 and 114, and diastole between 80 and 85. I've been veg since January of 2002 and vegan much of that time. The past few times I've been to the doctor, I've had a BP in the area of 90/62.

And I am overweight.

Watch your salt intake, exercise (even if it's just walking half an hour every day), eat your fruits, veggies, nuts, beans, and grains, and that might help. I also use Herbamare seasoning on my food.

If you've stopped liking meat (and I started losing my taste for it a few years before I went veg), you may as well give vegetarianism a try.