This fried food lowers your blood pressure

Eating fried food is terrible for you, right? Not always! In fact, there’s one fried food that’s especially good for you.

I’ve told you in the past that this food is great for your muscles and eyes. It helps prevent stroke and heart disease. And it can help you lose weight and keep it off.

But something special happens when you fry this food. It becomes incredibly effective at lowering your blood pressure.

That food is eggs. And, believe it or not, frying does something to eggs that turns them into a powerful blood pressure medication.

Yep, you read that right! Frying your eggs turns them into angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors.

Angiotensin is a protein hormone that narrows blood vessels. And narrow arteries force your blood pressure to go up. By stopping angiotensin, this enzyme keeps your arteries wide open and your blood pressure down.

But eggs can’t possibly stop angiotensin as well as a prescription medication, right? Well, some researchers wanted to know.

They knew that egg whites contain the peptide RSVPSL. They also knew that pharmaceutical companies have used this peptide in their medications to lower blood pressure for years.

But the researchers didn’t know if eggs contain enough of the peptide to effectively lower blood pressure.

So the researchers fed fried egg whites to rats and measured their blood pressure. The researchers were shocked by the results.

Not only did the fried egg whites lower the rats’ blood pressure, they did so as effectively as low doses of Captopril, a popular blood-pressure medication. And they worked without any toxic side effects.

But It’s Not Just Egg Whites

As amazing as this study is, it’s just the beginning. There are other studies that prove eggs are highly effective at lowering blood pressure.

For instance, another study, this one on humans, found something special about whole eggs. This study found that eggs work with your digestive tract to produce several different peptides. And all of these peptides act as potent ACE inhibitors.

So when you eat eggs, enzymes in the stomach and small intestine take those eggs and produce blood-pressure-lowering peptides.

What’s more, this study found that it wasn’t just fried eggs that had this impact. All eggs will do this, including boiled, poached, scrambled, and steamed eggs. But, like many other studies, this study found that fried eggs produce the most ACE-inhibiting peptides.

Don’t Eggs Cause High Cholesterol?

For decades, we were told that eating eggs raises our cholesterol.  But this is a myth.  Studies show that eating eggs actually lowers your cholesterol.

In one study, people who ate 2 eggs a day got lower cholesterol levels, lower insulin levels, lower glucose levels, and lower hemoglobin A1C.  Plus, they got higher blood levels of folate and lutein.

That means that eggs can protect you from heart disease, metabolic syndrome, type-2 diabetes, and some eye diseases, such as cataracts.

So feel free to throw some butter and eggs in a frying pan tomorrow morning. But don’t tell your doctor. Just revel in the look on his face when he sees how low your blood pressure is.