Hello, welcome back to the "Hypertension Medical Course." I am Jessica. From this lesson, we enter the realm of lifestyle interventions for hypertension: diet, exercise, and stress reduction. Among these, dietary strategies are the most effective and show the fastest results. When you hear "dietary therapy," what comes to mind? Celery juice? Vinegar-soaked peanuts? Raw eggplant? Lotus seed tea? If you search online, you’ll find hundreds of so-called antihypertensive teas. These are mostly harmless, but the real danger lies in expensive health products that promise "money-back if not effective"—many are unregulated and may secretly contain unknown doses of antihypertensive drugs. Currently, there is no medical evidence supporting the effectiveness of these single foods. The Effect of Dietary Adjustment But that doesn’t mean dietary strategies are ineffective. Most evidence-based lifestyle interventions for hypertension are related to diet. According...