#1 Natural Herb to Avoid If You Have High Blood Pressure

Your body has a built-in safety enzyme to protect you from producing too much cortisol - that's the stress hormone. This safety enzyme (11BHSD2) protects you from raising too much cortisol because that could be dangerous. Too much cortisol will cause you to retain sodium, get rid of your potassium, increase your blood pressure, cause muscle cramps, and create heart arrhythmia issues.Licorice blocks this enzyme because the active compound in licorice is glycyrrhizin. So when your body no longer has this safety enzyme, cortisol starts going up. To make this simple, if you consume too much licorice, it's going to trick your body into retaining sodium and losing potassium.