What Are You Doing About High Blood Pressure?
Blood pressure is called “hypertension” in the medical world. When your blood pressure is consistently above the ideal 120/80, you are generally considered “hypertensive”. A high blood pressure is genetically predisposed in some individuals, but aside from genes, there are other factors that also contribute to it.
To help you better understand high blood pressure, it’s a good idea to know what hypertension really is. When your blood pressure is taken, what’s actually being measured is the amount of pressure your blood is exerting against the walls of your blood vessels. Of course the higher the number, the more pressure is being forced against those walls.
Imagine a balloon with water being filled in it. When more water is being put in the balloon, it stretches out to contain the waterup to a certain point. You will see the balloon thinning out as it gets fuller, and eventually breaks if you continue putting water into it.
Same is true with your blood vessels. They can and will burst if you let your blood pressure get too high and remain there unchecked. Where the vessel bursts will determine the severity of the results. Vessels bursting in the brain will make you suffer a stroke. Vessels in the heart will make you suffer a heart attack or suffer complete heart failure.
High blood pressure is often called the ‘silent killer’ because of this. You don’t feel any symptoms at all and you feel finethen the pressure becomes so great and it causes a life-threatening episode.
The top number of a blood pressure reading is called the systolic pressure. This is how much pressure is within the blood vessels with each pump or ‘beat’ of your heart as it forces blood out. The bottom number is the diastolic pressure. This number represents how much pressure exists within the blood vessels in between beats, when you heart is momentarily at rest.
This is the reason why doctors are more critical of the bottom number. If your diastolic pressure is over 80, and especially once it gets over 90, it means that a great amount of pressure is being exerted on your vessels even though your heart is not working, or is at rest. With high blood pressure, the spurting force of the blood as it leaves the heart the next time could be the one that proves to be too much.
So how do you lower your blood pressure? If you are overweight, lose those excess pounds. If your are overly stressed, avoid and eliminate the causes of stress. If you are smoking, stop. And if you are sedentary, exercise more.
Or you can do something easier, but is quicker and just as effective. You can avail of my Hypertension Program, which I designed to lower your chances of heart attack or stroke by lowering your blood pressure to acceptable levels. What’s more, it does not involve drastic lifestyle changes or hours of sweating in a gym.
It’s a series of easy, simple exercises which only take a few minutes a day and which you can do with little effort. The impact it will have on your blood pressure numbers is nothing short of life-saving.







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