What is considered high blood pressure? When searching the guidelines for hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, you will see that most hypertension is called essential or primary, meaning that the cause is unknown and therefore there is no known cure for hypertension. The hypertension guidelines say your blood pressure is too high if you are over 120, but that may not be the whole truth depending on your body and what you are experiencing.
Once you learn the true mechanisms of blood pressure you will understand your body is not being random or stupid. Most people use medication for hypertension treatment, but in this video you will learn a quick and natural way to lower your blood pressure.
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0.06 -> what is high blood pressure also known
as hypertension in the United States
5.22 -> alone there is over a hundred million
people about one-third with high blood
9.66 -> pressure around the world there is over
1 billion people with hypertension so it
16.65 -> is a growing problem but when should we
start being concerned and what can we do
23.609 -> about it and how does it all really work
those are questions that we're gonna
28.23 -> answer today coming right up hey I'm dr.
Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a
37.29 -> former Olympic decathlete and if you'd
like to truly master health by
41.82 -> understanding how the body really works
make sure you subscribe and hit that
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anything so first what is your blood
50.94 -> pressure supposed to be well the normal
has always been considered 120 over 80
57.6 -> that's what most healthy people have
then in the past
61.859 -> anything from 120 up to 140 used to be
called either high normal or pre
69.42 -> hypertension so it was still considered
like yeah it's a little bit high but
74.22 -> it's not a big problem then they've
changed the guidelines lately and now
79.53 -> anything over 120 is considered elevated
blood pressure so if you have a hundred
86.52 -> and twenty one that is now considered
you're officially have elevated high
92.189 -> blood pressure if you are over 130 if
you hit 131 now you are in stage 1
100.079 -> hypertension and if you hit 141 you're
in stage 2 hypertension so they've
105.899 -> changed the labels a little bit to kind
of raise the awareness and also my guess
111.42 -> is to increase the market potential for
hypertensive medication it used to be
117.96 -> stage 1 was 140 to 160 and you weren't
really considered really hypertensive
124.95 -> until you were over 160 and you were in
stage 2 there's never actually been any
130.37 -> conclusive evidence of damage
from blood pressure until it gets over
136.59 -> 160 so 159 over 99 while everyone sort
of agrees that yeah it's a bit high
143.459 -> there's never been any substantial
damage reported so why would we care why
150.269 -> would we be concerned with anything like
in a 120 to 140 range and I believe
157.89 -> it's because it's an indication of
something starting to move in the wrong
162.569 -> direction even if that blood pressure in
itself doesn't cause any damage it is
167.34 -> part of a bigger problem that we want to
understand and address they've always
171.84 -> known that really high blood pressure is
a big problem it's urgent they call
176.61 -> anything over 180 over 120 a crisis and
I don't have any argument with that if
183.48 -> your blood pressure's up in that range I
suggest that you seek medical help and
187.86 -> you get some medication until you can
figure it out don't plan to be on
192.38 -> medication for the rest of your life
because there are solutions to this
197.099 -> there's something that isn't working
right and why is that called a crisis
200.97 -> because it can lead to cardiovascular
damage also resulting in stroke down the
208.41 -> road because with that much pressure the
friction on the inside of your blood
212.76 -> vessels it's much higher so there's more
wear and tear there's more damage
216.93 -> there's more inflammation
leading to damage and plaque building
221.94 -> and so forth it can also lead to
cardiomegaly if you have high blood
226.44 -> pressure that means that your heart is
working harder all the time and when it
232.47 -> works harder then it starts to grow
especially the part of the heart that is
238.019 -> responsible for the pumping out against
the pressure in the body that's called a
242.85 -> left ventricle and what happens when it
starts growing is the wall of that
249.45 -> muscle thickens and it might seem like a
good thing with a big strong heart but
254.85 -> the problem is when the wall thickens it
doesn't fill because the blood needs to
259.919 -> contract to squeeze the blood out but
then it needs to relax to let the blood
264.81 -> back in for the to get
ready for the next heartbeat but if the
269.54 -> wall is too thick the heart is inelastic
and it doesn't fill very well so the
274.49 -> efficiency of the heart goes down and
that sets you up for serious long-term
279.29 -> problems one being heart failure another
problem that's very often quoted is
285.23 -> kidney damage and eye damage blindness
and these are also two problems that are
291.41 -> associated with diabetes because kidney
damage and eye damage are associated
296.39 -> with microvascular the tiny tiny blood
vessels in the eye and the kidney they
301.85 -> can't withstand that high pressure so
they get damaged but because it also
307.34 -> happens in diabetes it is probably a
combination of the high blood pressure
313.07 -> and the inflammation and the swelling
resulting from diabetes from the high
318.08 -> blood glucose and that's what we want to
understand about these things that if
322.52 -> you do a search for high blood pressure
or belly fat or blood glucose or
328.97 -> diabetes or insulin resistance or any of
these they usually say that there is no
334.34 -> known cause that they call the blood
pressure sac for example essential
339.89 -> hypertension meaning we don't know what
caused it and it's because they're
344.72 -> looking for a single cause they're
looking for a direct cause rather than a
349.34 -> group of circumstances and that group of
circumstances is syndrome X so the lower
357.53 -> levels of blood pressure are not
necessarily dangerous in themselves but
362.24 -> they point to a growing imbalance and
that's why high blood pressure is
367.84 -> associated with syndrome X with
metabolic syndrome and it's also
373.49 -> associated with dementia but the blood
pressure isn't the direct cause of these
380.12 -> even though they often quote it because
they don't clarify the cause and effect
385.31 -> because they're always looking at a
single thing but metabolic syndrome is
389.3 -> belly fat diabetes insulin resistance
high blood glucose high triglycerides
394.31 -> low HDL and high blood pressure and all
of these are a result of in
400.729 -> Selene resistance and of congestion in
the body that's why insulin resistance
406.669 -> is the big problem and the blood
pressure just kind of gets tagged along
411.589 -> at the tail end of that so let's talk a
little bit about the bigger picture here
416.509 -> why what's the purpose of blood pressure
what is blood pressure
420.65 -> well blood pressure is when the heart
squeezes against a certain resistance so
427.639 -> when we look at the number of 120 over
80 the 120 is called systolic that's
434.719 -> when the heart contracts when the heart
actively works the blood pressure goes
439.849 -> up then when the heart relaxes
we still need a certain baseline
445.52 -> pressure to keep the blood flowing to
keep the blood where it's supposed to be
450.559 -> there's two reasons why we have blood
pressure and one is that we need a
456.589 -> certain pressure to keep the blood
moving and the second is we need a
461.12 -> certain amount of pressure to work
against gravity why do we want to keep
466.699 -> the blood moving why do we want to have
different amounts of blood moving
471.08 -> because blood is the resource delivery
system in the body all the resources get
478.33 -> transported they get distributed
depending on how much blood goes to the
483.439 -> different body parts so there's oxygen
and glucose and fatty acids and ketones
488.209 -> and minerals and vitamins and hormones
they all get in the blood because
493.61 -> they're about to get delivered so that's
the purpose of having blood pressure the
498.8 -> second thing to understand is that blood
pressure is a variable high blood
504.11 -> pressure is not something that jumps on
you because you're unlucky because you
509.18 -> get a disease it's because your body is
creating the high blood pressure for a
515.029 -> reason in this moment and this moment in
this moment and this moment every time
520.819 -> the heart beats depending on
circumstances you create blood pressure
525.199 -> if you exercise for example then it's
normal for blood pressure to be 220 the
532.61 -> systolic the high number
can be 220 when you exercise and that is
537.11 -> perfectly normal because that's what
your body needs in that moment to
542.06 -> deliver the appropriate amount of fuel
to the tissues but hypertension the
549.07 -> unbalanced situation is when your blood
pressure goes up for some reason and
554.33 -> then the body fails to bring it back to
balance so blood pressure is a variable
559.88 -> it's created in every moment of your
existence and high blood pressure is a
564.32 -> failure to regulate it properly so why
is the number 120 over 80 why is that
571.88 -> normal is there a reason well of course
there's a reason the body is not random
577.52 -> it's super intelligent it's going to
maintain the appropriate blood pressure
581.9 -> in that situation it has to do with two
reasons one is it takes a certain
586.7 -> pressure to keep the blood moving and
then it takes a certain pressure to lift
591.5 -> the blood up against gravity when we
have a certain distance from the heart
598.01 -> to the brain the blood has to be
maintained at a pressure high enough to
603.68 -> be squeezed from the heart to the brain
against gravity that's why we have
608.51 -> different blood pressure when we lay
down versus when we stand up so if you
613.85 -> lay down you stand up quickly and you
get a little lightheaded that's a sign
618.95 -> that your body couldn't react fast
enough that you have a little bit of
623.09 -> adrenal fatigue the adrenals make
adrenaline that squeeze on the blood
627.89 -> vessels so when you stand up the blood
rushes to your feet if the squeeze is
633.34 -> appropriate and fast enough then the
blood stays in the brain if it's not
638.6 -> fast enough gravity takes over and the
brain is left without blood you get
644.36 -> lightheaded so 120 is the number that we
need to get the blood from the heart to
650.3 -> the brain when we're standing up the 80
is how much background pressure we need
657.77 -> because if all the blood vessels relaxed
completely all the blood would end up in
662.81 -> your feet and it wouldn't matter how
hard the blood pumped because it would
667.58 -> all you'd walk
around with huge feet the body is smart
670.97 -> so it's going to maintain the right
pressure to distribute the blood
674.69 -> throughout the body and that's why 120
over 80 but what it also means is that
681.44 -> if your brain is further from your heart
than most people then you need more
687.62 -> blood pressure the taller you are and
the longer your neck is the more likely
693.019 -> that 130 or even 140 is normal for you
so we said that blood pressure is a
699.8 -> variable that your nervous system will
regulate how hard the heart squeezes and
706.16 -> how much the blood vessels resist and
there are signals and there's hormones
711.86 -> and there's a very complicated intricate
system and because it's all about fuel
716.69 -> delivery there's that's the ultimate
purpose is to deliver oxygen and
721.399 -> nutrients and fuel to the body then any
condition where you have a lessened
728.149 -> ability to deliver the fuel or an
increased need then your body might
733.97 -> compensate by increasing blood pressure
smokers for example they inhale carbon
739.699 -> monoxide on a regular basis that's a
very toxic and foreign substance to the
745.279 -> body and it sticks to the red blood
cells and blocks the ability to take up
751.13 -> oxygen so a smoker will typically have
blocked 20% of their oxygen delivery
758.69 -> capacity right off the bat so a lot of
smokers their bodies will compensate by
764.18 -> increasing blood pressure so if there's
not so much oxygen in the blood we got
768.709 -> to send more blood out there and me me a
same thing if you are anemic you have
773.899 -> fewer red blood cells less hemoglobin
there's a less lesser ability to deliver
780.97 -> nutrients and fuel and oxygen to the
body so the body might compensate by
786.47 -> raising blood pressure if you have
reduced circulation or if you're
791.48 -> unhealthy for any other reason where
your body is not as good at using the
797.48 -> fuel then it's going to require it's
going to request more fuel and the core
802.4 -> concept to understand when it comes to
high blood pressure is stress because
807.53 -> stress is a situation where your body
has an increased need of something
812.71 -> stresses when the body perceives real or
imagined that there's a threat that
818.63 -> there's a reason to produce more energy
because we need more energy so exercise
824.75 -> is the obvious example where the body
needs many many times more fuel than
831.23 -> normal but if we're not exercising and
we're stressed we're sitting in traffic
835.85 -> we're having too many bills to pay the
kids are screaming the boss is rude or
840.71 -> angry then when we get tense when we get
stressed then the blood pressure goes up
846.05 -> when we get nervous blood pressure goes
up there's something called white coat
850.55 -> syndrome when you have your blood
pressure taken in a doctor's office with
854.66 -> a lot of white coats around a lot of
people will add 20 30 points to their
859.28 -> normal blood pressure because they get
nervous because they have some stress
863.6 -> some of the simplest techniques of
breathing that you can take your blood
869.54 -> pressure if you notice it's a few points
high like 135 ish you sit down and
874.55 -> breathe for five minutes and your blood
pressure is right at 120 over 80 this
879.23 -> will work for 90% of people almost
instantaneously and if you turn it into
885.32 -> a habit then your body learns to get
into that relaxed state so if your blood
891.26 -> pressure is very high like 160 180 then
you want to seek help as soon as
897.5 -> possible but if it's in the 120 130
range even 140 then you want to start
905.51 -> asking why is this happening how can I
reverse this why is my body responding
911.81 -> and creating this kind of blood pressure
right now what what imbalance do I need
916.97 -> to address blood pressure is associated
with all of the factors of metabolic
922.58 -> syndrome so one of the main things that
you want to do is look at your insulin
927.41 -> resistance at your carb intake at your
weight at your belly fat all those
933.08 -> indicators of insulin resistance of
course the
936.14 -> good blood work for that as well but the
second thing is you definitely want to
941.3 -> start understanding stress because
people have never been busier they never
946.85 -> had more stress more deadlines more
interruptions more fires to put out and
952.4 -> this creates a habit of stress it
creates a habit of being of perceiving
960.77 -> that the body needs more more fuel more
resources stress raises cortisol which
967.01 -> raises blood sugar which raises insulin
resistance but primarily the acute state
972.83 -> that it creates is stress so if we can
just breathe for a few minutes that can
978.74 -> work wonders for most people and the
last thing is I put number three to get
985.31 -> healthy well that sounds sort of like a
redundant argument that's like people
991.22 -> telling you to solve your obesity by
losing weight but here we want to
996.89 -> understand what healthy means that
health means homeostasis in every aspect
1004 -> of the word chemical structural and
emotional balance that all the things
1009.7 -> that we call disease happen because
there is something out of balance
1014.32 -> homeostasis is not there we're pushing
the body out of homeostasis so the more
1021.58 -> we can understand about all these
variables of holistic health the better
1027.1 -> we can actually get healthy get into
homeostasis high blood pressure is a
1031.87 -> very important topic and there's so many
myths and misconceptions out there about
1038.31 -> salt and minerals and weight and
exercise and losing weight and just do
1045.22 -> this so I'm gonna do another video
probably to talk about some of the
1050.11 -> mechanisms in more detail but until then
if you enjoyed this video then you're
1056.77 -> gonna love that one thank you so much
for watching and I'll see you in the
