Blood Pressure Control

hello I'm Dr. Ekberg with wellness for life

and I just wanted to address a large concern for many people which is blood

pressure we're told that blood pressure is just

something that goes crazy sometimes but we want to understand it as a variable

it is something that changes all the time in your body and if it gets stuck

in high if it's too high then it's basically stuck the body doesn't know

how to bring it down or doesn't want to bring it down so if you're laying down

your blood pressure should be lower than if you're sitting or standing if you run

up a flight of stairs or if you do some exercise then your blood pressure needs

to go up to provide the blood flow and the pressure needed for that activity so

high blood pressure when you're exercising is normal but then after

you're done exercising it should come back down now in the medical world they

look at all the different expressions so basically when your blood pressure goes

up that is your fight flight system or your sympathetic nervous system that

engages and increases the activity to increase the blood pressure so you can

do what you're supposed to do and then when you relax then your blood pressure

and the sympathetic backs off and the blood pressure comes down again

in the medical world then just look at all the hormones and the body parts and

all the different things that carry out the higher blood pressure they don't

look for the reason behind it and then they give you medication or they try to

block the body's expression but the body is saying hey you know there's this

crisis there's this there's this fight/flight there's this urgent thing

there's this danger we need to address that's why the blood pressure is up and

then the blood pressure medication goes in and blocks the pathway to carry out

that increased blood pressure but then the body says well you don't understand

we need more blood pressure because of this situation we have go

so by blocking the expression you're not doing the body any favors what we need

to understand is why does the body believe that there is a fight/flight and

why has the body why has the autonomic nervous system

lost the ability to regulate and bring it back down why is the blood pressure

stuck so there's a number of different reasons you can do biofeedback you can

do relaxation exercises to try to calm down your your fight flight system but

more than that it can also be other things interfering what we work with in

this office are what we call barriers to healing things that prevent the body

from finding that balance because the body is designed to heal it's designed

to find balance and if it doesn't there's usually

something missing or something interfering and these things can be food

sensitivities that can be immune challenges that can be metal toxicities

chemical toxicities scars wear electromagnetic fields are all factors

that can change how the body communicates inside and with the outside

world so if those things are the true cause if that's the source of the the

body believing that it is under stress then nothing's really gonna get better

until we handle those reasons so that's what it means to get to the source of

the problem and handle things holistically you look at the body as a

whole you figure out what's interfering with it you address the cause and then

the body knows how to do what it's supposed to do

so that's the model and that is how we address blood pressure we don't treat

blood pressure we don't cure blood pressure we help the body find the

balance that it is designed to have and then the body will take it from there

so I hope this helps if you have any more questions or suggestions or

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