Cold Hands And Feet All The Time

do you have cold hands and feet all the time I'm gonna explain how that works

hey I'm Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to get as healthy

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hit that bell so that you don't miss anything so some people tend to have

cold hands and feet even though their body core is feeling warm they're not

really freezing they just have cold hands and feet what's that all about

well if you're cold in the core if your whole body is cold that's a metabolism

problem that's an energy problem and I made another video to explain that but

if your body is warm and your hands and feet are cold that's a circulation

problem so what is it that warms the hands the thing that warms the hand is

blood and if your body core temperature is somewhere around 98.6 degrees then

the blood is supposed to be close to that by the time it gets to the hands

it's gonna cool off a little bit but if your body is 98.6 your hands are

supposed to be around 90 to 92 to 93 degrees that's a normal reduction in

temperature on the way out to the hand but a lot of people when they feel that

hands are cold their hands can be like 78 or 80 degrees even in a room where

it's 72 I've had people with a hand temperature of 74 their hands are just

barely warmer than the room and what that means is there is very very little

blood getting into the hands and the same thing of course with the feet so

what is it that regulates how much blood is getting into the hands and feet and

there is something called vasoconstriction so you have blood

vessels that have muscles in them in the larger blood vessels and they can

tighten up that's called vasoconstriction or they can relax

that's called vasodilation when they relax

that allows more blood into the periphery into the smaller capillaries

the finest blood vessels that we have in the hands and toes so then obviously the

question becomes if the vasoconstriction keeps the blood from flowing into the

hands what causes vasoconstriction and the

answer is stress and more specifically it's something called a stress response

when you have a stress response then your body changes your physiology and

adapt to a stressful situation to an emergency of some sort so let's just say

that you had a bear or a truck or something attacking you are coming

toward you fast now your body needs to ramp up it needs to rev up everything

and you're gonna increase your heart rate you're gonna increase your blood

pressure and the way that body does that is the heart pumps harder and the blood

vessels constrict so that they're tighter and now the blood can move

faster through the blood vessels so that there's actually more blood getting to

the muscles that are gonna get out of the way and save you so in an emergency

this works really really well but if it's not a true emergency if you're just

feeling uptight if you just feeling tension then you're still maintaining

the vasoconstriction but you're not having an emergency so your heart isn't

pumping faster or harder so now a normal heart output against that

vasoconstriction means that the blood is actually slowed down it's prevented to

get to the periphery instead of getting there faster so the same response works

two different ways depending on how intense that stress response is and if

you have more of the moderate chronic low level stress response then you're

getting the the cold hands and feet with our vasoconstriction instead and then

the next question is what is it that regulates the stress

response and that is the frontal lobe your cortex the brain and especially the

frontal lobe so the better the frontal lobe is working the better it can

inhibit or turn off that stress response so by practicing relaxation exercises

you can reduce that stress response and you're getting a little bit of

activation of that frontal lobe at the same time when you're relaxing the other

super powerful way to activate the frontal lobe is called exercise and with

exercise you're getting a little bit more it's not instead of relaxation they

work wonderfully together but it does a few more things additionally so when you

exercise you obviously increase your circulation because your heart rate goes

up and you need the blood to do the work but one more thing happens have you ever

noticed if you go out for a walk on a cold day and your hands are cold when

you start and then 10-15 minutes later they're still cold but then somewhere

around 20 to 30 minutes all of a sudden the hands just get warm and they feel

really warm and it's almost like you can take your gloves off and they still warm

that's because it takes 20-30 minutes for the capillaries to open up for the

the finest circulation to open all the way up and once it does on a regular

basis something really cool happens it's called angiogenesis and that is a fancy

word that means making new blood vessels so what that means is your body is

always checking how things are working and if you need more of something it up

regulates it makes more it increases the capacity to produce that product that

effect so if you have more peripheral circulation on a regular basis your body

is gonna make more blood vessels so you can support that blood flow if it

happens a regular basis how cool is that and a

third thing happens with exercise because you're going to move and

movement is the primary stimulant for incoming information to the brain and

especially the frontal lobe the cortex so with exercise you have three benefits

that all contributes to keeping your your hands and feet warm the first is

exercise increases circulation second it increases angio neo Genesis making new

blood vessels and third it activates the frontal lobe which can turn off the

stress and control the vasoconstriction so the two ways are exercise and

relaxation exercises breathing exercises and we have a video on that also so give

those a try and let me know how it works if you have some good results please

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