Blood Pressure – An Essential Guide to Understanding Blood Pressure

Think of your heart as a pump, continually working to pump blood around the body delivering oxygen and food to the millions of tiny cells that all fit together to make us into living, breathing human beings. Day in day out this remarkable pump keeps on going, the average heart beats about 100,000 times a day, and pumps an amazing 5 litres of blood per minute when we are resting, and up to 30 litres of blood per minute during exercise – that’s a great deal of work for just one organ, and for most of the time, we are not even aware of all the work that it is doing.

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Control Blood Pressure Naturally

As a patient of high blood pressure I like to mention that Hypertension (high blood pressure) is the most common form of cardiovascular disease in the world. High blood pressure is a threat because it makes the heart work harder, increasing its oxygen demands and contributing to angina (chest pain related to heart disease).

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Exercise to Lower High Blood Pressure

If you have hypertension, better known as high blood pressure, you can alleviate your condition by doing aerobic exercises. These are low-intensity, low impact activities that uses oxygen to increase the body’s usage of carbohydrates and fat. Essentially, it gradually lowers body weight while exercising the heart’s muscles leading to better health, improved feeling of well-being and most probably, longer life and more enjoyable living.

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What Do the Numbers in My Blood Pressure Reading Mean?

While high blood pressure (BP), or hypertension, can be life-threatening, blood pressure by itself is necessary for life. Indeed, without blood pressure, blood would not be able to circulate throughout the body and carry oxygen and nutrients to vital organs. If you are like many people, though, you may have a rough idea of what your blood pressure is, whether it is too high, and so forth. However, when your doctor tells you what your reading is, do you really understand what the numbers mean?

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What to Know About High Blood Pressure

Before we examine the causes of high blood pressure, we must first understand what exactly the blood pressure is. Put simply, the heart pumps blood through the arteries, arterioles and capillaries. This action supplies nutrients and oxygen to the organs in your body through blood flow then returns the blood to the heart through your veins. The blood pressure is the ease of blood flow through those pathways. If the vessels are dilated and wide open, then the blood flows through them easily but if they are contracted, it is more difficult for the blood to make its way through the narrow openings. This creates an increase in pressure, thus high blood pressure may occur.

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