Hello, I'm Agatha
Thrash a staff physician from
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Uchee Pines Institute,
and we have a very sobering,
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very distressing problem that
we would like to talk with you
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about today and that is
the problem of hypertension.
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It has rightly been
called a silent killer,
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so for the next half an hour
we will be talking about this,
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We hope you will join us.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself to Health,
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute,
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and now here is
your host, Dr. Thrash.
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Most people do not understand
what is meant when we say
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High Blood Pressure, in fact
High Blood Pressure is defined
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by different
individuals in different ways.
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Certain health professionals
will call a certain thing
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hypertension when another
health professional will call
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something else hypertension.
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This problem is so irregular
among physicians and others
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that a few years ago my husband
and I wrote this book called
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Hypertension and Natural ways
to treat your blood pressure.
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This book covers the entire
gamut of things that can be
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done in the home by an
individual who is not specially
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trained in doing medical things
to control the blood pressure
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and to do what one can to keep
from getting blood pressure.
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Those people who have a family
history of high blood pressure
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they need to be very
careful to watch their lifestyle
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to make certain they don't come
down with high blood pressure.
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Now everybody has blood pressure
but a lot of times people will
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say, patients will
say I have blood pressure.
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Yes, we all do,
it's a fact of our lives,
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we must have blood pressure
in order to circulate the blood.
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I have asked my colleague
Dr. Wynn Horsley to assist me
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in talking with
you about this subject.
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I would like to
introduce my colleague,
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this is Dr. Wynn
Horsley who is a Physiatrist and
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works with us at Uchee Pines.
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Dr. Horsley,
maybe you could define
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what high blood
pressure is for us.
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Can we start with
normal blood pressure?
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Oh yes, let's do!
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As Dr. Agatha already said
you have to have blood pressure,
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that's what keeps the blood
circulating and the heart then
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is the main organ that
gives that thrust to the blood
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and puts
pressure into the arteries
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starting with the biggest
artery leaving the heart,
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the aorta.
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That pressure is
actually varying all the time
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with every heartbeat you
get a sudden swing up of the
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blood pressure, and
then between the heartbeats
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that pressure is going down
as the blood leaves that part
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of the aorta near
the heart and goes out to
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more distant arteries.
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What's tradition to be
considered normal is figures
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like 120/80, the units
perhaps are of interest to some
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of you, those are
millimeters of mercury.
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The same that is used to measure
air pressure for weather.
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So in the old fashioned,
still used blood pressure cuffs
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that are of the highest quality
they have a column of mercury
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and it's so many millimeters
high when it will stop the blood
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that is coursing
through the arteries.
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Now your question was when
do we call it abnormally high?
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Yes! That indeed
is a good question
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and a difficult one because
of that irregularity that you've
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said, it's
changed through the years.
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Yes! I've noticed that, it's
not the same now that it was
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when I was in
medical school 50 years ago.
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Yes, and in fact it has
changed during my time too,
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but I believe would it be
30/40 years ago they called the
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upper limit of
normal 160/95. Yes!
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Something like that. Yes!
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Then for at least the
past 20 years or so it's been
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considered that 140/90 is
the dividing line between normal
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and high blood pressure.
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Recent evidence however
indicates that people with
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higher blood pressures
get an incidence of bad things
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like strokes.
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In fact do better not just
at 140/90 but that risk keeps
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going down till you get
to a figure like 120/80.
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So instead of being just an
average of good blood pressure
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that should be
considered an upper limit.
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Yes! Absolutely! I
can remember when I was in
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Medical School, we spoke
all the time of a person having
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normal blood pressure if the
systolic was no more than the
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persons age.
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So if they were 70 years
old and their blood pressure was
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170, we said well that is normal
he's old and he's supposed to
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have a high blood pressure
and to some degree there is some
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truth in that because if
the arteries are very hard
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and the kidneys have
hard arteries and the
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intestinal tract has
hard arteries then of course
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the person does need a little
bit of an extra head of pressure
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to get the blood
into these various places.
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But whatever the reason
for the high blood pressure
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it still is a very difficult
situation for the body.
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Well, you know you are pointing
out this fact makes one realize
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really this is one of the
few diseases where people are
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treating just one sign on
physical exam, and as you said
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it's silent, when really
what needs to be treated is not
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just the figures of the pressure
but the underlying problem
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that is causing that.
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Absolutely! The
point that you made about
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someone that may in fact
need that kind of pressure...
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I saw that most
graphically in my residency.
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There was this old doctor,
in fact he was a physician
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who had had a stroke and
he was on my unit on the floor
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in the V.A. and his blood
pressure was running about
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180/100 and following him,
some of the doctors there were
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aiming at getting his
blood pressure down to what are
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considered normal
figures, down around 140 or less
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over 80.
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One wise old doctor
came by and pointed out,
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you know this
gentleman, former retired doctor
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in our hands wasn't
functioning well mentally
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when you pushed his
blood pressure way down
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like this with drugs.
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When you let it come
back up to where the kidneys
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were wanting it, in
fact he functioned better.
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So it points out we
have to get it something very
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fundamental in what's
causing high blood pressure.
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Now you mentioned the kidneys.
How do the kidneys figure in
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this thing with giving you
good function of the brain,
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or good function of
the intestinal tract,
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or even good
function of the back?
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They are the most central
organ for blood pressure.
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The kidneys in doing their
work of purifying the blood
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that comes through all the
time, they are one could say
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of necessity they need to
have a certain pressure head
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to do their job, otherwise they
can't filter the blood well.
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So if they are not getting
enough, they are going to put
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out substances,
rennin, angiotensin, substances
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that will force that
blood pressure to be high enough
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for the kidney to do a good job.
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So the kidneys have a
central role and to just in a
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willy nilly way, just
force the blood pressure down
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without dealing with
underlying problems is really
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poor practice.
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Yes, it's very poor practice.
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One thing that we
could probably point to as
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a major player in this
issue of blood pressure is
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the question of salt intake.
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There could be a long
story told about how that
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in the history of medicine came
in and doctors gradually came
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to understand it, the kidneys
are the main organ handling
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how much water is there in our
body, particularly in the blood,
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and how concentrated is
that going to be in terms of
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the sodium and chloride,
the SALT that is contained
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in that blood, so that
all enters the picture.
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The very tiny, tiniest of our
arteries are involved in this.
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Do you want to tell us
about these little arterioles
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and how they happen to be Key
in this thing of the arteries?
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Certainly, we have just
been doing this in a class
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We already mentioned the heart
which is the big pump which
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raises the pressure, in
fact maybe I could show this
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on the board,
would that be alright?
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We are going to say
along here on this graph...
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We are measuring blood pressure,
let's say this is 50 of those
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units of millimeters of
mercury, up here is 100,
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and if the individual has
figures that are quite high
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we might even get up to 200.
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All the time, this is
time going along here,
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the heart is pumping,
perhaps once every second
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and with every heart pump
from whatever the pressure was
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at, you get a rise it that
pressure in the big arteries
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in the body and when
that heart has finished it's
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contraction of that left
ventricle, then the valve
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that it pumped the
blood through snaps shut
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and now that blood is in
the aorta under pressure.
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That pressure actually
helps along with earlier during
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the heart beat, now just the
aorta which has been expanded
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and has the blood under
that elastic tension of the
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artery wall, it is pushing
that blood further along.
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So the pressure during this
time when the hear is resting
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is gradually falling
until we get another heart beat,
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and then it suddenly rises
and then it gradually falls
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when it is relaxing again.
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The pressure that the
heart places in the blood
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with each heartbeat into the
aorta, this pressure is called
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the systolic pressure,
systole is the fancy word
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the technical term for
contraction of the heart.
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During this period when
the heart is no longer pumping
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for nearly a second,
this whole time it is just the
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pressure that the
arterial system gives,
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or the resistance that
the arteries give and it is
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most specifically those
tiny arteries that you mentioned
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the arterioles that are
barely visible to the eye.
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Tiny little blood vessels
that have plenty of circular
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muscle fibers around
them that can tighten or relax
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and let the
blood flow more easily.
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That is what gives the
rate at which this pressure
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declines to the lowest point
just before the next contraction
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which is the diastolic
pressure, and I think we are all
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acquainted with how these
two are combined when they give
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blood pressure, they give
one figure over another figure
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so 120/80 would mean
that we have a pressure of 120
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which represents the hard work
that the heart has to do with
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every beat, and we have a
pressure of 80 which represents
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that lowest resting pressure
and how much pressure is the
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least that those arterioles
and arteries for that matter
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have to face all the time.
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The fact that the Lord equipped
us with arterioles that have
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all that muscle in the wall,
in fact the thickness of the
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muscle wall is greater
than the diameter of the lumen
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of that little arteriole to
be able to hold that pressure
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on the blood as it circulates.
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Now I have observed, and
everybody has who practices
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medicine that high
blood pressure tends to
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run in families.
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Is there something about
certain family genetics...
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and are other diseases
associated with this as well?
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I am sure there is
some but in medical circles
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we often talk about
this nature verses nurture.
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It is really a very hard
thing to separate out because
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children that grow up
with their parents don't only
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inherit genes, they
inherit eating patterns.
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They inherit all
kinds of habit patterns,
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in fact even the
things that make them angry
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might be quite similar.
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Yes! So you have an entanglement
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of factors and since
we can't change our genes
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it behooves us to look closely
at those other things that we've
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been nurtured into doing.
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Lifestyle is
certainly vey important in that.
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Well thank you very much
and I'm just really happy
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that Dr. Horsley could
explain those things and has
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a very nice way of talking
about Anatomy and Physiology
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which most people
feel is these are some very
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foreign Latin terms that I
am not expected to understand
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as just an ordinary human being.
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Now I have asked also Don Miller
who is one of my colleagues
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at Uchee Pines who
is a lifestyle counselor
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to talk with you some
things about the issues involved
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in the high blood pressure.
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What do you have
for us Brother Don?
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I think one of the
most important things is
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not so much to say
you might have it is,
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how can you get rid
of high blood pressure or
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how can you keep from
making that appointment.
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One of the main things that
I can mention about how we can
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lower our blood pressure
because we got this heart
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trying to pump it through our
system and it makes the pressure
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rise when we have
some type of occlusion,
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we've got some coronary plaques,
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or whatever it might be.
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There are some very
nice things that we can do,
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and there is a nice piece
of equipment that we can use
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to help us to lower
that blood pressure.
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Now it is an extremely
expensive piece of equipment but
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all of you have one in
your home so I have called
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for a demonstration for
this piece of equipment,
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so I am going to have this
piece of equipment come out here
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right now and show it.
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This is the piece of equipment,
this is my dear friend
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Shannon Jenkins from
Uchee Pines, one our Lifestyle
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Educators students and a
long time staff members child.
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This, you might not know it
but this is a piece of equipment
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and I am so thankful
that God has given us these
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pieces of equipment.
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You've got one right
there sitting in your chair
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inside your shoes, and
this is one right here,
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and the way we lower the blood
pressure is by getting into
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an exercise program.
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Now I am going to show you
that this particular piece of
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equipment certain speeds, so
the first speed that I want this
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piece of equipment to work
at is at a 62 year old woman
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who doesn't get much exercise.
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So now you are a
62 year old woman,
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how fast would you turn on
your speed for the exercise
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that we are going to do?
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Let's see you do the exercise
speed for a 62 year old woman.
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OK! Not to quick is it?
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This is called running in
place, now does that cost money?
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Not much money, but this
is a very important piece of
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equipment and so are you,
and so we want you to do these
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nice simple things that
you can do in your home.
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So this is nice and slow, and
I want to stress the fact that
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if you are out of shape,
you have been a couch potato
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or whatever your problem might
be, we want you to slow down
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and start your
exercise program slowly.
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Now we are going to turn
back the years on Shannon,
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and take her back
to what she really is,
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so right now Shannon
let's go back to sweet 16.
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Let's see what type
of exercise... Come on!
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Turn it on now, we really got
to hump it, we got to pump it,
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we really have to get in there,
you can see as she is getting
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in there, her arms are rising,
very high as a matter of fact,
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If she was at home doing this
she could raise her knees up
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and touch her elbows to her
knees, I won't make her do this
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on 3ABN but we are going
to have her do this for awhile
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and now there are some benefits
going on in this child's body
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while she is doing
this particular exercise.
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One, she is getting exercise
which is making her heart beat
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more deeply and more rapidly
which is going to make it stroke
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a little bit deeper and
slowly but surely that muscle
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that never rests is
going to get stronger,
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so by running her heart
muscle is getting stronger.
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That in itself will make
her blood pressure go down
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over a period of time.
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Second thing, exercise has
been shown to lower blood sugar.
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Blood sugar as it rises will
make your blood pressure rise.
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By exercising it makes your
body utilize your blood sugars
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much more effectively, so
right now her blood sugars are
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going down, so
that is a good thing.
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Another thing
that is going down,
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of course she doesn't
need to go down to far,
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is her weight, as she does this
exercise her weight will fall.
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We find that people who
are overweight seem to have
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more high blood pressure.
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So if you have a
weight problem do exercise,
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and I am recommending
this one it is not to clement.
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Now if it is raining or snowing
if it's icy, if it's cold,
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if it's night time,
whatever your problem is,
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you can do this
right there in your home,
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so she is going to be loosing
weight, another thing she's
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going to be loosing here
quite soon is going to be some
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perspiration and some water.
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After she gets done she
is going to go over there and
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drink a lot of water, and
the more water we drink we will
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eliminate that water, and
every time you eliminate water
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your body adds sodium to the
water, so we void out the water
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with some sodium, and
we realize people who have
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high blood pressure
should be on a low salt diet.
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So she will now be eliminating
some salt from her diet,
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right now she is loosing some
weight, she probably doesn't
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need to loose, she is building
up her heart rate which we all
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can do, she is lowering
her blood sugar which is really
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a great thing and I think this
is a very simple effective way
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to lower your
high blood pressure.
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If you are to old, start
slowly, if you are young you
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can start a little bit quicker,
but always gauge it by your own
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body, don't do it to
the point of exhaustion.
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We won't make her do it
to the point of exhaustion,
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and do not do it if
it starts to hurt you.
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The old mind set, if
it hurts it must be good,
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that's not the truth, if it
hurts there is something wrong
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so back off and try something
else, especially if you
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start having chest pains,
that's not the time to keep
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on doing... we are going
to run through this pain.
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You want to be intelligent
in the pursuit of this
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particular exercise.
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Another thing that you can do
to keep from injuring yourself
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in the exercise...
a couple of things.
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One, you might want to be
doing this running in place
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on a pad, I know I ran
for many of years, I was a
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marathon runner
and I ran on pavement,
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and my knees are shot,
and if I tried doing this on a
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hard surface it might be
just as bad because every time
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she comes down, there is a
lot of pressure hitting on that
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knee joint, and so we want
to run on something a little bit
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softer, or have a
good pair of shoes on.
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If you have a
tendency to loose your balance,
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which some people might
do, you might want to have
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something there to
have your hands on.
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Just sort of hang on to
that, whatever you can do
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to keep yourself from hurting
yourself during the exercise.
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Just remember the first
law of natural medicine,
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as a matter of fact the first
law of the Hippocratic Oath is
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first, DO NO HARM.
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Shannon is having no
harm done to her right now
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and I sort of appreciate
her demonstration for you and
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we want you to try this
thing as soon as you can.
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Now when you get done
you slow the machine down.
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Don't stop that machine!
You can just slow the machine
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down over there and
we appreciate it so much.
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Never just stop your exercise,
you want to slowly back off
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your exercise and you want
to start it even if you are
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in good shape every exercise
program begin your exercise
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in a slow fashion.
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One last thing I want to mention
about a good exercise program
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is you exercise a muscle over
just a few weeks period of time,
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your body starts building
a larger vascular system
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because your body is
saying, wait a minute,
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this muscle needs more
nutrients, needs more oxygen,
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and so it start
building a new vascular system.
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The larger your vascular
system in your muscles the lower
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your blood pressure will be.
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So these are some real nice
benefits Dr. Thrash in something
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as simple as the
exercise in that most valuable
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of all machines.
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Your body, my body, Shannon's
body, all of our bodies.
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Yes! Very Valuable machines!
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Very valuable machinery!
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I am very thankful that
you presented this on exercise,
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because exercise will do
marvels where many other types
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of remedies will
not be effective.
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But Dr. Horsley and I would
like to present some more things
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with having to do with
how to treat blood pressure.
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When the blood pressure is high
how we can make it to come down,
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so Dr. Horsley do you have
some things to say about that
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and maybe some
patients that you have had and
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what you have done for them.
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I do, I was just so interested
a few years back when I read
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about a doctor's
experience with sun light.
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That he would have
patients go out and exercise
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but he would have them
expose a fair bit of their skin
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to sun light, and he said
that that had a definite effect
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on lowering the blood pressure.
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It was not just an immediate
effect that lasts for a few
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minutes, that one could
understand that the heat
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would bring a lowering of
blood pressure by opening up
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the arterioles, but he said it
would last for up to 24 hours.
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I started trying it.
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One of the first
patients that I tried it on
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was this gentleman, a
60 year old black man,
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who had pressures that
were running about 180/100.
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We had checked him in
the room, and that is about
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what it was running.
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So I said let's go outside
here onto the porch of the
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building that we use
and roll up the sleeves,
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even pull up the pant
legs some, so we did that
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and I checked it, I checked
it within about 2- 3 minutes.
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I was probably a little
premature I was just anxious
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to see what was happening.
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I was astounded, it
went down to about 150/90.
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Now that is a pretty big
level for a drug that would be
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very powerful, but
there the sun was doing it.
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It is amazing that
with the simplest of things,
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like just sunlight.
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Can you get the same kind
of thing with a person just
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sitting in a tub of warm water?
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You know warm water,
even just lukewarm water
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often will bring blood
pressure down, and we use that
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routinely at Uchee Pines when
other things have been giving
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some effect or little
effect, not enough that we are
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satisfied, a
lukewarm bath will often help.
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The bath works on a totally
different principle from the sun
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I believe.
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I think that the bath with
it's warming sends impulses up
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to the brain that come
from thousands of little nerves
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that touch the water, so
the actual touching of the water
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I think is helpful and
its temperature is good.
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Then the sunlight, it
has instantly more than just
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warming, it does all those
things with the Pro-vitamin D,
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and Bilirubin and all
those things that happen just
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on instantaneous basis when
a person walks into the sun.
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I was quite surprised, and
then to think that this lasts
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for hours after, not just
when the person is in the sun.
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Now what else do you have?
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Ok! More recently I saw a
little add that one of our staff
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members had there of a
piece of equipment that was
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just basically just checking
on a person's breathing.
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It was a little girdle
that some company was selling
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because they had a
medical study that had shown
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when people breathe more slowly
the blood pressure goes down.
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So they had enough
facts there they said that the
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average person was breathing
about 20 times a minute,
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and what they wanted a
person to come down to was
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10 times a minute.
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Well, one of our folks at
Uchee Pines has gotten into
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a program where they do
trials of breathing three times
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a minute, 10 times a
minute is not hard at all to do.
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We had this Oriental
woman recently that came
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with rather high and
variable blood pressure,
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what they call
Labile hypertension.
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She had blood pressure,
I believe the figure that
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right at the time when
I checked this was 185/95.
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So she was I think breathing
rather rapidly, she tended to be
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a fairly tense
person and so with her,
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I would count with
her, breathe in, hold it,
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breathe out, and we have
so many seconds in each phase
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and when we re-checked it
after two minutes of doing that
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her blood pressure was 145/85.
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Amazing! Well
that certainly is very
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amazing that such
simple things such as the rate
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at which you breathe and
how much sunlight you get
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on your skin, and all of
these things are free to us
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just for the asking
from our Heavenly Father.
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