Regulating Blood Pressure Naturally Part 1 of 3

Amandha: Speaking of education, for those of you who don’t know my channel or what I do, I have a huge educational background. I have a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Biotechnology from the University of Lethbridge. But why I did that was because it gave me all of my undergraduate credits to go to veterinary college.

Amandha: I wanted to be a veterinarian. I wanted to be a holistic veterinarian. They didn’t like that idea back then. So then I went to naturopathic college. That’s a four-year post-secondary degree. The title on my diploma on my wall is Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. So that’s the extent of my formal training.

Amandha: I’ve done tons of other courses. I’ve been trained in applied kinesiology under the auspices of Dr. David Leaf. I’ve done numerous courses in India on homeopathic medicine. I’ve taken distance courses. I’m continually researching and continually educating myself, and I’m never satisfied that I think I know something, because I think…

Amandha: The quest for knowledge means you have to be in a humble place, where you wake up every day and say, ‘I know nothing. God knows everything. I don’t know it. I’m just in this body trying to get by in this suffering place, and I’m going to learn something every day and continue my learning and growth.’

Amandha: So even though someone is considered an expert or educated in something, you still need to do your own due diligence and continue learning and growing, right? That is the point of this Earth school: to just keep growing, keep etching out the art of your soul, and keep learning forever.

Amandha: Keep learning. Okay, so I have education because sometimes I get comments where they’re like, ‘Who is this chick? What’s she talking about? How does she know?’ And whatnot. I’ve been assisting people for well over a decade. I have a lot of clinical knowledge as well, so that experiential knowledge is very valuable.

Amandha: So that comes with me as well, just to calm down some peeps there. And I take whatever course I can. It’s just that now I’ve designed a lot of… Well, I design protocols, but I also design medicine, skincare, tea blends, these kinds of things.

Amandha: And that keeps me very occupied, and I love doing that. So you can see what I’ve created on my website, which is yummymummyemporium.ca. That’s going to be my new website. Right now it’s just a landing page. If you click on that, it’ll go to my active page right now, which is yummymummyemporium.org.

Amandha: All right, my daughter is coming back from her little vacation with grandparents and her father and so forth. It’s been very peaceful around here, which is about to change. I’m at my rocket stove here, behind me, and I’m sitting on a nice warm bench because the rocket stove heat goes through the cob bench and then goes out through the stack here.

Amandha: So there it is, the descriptions that you all require. And the other thing is, I’ve gotten a few trolls, and they really like to say very strange things. One of the things they like to say is, ‘Well, all you’re doing is selling stuff, so you should just say this is an ad.’ It’s like, really?

Amandha: So, okay, wait a second. Do you think that the work I’ve done to build my business, be independent, raise my child as a single mother, find quality products for people who have asked me to do that, and then tell people about those products, that’s not allowed? That’s bad? Is that what that is?

Amandha: It’s just so confusing, right? People, what do you want? Do you want me to just lie down and let you take everything from me for free? Is that what I’m supposed to do? Okay, that doesn’t make any sense. Of course I’m going to provide a service for people, and of course I’m going to sell stuff.

Amandha: I’m living on Earth in a house that needs to be paid for, right? It’s just funny when I get those comments. I’m like, I’m not even going to entertain it. But it’s like, yeah, I’m so bad. I’m a bad girl for being successful. Bad me. Just come over and spank me already. Oh, wait, I shouldn’t say that.

Amandha: I’ll probably get that, and that’s a different connotation. But come on, lighten up. It’s okay to be successful. It’s okay to pay your bills. It’s okay not to be in poverty consciousness. All right, thank you very much. Yes, a comment came through. I am making a new eye potion.

Amandha: I am making a new eye combination. The thing is, I’m making a few.

Amandha: I need to source pure ingredients that don’t have fillers, and I’m having a little bit of a tough time with that. I have a few leads, but getting glutathione without fillers in its reduced form is what I’m after.

Amandha: Right now, I’m also going to be looking for curcumin without anything else in it, so I can make curcumin eye drops, which are healing a lot of different macular diseases.

Amandha: So that’s pretty exciting. That’s just happening. All right, so let’s get to blood pressure. Let’s give a little lesson on how it works, what’s going on, all the interactions. I mean, obviously your blood is life. It’s vital. Your blood does a lot of things, and if it’s not working properly, then that’s a fundamental problem.

Amandha: So if your blood pressure is not where it should be… Now I’m talking about hypertension. Low blood pressure is another issue. Generally speaking, there’s low blood volume. Often I see this, typically, as well, when there’s a hormone problem. Usually it’s not enough progesterone. But I’m going to be focusing on hypertension because that’s the majority of people who are out of balance.

Amandha: That’s what they see. So I’m going to go through some notes I’ve made and help you understand it from a physiological perspective. Then I will help you understand the hormones and mechanisms involved, and then we’ll get to the solutions. Okay, so let’s understand blood pressure, structure, functions, and mechanisms of blood clotting. Let’s give you a well-rounded, basic Coles Notes version of blood.

Amandha: Okay, we understand blood as a transport medium. It has a weak alkaline pH of 7.4, and it needs to stay within that range, roughly. The volume is about five to six liters of blood on average. The structure includes connective tissue, the plasma part, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.

Amandha: And the thing that modern science will not acknowledge, another important aspect of blood, are the somatids, and that comes from the red blood cell membrane. The membrane will bleb off and make bacteria, fungal cells, what they call viruses, when it needs to repair certain things.

Amandha: So that’s another aspect that’s important to understand. You’re not going to see that in your typical chemistry or biochemistry book. So plasma is the tissue fluid of blood. It’s about 54% of blood volume. It’s 90% water. Ninety percent.

Amandha: Oh, high blood pressure. You say, ‘How much water have you drank today?’ I mean, it’s sometimes that simple. People are walking around chronically dehydrated. Ninety percent of 54% of your blood volume is water. Just fix that part; make sure that’s covered. Okay, 1% of it is inorganic salt, so those are your calcium, sodium, chloride.

Amandha: Those salts are essential for cell gates opening and closing and resetting of cells. We won’t go too far into that, but it’s critical. Think of it as your electricity. That’s part of the electricity of your body. They’re electron donors. Seven percent are proteins, so that’s your albumin, globulin.

Amandha: Fibrinogen. Two percent of that is also your absorbed food, so your sugars, your amino acids, things you’ve eaten. Hormones, of course, are part of this; enzymes, which are critical. Enzymes act mainly as catalysts. They do other things as well, like break down substances, but as a catalyst, an enzyme speeds up reactions.

Amandha: So if you have to take a step A to step B and you need that to happen pretty fast, the enzyme makes it happen quickly. That’s a simplified version of it. You have antibodies in there, which is also a very controversial subject we’re not talking about today. And there will be waste in there.

Amandha: Urea, for example, will be in the blood.

Amandha: So they’re called erythrocytes, red blood cells. They’re the most abundant blood cell. If I take a blood sample and look under the microscope, I’m going to see mostly red blood cells. That’s going to be most of the field. There’s obviously going to be more in a larger frame; there tend to be more in men than women, for example.

Amandha: They have a biconcave shape. They’re round and very thin in the middle and thick around the edge. I like to say they look like a condom, kind of a rolled-up condom. They’re produced in bone marrow and they’re also produced in the lungs, which we found out recently: that lungs play a key part in blood making.

Amandha: Red blood cells have a lifespan of 120 days, and in those 120 days they circulate about 1,172,000 times. Yeah, that’s busy. That’s busy blood. They’re destroyed in the liver, spleen and bone marrow. And the hemoglobin in them contains protein and iron, and that’s what gives the color, that red from protein and iron.

Amandha: We know they transport oxygen from the lungs to all the body parts. In the lungs, hemoglobin combines with oxygen and forms pale red oxyhemoglobin. The oxyhemoglobin carries the oxygen to the different parts of the body.

Amandha: Then it releases the oxygen. It can carry up to four.

Amandha: It’s like four sets. I think there are four sets of four, if I remember my biochemistry right. On each hemoglobin there are four launch pads. And then it changes after that. So it also has to transport CO2, which is our waste from all the body parts back to the lungs.

Amandha: So bring it back to the lungs, where the hemoglobin will combine with carbon dioxide inside the body cells and make dark red carbaminohemoglobin. And the carbaminohemoglobin carries the carbon dioxide to the lungs, then releases the CO2 and changes into hemoglobin again.

Amandha: Okay.

Amandha: So that’s one main understanding of blood, which most people know. That’s common knowledge. Yes, it transports oxygen and transports carbon dioxide. So your out-breath is your carbon dioxide, your in-breath is your oxygen. And that’s simplified because both happen both ways.

Amandha: But there it is.

Amandha: White blood cells are the leukocytes, and if you’re ill you’ll have more. So when I take someone’s blood sample and look at it, if I see more white blood cells, I know there’s something going on in the blood. There’s some sort of infection or disease state. They’re colorless and nucleated, with lots of different shapes.

Amandha: And I won’t get into all the different kinds because there’s a bunch. They’re formed in bone marrow, the spleen and the lymphatic system, and sometimes they live about 13 to 20 days. Think about it just for a second. If you’re ill, there are going to be more white blood cells. And when you have more white blood cells, your blood will be thicker, more viscous, right?

Amandha: So when you have thicker blood, your blood pressure is going to respond accordingly. It’s going to want to retain water and bring the blood volume up as much as it can. So it’s usually going to raise blood pressure. That’s a symptom. High blood pressure can be a symptom of an illness causing a high white blood cell count in the blood.

Amandha: Okay? Think about that. Each white blood cell has different functions. You can stain the cells and see underneath which different kinds of leukocytes you’re dealing with. That has different implications, which we’re not going into. But it’s a good test to generalize, to see if you’re dealing with a bacterial infection or not, and you can sort of rule that out.

Amandha: So they’re continuously circulating in the blood vessels and basically break down bad guys and waste. And some of them produce what we call antibodies, to tag things so the body understands that there’s something that shouldn’t be there and it can be engulfed.

Amandha: Phagocytosed and removed. All right, blood platelets. They’re very small, about one fourth the size of red blood cells, and they’re produced in bone marrow. They live about 10 days, and they’re the blood-clotting factor. Obviously you’re going to form a blood clot if you get cut, right?

Amandha: That’s important. You can’t bleed out. The blood forms a clot to prevent bleeding because you’d have a shock death. The clotting factors are triggered if the blood is exposed to air, so air will start the whole clotting-factor cascade. It will also happen if the blood has a lot of friction.

Amandha: If you have a lot of damage to the insides of your blood vessels, they’re rough. Those rough blood vessels will start to damage the blood, break it and destroy cells and tissues. Obviously, the blood is being affected by friction and the coagulation factors will take effect. You can get certain types of blood clots in the body when the vessels are having problems.

Amandha: So usually you get that if the blood vessel is extremely strained. When it’s strained, the body will start to lay down cholesterol because cholesterol is the Band-Aid of the body. Cholesterol will be laid down as a patch onto the blood vessel. Then what happens if the body can’t come back and repair that appropriately?

Amandha: What will eventually happen is calcification. Calcium will set into that area, and calcium is also part of the blood-clotting cascade. It’s essential to it. What happens is that it becomes immobile, rather than free-form and mobile. It becomes tough, and that continues to damage blood.

Amandha: And that’s where you get all these blocks, these heart blocks. I’ll talk about what I have here in my little basket to help clean that up. I’ll have a Roto-Rooter herbal blend for that. And you can use this product and you won’t need to have surgery, heart surgery, to clean out a vessel.

Amandha: That’s how powerful it is. But friction continues that problem, okay? That stimulates blood clotting. You can have blood clots created. That’s where strokes can come from, right? There are different kinds of strokes, but that’s one type. Okay, so quickly, the blood platelets come together with the destroyed cells because there’s a protein called thromboplastin.

Amandha: The platelets plus the destroyed cells create thromboplastin in the presence of those clotting factors in the blood. And there’s calcium ions and clotting factors in the plasma. The thromboplastin activates the conversion of prothrombin into thrombin.

Amandha: So there’s a whole, you know, thromboplastin to prothrombin to thrombin, okay?

Amandha: Thrombin is the active enzyme of that, and that’s going to start the whole clotting-factor process. It’s really cool. There’s a whole triggering cascade. Look how intelligent that is. Just think about how intelligent that is. We see an open cell, it triggers this process down the chain, and now we have the result to fix the problem.

Amandha: Prothrombin is a protein the liver makes. It’s secreted by the liver, and vitamin K1 helps that process. Then it’ll go right into the blood. Thrombin will catalyze, meaning quicken. Remember what I said about enzymes? It quickens things; it’s an enzyme.

Amandha: It catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen.

Amandha: Which is soluble, so soluble means it can be dissolved in water. Fibrinogen is a soluble protein in plasma, and it will change into fibrin, which is now insoluble; it’s become an insoluble protein.

Amandha: And then, just fibrinogen to fibrin in the presence of thrombin. That’s the cascade. Now we’re going to get fibrin, which cannot be dissolved back into solution. It makes that nice network of microscopic interlacing fibers where the blood cells aggregate. They’re all together. They form a clot around the fibrin, around these little…

Amandha: I don’t know, inorganic fingers. And it’ll block the cut, block the bleeding. Okay, that’s what’s happening. Eventually that has to be broken back down again. Now, the reasons for the non-clotting of blood: we know blood is going to run in a normal fashion inside the blood vessels.

Amandha: It will not slow down unless there’s something to stop it; it’s going to keep flowing. Now the other thing that’s important to understand is it’s not just the heart moving blood. It’s also the vessels themselves. There are other pumps going on in the system. That’s just been uncovered more recently.

Amandha: It’s not the heart that’s doing all the work. The vessels themselves are involved in moving the blood as well, which is exciting. It’s newer information. Look at that. We’re still understanding how the body’s working here. I mean, come on. So the platelets have to slide through.

Amandha: Because you don’t want to break platelets, right? That’s another problem. If you’re breaking up platelets, you’re going to get that cascade when you don’t need it. Heparin, we know about heparin, right? It’s an anticoagulant. It’s made by the liver, and that prevents the whole process I just talked about, prothrombin into active thrombin and then into the fibrinogen process.

Amandha: Heparin stops that. And that’s actually one of the medications, like warfarin. Warfarin is like rat poison. If you’re making clots and you want to stop that process, maybe look at the root cause of why that’s happening. All right, so we know the functions of blood in general. We talked about oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Amandha: Okay, but it transports other things too. It transports digested food substances, waste, nitrogenous compounds, those nitrogen-based compounds you make from waste, hormones, enzymes and, obviously, oxygen. It controls your metabolism because it keeps the body temperature at 37 degrees Celsius.

Amandha: It regulates the entire internal environment, which is your homeostasis, such as osmotic potential, the amount of water you have, your pH and the tissues. It protects against invaders, any type of pathogenic organism. I mean, organisms aren’t true pathogens in the sense that they’re going to get in the body and then ‘num, num.’

Amandha: Meaning you still have to have a situation that invites them. But if a foreign pathogen or microbe gets in and it shouldn’t be there, the body obviously has to keep things very clean. And the lymphatic system is there, and I think I just heard my door open. Okay, we’re going to have to stop, and I’ll go into Part 2.

Amandha: But I’ll just finish that up, and then I’ll make a Part 2. The lymphatic system is involved with white blood cells and the blood itself, and will form blood clots through that process. But that’s all your protection. So think about the main functions: transportation, control and protection.

Amandha: Those are the main functions of blood. Okay, well, I’ll be back soon, so watch for the update. Next we’re going to go right into blood pressure, what to do specifically and the mechanisms. I’ll be there in a second. Okay? Yes, I know you’re here.

Amandha: Okay.

Amandha: Bye for now.