Regulating Blood Pressure Naturally Part 2 of 3

Amandha: Okay, back to notes. Obviously blood pressure is going to change all the live-long day. It’s going to change if you go in an elevator; your whole blood pressure system has to reset. If you climb a mountain, it has to reset. Your blood pressure is going to change if you go for a run. Your blood pressure is going to change after you eat food. Don’t ever go get your blood pressure tested after Thanksgiving, or your cholesterol level tested after Thanksgiving. They’ll be high, right? Your body’s adaptive. Think about if you go for a run and then you check your heart rate. You’d think you have to go on medication if that’s the case, right?

Amandha: That’s why, when you get your blood pressure done with a sphygmomanometer–who beat up this word? That’s what I want to know. Speedometer! It’s ridiculous. The blood pressure cuff–when you use that, the doctor says you’ve got to sit and relax for 10 minutes before you take it. Why? Because if you just raced up the stairs and sat in the chair, it’s going to be high. Yeah, because look at your muscular demand. Exercise creates muscular demand, okay, and more oxygen is required. It has to go to skeletal muscles. Blood delivery is increased, and then the white blood cell delivery to the digestive organs actually decreases when that happens.

Amandha: Right? Don’t go swimming on a full stomach, right? Of course you’re going to get cramping because the blood goes away from the digestive organs and into the muscular organs, into the skeletal system, to supply oxygen to what you’re asking the body to do. Right? Always adjusting. It’s always adjusting. All these forces on the body, blood pressure has to adjust to. Okay, now cardiac output can be altered by changing the stroke volume or the heart rate. So obviously, if your heart rate is high or low, that changes cardiac output. And obviously, yeah, you can change that.

Amandha: The heart has a huge responsibility for that resistance to blood flow. Okay? By changing the diameter of the vessels, that’s another way to change blood pressure. Think about someone who’s obese, right? Everyone has the same blood vessel system. Now you take an obese person, and what’s going to happen to those vessels is they’re going to thin out, they’re going to stretch around the fat. Right? You’re straining the blood vessels. They have to try to work around that. They still have to supply blood, and I mean, the blood pressure is going to have to go up just because of that, just on a mechanical side of it. So usually, I don’t know anyone who’s obese who would have low blood pressure. Or they’d be dead, because of that thinning of the vessel. The amount that the blood vessel can hold is less, and that means it’s going to have to pump harder. It’s going to have to move more blood through a thinner vessel. The blood pressure is going to have to go up. It’s just logic.

Amandha: It’s just science, physical science. Okay, now what else is going to change that? Changing the diameter of the vessels, through vasodilation or vasoconstriction, and there are whole mechanisms for that in the body. You’re going to have blood viscosity. So its ability to flow. I talk about this all the time. When you’re inflamed, when you have chronic inflammation, when you’ve been poisoned by a vaccine, your blood viscosity goes through the roof. The blood’s not going to flow properly. It’s not going to transmit oxygen; it’s not going to remove waste; it’s not going to help the nerves function properly.

Amandha: And that’s going to cause blood pressure problems and other issues, and stroke. I mean, that’s really what can cause an ischemic stroke, which is where oxygen cannot get to its supply, right? It cannot supply the nerve. That’s a stroke. And Dr. Andrew Moulden, he proved that–brilliant guy, rest in peace–he proved that every vaccine gives a stroke in the brain immediately once it’s given. He was noticing all his patients stroking out, and he’s like, why are they all going into stroke when I give them a vaccine? And he did the MRIs, he did the studies, and he proved it, that we have to stop this. Of course, he was ignored, ridiculed, ostracized, marginalized, and then eventually committed suicide.

Amandha: Because when you find out something like that, and then you go to your other MDs, who are supposedly taking an oath to help people with their health, and you tell them about this, and you tell the industry about it, and you don’t realize that it’s a corrupted industry. That’s a very depressing thing to come to terms with: that nobody actually gives a shit about anybody’s health. Right? And that’s what he had to face. That was really hard for him because he realized that the profession just harms people and isn’t interested in science or truth or the damage that it’s doing to people.

Amandha: That it’s stroking out every single person that receives one. He was noticing that it was causing cerebral stroke in the circle of Willis in the brain, which was causing lid lag. So he was taking pictures where one eye would be slightly open compared with the other, because they’re supposed to be in sync. And also that the facial nerves weren’t being fed. Then you get the crooked smile. You get babies with a crooked face, right, smiling with one side. That’s from a stroke, that’s what does that, and other issues. It’s very sad, but we know this. So those who are wise will steer clear of such things and stop poisoning our children.

Amandha: So that hopefully there’s a future here on Earth. Who knows at this point? So vasodilation, vasoconstriction: the management of the vessels. There’s a whole chemical cascade of that. There are many things that affect changes in blood viscosity. Lots of things that affect that. Someone’s allergic. Someone has allergies, which often is because they’ve had a vaccine that causes the allergy in the first place. Then again, they’re going to have lots of inflammatory markers in the blood. It’s going to be thick and that’s going to affect blood pressure. But weight gain is a huge one–pardon the pun. It really is for changing blood pressure.

Amandha: Okay, what mechanisms help regulate blood pressure? The cardiovascular center has a neuronal, or nerve, mechanism for the regulation of blood pressure by managing cardiac output or by adjusting the blood vessel diameter. So that’s its control center? Actually, the main controller of the cardiovascular center is the brain, and it’s a specific part of the brainstem called the medulla oblongata. The medulla oblongata. Again, the names–who, why, where? No, I understand that one. That’s Latin. But it consists of three distinct regions in this cardiovascular center. The cardiac center stimulates cardiac output by increasing heart rate and contractility, so it’s going to change your heart rate. Nerve impulses are transmitted over sympathetic cardiac nerves.

Amandha: You have the sympathetic, which you can think of as an active system. The cardiac center inhibits cardiac output by decreasing heart rate, so that’s nerve impulses transmitted over parasympathetic vagus nerves. So there are specific parasympathetic nerves. It’s going to reduce, inhibit, the cardiac output. So the parasympathetic is like the calm-the-shit-down method. Okay, so increase or decrease through the cardiac center, medulla oblongata, through the heart. Capisce? The vasomotor center regulates blood vessel diameter. Nerve impulses transmitted over sympathetic motor neurons are called vasomotor nerves, and they innervate smooth muscles in arterioles throughout the body to maintain vasomotor tone.

Amandha: It’s a steady state of vasoconstriction appropriate to whatever region it is. There are actually impulses in the motor neurons. So a motor neuron is an active muscular neuron inside the smooth muscle in the arterioles. In and of themselves, they can contract. So that’s the open-close, right? They’re muscles. There are muscles inside of those. That’s why we exercise. We don’t exercise just to train our skeletal muscles, but we also have to train our vessel muscles. Okay, let’s understand now this last bit. I don’t want to get too geeky. You know, I like to geek out occasionally. It’s the geek-out version of stuff, but it’ll help you, even if you come back to the video a few times and take notes and try to understand it. When we start talking about the supplements, it makes a lot of sense. The cardiovascular center is going to receive information about the state of the body.

Amandha: So that’s like the control center, right? The baroreceptor–what we’re talking about with the carotid artery–that’s a baroreceptor reaction. It’s a sensory neuron, and it monitors arterial blood pressure. So there are pressure sensors in your vessels that, when they feel pressure, give a feedback signal. We have the major baroreceptors in the carotid sinus, so it’s that enlarged area I mentioned about the massaging, the aortic arch, and the right atrium. Those are all the baroreceptors. I have a blog article, ‘Get Off This Drug and Save Your Life.’ It’s about hypertension medication, and it talks about how to do a breathing technique to regulate blood pressure.

Amandha: You can go to Yummy Mummy Emporium.ca, click through, go to my blog and search for hypertension or high blood pressure. That one will come up, and it will walk you through how to do diaphragmatic breathing to regulate blood pressure. How it’s doing that is by affecting the baroreceptors we’re just talking about through changing the oxygen levels. And then the CO2 sensors, the sensory neurons, are sensing CO2 in the neck. It’s a very easy method; you can take it anywhere you go. Some people know they have high blood pressure, and some people don’t. But if you know or you feel it, then you can use this method to reduce the blood pressure.

Amandha: I invite you to learn about that. The chemoreceptors, just as it sounds, are chemical receptors. So we have the baroreceptor, but we also have carotid chemoreceptors. There are two things going on: the baroreceptor, the sensory, and the chemo-, the chemical receptor, which is noticing CO2 and oxygen levels as well. There are sensory neurons that monitor those levels, and then they’ll tell the cardiovascular center, back here, when the levels of O2 drop or CO2 rise, and that changes the pH. And pH is an electrical system, and then that will go on with the aortic bodies and the cascade effect and affect blood pressure accordingly.

Amandha: We have higher brain regions: the cerebral cortex, the hypothalamus and the limbic system signal the cardiovascular center when conditions of stress, fight-or-flight response or hot and cold temperatures require adjustments to blood pressure. So if you’re out in the cold, obviously your blood is–if you’re colder, your blood’s going to have to heat up more. Your blood pressure is going to have to move, right? If you are under fight or flight, which I talk about as a cause of hypertension all the time, the body thinks it has to get more blood to the muscles. That strains the system if it’s in a continual state of flight or stress. That affects the hormones, which we’ll talk about in a minute. And then the brain is also being stressed because it has to respond to all of these signals, and you can wear yourself out. People have brain fog all over the place, right? They’re using their brain constantly to balance their ever-changing conditions and deal with the stress response chronically.

Amandha: So yeah, it’s going to affect things. Bubba, how you doing? Now let’s talk about the kidneys, because I mentioned kidneys quite a few times. How are the kidneys involved in blood pressure and hypertension? You want to sit here? Yeah, you sit there. The kidneys provide a hormonal mechanism for the regulation of blood pressure by managing blood volume. There’s a renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in the kidneys. That’s another cascade, like we talked about with the blood clotting cascade. We have another cascade in the kidneys regulating blood volume, and it will respond to changes in blood pressure. Here’s another fun word. You ready? Are you ready?

Amandha: Juxtaglomerular cells. Yeah, juxtaglomerular, juxtaglomerular. Say that ten times fast. Hey, Bubba, you seeing birdies? So juxtaglomerular cells in the kidneys secrete renin into the blood. The renin converts a plasma protein called angiotensinogen to angiotensin I, and then that goes to angiotensin II. So we’re talking about angiotensin II blockers. That drug blocks this system. Do you think that’s a good idea? I don’t think that’s a very good idea. Oh, it’s a natural system in the body, let’s just block that. We don’t want high blood pressure; let’s just block a normal, natural system. Never mind that it does other good things in the body, that nothing in the body just does one thing.

Amandha: It always does other things. So thank God there are some redundant systems, meaning there are backup systems, but when you stop a system, that’s no good. That’s not going to help anything. Yeah, sure, your blood pressure comes down, great, but you’re damaging kidneys. That drug damages your kidneys, and when your kidneys are shot, the game is over. Death comes. So how about don’t do that? We’ll talk about what to do instead. How about drink water? Yay! The kidneys secrete renin into the blood, and then renin does that cascade, like I just said, all the way to angiotensin II. Angiotensin I actually has to go to the lungs, and then the lungs are what makes it into number two. That activates two different mechanisms that are going to raise blood pressure.

Amandha: Angiotensin II, which I just talked about, constricts the blood vessels throughout the body. So it’ll raise blood pressure by increasing resistance to blood flow. Constricted blood vessels reduce the amount of blood delivered to the kidneys, so you’ve got less blood going to the kidneys, right? That decreases the kidneys’ potential to excrete water. So it’s holding back water. ‘I’ve got to take my water pill.’ You know, that’s what your water pill does. It gets rid of excess water, right? Because eventually you get bloated when you do this. So they have to do this fine balance of giving these drugs to make sure you’re not bloated all the time. That’s going to raise blood pressure by increasing blood volume. The body thinks, okay, we need more blood delivered, we’d better hold back the water. So let’s do this angiotensin II system to make sure we have enough water in the system to have enough blood flow, like I said before about how much water is in our blood, right?

Amandha: Angiotensin II will stimulate the adrenal cortex to secrete aldosterone. That’s a hormone that will reduce urine output by increasing the retention of water and salt, and that will raise blood pressure. There are those two things going on. Now the other hormone systems that come from the adrenals are epinephrine and norepinephrine.

Amandha: Those are hormones secreted by the adrenal medulla. There’s a cortex and a medulla of the adrenals, and that sits on top of the kidneys. Those raise blood pressure by increasing heart rate and the contractility of the heart muscles and by causing vasoconstriction of arteries and veins. Those hormones are part of your fight-or-flight response. You see that all the time when people are stressed. Their epinephrine is high, and of course they’re going to have high blood pressure. It’s just very simple. You’re stressed out, the body thinks it’s in an alert system, and this, guys, is why you should not be drinking coffee.

Amandha: I’m sorry, but you cannot be drinking coffee and expect to be healthy and expect your blood pressure to be normal and expect your life to go well. Okay? It’s pumped out on every street corner for a reason. It is one of the top mind-controlling tactics out there, coffee. And I’m sorry to break it to you. It’s a drug. It stimulates your fight-or-flight response. It stimulates the pumping out of these hormones from your adrenal glands, and it puts you into that chronic fight-or-flight situation that leads you down the road to ill health. I should do a whole thing just on coffee, and I probably will.

Amandha: There are some great ones out there already that do this. What happens when you drink a cup of coffee? Doesn’t your heart rate go up? Yes. Some people get the jitters. That’s your epinephrine making you all kind of, whoa, where’s the tiger? I’ve got to fight. You know, that kind of thing. Or I guess run. Who fights tigers? I fight tigers. No, I guess you run from the tiger. Okay, I have someone else coming in now. So we’re at epinephrine and tiger fighting. I’ll get back to these comments. I’ll be right there. Yeah, no problem. I’ll package this all together, and then you can watch it on YouTube. Okay, so we’re at the tiger, fighting the tiger, and I’ll come back for part three. Okay, bye for now.