Understanding Blood Pressure Changes

Doctors just changed the definition of normal

blood pressure again, and people are confused.

Back in the nineteen seventies, one sixty over ninety-five

was considered acceptable. Then it dropped to one forty over

ninety. Now the target is even lower.

So what happened? Did our bodies suddenly change?

And more importantly, is high blood pressure actually

causing more deaths, or is it just a symptom of

something deeper going wrong inside our bodies?

One ten over seventy is now optimal, and anything higher is dysfunction, which

is catastrophic, and I'll prove it.

So systolic, big number, diastolic, small number.

We don't have to get into anything else.

So twenty eighteen Lancet, one million adults found no increased

mortality at one fifty over one hundred, systolic over diastolic, zero.

But at one ten over seventy? All right, let's look.

Twenty twenty American Journal of Hypertension showed increased

all-cause mortality. Here's what really increases blood

pressure, systemic

inflammation, insulin resistance, and mitochondrial dysfunction.

So let's rock and roll. Insulin resistance forces kidneys to

retain sodium.

Basic physics, water follows sodium osmotically.

Plasma volume increases, blood thickens like syrup,

which increases resistance, and

pressure rises. Biology did exactly what it's supposed to,

maintain

fluid balance in response to faulty signaling.

The disease is insulin resistance. High blood pressure is the compensation.

Let's keep going. Nitric oxide produced by the endothelium,

and its job,

tell vessels to relax and open up. Chronic inflammation produces

reactive oxygen species. Superoxide is the worst one.

It oxidizes the cofactor that eNOS needs to function.

This is called eNOS uncoupling. Uncoupled eNOS doesn't make

nitric oxide, it makes more superoxide.

Arteries become rigid, more inflamed, and biology raises pressure to

force blood through the rigid pipes.

The disease is endothelial dysfunction.

High blood pressure is survival. And vascular smooth muscle cells need

ATP to relax. No ATP, no relaxation.

Vascular cells are exhausted and can't pump calcium out, muscles stay

contracted, and vessels stay constricted.

If you have normal endothelial function, mitochondrial function, and insulin

sensitivity, meaning you've measured these things,

then elevated blood pressure

isn't pathological, it's compensatory.

But how many doctors are measuring mitochondrial ATP capacity,

endothelial

function, testing vascular reactivity using

flow-mediated

dilation tests, or running continuous glucose monitors?

None.

They're treating numbers. Twenty twelve Circulation proved diastolic

below seventy

reduced coronary perfusion and increased myocardial infarction risk.

Two thousand and four Kidney International proved one ten systolic

with any kidney disease accelerated renal decline.

Twenty eighteen Neurology proved systolic below one ten increases dementia

risk. Why is that? Inadequate cerebral perfusion.

So your seventy-five-year-old mother with rigid calcified vessels might need one

fifty over ninety to keep her brain, heart, and kidneys perfused.

It's not pathological hypertension, it's compensatory physiology

keeping her alive. The INVEST trial two thousand

and three JAMA showed

exactly what they're trying to bury.

If pressure is too low, your mortality goes up.

Twenty sixteen JAMA analyzing one point three million patients,

the lowest cardiovascular event rate occurred at one thirty-nine over

eighty-nine. Hypertension is biology's solution to systemic

inflammation, insulin resistance, and dead mitochondria.

Fix those, and the symptom resolves. Comment alive for the research.

Everything you need is in there. I've got to go.

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