Q: What is recommended if a person is showing stiff coronary arteries and increased vascular resistance?
A: When something gets bigger it expands in size. When a blood vessel gets bigger this is known as vasodilatation. When something gets smaller it shrinks in size. When a blood vessel shrinks this is called vasoconstriction. Think of sweat pants. They are comfortable because the elastic waist band expands or shrinks in response to how big a belly you have on any given day. Similarly, blood vessels need to be able to expand and shrink in response to signals from the body. In other words, your blood vessels are elastic. Coronary artery elasticity is a measure that reflects the stiffness of the blood vessels of the heart. Vascular resistance is a measure that reflects the stiffness of the blood vessels of all of the body. Stiff coronary arteries and increased vascular resistance are associated with heart disease.
One of the first signs that your blood vessels are becoming less elastic and more stiff is high blood pressure. There are many things you can do to help prevent high blood pressure and subsequent heart disease. Live a healthy life style. Make sure your diet includes fresh fruits and vegetables. Have a regular exercise program. Maintain a normal weight. Know your blood pressure. If it is greater than 120/80 you should seek treatment.
Talk to your doctor about using Resperate. By just breathing with the device you can increase the elasticity of your blood vessels, lower your blood pressure, and decrease your risk for heart disease. Medications can do this too, but the Resperate has no side effects.
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Treatment should start at 120/80?? Is this a figure put out by the pharmaceutical industry to alarm people? Here in the UK the starting point for treatment is usually 140/90 although to be fair I believe there are moves to reduce this a little, but not to that extent. The figure you quote is nigh on perfect BP. If that figure was accepted over here, the vast majority of the British population would be taking blood pressure tablets.
In accordance with the American organization Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard School of Medicine, Medline Plus and the Blood Pressure UK non-profit organization the ideal blood pressure reading is 120/80 and 140/90 is high blood pressure requiring treatment.
We invite you to review the reports that will provide you with details about normal and high blood pressure measurements:
http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/Thebasics/Whatisnormal
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/high-blood-pressure-hypertension
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/highbloodpressure.html
http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update0803a.shtml
http://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/facts.htm
We hope this information was helpful.
Regards,
The LowerPressure Team
I agree with Ann. Blood pressure of 120/80 is perfectly normal, and indeed blood pressure up to 140/90 is normal. Actually, the diastolic pressure perfuses organs, so it is not all that great a thing to have too low a diastolic pressure.
There is great “pressure”, pun intended, on the AMA to help Big Pharma sell more toxic drugs to a larger percentage of the population all the time. It helps BOTH of their bottom lines, but may not help patients very much at all…….many times, these drugs actually harm them!
Just keepin’ it real!!
British Heart Foundation: “unless your doctor tells you otherwise, your BP should be below 140/90. If you have coronary heart disease, angina, heart attack, stroke or diabetes, it should be below 130/80.” Blood Pressure UK says that most of the British population has blood pressure between 120/80 and 140/90 which means, as I said, that nearly all of the UK would be on BP tablets – what a blessing for the pharmaceutical industry.
I have an article from llowerpressure.com dated 8/21/12 that states “most people who take blood pressure medication possibly shouldn’t”. The article goes on to say that due to the Cochran Collaberation review, people medicated with mild hypertension saw no decrease in heart attack, stroke, etc.
Bingo, Linda and good on ya!
If people want to improve circulation and so-called “hardened arteries”, they should visit with a qualified naturopathic physician about chelation therapy.
I have had it, and it did wonders to improve circulation.
Chelation therapy is a method to capture heavy metals and remove them from the body. How would that improve elasticity? Does not seem related.
The key words in this article are “live a healthy lifestyle” or diet and exercise to be exact. For me, it’s a 100% plant based diet that normalized my BP and weaned me off the rat poisons they call antihypertensive medication. Depending on the individual you might even fare well on a DASH diet but for meat it was dropping the meat, dairy and oils that put the final nail in the hypertension coffin.
In India the Aurvedic Doctors say for persons above age of 65 yrs , BP reading upto 140/90 is normal.They say with age generaly BP goes up somewhat . Can anyone suggest ,what should be the upper limit of BP for a male person of 70 years age ?