What Are Those Blood Pressure Numbers About?

Have you ever wondered the meaning of those two numbers in your blood pressure? Medical doctors often make such a big deal out of how high or low those numbers are, while we ourselves can't understand what they mean.

These numbers symbolize how hard your blood is pushing against the walls of your arteries. Imagine how water builds up in a hose until it damages it, that's how your blood can also damage your arteries and make you more prone to strokes and cardiac arrest.

This is how a blood pressure reading looks like:120/80 mmHg. The first number is your systolic blood pressure, which means the amount of pressure your blood exerts on your arteries when your heart beats. The second number is your diastolic blood pressure, which means your blood pressure when your heart rests between beats.

A blood pressure reading of 120/80 is considered normal. Most individuals have this blood pressure or slightly lower. Individuals with blood pressures slightly higher than 120/80 are considered prehypertensive, and doctors often start treating them to keep their blood pressures from escalating.

Of the two numbers, the diastolic number (the second number) has always been considered as the one who contributes to hypertension, and other medical concerns. However, it's been discovered recently that a high systolic blood pressure(the first number), may also pose a measure of risk, particularly for those over the age of 50.

When your blood pressure reading is 140/90 or higher in two different sessions, then you have hypertension. If you don't treat it immediately, then you are prone to several other medical conditions.

When it comes to bringing those numbers down, doctors often suggest life-changing, radical practices to their patients. They often ask their patients to stop smoking or drinking, start getting into a vigorous exercise program, or to change their diets drastically.

When they can't cope with the doctor's order (and they usually can't), they lose any improvement on their blood pressure and get back into hypertension. In other words, hypertension can make a person's life unpleasant.

But it doesn't have to.

My Hypertension Program doesn't entail any life-changing practices. In fact, most of its exercises are something you can do while you go on about your day. Wouldn't you like to be one of the hundreds of my customers to normalize their blood pressures for good?

And now that you know what those numbers stand for, it's much more satisfying to watch them go down to the 120/80 levels and stay there.

Warm regards,

Christian Goodman

Article Source: http://www.articlegoldmine.com

Christian Goodman is a popular natural health alternatives researcher and the creator of health guides. His latest work is the natural method for high blood pressure which has now helped thousands of people heal their hypertension.

Please Rate this Article

5 out of 54 out of 53 out of 52 out of 51 out of 5 

Not yet Rated