Everyone has heard of heart attacks and strokes - this is what we fear and try our best to avoid. And yet, these are the most common causes of death in hypertension and hypertension.
Arterial hypertension or hypertension is the most common and widely recognized diagnosis. Despite the fact that, according to statistics, every third person suffers from this disease, much remains unclear, including the cause and treatment. How to prevent all these troubles? How to maintain health and quality of life? In this article we will try to answer these questions.
Hypertension (hypertension) - what is it?
According to the currently accepted classification, arterial hypertension is an increase in blood pressure above 140/90 mm. rt. Art. Today, there are two types of hypertension:
- primary (or essential, that is, of unknown cause) - is characterized by an increase in blood pressure for no apparent reason;
- secondary (symptomatic) - the cause of hypertension is related to any internal organs (liver, kidneys, lungs, brain, endocrine glands).
As the name suggests, the cause of essential hypertension despite all the achievements of modern medicine is still unclear, so the only traditional treatment method is still to eliminate high blood pressure with medication. And since drugs only reduce the effects without eliminating the cause, the relevance of hypertension is deeply felt in the modern world. However, a group of medical researchers has developed a new concept of the development of hypertension, which explains the disease mechanism at the cellular level and has been confirmed by many studies. We will talk about this innovative approach.
First of all, any disease is a disruption of the body's functioning. And since our large and well-coordinated body is composed of cells, all the functions of the body are provided by them, the small cells.
Microorganisms invisible to the eye are always present in the body - some cells die, others are formed. The body's job is to maintain a balance between active and dead cells. The immune system is involved in this task - special macrophage cells act as detergents - their task is to find and remove such biological debris in a timely manner. When the body's immune system cannot cope with a large amount of dead cells, or when a cell, for various reasons, stops performing its duties normally, the balance is disrupted. Breakage and illness occur.
When is cell death uncontrolled and when are cells unable to perform their functions? The answer is simple: when the cell itself lacks resources. By resources, we mean anything that needs to be obtained from the outside for the cell to perform its function. Any cell, in order to maintain its function and "cleanse" of waste products, constantly interacts with the intercellular fluid, which in turn restores and renews its composition through contact with the blood. Blood receives resources, including from the external environment: the lungs produce oxygen, the digestive system - nutrients in the form of water, fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
In order for this complex system to work and for the body to have time to get rid of damaged cells, replacing them with new ones, a resource is needed to put all of this into motion. . Such a resource is microscopic vibrations that occur in the body due to the activity of muscle cells (myofibrils). Vibrations are always present in the body, even during sleep. Even when maximally relaxed, many muscle cells continue to function and create microscopic vibrations of the intracellular fluid around them.
It is known that about 60% of the body's cells are muscle cells and they consume more than 80% of the total energy produced in the body. And nearly half of this energy expenditure is required to maintain the level of microvibration at rest or the microvibration base. Such huge expenditures of energy do not happen without a reason, they are necessary for human life. A body without vibration means death, lacking it means disease.
Likewise, with hypertension, if the body lacks microvibrations for a long time, the cells begin to perform their functions much worse, as a result of which the tissues begin to become "slag" and the cells begin to function much worse. functional cells are active. worse and die. This impairs the function of vital organs - the kidneys, problems arise in the spine, causing a decrease in blood supply to the brain and spinal cord. And problems with these organs are the most common cause of hypertension, and in general, a decrease in the tone of the entire body.
Hypertension and hypertension - what's the difference?
There are so many terms and symbols in the medical world that sometimes it is very difficult for the average person to understand and understand what is going on with his body, what all these abbreviations and diagnoses mean. What? First of all, let's define what is the difference between hypertension and hypertension, what is the difference?
Hypertension is a condition of high blood pressure. And hypertension is inherently a disease that affects the entire body and one of the symptoms of that disease is increased blood pressure. The degree of change in the organs that cause high blood pressure is the stage of the disease.
In the modern accepted medical classification, there are 3 degrees of arterial hypertension:
Type of blood pressure and degree of hypertension |
Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg. Art. |
Diastolic blood pressure, mm Hg. Art. |
|---|---|---|
Normal |
Below 130 |
Below 85 |
High |
130-139 |
85-89 |
Degree of hypertension (mild) |
140-159 |
90-99 |
Grade II hypertension (moderate) |
160-179 |
100-109 |
Grade III hypertension (severe) |
Greater than or equal to 180 |
Greater than or equal to 110 |
Complications and consequences of hypertension
To understand exactly how persistently high blood pressure leads to terrible complications, what kind of disease is hypertension and why it is dangerous, let's consider the mechanism of development (pathogenesis). of hypertension.
Long-term high blood pressure (hypertension) often leads to irreversible consequences, especially in the vascular bed:
- thickens the walls of blood vessels, reducing their elasticity;
- permanent narrowing of the lumen of small arteries of blood vessels;
- thickening of the heart muscle (myocardium);
- increased damage to blood vessel walls due to high blood flow speed, forming atherosclerotic plaques at the site of damage.
In fact, since the vascular system is the supplier and transporter of external resources, let's see what happens to it when high blood pressure persists. Normally, blood vessel walls are elastic, helping the body quickly adapt to constantly changing conditions. But in a state of constant high pressure and lack of micro-vibration, the vessel wall will thicken and lose its elasticity. This happens mainly because the body, for some reason (physical inactivity, poor diet, overweight, etc. ), suffers from a lack of microvibrations, the immune system does not have time to ""recycling" dead cells and living cells cannot fully perform their tasks. The body is forced to urgently eliminate inactive and dead cells. One of the ways to get rid of them is to turn them into a stable structure - connective tissue, also known as fibrosis. In turn, fibrosis in the walls of blood vessels significantly reduces their elasticity and strength, which can lead to vessel damage and subsequent bleeding. This condition is especially dangerous in the brain because it can lead to stroke.
In addition, most organs do not need high pressure at all, and a protective mechanism is activated - spasm (narrowing) of small arteries to reduce blood flow through them. This simply wastes a large amount of the entire body's resources and cannot last long. Therefore, to save resources, the blood vessel wall thickens and muscle cells are replaced by connective cells, and then the blood vessel lumen cannot increase vice versa.
Inflexibility of the vessel wall leads to the formation of microtraumas of the vessel wall and the deposition of cholesterol there. This leads to the vessel being narrowed in a certain area. This means that organs and tissues do not receive their share of nutrients, which means they will not be able to fully perform their functions. The heart, in turn, is forced to work with increasing force to pump blood through less elastic (narrowed) vessels, meaning it has no choice but to increase the mass of heart cells - cellsmuscle. This condition is called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. And everything would seem to be fine, but the coronary vessels, intended to nourish the heart, do not become larger, and the so-called deficiency of blood supply to the myocardium occurs - ischemia. And if an atherosclerotic plaque develops on the wall of an altered coronary artery, there is a high risk of complete cessation of blood supply to the heart muscle in this area - partial death of the heart muscle - pain occurs. heart.
Stroke, heart attack, and atherosclerosis are the most common complications of hypertension and are immediate causes of death.
Is it possible to be disabled if you have high blood pressure?
Disability is the inability to carry out normal household activities and take care of oneself. With the progression of hypertension, when all the body's resources are exhausted, heart failure begins to develop. Already from the name it is clear that in this condition the heart simply cannot perform its main function - supplying oxygen to organs and tissues. When heart failure becomes critical, a person's quality of life is significantly impaired, and even putting a kettle in the kitchen becomes a heroic feat. Of course, in such conditions, a person will become disabled due to hypertension.
Conditions and causes of high blood pressure
What is the main cause of high blood pressure? What causes this whole chain of reactions and what causes the disease?
Our body, as we mentioned, is an internal universe composed of billions of cells that function as a single unit. The amazing self-regulating processes of this universe allow a person to live and survive in environmental conditions. Everything that happens in the body is not random but is regulated by something, it is necessary for something.
To understand what can cause high blood pressure in a person, we need to turn our attention to the cells again. For any cellular process, it is essential that cellular components (proteins, fats, carbohydrates) can meet each other in space. The already familiar microscopic vibration of the surrounding internal space plays a huge role in this. With a lack of microvibrations, first of all, cell function is disrupted, and this along the chain leads to disruption of the nutrition of the spinal cord, kidneys, brain and the final consequence is the development of hypertension. At the same time, it is important to understand that if the body increases blood pressure, then for some reason it is necessary. It would be more correct to say – extremely important! However, the causes of high blood pressure in men and women are largely the same.
Insufficient kidney function
The kidneys are the only human organs that physiologically require high blood pressure, because the blood is under pressure passing through special membranes to clean it. At pressures below 80 mm Hg. Art. The kidneys stop filtering (purifying) the blood and this causes death.
Therefore, under no circumstances can the body allow the kidneys to reduce or stop filtering. If for some reason the kidneys cannot filter (clean) the blood, the brain will receive an order to increase blood pressure to increase kidney productivity. This is one of the most common causes of high blood pressure.
In this case, the kidneys themselves may be fine, but the overall "contamination" of the blood may exceed the kidney's ability to clean at normal pressure. Therefore, the body needs to enhance kidney activity by increasing blood pressure.
In this case, it is enough to improve kidney function and the pressure will normalize. And kidney function can be improved by providing more intensive nutrition to cells and cleaning them of waste products. To do this, it is enough to increase the level of micro-vibrations (microcirculation) in the kidney area. Additionally, the kidneys are one of the few organs that do not have their own muscle fibers, so they receive microscopic vibrations from the working neighboring muscles of the abdomen and back. From this point of view, it becomes clear that physical inactivity, incorrect posture and increased proportion of adipose tissue lead to deterioration of kidney function and consequent increase in blood pressure. Therefore, to improve kidney function and interrupt this entire chain, we once again came to the conclusion that it is enough to normalize the level of kidney microfibrillation.
Currently, there is only one device in the world that can specifically increase the level of micro-vibrations in any human organ. We are talking about a unique development - medical equipment that creates vibrational sound effects and a method - phonation.
The effectiveness of treating hypertension with these devices has been confirmed by many studies.
Blood supply to the brain is reduced
Another cause may be interruption of blood supply to the brain or spinal cord due to narrowing or compression of the artery. This can happen due to problems in the spine (chondrosis, intervertebral herniation), congenital features of the vascular bed, which can worsen over time due to atherosclerosis.
The body cannot allow interruptions in the blood supply to the brain so it increases pressure to push the necessary amount of blood through the existing narrowed blood vessels.
Then, correcting the problem with the blood supply to the brain or spinal cord can relieve the pressure. Vibroacoustic therapy using devices can also be used for this purpose. With the help of special probes (vibrators), mechanical vibrations of the device are transmitted on contact into the human body to a depth of 10 cm and lead to increased microcapillary blood and lymph flow. And this leads to improved nutrition of cells and timely removal of their waste products.
So, with the help of pronation, it is possible to eliminate swelling in the spine caused by osteoarthritis or intervertebral hernia, which will allow you to "release" pinched arteriescompresses and improves blood supply to the brain.
Eating disorder
Excessive intake of simple carbohydrates, fats, alcohol, nicotine, etc. v. leads to the expenditure of a large amount of resources (neutralizing and purifying them), and as a result, the body does not have time to restore cellular balance in the vascular system, a shortage of resources willoccurs, leading to the development of high blood pressure. All these factors lead to the fact that young organisms also suffer from a lack of resources, and as a result, in the modern world we are increasingly faced with hypertension in young people.
Hormonal disorder
It is well known that hormone levels significantly affect blood pressure. The body has a complex interaction between the entire endocrine system, including glands located in the brain (pituitary and hypothalamus) and glands found in the rest of the body (thyroid, parathyroid, reproduction). These glands normally ensure the balance of the body's internal environment, including the stability of blood pressure. With a deficiency of villi, as we have discovered, nutrition and all vital functions at the cellular level are affected, which means that with a lack of villi, the entire endocrine system, By the way, very sensitive to nutrient deficiencies will work incorrectly and intermittently. Hormone levels are disrupted and blood pressure will "skyrocket". It is enough to normalize blood supply and improve the micro-vibrations of the endocrine glands so that hormone levels return to normal.
Psychology
In our era of rapid development, we should not forget the so-called psychology and its contribution to hypertension. The fact is that with constant psychological stress, a sea of biologically active substances is released into the blood, increasing vascular tone and pressure. Constant stress and strong negative emotions lead to increased muscle tone, which soon exhausts the body's resources and then all body functions decline, creating conditions for disease. arise. In this case, it is necessary not only to normalize the microvibration background, but also to pay close attention to the emotional component.
Age characteristics
Hypertension at a young age, in children and adolescents, is different. As a rule, the cause in these cases is often endocrine (hormonal) disorders or diseases of the spine. At the same time, "adult" drugs are not always able to cope with hypertension in this group of patients without harming the child's body. Therefore, the task is to use methods to reduce drug dosage. One such method is pronunciation. The effectiveness of reducing the dose of medication or even the ability to do without medication has been confirmed by research.
Hypertension in the elderly also has its own characteristics, because. . . Choosing the dosage of drugs due to comorbidities can be very difficult, and doctors often find themselves in a "crossroads" situation - when prescribing antihypertensive drugs leads to impaired function of other organs. And in this case, pronunciation can come to the rescue, this method is safe and effective when used on elderly patients.
Phonics is a modern, effective non-drug method of treating and preventing high blood pressure
The effectiveness of the method is confirmed by medical research, clinical practice and physician reviews. Treatment and prevention of hypertension is carried out using compact medical devices with an acoustic vibration effect. The advantage of the method is the ability to independently perform the procedure at home, as well as the absence of side effects and a small number of contraindications.