Everyone has heard about heart attacks and strokes - this is what we fear and strive to avoid with all our might. And yet these are the most common causes of death in hypertension and hypertension.
High blood pressure or hypertension is the most common and universally recognized diagnosis. Despite the fact that, according to statistics, one in three people suffers from this disease, much remains to be clarified, including the causes and treatment. How to prevent all these problems? 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 forms of hypertension:
- primary (or essential, that is, the cause is unknown): characterized by an increase in blood pressure for no apparent reason;
- secondary (symptomatic) - the cause of increased blood pressure is associated with 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 not clear, so the only traditional method of treatment remains to eliminate high blood pressure with pills. And since pills only alleviate the consequences without eliminating the cause, the relevance of hypertension is acutely felt in the modern world. However, a group of medical researchers has developed a new concept for the development of hypertension, which explains the mechanism of the disease at the cellular level and is confirmed by numerous studies. We will talk about this innovative approach.
First of all, any disease is a disturbance in the functioning of the body. And since our large and well-coordinated body is made up of cells, all the functions of the body are performed by them, small cells.
Microlife invisible to the eye is always present in the body: some cells die, others are formed. The body's task is to maintain a balance between functional and dead cells. The immune system participates in this task: special macrophage cells act as cleaners; Your task is to find and dispose of such biological waste in a timely manner. When the body's immune system cannot cope with a critical mass of dead cells, or when a cell, for various reasons, stops performing its tasks normally, the balance is disturbed and disease occurs.
When does uncontrolled cell death occur and when the cell does not perform its functions? The answer is simple: when the cell itself lacks resources. By resources we refer to everything that is necessary to obtain from the outside for the cell to perform its function. Any cell, in order to maintain its functioning and "clean" waste products, constantly interacts with the intercellular fluid, which, in turn, restores and renews its composition through contact with blood. The 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.
For this complex system to function and the body to have time to get rid of damaged cells, replacing them with new ones, a resource is needed that puts all this into action, in motion. This resource is the microvibration that occurs in the body as a result of the work of muscle cells (myofibrils). Microvibration is always present in the body, even during sleep. Even with maximum relaxation, many muscle cells continue to work and create microvibrations in the intercellular fluid around them.
It is known that about 60% of the body's cells are muscle cells and they consume more than 80% of all the energy generated in the body. And almost half of this energy expenditure is necessary to maintain the resting microvibration level or the microvibration background. These colossal energy expenditures do not occur without reason: they are necessary for human life. The absence of microvibrations in the body means death and its deficiency means illness.
Likewise, in hypertension, if there is a lack of microvibration in the body for a long time, the cells begin to perform their function much worse, which leads to the fact that the tissues begin to "exhaust" and functional cells function. worse and die. This deteriorates the functioning of vital organs - the kidneys, problems arise in the spine, which causes a deterioration in the blood supply to the brain and spinal cord. And problems with these organs are the most common causes of hypertension and, in general, decreased tone of the entire organism.
Hypertension and hypertension: what are the differences?
There are so many terms and designations in the medical world that sometimes it is very difficult for an ordinary person to understand and understand what is happening to his body, what do all these abbreviations and diagnoses mean? First of all, let's define what the difference is between hypertension and hypertension, what is the difference?
Hypertension is a condition of high blood pressure. And hypertension is already a disease that affects the entire body and one of its symptoms is hypertension. The degree of change in the organs that causes high blood pressure is the stage of the disease.
In the modern and accepted medical classification, there are 3 degrees of high blood pressure:
Type of blood pressure and degree of hypertension. |
Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg. Art. |
Diastolic blood pressure, mm Hg. Art. |
|---|---|---|
Normal |
Less than 130 |
Less than 85 |
High |
130-139 |
85-89 |
I degree of hypertension (mild) |
140-159 |
90-99 |
II degree of hypertension (moderate) |
160-179 |
100-109 |
III degree of hypertension (severe) |
Greater than or equal to 180 |
Greater than or equal to 110 |
Complications and consequences of hypertension.
To understand exactly how constantly elevated blood pressure leads to terrible complications, what kind of disease hypertension is and why it is exactly dangerous, let's consider the mechanism of development (pathogenesis) of hypertension.
Prolonged arterial hypertension (hypertension) often has irreversible consequences, especially in the vascular bed:
- thickening of 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 the walls of blood vessels due to high blood flow, the formation of atherosclerotic plaques at the sites of damage.
Since, in fact, it is the vascular system that supplies and transports external resources, let's see what happens to it with prolonged high blood pressure. Normally, the wall of blood vessels is elastic, allowing the body to quickly adapt to constantly changing conditions. But in a situation of constant high pressure and deficiency of microvibrations, the vascular wall thickens and loses its elasticity. This happens mainly because the body, for various reasons (physical inactivity, poor diet, excess weight, etc. ), experiences a deficiency of microvibrations, the immune system does not have time to "recycle" dead cells and living cells cannot . fully perform their task. The body is forced to urgently get rid of dead and non-functioning cells. One of the ways to get rid of them is to transform them into a stable structure: connective tissue or fibrosis. In turn, fibrosis in the walls of blood vessels significantly reduces their elasticity and resistance, which can lead to injury to the vessel and bleeding. This situation is especially dangerous in the brain, as it can cause a stroke.
In addition, most organs do not need high pressure at all and a defense mechanism is activated - spasm (narrowing) of small arteries to reduce blood flow through them. This simply wastes a colossal amount of the entire body's resources, which cannot last long. Therefore, to save resources, the walls of the blood vessels are thickened again and the muscle cells are replaced with connective cells, and then a reverse increase in the lumen of the blood vessels becomes impossible.
This rigidity of the vascular wall leads to the formation of microtrauma in the wall and the deposition of cholesterol in it. This causes a narrowing of the vessel in a certain area. This means that the organs and tissues do not receive their portion of nutrients, so they will not be able to fully perform their function. The heart, in turn, is forced to work harder to pump blood through such inelastic (narrowed) vessels, which means that it has no choice but to increase the mass of cardiac cells - myocytes. This condition is called myocardial hypertrophy. And everything would seem to be fine, but the coronary vessels, which are intended to nourish the heart, do not increase in size and the so-called deficiency of blood supply to the myocardium occurs - ischemia. And if an atherosclerotic plaque grows on the altered wall of the coronary artery, then there is a high risk of a complete cessation of blood supply to the myocardium in this area (death of part of the myocardium occurs), a heart attack.
Strokes, heart attacks and atherosclerosis are the most common complications of hypertension and causes of instant death.
Is it possible to suffer a disability if you have hypertension?
Disability is the inability to carry out normal household activities and care for oneself. With the progression of hypertension, when all the body's resources are depleted, the development of heart failure begins. 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 suffers a significant loss of quality of life, and even boiling a kettle on the stove is a heroic feat. Of course, in such conditions a person suffers from disability due to hypertension.
Conditions and causes of hypertension.
What are the main causes of hypertension? What triggers this whole cascade of reactions and what causes the disease?
Our body, as we have already mentioned, is an internal universe made up of billions of cells that function as a single unit. The incredible self-regulatory processes of this universe allow man to live and survive in environmental conditions. Everything that happens in the body is not accidental and is conditioned by something, it is necessary for something.
To understand what can cause hypertension in a person, we must turn our attention to cells again. For any cellular process it is necessary that the cellular components (proteins, fats, carbohydrates) can be found in space. The already known microvibration of the surrounding internal space plays a very important role in this. With a deficiency of microvibration, first of all, cellular function is disturbed and this, along the chain, leads to a disruption of the nutrition of the spinal cord, kidneys, brain and, as a final consequence, to development of hypertension. At the same time, it is important to understand that if the body increases blood pressure, for some reason it is necessary. It would be more correct to say: vitally important! However, the causes of hypertension in men and women are very similar.
Insufficient kidney function
The kidneys are the only human organ that physiologically requires high blood pressure, since the blood must pass under pressure through special membranes to purify it. At a pressure less than 80 mm Hg. Art. The kidneys stop filtering (purifying) the blood, and this is fatal.
Therefore, the body cannot, under any circumstances, allow the kidneys to reduce or stop filtering. If for some reason the kidneys cannot cope with filtering (purifying) blood, then the brain receives the order to increase blood pressure to increase the productivity of the kidneys. This is one of the most common causes of hypertension.
In this case, the kidneys themselves may be fine, but the overall "pollution" of the blood may exceed the ability of the kidneys to clean it at normal pressure. Therefore, the body needs to increase the performance of the kidneys by increasing blood pressure.
In this case, it is enough to improve kidney function and the pressure will normalize. And the functioning of the kidneys can be improved by more intensive supply of nutrition to the cells and their cleansing of waste products. To do this, it is enough to increase the level of microvibration (microcirculation) in the kidney area. In addition, the kidneys are one of the few organs that do not have their own muscle fibers, so they receive microvibrations from the neighboring working muscles of the abdomen and back. From this point of view, it is very clear how physical inactivity, incorrect postures and an increase in the proportion of adipose tissue lead to deterioration of kidney function and, as a consequence, hypertension. Consequently, to improve the functioning of the kidneys and interrupt this entire chain, we again come to the conclusion that it is enough to normalize the level of microvibration of the kidneys.
Currently, there is only one device in the world that can specifically increase the level of microvibration in any human organ. We are talking about a unique development - medical devices for vibroacoustic effects and a method - phonation.
Many studies have confirmed the effectiveness of treating hypertension with these devices.
Impaired blood supply to the brain.
Another cause may be a disruption in the blood supply to the brain or spinal cord due to narrowing or pinching of the arteries. This can occur as a result of problems in the spine (osteochondrosis, intervertebral hernia), 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 the pressure increases to push the necessary volume of blood through the existing narrowed vessels.
Then fixing the problem with the blood supply to the brain or spinal cord can reduce the pressure. For this purpose, vibroacoustic therapy using devices can also be used. With the help of special transducers (vibraphones), the mechanical microvibration of the device is transmitted by contact to the human body at a depth of 10 cm and leads to an increase in microcapillary blood and lymph flow. And this, in turn, leads to better nutrition of cells and timely removal of their waste products.
Thus, with the help of phonation, it is possible to eliminate the swelling of the spine due to osteochondrosis or intervertebral hernia, which will make it possible to "release" the compressed arteries and improve blood supply to the brain.
Eating disorder
Overloading the body with simple carbohydrates, fats, alcohol, nicotine, etc. leads to the fact that a huge amount of resources is spent on its elimination (neutralization and purification) and, as a result, the body simply does not have time. To restore cellular balance in the vascular system, a deficiency of resources occurs, which leads to the development of hypertension. All these factors lead to the fact that young organisms also experience a lack of resources and, as a result, in the modern world we are increasingly faced with hypertension in young people.
Hormonal disorders
It is absolutely known that hormone levels significantly affect blood pressure. The body has a complex interaction between the entire endocrine system, which includes glands located in the brain (pituitary and hypothalamus) and glands present in the rest of the body (thyroid, parathyroid, reproductive). Normally, these glands should ensure the balance of the body's internal environment, including the constancy of blood pressure. With a deficiency of microvibration, as we have already discovered, nutrition and all vital functions at the cellular level are affected, which means that with a deficiency of microvibration, the entire endocrine system, which, by the way, is very sensitive to lack. of nutrients, it will work incorrectly and intermittently. Hormonal levels are altered and blood pressure "jumps. "It is enough to normalize blood flow and improve the microvibration of the endocrine glands so that hormonal levels return to normal.
Psychosomatics
In our accelerated times, we must not forget about the so-called psychosomatics and their contribution to hypertension. The fact is that with constant psychological stress, a sea of active biological substances is released into the blood, increasing vascular tone and pressure. Constant stress and strong negative emotions lead to increased muscle tone, which soon depletes the body's resources and then all body functions decrease, creating conditions for the emergence of diseases. In this case, it is necessary not only to normalize the background of microvibrations, but also to pay close attention to the emotional component.
Age characteristics
Hypertension stands out at an early age, in children and adolescents. As a rule, the cause in these cases is usually endocrine (hormonal) disorders or spinal diseases. At the same time, "adult" medications are not always able to cope with hypertension in this group of patients without harm to the child's body. Therefore, the task arises of using methods to reduce the doses of the drugs used. One of those methods is phonation. Research has confirmed the effectiveness of reducing medication doses or even going without them.
Hypertension in older people also has its own characteristics, because. . . Choosing the dosage of drugs due to concomitant diseases can be very difficult, and often the doctor finds himself at a kind of "fork in the road", when prescribing drugs to lower blood pressure leads to a deterioration in the functioning of other organs . And in this case, phonation, which is safe and effective when used in elderly patients, can come to the rescue.
Phonetics is a modern and effective non-pharmacological method of treating and preventing hypertension.
The effectiveness of the method is confirmed by medical research, clinical practice and doctors' reviews. Treatment and prevention of hypertension is carried out using compact medical devices of vibroacoustic influence. The advantage of the method is the possibility of independently carrying out procedures at home, as well as the absence of side effects and a small number of contraindications.