Everyone has heard about heart attacks and strokes - this is what we are afraid of and strive to avoid with all our might. And yet, these are the most common causes of death in hypertension and hypertension.
Arterial hypertension or hypertension is the most common and universally recognized diagnosis. Despite the fact that, according to statistics, every third person suffers from this disease, much remains unclear, including the causes 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 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 implies, the cause of essential hypertension, despite all the achievements of modern medicine, is not clear, so the only traditional method of treatment remains eliminating high blood pressure with pills. And since pills only relieve the consequences without eliminating the cause, the relevance of hypertension is acutely felt in the modern world. However, a group of medical researchers have 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'll talk about this innovative approach.
First of all, any disease is a disruption in the functioning of the body. And since our large and well-coordinated body consists of cells, all the functions of the body are provided 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 functioning and dead cells. The immune system is involved in this task - special macrophage cells act as cleaners - their task is to find and remove such bio-debris 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, ceases to perform its tasks normally, the balance is disrupted and a 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 mean anything that needs to be obtained from the outside for the cell to perform its function. Any cell, in order to maintain its functioning and "clean up" 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.
In order for this complex system to work and the body to have time to get rid of damaged cells, replacing them with new ones, a resource is needed that would put all this into action, into motion. Such a resource is microvibration that occurs in the body as a result of the work of muscle cells (myofibrils). Microvibration is always present in the body, including during sleep. Even with maximum relaxation, many muscle cells continue to work and create microvibration of 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 level of microvibration at rest or the microvibration background. Such colossal energy expenditures do not occur without reason; they are necessary for human life. The absence of microvibration in the body means death, and its deficiency means illness.
Likewise, with 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 become "slagged", and the functional cells work 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, a decrease in the tone of the whole 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 is the difference 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 the symptoms of which is hypertension. The degree of change in organs that causes 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 |
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
In order to understand exactly how constantly elevated blood pressure leads to terrible complications, what kind of disease hypertension is and why exactly 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:
- thickening of the walls of blood vessels, reducing their elasticity;
- narrowing of the lumen of small arteries of blood vessels on a permanent basis;
- thickening of the heart muscle (myocardium);
- increased damage to the walls of blood vessels due to high blood flow rates, the formation of atherosclerotic plaques at the sites of damage.
Since it is the vascular system, in fact, that is the supplier and carrier of external resources, let’s see what happens to it with prolonged high blood pressure. Normally, the wall of blood vessels is elastic, which allows the body to quickly adapt to constantly changing conditions. But in a situation of constant high pressure and microvibration deficiency, the vascular wall thickens and loses its elasticity. This happens mainly because the body, for a number of reasons (physical inactivity, poor diet, excess weight, etc. ), experiences a deficiency of microvibration, 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 non-functioning and dead 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 strength, which can lead to injury to the vessel and hemorrhage from it. This situation is especially dangerous in the brain, as it can lead to 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 blood vessels again thicken and muscle cells are replaced with connective cells, and then a reverse increase in the lumen of blood vessels becomes impossible.
This inflexibility of the vascular wall leads to the formation of microtraumas of the wall and the deposition of cholesterol there. This results in a narrowing of the vessel in a certain area. This means that organs and tissues do not receive their portion of nutrients, which means they will not be able to fully perform their function. The heart, in turn, is forced to work with increased force in order to pump blood through such inelastic (narrowed) vessels, which means 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 become larger, and a so-called deficiency of myocardial blood supply occurs - ischemia. And if an atherosclerotic plaque grows on the altered wall of the coronary artery, then there is a high risk of complete cessation of blood supply to the myocardium in this area - death of part of the myocardium occurs - a heart attack.
Stroke, heart attack and atherosclerosis are the most common complications of hypertension and causes of instant death.
Is it possible to get disability if you have hypertension?
Disability is the inability to perform normal household activities and provide self-care. With the progression of hypertension, when all the body's resources are exhausted, the development of heart failure begins. From the name it is obvious that in this condition, the heart simply cannot perform its main function - supplying organs and tissues with oxygen. When heart failure becomes critical, a person suffers a significant loss in quality of life, and even putting a kettle on in the kitchen becomes tantamount to a heroic feat. Of course, under such conditions a person is given disability due to hypertension.
Conditions and causes of hypertension
What are the primary 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 consisting of billions of cells that all work as a single unit. The incredible processes of self-regulation of this universe allow a person to live and survive in environmental conditions. Everything that happens in the body is not accidental and is conditioned by something, it is needed for something.
To understand what can cause a person’s hypertension, we need to again pay attention to the cells. For any cellular process it is necessary that cellular components (proteins, fats, carbohydrates) can meet in space. The already familiar microvibration of the surrounding internal space plays a huge role in this. With a deficiency of microvibration, first of all, cellular function is disrupted, and this, along the chain, leads to disruption of the nutrition of the spinal cord, kidneys, brain and, as a final consequence, 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 – vitally important! However, the causes of hypertension in men and women are largely 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 pressure below 80 mm Hg. Art. the kidneys stop filtering (purifying) the blood, and this is deadly.
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) the blood, then the brain receives a command 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 "contamination" 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 a more intensive supply of nutrition to the cells and their cleansing of waste products. To do this, it is enough just 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 microvibration from the working neighboring muscles of the abdomen and back. From this point of view, it becomes crystal clear how physical inactivity, incorrect posture, and an increase in the proportion of adipose tissue lead to deterioration of kidney function and, as a consequence, to hypertension. Consequently, in order 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.
The effectiveness of treating hypertension using these devices has been confirmed by many studies.
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 happen as a result of problems in the spine (osteochondrosis, intervertebral hernia), congenital features of the vascular bed, which may worsen over time due to atherosclerosis.
The body cannot allow interruptions in the blood supply to the brain, so it increases the pressure in order to push the required volume of blood through the existing narrowed vessels.
Then fixing the problem with the blood supply to the brain or spinal cord may reduce the pressure. Vibroacoustic therapy using devices can also be used for this purpose. With the help of special transducers (vibraphones), the mechanical microvibration of the device is transmitted by contact into the human body to a depth of 10 cm and leads to increased microcapillary blood and lymph flow. And this, in turn, leads to improved nutrition of cells and timely removal of their waste products.
Thus, with the help of phonation, it is possible to eliminate swelling in the spine due to osteochondrosis or intervertebral hernia, which will allow you to "release" pinched 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 their disposal (neutralization and purification of them), and as a result, the body simply does not have time to restore the cellular balance in the vascular system, a deficiency occursresources, which entails 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 hormonal 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). These glands should normally ensure the balance of the internal environment of the body, including the constancy of blood pressure. With a deficiency of microvibration, as we have already found out, nutrition and all vital functions at the cellular level suffer, which means that with a deficiency of microvibration, the entire endocrine system, which, by the way, is very sensitive to a lack of nutrients, will work incorrectly and intermittently. Hormonal levels are disrupted and blood pressure will "jump. "It is enough to normalize the blood supply and improve the microvibration of the endocrine glands for the hormonal levels to return to normal.
Psychosomatics
In our fast-paced age, we should not forget about the so-called psychosomatics and its contribution to hypertension. The fact is that with constant psychological stress, a sea of biological active substances are released into the blood, which increase vascular tone and pressure. Constant stress and strong negative emotions lead to increased muscle tone, and this soon depletes the body's resources and then all body functions decrease, which creates conditions for the occurrence of disease. 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, stands apart. As a rule, the cause in these cases is most often endocrine (hormonal) disorders or diseases of the spine. At the same time, "adult" medications cannot always 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 drugs used. One such method is phonation. The effectiveness of reducing drug doses or even the ability to do without them has been confirmed by research.
Hypertension in older people also has its own characteristics, because. . . choosing the dosage of medications due to concomitant diseases can be very difficult, and often the doctor finds himself in a kind of "fork" - when the prescription of drugs to lower blood pressure leads to the deterioration of the functioning of other organs. And in this case, phonation can come to the rescue, which is safe and effective when used in elderly patients.
Phonics is a modern effective non-drug method of treating and preventing hypertension
The effectiveness of the method is confirmed by medical research, clinical practice and reviews from doctors. Treatment and prevention of hypertension is carried out using compact medical devices of vibroacoustic influence. The advantage of the method is the ability to independently perform procedures at home, as well as the absence of side effects and a small number of contraindications.