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BP
The Acronym just scares.
And
Like traffic chaos,
Your blood flow goes helter
skelter.
Calm your nerves.
Usually a red alert is sounded,
When diagnosis reveals BP – the Blood
Pressure.
Hence,
My deliberate choice of Green colour
here to begin the
Topic with.
Well,
‘m not a doctor nor an expert in the
know to talk on it.
‘m one diagnosed with High BP.
People tell don’t be Jack of all
trades.
But the legal fora say
Ignorance is no excuse –
Derived from Latin,
“ignorantia
juris non excusat”
Nor a bliss.
Better take a leaf from
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:
‘तमसो मा ज्योतिर् गमय’ –
Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya
Lead us from ignorance to
truth.
When Doctors say you have BP,
And prescribe and put you on medicine
mode,
You never rest.
This is here you begin your research
on, looking for layman readable and jargon free medical literature, discussion
or debate with friendly Doctors etc.
Pressure, per se is not a villain.
You can call it fondly as a necessary evil.
Speaking in computer parlance, it’s
by default, an auto mode.
By pressure, we mean the blood flow
in and out of the heart, a fist size in your chest. When your muscles
contract, blood flows out of your heart and through the arteries to various
parts of the body. When the muscles relax, blood flows into heart. In
medical parlance, the pressure by which blood is pumped out of heart is called
systolic - that's when muscles contract to let the blood out. The other when
the blood comes into heart when it relaxes is called diastolic.
Ever since humanity evolved as
mathematician, Pressure too came into their counting process.
Then the natural corollary is what
level of pressure is good or bad or even alarming.
Ideal is 110 to 130 as systolic and
70 to 85 as diastolic.
The deviation either side is to watch
out for and to call on your physician. When pressure shoots beyond 140, it's
hypertensive and when it slides down below above levels is low pressure.
Can you stem when the pressure goes
wilder and erratic?
The happiest fact is an emphatic
YES.
Before we see how, let's see some
villains inflicting health hazards:
Obesity is one cause.
Sedentary work culture too plays
havoc with your healthy pressure position.
Stress you put yourself to also plays
spoilsport.
Besides lifestyle.
What are the easy and inexpensive
ways towards mission healthy BP?
More than medicines, it's your life
style change.
Are you one to use your limousine
even to go to street corner shop? Better walk. You just not save fossil
fuel but your lungs get oxygen and the body, blood circulation. And you start
shedding weight. To see results, focus and stick to practising
consistency.
And a few more off pharmacological ways
to make your BP behave:
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Good Eating habit – your body is
intelligent. Like a modern day lift alerts when it’s overload, the same
fashion, the body can exhibit its discomfort.
-
Less Salt – There is a Lord near
Kumbakonam by name Uppiliyappan Swamy. The Priest offer naivedya, the God’s food prepared not using even iota of salt to
Swamy Uppiliyappan. I can hear your
murmur, Gods can go sans salt, how can we human being do without. Hence, restrict and reduce your intake of
salt.
-
Exercise. Brisk walk for at least 2.5 hours in a week,
as World Health Organisation advises. If
you can, combine easy yoga as much as comfortable to you. A quote of Earl of
Derby:
“Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for
illness.”
Thus you are on mission healthy
BP.
Relax.
And do perform quietly.
Productivity is at its pinnacle,
aesthetic when the undercurrent is equanimity.
God bless.
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