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so today we’re gonna talk about what are

the causes of low blood pressure now

someone’s goal might be to achieve low

blood pressure but there’s a point where

becomes too low and you feel dizzy and

you don’t quite feel right so we’re

gonna discuss the different reasons for

that

number one postural hypotension this is

a condition where you stay end up too

fast and you feel dizzy and you have to

sit down a lot of people have

experienced this especially if you’re

let’s say you just stopped working out

after you went for a jog and it was

really hot outside so you’re slightly

dehydrated and let’s say you didn’t

sleep that well and let’s say the night

before you went out drinking and you’re

a little hungover well you’re probably

gonna have this right here now what’s

happening is a part of the nervous

system called the autonomic nervous

system is not adapting for this

positional change when you stand up and

you lose oxygen so some people can even

faint now there’s a very severe version

of that called pots which I did a video

on and I put a link down below and this

is really low vitamin b1 and so I

recommend the person taking higher

amounts of b1 and that can greatly

improve this and it also supports the

heart as well because if your heart is

weak that can actually cause low blood

pressure and I put that down here and it

just so happens and vitamin b1 is

essential for keeping the heart working

correctly if you’re low and b1 you can

even actually cause the heart to work

harder and develop something called

cardiomegaly which is enlarged heart

but adrenal fatigue can definitely cause

postural hypotension and even be behind

pots because the adrenal is the stress

gland and it adapts to all forms of

stress including just a mild stress of

standing up alright so now let’s go to

the next one dehydration now I want to

differentiate dehydration from low salt

they’re not exactly the same thing

however they can cross over now some

people can be dehydrated without having

a deficiency of salt because dehydration

is really just they’re missing fluid

okay so it could happen when you

exercise too much in heat but then again

you’re also going to lose salt but

depending on how much salt you have in

your reserve

it could be more or less or let’s say

you had vomiting or diarrhea or

diuretics that can put you in a state of

dehydration which you just need to drink

more fluid and not having enough fluid

can actually cause low blood pressure

then we have a situation which is low

salt and because we have low salt we’re

not able to hold the fluid in the body

and you’re peeing it out so salt helps

you retain hopefully the right amount of

fluid and so this could come from

actually taking way too much potassium

and not enough sodium it could also come

from starting the ketogenic diet and

you’re losing all this fluid yet you’re

not putting back in the electrolytes in

the fluid also exercising and just

sweating out a lot of things

electrolytes because when you sweat

you’re gonna sweat out more sodium and

then potassium but you are going to

sweat out both of those electrolytes all

right the next one is Addison’s this is

a real severe adrenal condition it’s

autoimmune where the adrenal glands are

just not working anymore and you’re

getting a massive sodium deficiency

because the adrenals specifically

aldosterone is needed to retain salt and

so in these cases you need to be taking

salt like all day long and part of this

is related to anemia too so if you’re

anemic you can have low blood pressure

that could be loan iron it could be low

b12 it could be other things as well

then number seven

postprandial that means after you eat

the blood pressure drops now remember

when I talked about the autonomic

nervous system well in this situation

the autonomic nervous system helps to

control blood flow whether it’s to your

digestive system or to the extremities

when you’re working out so if you have a

weakness within the autonomic nervous

system and you eat and all the blood is

shunted to your digestive system and

away from your brain you’re gonna feel

kind of dizzy when you eat and that just

means you have a weakness within the

autonomic nervous system if you have

that situation I put a link down below

for more information on what to do about

it and then number 9 we already reviewed

this anemia

now one last thing about this postural

hypotension there’s a very simple test

that’s not related to low blood pressure

per se but it’s related to adrenal

issues okay and the autonomic nervous

system so what you do is you take your

blood pressure sitting down okay it

should be 120 or 80 and then you take

your blood pressure when you’re standing

okay

and you’re looking at primarily with

this test the top number it normally

should go up to adapt for gravity stress

right well if your adrenals are weak

it’ll drop down if it drops down to six

to ten points then there’s definitely an

issue with the adrenal gland because the

adrenal gland is not adapting to that

stress and then you can actually further

investigate what could be behind that

alright thanks for watching

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