Hypotension ( Low Blood Pressure)

Hypotension... because of disproportionate dilation of blood vessels in muscles typical of most exercise, hypotension (low blood pressure) would result if arteries in the abdominal organs did not constrict. A new exercise paradigm has emerged which succeeds in circumventing any risk of hypotension while balancing blood flow between muscles and deep organs. It's called Body'Fit pH Fitness™ exercise (short form... pHx™).

Blood pressure has two components: the first is the amount of pressure your heart generates when pumping blood through your arteries to the rest of our body (systolic pressure), and the second is the amount of pressure in your arteries when your heart is at rest between beats (diastolic pressure). Body'Fit pH Fitness (short form... pHx™) is designed to increase cardiac output by building strength of heart contraction (although heart rate also goes to training levels quickly and without stress while facilitating blood pressure that mitigates hypotension). Most importantly however the afterload on the heart muscle (diastolic pressure) is sustained as is observed by the increase in pulse strength (more pronounced on the diastol). This indicates no drop in overall peripheral resistance during the performance of Body'Fit™. For the most efficient heart pump work, blood pressure is equilibriated in all vessels while maintaining total peripheral resistance.

One of the unique features of Body'Fit pH Fitness™ is economy of movement employing anatomical and physiological mechanisms for steady state comfort at all degrees of exercise intensity. Without this specific engineering of exercise, what usually happens is an automatic physiological reaction to the stress of exercise. Control of body temperature for example has many benefits including the prevention of over stimulation of the hypothalamus which triggers the up down shift to cutaneous vessels (at first a dilation of cutaneous vessels and then as exercise becomes more strenuous, constriction). When the skin vessels close up body temperature is further elevated, accentuating the exhaustion and acid pH imbalance contraindicated for circulatory conditions like hypotension.

Usually blood pressure is at its lowest at night, and rises sharply upon waking. Hypotension is generally not considered serious unless a sudden drop in blood pressure or chronic hypotension produces symptoms like dizzyness, light headedness, blurred vision and fainting. Some types of hypotension include postural hypotension, low blood pressure after eating, and low blood pressure due to faulty brain signals.

With postural hypotension there's a sudden drop in blood pressure when you stand up from a sitting position or if you stand up after lying down. Ordinarily, blood pools in your legs whenever you stand, but your body compensates for this by increasing your heart rate and constricting blood vessels, thereby ensuring that enough blood returns to your brain. But in people with postural hypotension, this compensating mechanism fails and blood pressure falls. Postural hypotension can occur for a variety of reasons including dehydration, prolonged bed rest, heart problems, excessive heat, large varicose veins and certain neurological disorders. It's especially common in older adults, with as many as 20 percent of those over age 65 experiencing postural hypotension. But postural hypotension can also affect young, otherwise healthy people who stand up suddenly after sitting with their legs crossed for long periods or after working for a time in a squatting position. Body'Fit is useful for recovery from postural hypotension in these cases.

Low blood pressure after eating is a problem that almost exclusively affects older adults. Postprandial hypotension is a sudden drop in blood pressure after eating where a large amount of blood flows to your digestive tract. Ordinarily, your body counteracts this by increasing your heart rate and constricting certain blood vessels to help maintain normal blood pressure, but this doesn't happen in people with postprandial hypotension. Postprandial hypotension is more likely to affect people with high blood pressure or autonomic nervous system disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Low blood pressure from faulty brain signals and neurally mediated hypotension causes blood pressure to drop after standing for long periods, leading to symptoms such as dizziness, nausea and fainting. It primarily affects young people, and rather than resulting from failed blood pressure regulation, it seems to occur because of a miscommunication between the heart and the brain. When you stand for extended periods, your blood pressure falls as blood pools in your legs. In this disorder, nerves in the heart actually signal the brain that blood pressure is too high, rather than too low, and so the brain lessens the heart rate, decreasing blood pressure even further. This causes more blood to pool in the legs and less blood to reach the brain, leading to lightheadedness and fainting. Perfoming Body'Fit is useful for people with these types of hypotension due to its ability to integrate the brain with the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.

Body'Fit pH Fitness is designed to serve double-duty, optimizing cardio vascular conditioning throughout the body and preventing hypotension. The same movements, body positioning and breathing rhythms that balance blood flow in vascular networks also increase circulation to the heart, balance cellular action potentials, and optimize brain function. In fact fast integration of the brain/ body neural networks within 5-15 minutes is one of the most unique attributes of Body'Fit pH Fitness. The most noticeable result of performing Body'Fit is the acceleration of anti-aging metabolism i.e. regeneration. That is, because all the tissues receive a relative increase in oxygen and nutrients compared to what is typical during exercise, rejuevenation speeds up. This helps even people with hypotension to get More Out of Exercise™ by counteracting what usually happens where circulation to the majority of tissues is sacrificed for the sake of muscle circulation, almost exclusively.