What Causes Low Blood Pressure? – Dr.Berg

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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 so if you want more knowledge on how to create a healthy body subscribe now and get daily notifications