A new, interesting device is currently being tested in hospitals all over the world. It lowers blood pressure without the need for taking drugs or suffering prescription medicine side effects.

What’s neat about this device is that it tackles the underlying cause of high blood pressure, unlike dangerous medications that force your blood pressure down, causing numerous complications.

A new blood pressure treatment is currently being tested on 100 subjects around the world. It is a tiny catheter-like device that is placed inside your renal artery from where it emits radio frequencies that block the secretion of norepinephrine, your fight or flight hormone.

To understand exactly how this works, we need a quick crash course on norepinephrine. Norepinephrine and epinephrine are two of your body’s fight or flight hormones. They are produced by your adrenal glands that are positioned just above your kidneys.

From there, the postganglionic neurons in your sympathetic nervous system deliver them directly to the organs where they are needed, while the adrenal glands drop them directly into your blood stream. The secretion of these fight or flight hormones is triggered the moment you are stressed.

When our early human ancestors experienced acute stress, it was usually because violent predators attacked them. In response, they needed to run away or fight back. Norepinephrine and epinephrine were particularly useful then, because they increased heart rate, blood flow, energy, strength, respiratory rate, mental alertness, and pupil size.

Unfortunately, things that stress us in the 21st century normally require that we calm down rather than fight or flee; grabbing your fault-finding supervisor by the throat or ramming bad drivers off the road is no workable solution.

Your body’s stress mechanisms have sadly not yet caught up with your new environment and social norms. It secretes these hormones by the bucket load every time you are a bit stressed which, let’s face it, happens every day.

This means that most of us have way too much norepinephrine and epinephrine circulating around our bodies for our sedentary lifestyles. Because of all these hormones, we are physically primed for maximum action, not for sitting around.

The new device stops our adrenal glands from secreting so much of these fight or flight hormones. It does this by decreasing the activity of the sympathetic nerves in the renal arteries that stimulate them to secrete so much hormone. This theoretically ensures that our heart rate and blood pressure drop from sky-high to normal.

Traditional blood pressure drugs also try to control norepinephrine and epinephrine, but not at the adrenal glands. They allow the adrenal glands to secrete them, and then try to stop the nervous system’s beta receptors around the body from accepting them. In other words, they block its effects, instead of its production.

Previous trials have been done on 141 subjects which proved the device to be effective and without major side effects in almost all volunteers. Follow-up trials reached less optimistic conclusions, but that is widely believed to be because the trials were flawed.

In case you were worried, the device is inserted during a quick procedure under local anesthetic. No major surgery is needed.

Interestingly though, our simple blood pressure exercises target exactly the same issue as this device. They lower overall stress hormone production and therefore lower blood pressure.

But unlike the device being tested, there is no need for surgery or injection. Just do the easy exercises for 9 minutes and watch your blood pressure sky fall.

Learn more about the easy blood pressure exercises and try them out for yourself here…