Weird Electronic Device Lowers Blood Pressure

A new, interesting device is currently being tested in hospitals globally. It lowers blood pressure without the need for taking drugs or suffering the medicinal side effects of prescription.

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 and causes numerous complications.

This new blood pressure treatment is currently being tested on 100 subjects around the world.

A tiny catheter-like device that is placed within the renal artery, where it emits radio frequencies that block the secretion of norepinephrine.

Norepinephrine and epinephrine are two of your body’s fight or flight hormones. They are produced by your adrenal glands and released when you’re under stress.

When our early human ancestors experienced acute stress, it was usually because violent predators attacked them. In response, they needed to choose whether to run away or fight back.

Norepinephrine and epinephrine were particularly useful then, as 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 us calm down and find a rational solution, rather than fight or flee.

Sadly, your body’s stress mechanisms have yet to catch up with the new environment and social norms. It secretes these hormones in bucket loads every time you are a bit stressed which, let’s face it, happens daily.

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

The new device stops our adrenal glands from secreting an excess of these fight or flight hormones, and does this by decreasing the activity of the sympathetic nerves in the renal arteries that stimulate them to secrete a high amount of hormones. This theoretically ensures that our heart rate and blood pressure drop from sky-high levels to more normalized ones.

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

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

However, unlike the device being tested, there is no need for surgeries or injections. All that is needed would be to do the easy exercises found here for 9 minutes and just watch as your blood pressure dives…