Evidence-based evidence has shown that exercise** has a primary preventive effect on cardiovascular disease, including hypertension. Practical observation has found that the vast majority of hypertensive patients, especially those with stage hypertension, will reduce their clinical symptoms and reduce their blood pressure to varying degrees after a period of exercise.
Some scholars observed 50 patients diagnosed with hypertension and found that after walking and jogging for 3 to 4 months, 85% of the patients' blood pressure returned to normal, and 38 of them completely stopped various antihypertensive drugs of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and completely relied on exercise to consolidate the effect.
Why does exercise lower blood pressure? What is the mechanism of action?
1. Long-term nervous overtension or emotional agitation can make the central nervous system functional, often leading to high blood pressure, and long-term insistence on physical exercise can make hypertensive patients feel stable and comfortable, so that tension and anxiety can be relieved, and can strengthen the regulatory function of the cerebral cortex to the subcortical vascular motor center, so that the arteries in a state of tension can be relaxed, thereby promoting the reduction of blood pressure.
2. For hypertensive patients who insist on exercising for a long time, through the whole body muscle exercise, the muscle and vascular fibers can gradually increase and thicken, the blood flow of the collateral vessels of the coronary arteries increases, and the elasticity of the tube wall is enhanced, which is conducive to the decrease of blood pressure; Exercise** can also produce certain chemicals, after these chemicals enter the blood, they can promote the dilatation of blood vessels, accelerate blood circulation, and facilitate the removal of cholesterol and other substances in the blood, so that blood vessels maintain their due elasticity, so they can effectively delay the occurrence and development of arteriosclerosis and prevent the aggravation of hypertension.
Consistent exercise can adjust autonomic nerve function, reduce sympathetic nervous excitability, improve vascular responsiveness, and cause peripheral vascular dilation and blood pressure drops.
It can be seen that by adjusting autonomic function, relieving tension, improving blood vessel elasticity and promoting blood circulation, exercise** can help lower blood pressure, delay the progression of arteriosclerosis, and reduce the occurrence of hypertension-related complications. Therefore, whether it is for patients with diagnosed hypertension or for prevention in healthy people, exercise** can be applied.
Selected from "Sports Health ** Guide" Author: Zhao Bin.
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