You already know you’re 70% water.
You know water is needed in almost every function that your body does.
What you may not know or understand is that there is a link between your blood pressure and the amount of water you drink.
First, let’s find out what role water plays in keeping blood pressure stable.
Water plays a vital role in transporting blood to different parts of the body. A shortage of water in the body causes blood vessels to become smaller. This response is to help the body keep as much fluid as it can.
When blood vessels reduce their width some of the smallest blood vessels(capillaries) shut down completely and this makes the heart and other vessels work harder.
They work harder because they still have to send blood to all parts of the body, with less. There is a shortage of vessels available to transport blood around the body.
When the blood vessels are smaller the heart has to pump harder to move blood around the body. Asides from the heart pumping harder. Also the capillaries which are the smallest vessels in the network of blood vessels shut down some of their vessels.
All of this is in response to the brain’s signal that water is not enough.
The heart is not the only organ that has to do more. The kidney also has to do more. To do this it secrets a hormone called renin. The kidney is important because it regulates sodium.
Renin encourages retention of sodium. Retention of sodium will lead to retention of fluid. Remember the body is doing all it can around more fluid in.
With all this activity going on, the heart has to increase pressure used to pump blood. The blood vessels also have to increase the pressure which is, used to move blood around the body.
If this happens once in a long while it’s ok.
But if blood pressure is persistently raised the heart and other blood vessels will have to pump hard to get blood around the body.
This keeps the blood pressure persistently raised and hence one is diagnosed as having high blood pressure.
By the time this happens, you will need to do more than drinking water to get blood pressure back to normal.
So, start drinking enough water now.
You’re probably thinking, how much water will keep blood pressure stable?
8 glasses of water daily should keep blood pressure stable. Alternatively you can drink 5 bottles of 500mls of water. Please note that when exercising or doing any activity that makes you sweat, you will need to drink more water.
Like I said earlier water is just one of the things you need to manage blood pressure.
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