HH565: Encore Presentation-Stress: It Increases Your Blood Pressure!
Today, I want to talk about the fact that stress can impact and increase your blood pressure because it causes your blood vessels to constrict, and that will elevate blood pressure.
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Transcript
Welcome back to another episode of health hacks
Melissa Deally:as I continue talking about the impact of stress on our health,
Melissa Deally:and today, I want to talk about the fact that stress can impact
Melissa Deally:and increase your blood pressure because it causes your blood
Melissa Deally:vessels to constrict, and that will elevate blood pressure
Melissa Deally:because the the blood vessels are getting narrower, and so the
Melissa Deally:heart has to work harder to push the blood through, and that then
Melissa Deally:increases the blood pressure in those narrower vessels, and that
Melissa Deally:can increase the risk of heart disease. So in terms of one of
Melissa Deally:the things that has been correlated with heart attacks as
Melissa Deally:well, that can help if you get more of it is sleep. So when we
Melissa Deally:get enough sleep, it allows us to be more stress resilient
Melissa Deally:through the day, and we all, as human beings, as adults, need
Melissa Deally:between seven to nine hours of sleep every night, nine hours if
Melissa Deally:you're feeling like you're getting sick and coming down
Melissa Deally:with something, and perhaps it's closer to seven hours if you're
Melissa Deally:feeling healthy and thriving. However, that is ideally what
Melissa Deally:the human body needs in order to thrive. And many of us aren't
Melissa Deally:getting that much sleep, so that is an area that I work with a
Melissa Deally:lot of my clients on is helping to improve their sleep and
Melissa Deally:giving them tips and tricks in order to start to get more
Melissa Deally:sleep. And it's really profound, the difference they notice in
Melissa Deally:themselves when they start sleeping more. And it's really
Melissa Deally:helps us to be able to manage our stress, because, you know,
Melissa Deally:as well as I do that, when you're not well rested, you are
Melissa Deally:more likely to be irritated by smaller things and fly off the
Melissa Deally:handle and get instantly triggered and into that stress
Melissa Deally:state, whereas if you've had a good night's sleep, you can
Melissa Deally:respond in a much more calm fashion. And there's also been
Melissa Deally:research that actually shows a direct correlation between the
Melissa Deally:amount of sleep people get and their risk of heart attack. And
Melissa Deally:we see that every year, when we go on and off daylight savings,
Melissa Deally:when we go on daylight savings, we lose an hour's sleep at
Melissa Deally:night, and hospitals show an increase in the number of heart
Melissa Deally:attacks the following day of 24% and when we go off daylight
Melissa Deally:savings in the fall, we gain an hour's sleep and hospitals
Melissa Deally:actually show A decrease in the number of heart attacks by 21%
Melissa Deally:and that's just from one hour of sleep, and we see that twice a
Melissa Deally:year. So something that you can start to work on in terms of
Melissa Deally:lowering your risk of heart disease and blood high blood
Melissa Deally:pressure is to ensure that you are getting adequate sleep, and
Melissa Deally:that will allow you to be able to go with the flow more in life
Melissa Deally:and manage the stresses that are being thrown at you. We all have
Melissa Deally:stress in our life. Stresses will be thrown at you. It's a
Melissa Deally:matter of how you handle them, and the more capable you are of
Melissa Deally:handling them, the less impact, negative impact they have on
Melissa Deally:your body and on your health. So if sleep is something that you
Melissa Deally:need support with in terms of improving your sleep, I have a
Melissa Deally:six steps to better sleep, self guided course that you can take.
Melissa Deally:I'll drop the link to that. I've recently added to that is sleep
Melissa Deally:meditation, and I also have many other tools that I can share
Melissa Deally:with you. If that's something you'd like to know more about,
Melissa Deally:please feel free to reach out to me. Melissa, at your guided
Melissa Deally:health journey.com. And happy sleeping.
