February 12, 2025 • 28 mins
Body N Balance presents to you and for your valuable information about your heart.
Point #1: All the blood that flows through your is not what supplies the heart muscle. It is the coronary vessels on the outside of the heart muscle that keep it alive.
Point #2: There is good and bad cholesterol. HDL-good protects the heart and LDL –bad causes plaques or blockages in the vessels. This can lead to heart attacks or strokes.
Point #3: Definition for blood parameters given today as defined by whether. 130-139 stage 1 ; 140-higher stage 2; 180-higher critical stage.
Point #4: 8 causes for elevated blood pressure are elevated salt use, stress, alcohol, smoking, obesity, inactivity, low Mg/Ca/K and genetic.
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(00:00):
Welcome to Body In Balance Podcast.
(00:14):
I am your host, Charlotte Johnson.
The Certificate Licensed Physician Assistant sent here to kick some knowledge your way,
once a week, for the purpose of educating, informing, and enlightening this audience
(00:34):
concerning physical, spiritual, and emotional aspects of our bodies in relation to our Creator.
The one, the only, the true and living God, Yahweh, Yah, He is the King of kings.
(00:58):
I'm the Lord of Lords.
Let us give it up for Yahweh.
Hello, hello, hello. I'm excited once again for this Wednesday.
(01:19):
We're going to be, this is Heart Month.
This is Heart Month and Friday is Valentine's Day.
So I want to say happy Valentine's Day to all my listeners, all of you out there who are
enjoying the knowledge that Body In Balance is kicking your way.
(01:42):
And what we're going to be talking about is what you don't know can hurt you.
Yes, you need to know what's lurking around in your body.
And we're going to talk about that today.
We're going to talk about matters of the heart.
We're going to talk about the things that the heart can do, what it's supposed to do,
(02:06):
what can hinder it, what is a heart attack.
Oh, man, I've got a lot of stuff, a lot of knowledge that I want to share with you on today,
on what you don't know can hurt you.
So let's get started. We are going to move to our next slide and let's talk about what the agenda is going to be.
(02:36):
Today, we're going to be talking about number one, what the blood flow, how the blood flows through the heart,
how all of the blood flows through the heart.
Number two, we're going to talk about the cholesterol and what its function is in your body.
Not all cholesterol is bad.
(02:58):
I know that a lot of people think there, well, you know there's good cholesterol and there's bad cholesterol.
Well, we're going to talk about both of those, how it can help and how it can be damaging.
All right, talk about high blood pressure and the damages that it can do to the heart.
(03:20):
Some of the problems, I don't know if any of you have ever heard of something called congestive heart failure.
Well, that comes from damage that's done to the heart from high blood pressure.
The other thing is we're going to discuss is how blood pressure is controlled, medications.
(03:43):
I want us to always be informed about what we are putting in our bodies.
So I've got a video that I want to share with you all because it shows how the blood flows
(04:03):
through the heart.
And so that's very important because we're going to talk about some little points concerning this.
So let me...
...get you started on our video.
(04:29):
Veins are blood vessels containing blood flowing to the heart.
While arteries have blood flowing from the heart.
The blue is representative of blood vessels containing deoxygenated blood,
while the red blood vessels have oxygenated blood fresh from the lungs.
Now let's follow the path of the blood through the heart.
The superior vena cava receives blood from the head, neck, upper limbs and chest.
(04:51):
Meanwhile, the inferior vena cava receives blood from the trunk, viscera, and lower limbs.
Both the superior and inferior vena cava end up in the right atrium.
One of the four chambers of the heart.
The heart not only has four chambers, it also has four valves.
The purpose of the valves is to keep blood moving in the right direction and not flow backwards.
(05:12):
Blood exits the right atrium through the tricuspid valve,
so-called because it has three flaps, and enters the right ventricle.
The blood exits the right ventricle through the pulmonary valve and enters the pulmonary artery.
Again, it is an artery because blood is flowing away from the heart,
but it is blue because it lacks oxygen.
The pulmonary artery then splits into the left and right pulmonary arteries,
(05:35):
which go to each respective lung.
In the lungs, gas exchange occurs.
The blood discards carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
Now, blood comes back from the lungs through the pulmonary veins, entering the left atrium.
Next, the blood is pumped into the left ventricle through the mitral or bicuspid valve.
Finally, the oxygenated blood leaves the left ventricle through the aortic semilunar valve,
(05:58):
entering the aortic arch. The aorta, which is the largest of all the arteries,
distributes the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body.
The aortic arch has three major branches, which supply the head and arms with blood.
Then, the aorta curls downward behind the heart, forming the descending aorta,
which descends through the chest and continues down through the abdomen.
(06:20):
In the abdomen, the descending aorta splits to supply the pelvis and legs with blood.
Want to give a shout out to
for Neuro Academy for helping us out today with that video and giving us, I tell you,
(06:47):
I'm a licensed physician assistant, but I'm also a licensed missionary with the Church of God and
Christ. It's just overwhelming about the awesomeness of God and how he created our bodies.
Let's talk a little bit about the heart. Now, this video just showed us how all the
(07:13):
heart, all the blood in the body goes through the heart. And most of you know that,
but that is not what supplies our heart muscle. Our heart muscle is sustained by these blood
vessels that are on the outside of the heart. The blue are the veins and the red are the arteries.
(07:40):
If you look at this, what's facing us is the anterior part of the heart. Back where the blue
looking pipe is in the back of the heart, that is the posterior portion of the heart.
And then you see some vessels that come along the side between the anterior and the posterior.
(08:08):
You see the lateral. And so the heart, you can have a heart attack anywhere in the anterior
portion of your heart that is supplied by these blood vessels in the posterior portion of your
heart supplied by the vessels in the back and on the lateral aspect of the heart. That's what an EKG
(08:32):
tells a cardiologist. So although all the blood in our body flows through the heart and is oxygenated
by the heart because it goes through or not exactly by the heart, but it's pumped out into the lungs
to be oxygenated. Blue or the veins has the deoxygenated blood. That's why it appears to be
(09:00):
blue. Red, like valentine's, the red is blood that is oxygenated. That is the life giving blood,
the life sustaining blood. It is the blood. Oh, I feel something up in here. I know everybody
(09:22):
doesn't understand that, but I'd be to tell you I was from the churches of God and Christ.
All right. So it says it is the vessels outside the heart that must not be blocked. If inside
these vessels, so inside the vessel would be intra luminal, intra luminal outside those vessels
(09:52):
is called extra luminal. So whenever these vessels are closed off, then oxygen doesn't get to where
it needs to be. So I don't want to go too far ahead, but we're going to talk about
cholesterol. And the reason we want to talk about cholesterol is because that's something that tends
(10:19):
to cause the vessels to be obstructed, to be obstructed. So in talking about cholesterol,
it is a waxy type substance that's found in the blood. Your body needs cholesterol, so you can't
(10:41):
just get rid of it because it's needed to help build healthy cells. If you have high cholesterol,
you've got to really divide out whether we have good, bad, or the non-cholesterol bad. So you
(11:02):
have to find out exactly what we're looking at. So you could have a high number, but you could
have a really high number of good cholesterol. That's not so bad. So high cholesterol causes
blockage in the vessels. So this where you see that yellow, that's intra luminal. If you're at
(11:25):
home, say that with me, intra luminal. That's what can cause heart attacks and can cause strokes.
Now there are other ways that you could have strokes. I know that there are a lot of intelligent
people in my audience and you may be medical and there are hemorrhagic strokes, but we ain't
(11:47):
talking about that. We're talking about obstructive, intra luminal blockage in vessels that can cause
you to have heart attacks or strokes. All right, let's move on. There is good cholesterol or bad
cholesterol as I've spoken of. So the good cholesterol is called eight, or you'll see it on your lab
(12:11):
forms, HDL, HDL, high density lipid. And then you have, so the healthy HDL cholesterol is a
protectant, is a protectant to the heart against vessel obstruction. And so now we'd look at
(12:39):
the LDL. In the LDL, that's what is obstructive and can cause problems.
So let's talk about understanding normal cholesterol levels. This is where I was talking about
in this chart. This is really good because it tells healthy levels of all the cholesterol
(13:04):
by ages and by sex, whether it's male or female. Now I'm talking about for young people, when you
go and get your physicals, a lot of times with these insurance companies, they like to try to
not do certain things. And so your doctor will try to only get the things that they think that you
(13:30):
need. Doesn't matter. If you're 19 to 30 years old, you want to get a cholesterol check. You want to
have your lipids, lipids, LIP ID. You want your lipids checked and they're going to talk about in
the lipids, it will tell you whether it's good cholesterol or bad cholesterol. So you'll have
(13:53):
a total cholesterol, then you'll have that non HDL and you'll have the LDL, which is a bad
cholesterol and the HDL, which is a good cholesterol. All right. You want to know these numbers. So if
it's less than 170 micrograms, that is your that would be like your total. So does that mean it's
(14:19):
bad? Well, who knows. So we need to distinguish out what's your LDL look like. It should be under
100. What does your HDL look like? 45 or more is good. The higher that number is, the better
(14:41):
protected or hard coverage you have. Now, men versus women. These numbers that you see here, if you
are taking notes, you can take you younger people and go ahead and take a picture and save that.
(15:01):
And you can go back and Google and look up things and see what I'm talking about. Now,
it is good to have the high HDL. It's not good to have the high LDL. It should be low. That's the way
you have good protection. I have said that four times. So that means it's very important when you
(15:27):
get your labs back, your lipid panel, you want to be able to see those numbers. All right.
Let's talk about blood pressure. So how about it? High blood pressure is a problem.
(15:47):
High blood pressure can also be referred to you see it as HTN. In some of your medical notes,
you'll see it in HBP. Most time they have HTN. I use that initial in my notes when I write my medical
notes for my patients. And it is when your blood pressure, that's the force. Pow!
(16:14):
The force. Pow! In which that blood is pumping through the heart.
Now it's coming through those vessels. And if it's consistently high, it's a punch,
(16:36):
a punch, a punch against those vessels. Now that is how you can get that hemorrhagic. Because if you
punch enough, it can rupture that vessel. It thins out and it can rupture that vessel. That's how
you can have hemorrhagic strokes. Okay. But we're not going to get into all of that. We're going to
(16:58):
stay on point. We're talking about high blood pressure. And these are some of the numbers
that can come up. Please make sure you can always come on the YouTube channel, go back, and you can
stop. You can write down what you need. You can also be taking a picture and you can get this and
(17:19):
Google it. Now we have two parts to your blood pressure. There's a top number and there's a bottom
number. There's the top number, which is called your systole. That's when it comes outside the heart.
When it pumps outside the heart, all that blood goes through the heart like I showed you in the
(17:44):
video. And then it gets pumped into the aorta. And you saw the skeleton with the vessels there
and how it went. That pressure has to be high enough to pump that blood out of the heart
and push it up to your brain and down to your little toe, to the little pinky toe.
(18:07):
Yes, I said it. The pinky toe. All of that. If you don't have blood to your pinky toe,
you'll lose your pinky toe. That's one of the things that if you get a lot of clocks and things
like that, that's one of the things that Dionne Sanders is suffering with. And let's keep him
(18:27):
in our prayers. I think he had another emergency with a clock, but we're going to move on.
For time sake, so the first number or the top number is when the blood is pumping out of the
heart. That's your sisterly that top number. Your diastole is the bottom number. That is the
(18:53):
feeling of your heart when your heart is filling. Now, you may not know how high your blood pressure
is, but that's what can cause strokes and heart attacks when your pressure is too high. So if
you start feeling light, I had it. I didn't know I had high blood pressure. And the first time that
(19:18):
I went to blood, it was like a pharmacy. And I was getting something else was it was some medication
for something else. And I stuck my arm in the blood pressure cuff and it said 180 over 110.
And I told the man, something's wrong with your machine. It needs to be calibrated. And I got
(19:38):
up and walked out. But a few days later, I started feeling like I was on an elevator and like I was
landing at the bottom. I kept feeling like that. I kept feeling lightheaded. And it was because
I had high blood pressure and didn't know it. That is why they call it the silent killer.
(20:02):
All right. So thank God for salvation because there are some things that we don't really have
to deal with because if you have given your life to the Lord and you have decided that you're going
to try to live an upstanding life and you're going to work on understanding your body to be a temple,
(20:28):
then you're not going to add a whole lot of salt to your diet. You're going to monitor the amount
of sodium you intake and look at some of your labels and see what has elevated sodium levels.
You're going to work on moving. We talked about moving and stretching and keeping
(20:50):
your weight down by exercising. You're going to monitor inactivity. Watch alcohol. Now,
I have not everybody has to do it. I'm not telling everybody to do it. But I have, as a vow to God,
decided I'm not going to drink any alcohol. Now, I have just as good a time without it.
(21:14):
But if you want to have a drink, I'm not advocating it, but I'm not saying don't stop not watching
my show because I said, don't drink no alcohol. Are you going to hell? No, I'm telling you that I
don't do it and I don't do it for a reason because I've dedicated myself to God. Now,
(21:36):
some people have genetics that just it sets you up for high blood pressure. It's nothing you can
do about that. You can't control what family you were born in smoking. You don't have to smoke. So
that's something. Now, I'm going to advocate that don't be smoking. You need to stop that
because that's just hurting you. You just giving all these rich people more money to buy bigger yachts
(22:01):
while you're not you get voted against having insurance and getting any help and all of that
and you killing yourself. So I wouldn't put that kind of chemical in my body, but
low sodium or low calcium, low magnesium and low potassium can cause high blood pressure.
Stress can cause high blood pressure. So watching too much news and what's going on in the news and
(22:27):
all of that kind of stuff can and not getting enough sleep and worrying about this and that and
your job, those kind of things can cause problems for you. Now let's talk about medications. We're
going to do that real quick because I want to be done in just a few minutes medications for cholesterol
and for blood pressure. Now there are things called statins. Statins, they block the enzyme
(22:54):
in the liver, which makes a lot of cholesterol. Now you have to have cholesterol because it helps to
make your cell walls. Like I was saying, it helps to make your hormone level, whether it's estrogen,
progesterone or testosterone. It helps to make that. So you need it. Other medications that are
(23:16):
taken is fish oil. Then there's one called niacin and there's fibrates. All of these help you
with controlling your blood pressure. Now let me tell you something about niacin.
If you take that, it gives you these weird hot flashes. So if you are taking niacin or you've
(23:36):
been prescribed that, most times your doctor will tell you to take an 81 milligram aspirin to cut
down on those hot flashes that niacin gives you. Fibrates tends to cut down on the triglycerides.
Now let's go over to on the right hand side, you see hydrochlorothiazide or HCTZ.
(24:04):
You may look at your blood pressure medicine and it says maybe lysineapril slash HCTZ. That's two
blood pressure medicines in one. One lysineapril is an ACE inhibitor and that is a good protectant
to the kidney. A good protectant to the kidney. Your HCTZ is a diuretic. So you may have to urinate
(24:33):
or go to the bathroom a lot more with that one. You want to take it more so in the day. You also
want to make sure you're drinking plenty of water. Now beta blockers. Beta blockers are good for those
that have had heart attacks. It tends to slow your heart rate down. So if your doctor gives you that
and you're under 40, 40, 50, then you want to talk to them about that because if you want to exercise,
(25:00):
it kind of locks you in with your heart rate. So think about that before you do it. Calcium
channel blockers are really good. Now in African Americans, calcium channel blockers work very
well. In the ACE inhibitors, let me say this, in African Americans, it works well, but it's not as
(25:21):
good in lower doses. So when I have Caucasian patients, I could give them five milligrams to
start out their blood pressure medication. But with African Americans, I have to start them out at
10 milligrams because a 10 milligram and a five milligram are synonymous for African Americans.
(25:45):
They need that 10 milligram. That's the lower dose that works best for us. Okay. That was just a
little G whiz information. Now in conclusion, we're getting ready to wrap up. So in conclusion,
point number one, all the blood that flows through the heart that does not supply the heart muscle.
(26:11):
What does work at the heart muscle is the blood vessels on the outside of the heart.
Point number two, there is good and bad cholesterol. I gave you that several times. The LDL
is the one that causes the plaques intra luminally. And number three, definition for blood pressure,
(26:40):
the parameters for it. Today, I'm going to give you that definition is 130 to 139. That's stage one
hypertension. So you may or may not need to have any medication, but you would need to exercise,
cut back on sodium and the like and make sure you drink it plenty of water. 140 over and higher.
(27:05):
That stage two. Now when you get to 180, like I told you I had that higher number is critical.
So this is the systole numbers. If your dial is diastole number is greater than 90,
that's considered high blood pressure also. So point number four, there's eight causes for elevated
(27:30):
blood pressure, increased sodium stress, alcohol use, smoking, obesity, inactivity, having low
magnesium, calcium, and then just who your kin people are. Who is your family? Those things can
(27:53):
make a difference. So I want to let you know that this is heart month. Watch your heart,
guard your heart, do the things that I've asked you to do. Exercise, get good rest, watch out for
the amount of sodium and do some of these other things. Hopefully this has been a blessing to you
(28:17):
and it's been a help to you. And you have learned something about your life. I pray this has been
a blessing.
Welcome to Body In Balance Podcast.
(00:14):
I am your host, Charlotte Johnson.
The Certificate Licensed Physician Assistant sent here to kick some knowledge your way,
once a week, for the purpose of educating, informing, and enlightening this audience
(00:34):
concerning physical, spiritual, and emotional aspects of our bodies in relation to our Creator.
The one, the only, the true and living God, Yahweh, Yah, He is the King of kings.
(00:58):
I'm the Lord of Lords.
Let us give it up for Yahweh.
Hello, hello, hello. I'm excited once again for this Wednesday.
(01:19):
We're going to be, this is Heart Month.
This is Heart Month and Friday is Valentine's Day.
So I want to say happy Valentine's Day to all my listeners, all of you out there who are
enjoying the knowledge that Body In Balance is kicking your way.
(01:42):
And what we're going to be talking about is what you don't know can hurt you.
Yes, you need to know what's lurking around in your body.
And we're going to talk about that today.
We're going to talk about matters of the heart.
We're going to talk about the things that the heart can do, what it's supposed to do,
(02:06):
what can hinder it, what is a heart attack.
Oh, man, I've got a lot of stuff, a lot of knowledge that I want to share with you on today,
on what you don't know can hurt you.
So let's get started. We are going to move to our next slide and let's talk about what the agenda is going to be.
(02:36):
Today, we're going to be talking about number one, what the blood flow, how the blood flows through the heart,
how all of the blood flows through the heart.
Number two, we're going to talk about the cholesterol and what its function is in your body.
Not all cholesterol is bad.
(02:58):
I know that a lot of people think there, well, you know there's good cholesterol and there's bad cholesterol.
Well, we're going to talk about both of those, how it can help and how it can be damaging.
All right, talk about high blood pressure and the damages that it can do to the heart.
(03:20):
Some of the problems, I don't know if any of you have ever heard of something called congestive heart failure.
Well, that comes from damage that's done to the heart from high blood pressure.
The other thing is we're going to discuss is how blood pressure is controlled, medications.
(03:43):
I want us to always be informed about what we are putting in our bodies.
So I've got a video that I want to share with you all because it shows how the blood flows
(04:03):
through the heart.
And so that's very important because we're going to talk about some little points concerning this.
So let me...
...get you started on our video.
(04:29):
Veins are blood vessels containing blood flowing to the heart.
While arteries have blood flowing from the heart.
The blue is representative of blood vessels containing deoxygenated blood,
while the red blood vessels have oxygenated blood fresh from the lungs.
Now let's follow the path of the blood through the heart.
The superior vena cava receives blood from the head, neck, upper limbs and chest.
(04:51):
Meanwhile, the inferior vena cava receives blood from the trunk, viscera, and lower limbs.
Both the superior and inferior vena cava end up in the right atrium.
One of the four chambers of the heart.
The heart not only has four chambers, it also has four valves.
The purpose of the valves is to keep blood moving in the right direction and not flow backwards.
(05:12):
Blood exits the right atrium through the tricuspid valve,
so-called because it has three flaps, and enters the right ventricle.
The blood exits the right ventricle through the pulmonary valve and enters the pulmonary artery.
Again, it is an artery because blood is flowing away from the heart,
but it is blue because it lacks oxygen.
The pulmonary artery then splits into the left and right pulmonary arteries,
(05:35):
which go to each respective lung.
In the lungs, gas exchange occurs.
The blood discards carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
Now, blood comes back from the lungs through the pulmonary veins, entering the left atrium.
Next, the blood is pumped into the left ventricle through the mitral or bicuspid valve.
Finally, the oxygenated blood leaves the left ventricle through the aortic semilunar valve,
(05:58):
entering the aortic arch. The aorta, which is the largest of all the arteries,
distributes the oxygenated blood to the rest of the body.
The aortic arch has three major branches, which supply the head and arms with blood.
Then, the aorta curls downward behind the heart, forming the descending aorta,
which descends through the chest and continues down through the abdomen.
(06:20):
In the abdomen, the descending aorta splits to supply the pelvis and legs with blood.
Want to give a shout out to
for Neuro Academy for helping us out today with that video and giving us, I tell you,
(06:47):
I'm a licensed physician assistant, but I'm also a licensed missionary with the Church of God and
Christ. It's just overwhelming about the awesomeness of God and how he created our bodies.
Let's talk a little bit about the heart. Now, this video just showed us how all the
(07:13):
heart, all the blood in the body goes through the heart. And most of you know that,
but that is not what supplies our heart muscle. Our heart muscle is sustained by these blood
vessels that are on the outside of the heart. The blue are the veins and the red are the arteries.
(07:40):
If you look at this, what's facing us is the anterior part of the heart. Back where the blue
looking pipe is in the back of the heart, that is the posterior portion of the heart.
And then you see some vessels that come along the side between the anterior and the posterior.
(08:08):
You see the lateral. And so the heart, you can have a heart attack anywhere in the anterior
portion of your heart that is supplied by these blood vessels in the posterior portion of your
heart supplied by the vessels in the back and on the lateral aspect of the heart. That's what an EKG
(08:32):
tells a cardiologist. So although all the blood in our body flows through the heart and is oxygenated
by the heart because it goes through or not exactly by the heart, but it's pumped out into the lungs
to be oxygenated. Blue or the veins has the deoxygenated blood. That's why it appears to be
(09:00):
blue. Red, like valentine's, the red is blood that is oxygenated. That is the life giving blood,
the life sustaining blood. It is the blood. Oh, I feel something up in here. I know everybody
(09:22):
doesn't understand that, but I'd be to tell you I was from the churches of God and Christ.
All right. So it says it is the vessels outside the heart that must not be blocked. If inside
these vessels, so inside the vessel would be intra luminal, intra luminal outside those vessels
(09:52):
is called extra luminal. So whenever these vessels are closed off, then oxygen doesn't get to where
it needs to be. So I don't want to go too far ahead, but we're going to talk about
cholesterol. And the reason we want to talk about cholesterol is because that's something that tends
(10:19):
to cause the vessels to be obstructed, to be obstructed. So in talking about cholesterol,
it is a waxy type substance that's found in the blood. Your body needs cholesterol, so you can't
(10:41):
just get rid of it because it's needed to help build healthy cells. If you have high cholesterol,
you've got to really divide out whether we have good, bad, or the non-cholesterol bad. So you
(11:02):
have to find out exactly what we're looking at. So you could have a high number, but you could
have a really high number of good cholesterol. That's not so bad. So high cholesterol causes
blockage in the vessels. So this where you see that yellow, that's intra luminal. If you're at
(11:25):
home, say that with me, intra luminal. That's what can cause heart attacks and can cause strokes.
Now there are other ways that you could have strokes. I know that there are a lot of intelligent
people in my audience and you may be medical and there are hemorrhagic strokes, but we ain't
(11:47):
talking about that. We're talking about obstructive, intra luminal blockage in vessels that can cause
you to have heart attacks or strokes. All right, let's move on. There is good cholesterol or bad
cholesterol as I've spoken of. So the good cholesterol is called eight, or you'll see it on your lab
(12:11):
forms, HDL, HDL, high density lipid. And then you have, so the healthy HDL cholesterol is a
protectant, is a protectant to the heart against vessel obstruction. And so now we'd look at
(12:39):
the LDL. In the LDL, that's what is obstructive and can cause problems.
So let's talk about understanding normal cholesterol levels. This is where I was talking about
in this chart. This is really good because it tells healthy levels of all the cholesterol
(13:04):
by ages and by sex, whether it's male or female. Now I'm talking about for young people, when you
go and get your physicals, a lot of times with these insurance companies, they like to try to
not do certain things. And so your doctor will try to only get the things that they think that you
(13:30):
need. Doesn't matter. If you're 19 to 30 years old, you want to get a cholesterol check. You want to
have your lipids, lipids, LIP ID. You want your lipids checked and they're going to talk about in
the lipids, it will tell you whether it's good cholesterol or bad cholesterol. So you'll have
(13:53):
a total cholesterol, then you'll have that non HDL and you'll have the LDL, which is a bad
cholesterol and the HDL, which is a good cholesterol. All right. You want to know these numbers. So if
it's less than 170 micrograms, that is your that would be like your total. So does that mean it's
(14:19):
bad? Well, who knows. So we need to distinguish out what's your LDL look like. It should be under
100. What does your HDL look like? 45 or more is good. The higher that number is, the better
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protected or hard coverage you have. Now, men versus women. These numbers that you see here, if you
are taking notes, you can take you younger people and go ahead and take a picture and save that.
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And you can go back and Google and look up things and see what I'm talking about. Now,
it is good to have the high HDL. It's not good to have the high LDL. It should be low. That's the way
you have good protection. I have said that four times. So that means it's very important when you
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get your labs back, your lipid panel, you want to be able to see those numbers. All right.
Let's talk about blood pressure. So how about it? High blood pressure is a problem.
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High blood pressure can also be referred to you see it as HTN. In some of your medical notes,
you'll see it in HBP. Most time they have HTN. I use that initial in my notes when I write my medical
notes for my patients. And it is when your blood pressure, that's the force. Pow!
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The force. Pow! In which that blood is pumping through the heart.
Now it's coming through those vessels. And if it's consistently high, it's a punch,
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a punch, a punch against those vessels. Now that is how you can get that hemorrhagic. Because if you
punch enough, it can rupture that vessel. It thins out and it can rupture that vessel. That's how
you can have hemorrhagic strokes. Okay. But we're not going to get into all of that. We're going to
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stay on point. We're talking about high blood pressure. And these are some of the numbers
that can come up. Please make sure you can always come on the YouTube channel, go back, and you can
stop. You can write down what you need. You can also be taking a picture and you can get this and
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Google it. Now we have two parts to your blood pressure. There's a top number and there's a bottom
number. There's the top number, which is called your systole. That's when it comes outside the heart.
When it pumps outside the heart, all that blood goes through the heart like I showed you in the
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video. And then it gets pumped into the aorta. And you saw the skeleton with the vessels there
and how it went. That pressure has to be high enough to pump that blood out of the heart
and push it up to your brain and down to your little toe, to the little pinky toe.
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Yes, I said it. The pinky toe. All of that. If you don't have blood to your pinky toe,
you'll lose your pinky toe. That's one of the things that if you get a lot of clocks and things
like that, that's one of the things that Dionne Sanders is suffering with. And let's keep him
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in our prayers. I think he had another emergency with a clock, but we're going to move on.
For time sake, so the first number or the top number is when the blood is pumping out of the
heart. That's your sisterly that top number. Your diastole is the bottom number. That is the
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feeling of your heart when your heart is filling. Now, you may not know how high your blood pressure
is, but that's what can cause strokes and heart attacks when your pressure is too high. So if
you start feeling light, I had it. I didn't know I had high blood pressure. And the first time that
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I went to blood, it was like a pharmacy. And I was getting something else was it was some medication
for something else. And I stuck my arm in the blood pressure cuff and it said 180 over 110.
And I told the man, something's wrong with your machine. It needs to be calibrated. And I got
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up and walked out. But a few days later, I started feeling like I was on an elevator and like I was
landing at the bottom. I kept feeling like that. I kept feeling lightheaded. And it was because
I had high blood pressure and didn't know it. That is why they call it the silent killer.
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All right. So thank God for salvation because there are some things that we don't really have
to deal with because if you have given your life to the Lord and you have decided that you're going
to try to live an upstanding life and you're going to work on understanding your body to be a temple,
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then you're not going to add a whole lot of salt to your diet. You're going to monitor the amount
of sodium you intake and look at some of your labels and see what has elevated sodium levels.
You're going to work on moving. We talked about moving and stretching and keeping
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your weight down by exercising. You're going to monitor inactivity. Watch alcohol. Now,
I have not everybody has to do it. I'm not telling everybody to do it. But I have, as a vow to God,
decided I'm not going to drink any alcohol. Now, I have just as good a time without it.
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But if you want to have a drink, I'm not advocating it, but I'm not saying don't stop not watching
my show because I said, don't drink no alcohol. Are you going to hell? No, I'm telling you that I
don't do it and I don't do it for a reason because I've dedicated myself to God. Now,
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some people have genetics that just it sets you up for high blood pressure. It's nothing you can
do about that. You can't control what family you were born in smoking. You don't have to smoke. So
that's something. Now, I'm going to advocate that don't be smoking. You need to stop that
because that's just hurting you. You just giving all these rich people more money to buy bigger yachts
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while you're not you get voted against having insurance and getting any help and all of that
and you killing yourself. So I wouldn't put that kind of chemical in my body, but
low sodium or low calcium, low magnesium and low potassium can cause high blood pressure.
Stress can cause high blood pressure. So watching too much news and what's going on in the news and
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all of that kind of stuff can and not getting enough sleep and worrying about this and that and
your job, those kind of things can cause problems for you. Now let's talk about medications. We're
going to do that real quick because I want to be done in just a few minutes medications for cholesterol
and for blood pressure. Now there are things called statins. Statins, they block the enzyme
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in the liver, which makes a lot of cholesterol. Now you have to have cholesterol because it helps to
make your cell walls. Like I was saying, it helps to make your hormone level, whether it's estrogen,
progesterone or testosterone. It helps to make that. So you need it. Other medications that are
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taken is fish oil. Then there's one called niacin and there's fibrates. All of these help you
with controlling your blood pressure. Now let me tell you something about niacin.
If you take that, it gives you these weird hot flashes. So if you are taking niacin or you've
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been prescribed that, most times your doctor will tell you to take an 81 milligram aspirin to cut
down on those hot flashes that niacin gives you. Fibrates tends to cut down on the triglycerides.
Now let's go over to on the right hand side, you see hydrochlorothiazide or HCTZ.
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You may look at your blood pressure medicine and it says maybe lysineapril slash HCTZ. That's two
blood pressure medicines in one. One lysineapril is an ACE inhibitor and that is a good protectant
to the kidney. A good protectant to the kidney. Your HCTZ is a diuretic. So you may have to urinate
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or go to the bathroom a lot more with that one. You want to take it more so in the day. You also
want to make sure you're drinking plenty of water. Now beta blockers. Beta blockers are good for those
that have had heart attacks. It tends to slow your heart rate down. So if your doctor gives you that
and you're under 40, 40, 50, then you want to talk to them about that because if you want to exercise,
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it kind of locks you in with your heart rate. So think about that before you do it. Calcium
channel blockers are really good. Now in African Americans, calcium channel blockers work very
well. In the ACE inhibitors, let me say this, in African Americans, it works well, but it's not as
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good in lower doses. So when I have Caucasian patients, I could give them five milligrams to
start out their blood pressure medication. But with African Americans, I have to start them out at
10 milligrams because a 10 milligram and a five milligram are synonymous for African Americans.
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They need that 10 milligram. That's the lower dose that works best for us. Okay. That was just a
little G whiz information. Now in conclusion, we're getting ready to wrap up. So in conclusion,
point number one, all the blood that flows through the heart that does not supply the heart muscle.
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What does work at the heart muscle is the blood vessels on the outside of the heart.
Point number two, there is good and bad cholesterol. I gave you that several times. The LDL
is the one that causes the plaques intra luminally. And number three, definition for blood pressure,
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the parameters for it. Today, I'm going to give you that definition is 130 to 139. That's stage one
hypertension. So you may or may not need to have any medication, but you would need to exercise,
cut back on sodium and the like and make sure you drink it plenty of water. 140 over and higher.
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That stage two. Now when you get to 180, like I told you I had that higher number is critical.
So this is the systole numbers. If your dial is diastole number is greater than 90,
that's considered high blood pressure also. So point number four, there's eight causes for elevated
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blood pressure, increased sodium stress, alcohol use, smoking, obesity, inactivity, having low
magnesium, calcium, and then just who your kin people are. Who is your family? Those things can
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make a difference. So I want to let you know that this is heart month. Watch your heart,
guard your heart, do the things that I've asked you to do. Exercise, get good rest, watch out for
the amount of sodium and do some of these other things. Hopefully this has been a blessing to you
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and it's been a help to you. And you have learned something about your life. I pray this has been
a blessing.
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