Whole-Body Calming for Healthy Blood Pressure

What is whole-body calming?

It’s when your heart, arteries, and brain are more relaxed, and you sleep well. With whole-body calming, you're really helping your blood pressure.

The heart pumps blood into arteries every time it beats. Blood pressure is the force that blood pushes on the walls of your arteries. The harder your heart pumps, the higher your blood pressure. At certain times—like when you’re exercising—it’s desirable for the heart to pump hard, so that blood can deliver oxygen and nutrients to muscles and organs fast. During normal times, it’s important for your heart and arteries to stay relaxed to maintain healthy blood pressure. To maintain normal blood pressure, your heart needs to relax when you’re not doing something strenuous.

How much your heart pumps and relaxes is controlled by heart-stimulating hormones and nerves, especially by the stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol.  Proper heart stimulation and response is one of the keys for healthy heart function and normal blood pressures. Exercise and good diet (the less caffeine and alcohol the better), less stress, and good sleep all contribute to heart relaxation, thereby supporting healthy blood pressure. Natural molecules, like those in BP Dove’s hibiscus extract, can also help relax the heart to help maintain normal blood pressure.

The flexibility of your artery walls also has a critical impact on your blood pressure levels.  If your arteries relax (dilate) when blood rushes in, your blood pressure stays in the normal range. Again, exercises (at least30 minutes moderate aerobic exercise, 5 times a week) and good diet (low fat, low sugar, low salt, and even low calorie) contribute to artery flexibility and relaxation.

Artery flexibility can also be supported by vitamins such as K2 and C, as well as  plant molecules in black garlic extract, roselle extract, and grape seed extract, all in BP Dove.

Stress--through brain-controlled nerves and hormones--is also a strong force that affects how hard your heart pumps blood, and therefore blood pressure levels. Chronic stress, such as work-related stress, has been found to cause high blood pressure levels. Relaxation exercises, such as meditation and yoga, are effective in reducing stress and promoting normal blood pressure. Natural plant extracts like the ashwagandha in BP Dove have also been found to reduce stress and promote calming.

Sleep is another important factor influencing blood pressure, because it regulates the levels of your stress hormones, which in turn affect your blood pressure. Poor sleep makes your brain release more stress hormones and raises your blood pressure. Natural plant extracts, like the ashwagandha extract in BP Dove, promote good sleep.

Whole-body calming—relaxed heart and arteries, less stress, and good sleep—is needed for healthy blood pressure.

BP Dove is formulated based on 600+ published research studies, including 100+ human clinical trials, to target different aspects of whole-body calming or support healthy blood pressure.