Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

When people have hypertension, hypertension means a high amount of pressure in the blood vessels.

So my blood pressure is super high.

So if the blood, if the pressure in the vessels is really high, the heart has to pump really hard, right?

So I have to overcome, if I want a pressure gradient, which means I want blood to flow from here to here, blood starts in the heart and the pressure is high in the system, I got to squeeze really hard, right?

to overcome, to create that pressure gradient.

So if my vasculature has a systolic blood pressure of like 150, the heart has to pump higher than 150.

So the heart starts pumping really, really, really hard.

This is hypertension.

Then the problem is if you go many years in your life having a high blood pressure, your heart will have to pump really hard.

And if it pumps really hard, what happens when a muscle works really hard, chat?

Y'all know?

Ah, beautiful.

Someone said heart becomes thick.

Perfect.

What happens when I lift a bunch of weights?

Dr. K gets swole.

The heart becomes swole.

The heart starts to swell.

But then we run into a really interesting problem.

This is so scary.