Dr. Jay Wiles

Keep it simple.

Okay, we'll keep it simple.

So...

Our body has a natural blood pressure regulation system in it called the baroreflex response.

The baroreflex response is essentially like cruise control for your blood pressure.

It's always trying to kind of dial up and dial down whenever it needs to based on what it's seeing in terms of physiological change.

That baroreflex mechanism is what bridges the gap between our autonomic nervous system and our cardiovascular system.

So it's kind of that bridge or pathway for communication.

When our baroreflex is not working like it should, so let's say we're experiencing some nervous system dysregulation.

What happens within the baroreflex mechanism is that it essentially will identify changes in blood pressure and

And then immediately it will try to overshoot to course correct because it basically is like, I'm on high alert.

I'm going to send the signal to the nervous system that we need to really course correct.

It's like a great example of this is like the older cars with like cruise control when they first came out with cruise control.

they were like really crappy at like actually doing what they're supposed to do.

So the speed would modulate like five, 10 miles an hour.

And then the engine would just like abruptly like shift and would overshoot.

Now we're going five or 10 miles over.

Whereas like the newer cars,

they have better baroreflex gain because a mile an hour over and it adjusts nicely and smoothly.

So you can imagine that when your nervous system is dysregulated and you're having all of these overshootings of blood pressure that are occurring, it causes a lot of different dynamics in terms of how we feel.