What Is Your High Blood Pressure Trying to Tell You?

Instead of asking only how to lower a number, this clip asks a different question: what is the symptom communicating? A sympathetic state, high blood pressure — there's a reason it's showing up, something adaptive in it, even when it's causing harm in the moment. Western medicine is largely built to suppress symptoms, and that's not always wrong — but in the rush to treat, we can miss what the body was trying to say in the first place.

Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4