High blood pressure doesn’t impact just your heart but can place strain on other systems that are necessary to live a long healthy life.
Let us start with your circulatory system. The circulatory system is designed to move blood from the heart allowing it to travel throughout of the body and back to the heart. As your blood travels through your via a network of capillaries and vessels.
As the blood moves through your body it drops off nutrients throughout your body and takes away waste material produces by your body. Your blood contains red blood cells which transport oxygen and hydrogen ions, white blood cells that fight infections, platelets which assist with blood clotting, and plasma which carries the nutrients and takes away the waste. Salts assists plasma to maintain osmotic pressure and buffers the blood.
The blood goes to your lymphatic system, which involves you Spleen, lymph nodes, red bone marrow, tonsils, and your Thymus. Blood helps refresh the fluid in tissue which is constantly leaving the tissue. This system collects excess tissue fluids and returns it via the lymphatic vessels to the systemic veins. Your lymph nodes are present all along your lymphatic system that filter and purify the lymph. Your lymph nodes are also full of lymphocytes that are white blood cells that helps your body which fight infections and allows your immunity to be developed.
We have are now ready to move onto your nervous system. The nervous system regulates and controls the other part of the body. The one thing we need to remember is that nervous system is unable to store nutrients and thus need a constant supply of nutrients from the blood, to prevent cell death and even death.
The blood also transports chemical messengers from the endocrine system that help stimulate certain organs like the nervous system. The endocrine system contains thyroid,