Does vitamin C work against hypertension?
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a relatively mysterious disease, the causes of which are not entirely clear. If I understand the body as a self-healing intelligent system that, whatever it is controlled by, always tries to maintain a balance between processes, an increase in blood pressure must be the way to solve a fundamental problem. The body wouldn't just destroy itself. I just refuse to believe it, period. The physical principle of the origin and nature of blood pressure is clear, although there are doubters here as well. But I'll leave it aside now. The standard explanation is that the blood volume of the left ventricle is forced into the aorta and other adjacent arteries by compression of the heart. Their elasticity causes them to "inflate" slightly like a balloon and take over the volume of blood expelled by the heart. This "inflation" of the arteries increases the blood pressure and we measure it as the so-called systolic pressure. This pr