February 21, 2022

The medical establishment has blood pressure all screwed up. Something like 20% of society is taking blood pressure medication, and the medical establishment want's it to be something like 30%. Nature didn't get blood pressure that screwed up.

The way it works is that the medical scientists took an average for human blood pressure and insist on everyone having that average. Nature didn't do such averaging. Everyone needs to have different blood pressures.

The reason is phenotypic variation. I have been researching phenotypic variation for forty years, because the morel mushroom has the most extreme phenotypic variation of any creature. The morel just evolved from a single-celled yeast a few months ago and needs a lot of phenotypic variation.

All species use phenotypic variation to cope with conditions which vary too rapidly for genotypic variation. At the crudest level, such as the morel mushroom, the phenotypes are varied randomly for each generation. With the most advanced species, such as humans, a little bit of carry-over from generation to generation occurs through "epigenetic" variation, which means markers associated with chromosomes can be inherited.

Humans have two types of muscle cells: fast and slow. They vary phenotypically, where the ratios are randomly distributed through the population. Fast muscle cells produce quick responses but run out of energy and oxygen rapidly, where slow muscle cells produce endurance. Tennis players need mostly fast muscle cells, and long distance runners need mostly slow muscle cells.

Persons who have fast muscle cells need rapid metabolism and fast circulation of blood. That requires higher blood pressure than usual to get the circulation rate up. They are adapted for higher blood pressure. They need higher blood pressure. It is not constructive to try to lower their blood pressure.

Persons with mostly slow muscle cells are adapted for lower blood pressure. They need lower blood pressure for the reasons why the medical establishment says high blood pressure is not good for people.

Not being familiar with medical details, a rough estimate might be that 135 would be the needed blood pressure for persons with fast muscle cells and 120 would be right for persons with slow muscle cells. Trying to force an average onto everyone would not be constructive.

Why doesn't the medical establishment know this? Because scientists are clueless on phenotypic variation. They see the evidence constantly, but they don't know how to interpret it. Long ago, they noticed that there are multiple alleles for genes. That means there are several genes for the same enzymes. Scientists haven't yet figured out why.

Morel mushroom scientists separated out the enzymes for the TCA cycle (which produces respiration) and found that each enzyme has three to five variations. But they didn't know why; so they tried to use those variations for taxonomic purposes but failed to do so. Phenotypic variations cannot be used for taxonomy, because each individual is different.

When I tried to publish my results I got less than disrespect, because I was outside the establishment power structures at the time. In other words, science is not oriented toward an increase in knowledge but toward mongering power. (Less than disrespect means I was told to do asinine studies, so I would be below the level of incompetents in science.)

Only the horticulturists have some awareness of what phenotypic variation is. They know that plant products, mostly fruit, vary a lot when seeds are planted; so they need to use cuttings to get a uniform result. Other scientists don't pick up that concept from horticulturists, because information doesn't move very far in science. Scientists study by looking through a straw, because they focus on complexities which absorb them.

 
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