Welcome to Cabral House Call. I'm Stephen Cabral, and today on a total wellness Tuesday, I'm Steve Caball, Board certified naturopathic doctor, and today on a total wellness Tuesday,

I'm back to answer your questions on all things, health, wellness, weight loss, and anti-aging.

So to get started for our first question, we're going to answer a question from.

All right, so Mark asks, why do I get lightheaded or dizzy when I stand?

So this is something that I'm really familiar with,

and one of the reasons is I actually I went through

this for like five or six or seven years and no one can really tell me like why I

got lightheaded when I would stand up or I would like just move too fast or

turn my head too fast or whatever it might be.

And so the big thing is what we were talking about earlier today on the Cabral concept is those

sodium levels or the electrolyte levels in your blood pressure balance.

So one of the tests or procedures that I do

that you can do right at home.

I do this in office in my Boston practice

is I have someone do orthostatic-based blood pressure testing.

So it's almost like a tilt table test.

What I'm having them do is I'm having them lie down on their back.

I'm taking their blood pressure

after I do it just a regular seated one.

And then what I have them do after line for about a minute or two is they're

going to stand up and I take their blood pressure again and I see if there's actually a drop in blood pressure or a rise in blood pressure

and if there's a rise how large is that

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