Do You Need The Ragland’s Test?
What is the Ragland’s Test and how does it help you?
When you are under stress, your body’s adrenal glands secrete adrenalin. Adrenalin helps you fight the effects of stress. Over time, too much stress is harmful to you and wears out your adrenal glands.
How can you test whether your adrenal glands need help?
Answer: with the Ragland’s Test. Here’s how you do it:
If a person sits down and then gets up, the lumbar nerves notify the adrenal glands that the body has changed its posture. The adrenal glands then immediately secrete adrenalin. This raises the blood pressure in order to prevent you from getting dizzy or light headed. Now if your adrenal glands are worn out, your body’s blood pressure will not rise, or it will even go down.
So, to conduct the test, you measure a person’s systolic blood pressure while they are sitting down. Then the person gets up and you measure the systolic blood pressure again.
If the blood pressure does not rise as a result of this test, your adrenal glands are worn out. And that means you are more vulnerable to the long term damage that stress can do to your body.
At Chen’s Acupuncture in Seattle/Bellevue, WA we will be happy to answer any questions you might have about how we can help you with stress. Just stop by our office, email us at info@chensacupuncture.com or call Peishan, Janette or David at 425 644 2056. Thank you.
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