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So this is from Kokeshi-san.
Do you know what is Kokeshi?
Yeah, Kokeshi is like a little rock.
A rock?
Oh no, it's a little... it's a wooden...
Yeah.
It's a human-shaped wooden...
Yeah.
Um...
Little decoration?
Yeah.
That is right.
It's got the body, one piece, and it's got the head.
Yes.
It's got one little wooden oval-shaped...
Yes.
So this is from Kokeshi-san.
Okay, Kokeshi-san.
Hello Kevin-san, Yamachan-san!
Hello!
I always enjoy listening to your podcasts.
Thank you!
Today, I'd like to ask you a question about blood pressure.
Oh, this is gonna be a good question!
The other day, you talked about your bad sleeping habits on your podcast and live broadcast, right?
I was listening to that and nodded my head, "Yeah, yeah, I know, I know!"
I don't usually nod, but I was so tired of it that I couldn't sleep at night.
But the other day, I took my blood pressure at the health check-up at work, and it was only about 90 up and 60 down.
No matter how many times I measured it, it was only that much.
So I realized for the first time that I had low blood pressure.
When I found out that I had low blood pressure, I was so frustrated that I had been working so hard for a while,
and I had been working so hard that I had been dying for a while after I got to work.
Of course, I think my bad sleeping habits are also due to lack of sleep, but I realized that wasn't the only reason.
How about your blood pressure, Kevin-san?
In particular, Kevin-san is concerned about the same bad sleeping habits.
Please tell me if you don't mind.
Thank you, Kouki-san.
I've never done a blood pressure test.
You should.
I should.
Do you know what the normal range is?
I don't know.
Have you ever done your blood pressure test?
I have.
Was it normal?
A little bit lower than the usual, like normal, average.
What happens if it's a little too low?
It's very hard to wake up.
Especially in the morning, because you sleep in this shape, like this style, like sleeping style.
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Oh, you're flat on your back?
Yeah, then your blood is all around your body, including the tip of the toe.
When you wake up, you need some blood in your brain or your heart.
It's going to be a little not enough.
So there's a kind of low oxygen need to circulate the blood to wake up yourself.
So that happens if you're low blood pressure?
Yeah, like oxygen things and like aero, you need time to really wake up yourself.
Is that the main, is that like the biggest demerit of having a low blood pressure?
Let me search.
Okay.
Maybe not the main thing.
Okay.
Okay.
I hardly get tachikuramizu. I hardly get memai.
What's the difference between a tachikurami and a memai?
Tachikurami is when you're standing up from, you sit first and you stand up.
And then it feels dizzy.
What's memai then?
Memai is just whenever you are like, like when you're driving a car, while you're sitting, you feel the dizziness.
Okay. That hardly ever happens to me either.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Well, actually I have tachikurami things so many times because I have little low blood pressure.
Yeah.
And I don't have like zutsu.
Okay.
Yeah. I don't get zutsu.
Hidokan, kentai-kan.
That I sometimes have.
Okay.
Katakori I don't have.
Okay. Like douki?
I don't know what that is.
Okay.
Like you feel the heartbeat like too strong like...
Like when I see a cockroach?
No.
That happens?
No, no, no, no, no.
Like I want to kill the fuck out of that guy.
If I look at him in my house.
But I guess that's not it.
Yeah.
No, I don't get that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Then I guess you...
I guess I don't have the low blood pressure.
What is the blood pressure anyway?
That's a good question.
I...
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Yeah.
What does it really mean to have a low blood pressure?
That means...
Okay.
So, ketsuatsu to wa
Ketsuatsu to wa doumyaku no naka wo ketsueki ga nagareru toki ni ketsueki ga kabe wo osu atsuryoku no koto desu.
Oh.
So...
I see.
Amount?
The amount of blood is important.
Wait, isn't it the power of the pump by the heart?
Yeah, maybe.
How strong it's flowing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe.
Ketsuatsu ikoru junkan ketsueki ryō kakeru massho ketsukan teikō.
That means the amount of blood and the strength of the blood vessels.
That means it's not the heart power.
Okay.
But it's the amount of blood and also the strength of the blood vessels.
Okay.
The power of the blood vessels.
Okay, okay, okay.
I sort of get it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, me too.
I kind of get it.
Sort of.
But when we sometimes hear about kōketsuatsu, you know, the upper high pressure,
that means it's not someone who has so many amount of blood,
but it's just they are having like so many shibō in those hosoi domyaku, kekkan,
so that kekkan is little...
More narrow.
Yeah, narrow.
It's clogged up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that the blood pressure gets bigger.
Got it. Because there's no space for the blood to flow in.
Yeah. The amount of blood is still the same.
I feel like my eating habits are more on the higher blood pressure kind of world.
Yeah.
Can you search for the symptoms of high blood pressure?
Of course.
Like... Okay.
Let's see.
Okay.
That's still severe. That doesn't happen.
Yeah.
That's more on the extreme side, I guess.
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Mm-hmm.
Umm...
Oh!
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
[Speaking Japanese]
Well...
Well, that wasn't very motivating.
[Laughing]
Yeah.
Yes, that's me.
Okay.
Curry.
Yes.
Oh, curry. Okay.
[Laughing]
I eat curry.
[Laughing]
That's what I thought.
Oh, shit. I love curry.
[Laughing]
Like, I get, like, the butter chicken curry.
I get, like, the normal retort curry.
[Laughing]
Oh, shit.
[Laughing]
Oh, shit.
Okay.
The aging curry.
[Laughing]
You mean aging.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Laughing]
I guess it's fine eating curry.
[Laughing]
Yeah.
Okay.
We don't want to criticize curry that much, right?
Yeah.
It's okay. No problem.
You can have those every day.
Okay.
[Laughing]
Sorry.
[Laughing]
So, too much salt.
Aging curry.
Stress.
Not much.
Okay.
When you exercise hard.
Not much.
Cold.
Well, it's winter.
No, it's summer, so no.
The change in the outside temperature.
Yeah, a little bit.
A little bit.
Lack of sleep.
Yes.
Drinking too much alcohol.
No.
Lack of exercise.
Maybe.
Lack of appetite.
Lack of weight.
No.
Etc.
Ah.
Well, I guess I'm not that...
Yeah.
I'm not that...
I don't fall into the category.
True.
Not that much.
Except you eat curry.
[Laughing]
Wow.
That was a legendary moment.
[Laughing]
Yeah, because I said...
Yeah.
Too much salt at the beginning.
Yeah.
So...
I thought it was like my mind shifted into food mode.
And he said curry.
I was like, okay.
I didn't say curry.
I said curry.
Wow.
Yeah, so...
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I guess you're not...
Yeah, I guess I'm not.
In those...
But you need to...
I need to actually like medically...
Yeah.
Measure it.
Yeah.
Maybe you're having...
I should do that.
Probably.
Maybe you're...
They have it at the gym, don't they?
Usually.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I should use that.
Yeah.
Alright.
