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Why Standing Up Can Make You Dizzy
Why Standing Up Can Make You DizzyStanding sends about eight hundred milliliters of blood into the leg vessels. Baroreceptors sense the pressure drop and run a short reflex over a couple of heartbeats that raises heart rate and tightens vessels. When that catch is slow, brain blood flow lags and the room goes soft for a moment.Edward and Lily unpack the evidence, uncertainty, and what could set…
Duration: 5:46
- Cleveland Clinic — Orthostatic hypotension
- baroreceptor-reflex- Harvard Health — After standing, a fall in blood pressure
- my.clevelandclinic.org
- betterhealth.vic.gov.au
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