Your ‘Healthy’ Blood Pressure is Killing You

What used to be considered a 'healthy' blood pressure is now a death sentence. Two groundbreaking studies have completely changed how we should approach blood pressure.

Here are the links to the research papers referenced in the video:

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[thomashunter]

A study found that watching YouTube videos on blood pressure increases the blood pressure by 20 points.

[davejohnston]

My blood pressure increased with anxiety caused by realising the connection between medical practice and pharmaceutical profits.

[tjf]

We’ll just keep lowering the target until everyone is on meds.

[LeeHill]

I'm not sure what is more dangerous, high blood pressure or the meds they give us to lower it.

[Wowzersdude-kc]

The American Heart Association (AHA) reduced the BP recommendations in 2017 after the SPRINT study came out. It is now considered hypertension at 130 or higher (or 80 or higher on diastolic). European cardiologists were fully aware of SPRINT but none of their professional societies lowered the recommendations. As far as I know, they still maintain that anything under 140 is safe.

[analoguemonsters]

When you were born your risk of dying increased by 100%. How can you reduce the risk of dying when death is certain?

[derekdipietro]

Anxiety for me skyrocketed my blood pressure. Just getting my anxiety under control brought my systolic down 20 points.

[Maishad]

'Once upon a time, in a land not far away at all, a healthy blood pressure was thought to be 100 plus your age. That simple rule of thumb has gone the way of hats for men, cordiality in politics, and affordable health insurance. It was replaced in 1977 by a cutoff of 160/95 separating "normal" from high blood pressure. That cutoff continues to drift downward, steadily eroding what we think of as normal or healthy blood pressure '

[kdw]

Oddly enough, my grandparents both had extremely high BP before they died in their 90s. My father had a few strokes and his BP was in the 160s. He is now taking medication and has it in the 130s. I sure wish the nurses would be more diligent about taking BP accurately. They usually come in and take it as soon as you sit down and over your shirt and while talking to you about needing a colonoscopy.

[idelisacruz-nwyb]

I’m in my 70’s, had ❤ attack at 30, BP stays 116’s/70’s, lost 60+ lbs and on BP meds. Exercise. Feel great. ❤❤❤

[life]

Systolic represents the peak artirial pressure during systole, when the heart contracts. Diastolic represents the minimum arterial pressure during diastole when the heart is relaxed.
Also, pay attention to your pulse pressure. (120/80)= 40 pulse pressure. This is the difference between the systolic and diastolic numbers. The minimum differential normal number should be 40, and the maximum differential normal number should be 60. Less than 40 is considered low or narrow, and above 60 is considered high or wide. Below 40 can be an indicator of low cardiac output, and above 60 can be an indicator of cardiovascular issues. A critically low pulse pressure is less than 25% of your systolic pressure number. A critically high pulse pressure number is 100 or more. A lot of things can influence your pulse pressure, but if your numbers are consistently wide or narrow, then this can be another tool or measurement you can use to talk to your doctor about.

[PrezidentHughes]

My mum's used used to go up randomly to 140-150 and she would get occasional headaches. As usual with the UK it was impossible to see the doctor for something that happened so randomly. So I told her to take some potassium tablets every other day, she's been stable in the 120's ever since and no more headaches.

[Masterr]

I've been on a weight loss and health recovery journey for 3 years now. I'm about to turn 30 in a few months, feel great and have lost 100 lbs. A few days ago I was actually stunned at my blood pressure when I got 109/48, which was the lowest I had ever seen. I was worried because I thought that was starting to get too low. But I felt great, had an active day, played with my cat, was standing up and down like normal. I took it again to see if it was a fluke but it was still 108/50. I figure if I feel great, not light headed or anything, I shouldn't worry about it.

[mariomenezes]

This is nonsense. Blood vessels are in no way like hoses. Show me a hose that is used constantly and lasts up to 100 years. Analogy is too simplistic. High blood pressure could indicate underlying metabolic problems. You need to treat the root cause ie the metabolic issue rather than the symptom ie the blood pressure. Fixing the root cause will automatically fix the blood pressure eg as seen in weight loss. Lowering the blood pressure with medication without addressing the underlying cause means you keep suffering inflammatory damage including cardiovascular damage. If you don't have an underlying issue, your blood pressure is most likely normal for regardless of the numbers. To assume that every human on earth regardless of size or weight had to have a 120/80 blood pressure just does not make sense.

[wmonger]

The standards are made lower so doctors can start prescribing medication sooner. Doctors make money, pharmaceutical companies make money, Government makes money. You become worse and worse till you are no more. Don't worry though, there is another generation behind you to start the cycle again.

[josephjroy]

High blood pressure affects the capillaries in your kidneys and can cause kidney problems.
High blood pressure also affects the heart by causing cardiogenic pulmonary edema, which is a life-threatening condition.

[SWNiko]

Blood pressure at home: 110-118/70-77
Blood pressure in GP cabinet: 140/90+, GP says it is normal

[SkepticalCaveman]

Switch out your regular salt with mineral salt containg at least 30% potassium.

[drdubious]

The Cochrane review from 2020 (over 38, 000 participants from RCTs), showed that although lowering BP may reduce myocardial infarction by a small amount (-0.4%) and congestive heart failure (-0.6%), it does not reduce total mortality. Their conclusion was that the benefits of trying to achieve a lower blood pressure target rather than a standard target (140/90 mm Hg) do not outweigh the harms associated with that intervention. Also, this is another example of conflating relative risk with absolute risk.

[dallasryan]

The American Academy of Family Physicians still adheres to the definition of HBP as 140/90. Im not a physician but my theory is
that these new guidelines were developed to mirror the large number of obese and overweight persons in our society. Of course, obese and overweight persons should probably try to get their blood pressure down much further than normal weight persons or persons with optimal BMI. I'm 5'11'' and 160 pounds and my blood pressure hovers around 125-130 over 70 to 75. Sometimes, after a workout, it drops to 115/65. BMI of 22.3. No medication at age of 70. My doc says to not worry about it and many patients would love to have my current weight and blood pressure.