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Podcast: Women's Health, Wisdom, and. . . WINE!
Episode: #118 - NOURISH YOUR FLOURISH NUGGET | High Blood Pressure: A Conspiracy Theory
Description: Send a textWith "new" recommended standards for blood pressure, your blood pressure is HIGH if it tops 130/80. The previous standard was 140/90. While you're trending in the wrong direction, you're definitely not in "unhealthy" territory... yet. This lowered threshold for diagnosing high blood pressure from 140/90 now means that nearly half of the U.S. population will be considered as having high blood pressure, with the greatest impact on younger people.But what if your blood pressure if artificially being made to look higher than it really is?Clinicians aren't...