Barry Baines

And what's most interesting is that you don't have to do everything.

you know, like exercising 150 minutes a week if you can't manage that, but that in an incremental way, even small amounts are helpful.

And then the second piece is the complementarity of some of these choices you make.

So if you, you know, sort of like a recipe, a pinch of this, you know, a spoonful of that, that if you get some exercise, if you work a little bit on reducing your stress a little bit, if you work on getting,

a greater amount of sleep if you can cut back a little bit on alcohol consumption with smoking i'll say no smoking you know is is the best thing and there are a lot of resources to help people and certainly cutting down also helps but you know that one we won't go into that you know right now but but it's this idea that there are lots of choices we can make and it doesn't have to be have to go all in on these things because then it's like climbing the mountain

And, and you don't have to, you know, it's like the eating the elephant, right?

How do you eat an elephant?

Well, you know, one piece at a time.

And the idea to really help our listening audience understand that you can choose.

And there are so many choices you can make that will help to lower blood pressure.

And that's certainly if you already have it.

And if you don't,

again, if you can avoid getting high blood pressure, that's even better because that's the primary prevention that we're really after.

So, you know, Steve, thank you for the conversation.

This was really, really neat and good to see you and meet you or re-meet you again.

And looking forward to where this takes us.

So that's what I had to say, Stan.

Thanks.

And I, you know, I will weigh in a little bit here to kind of in partnership with Ellie here.

You know, one of the things that's most interesting to me is, number one, the vast majority of people have excellent executive function.