Dr. Sanjay Gupta

So potassium supplementation will also do these things.

And those are all things.

And I don't think it's necessarily also going to be for everyone.

Just like salt, maybe these are things that we need to understand that patient and we need to see whether that works for that patient.

And then we need to have ways by which we measure that pressure again to get an accurate representation of what it's doing.

So they have to be proper clinical studies and they have to go on for a long period of time.

And ideally, they need to be measuring hard outcomes.

Certainly age contributes, and you can't do much about that.

But I think all those things that come along with a Western lifestyle, putting on weight, more stress,

a reliance on fast foods, reliance on processed foods, all those things that are designed to make our lives easier, in some ways probably have an impact on all that and may contribute to our pressures going up.

If you look at the data,

The prevalence of hypertension under the age of 40 is 10%.

It goes up, you know, 40 to 60, it becomes almost 30, 40%.

And then above 60, it's over 60%.

So more than one in two people have high blood pressure once you get to 60.

This is with all the research, with all the tools that we have at our disposal, clearly it isn't working.

Why is this happening?

And therefore, we have to have the courage to start thinking differently.

And I think this is where holistic, individualized healthcare comes in, where we should be integrating and we should be collaborating with nutritionists and all these people, you know, for that person.

I think sleep is really important.