Dr. Sanjay Gupta

And I think it's always really, really important that the minute you start thinking about your blood pressure, you must think of your lifestyle.

That is the thing that I think a poor lifestyle probably kills more people than anything else.

Certainly, there's a lot of reliance on fast foods, unhealthy foods, some of which we know are unhealthy, but we still do it because it makes our lives easier.

And some which we don't even know are unhealthy.

And I think that would have an impact on everything else as well.

Sleep, stress, weight gain, I think it'll have an impact on all that.

So nutrition, I think, is perhaps the most important thing of all because stress is huge, but it's very difficult to quantify stress.

Food is something that people can make a change to.

And I think exercise, cardiovascular exercise is important, but people are becoming more conscious of exercise, et cetera, and they are doing more exercise.

But all those things, you cannot do lots of exercise and then be really proud that you can get away with four hours of sleep every night.

You have to do it all.

I personally think sugar is the enemy because sugar causes a bunch of insulin spikes, whereas a lot of blood pressure is about cut down salt, cut down salt.

I think sugar is the more important thing.

And I think that processed foods, refined oils, all those kinds of things, additives.

Absolutely.

So some data indicate that if you do cardiovascular exercise, your blood pressure can come down by an average of six millimeters of mercury.

Sanjay, is that good?

It's comparable to some medications that we give.

Okay, so that's a lot.

It's good, yeah.