Prof Tim Spector
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2 series
first heard Apr 2026
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The Mike Hosking Breakfast full show podcast on iHeartRadio.
Surely, I know you don't have apps on your phone, apart from WhatsApp.
You've told us that you're quite handy on the WhatsApp.
It is basically a hardening of the arteries and thickening of the arteries so that they're not as flexible.
And these are the arteries, the blood vessels that go all around your body from your heart, pumping blood to every bit of your body, including your brain.
And each time your heart beats, there's a change in how much pressure is put into the system.
And essentially, it's there to absorb that shock.
It's also there to have a system so if you're exercising or you need to run away quickly, your blood pressure can go up in short bursts and that's normal and it comes back again quickly.
So you want a flexible mobile system and what happens
when you have high blood pressure, which is also known as hypertension, is that it stays up.
It doesn't just come up and go down.
Your resting level is higher.
So you've got more resistance to the whole system.
It's like your pipes are furring up a bit.
They're just not as flexible and bendy.
And this puts a strain on the rest of your body, so it has to work harder to do things.
That's a very simple way of thinking about it.
And where we draw the line about it being normal or abnormal is a bit flexible itself.
So it could be that if we wanted to have the perfect blood pressure of, say, indigenous tribes in Africa, then we would put our thresholds even lower and maybe two-thirds of us
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