Prof Tim Spector

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · Most replayed moment: Blood pressure: the silent risk you shouldn’t ignore | Prof Tim Spector · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

would be counting as having high blood pressure in the West.

And it's considered a metabolic problem as well.

So metabolic syndrome, which I think we've talked about in the past, is a combination of clusters of things that we get in the West where you might get type 2 diabetes, you might get obesity, you get high cholesterol, and...

Part of that, as well as heart disease, is high blood pressure.

And they seem to have similar causes and relationships.

And they all lead on to one to the other.

So if you've got one, you're more likely to get the others.

Yes, if you have type 2 diabetes, you're more likely to have high blood pressure, but it also works the other way around as well.

That if you've got this defect in your blood vessels, that causes stress to all your cells and the way they're

pumping out energy and using fuel.

in all the organs in your body, makes you more likely to have kidney disease, makes you more likely to have brain disease in terms of dementia, and affects all bits of your body to some extent.

So it's not just a sudden yes or no, I'm gonna get a stroke or not.

It has a really harmful effect on many aspects of your body and needs to be seen as a metabolic disease rather than as a purely one-off thing on its own.

It's a sign that your body's not healthy.

It's never too late to reduce your blood pressure.

I think that's generally the case, apart from people maybe in their hundreds.

For most of us, even if you've not known about it for 10 years, you'll still get enormous benefit from getting that blood pressure down to that 120 over 80 range, where you will start to see the benefits and your metabolism in your body will improve.

The inflammation will improve.

Your risks will suddenly drop of many of these conditions.

Some of the damage will be done, but you'll still be protecting your future life in a big way if you take action.

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