Prof Tim Spector
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Yes, it does.
And again, we see this repeated because blood pressure is part of this metabolic group of conditions that all seem to have similar causes.
A poor night's sleep or doing lots of shift work will actually raise your blood pressure.
So particularly if you are doing night work, shift work, you are more prone to these problems.
So it is a risk factor.
Generally, we did sort of laugh off stress.
But if you've got chronic stress in your life, then that is associated with blood pressure in many studies.
And try and find ways of reducing that.
through something you enjoy, whether it's sport or it can be something like yoga, it can be like meditation, it can be through having sauna.
There have been some small studies showing that people who have regular saunas do have lower blood pressures.
And it sort of makes sense because you're expanding and you're stretching your blood vessels when you're going for a sauna.
They're trying to keep up and keep your temperature constant.
So they're having a little workout.
Correct.
Yes, exactly.
I know you prefer sauna to ice baths.
But in the same way, mindfulness and yoga, they do relax you and you will get some benefit from that as well.
But I think the main thing we should focus on that everyone can do is to think what in their diet can they do to get their blood pressure down because every millimeter counts.
These would be most likely be processed foods that have high salt content.
We think that about 85% of the salt you get in the average American or British diet comes from prepackaged, manufactured, highly processed foods.
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