Professor Sarah Berry

So in America, it's 130.

In Europe, doctors are more relaxed, and you can get up to 140.

that it is good to measure your own blood pressure, but not to obsess about it.

And, you know, if you're going to measure it at home, then you said multiple times in the day, that each time you do sort of three recordings, sort of write down the last one, do it for a couple of days, that gives you sort of average, which is going to be much more accurate than this sort of one single measurement.

And I think you said, well, you know, if that is above the guidelines in your country, then it's worth going and talking to your physician and share this data.

But for the reasons you talked about, it needs to then be looked at in the context of your overall health.

And then we talk about what could you actually do.

And I think, interestingly, there was this really big alignment, Sanjay, between you and Sarah.

And of course, Sarah is going to focus on nutrition as a nutrition scientist.

But actually, you said diet is the number one thing that you think is affecting high blood pressure, which is extraordinary.

That the overall healthy diet for blood pressure is the same as the overall diet for everything else.

But there are some interesting specific things, Sarah.

And what I caught was

particularly increasing your potassium intake.

And that means more fruits and vegetables.

And you had some particular examples.

I think I got bananas, figs, apricots, green leafy vegetables like spinach.

These are particularly high in potassium.

Reducing salt is good, but actually the salt isn't where I guess I would think it is, which is adding lots of salt to the table.

This is mainly in heavily processed food.