Dr. Jeff Golini, PhD
In 1896 the first blood pressure monitor using a pneumatic cuff by the Italian internist Dr. Scipione Riva-Rocci. In 1901 Dr. Harvey Williams Cushing brought it to the USA.
They knew then that the original 2 inch cuff was inaccurate leading to wider cuffs used today. But what was really revealed about the inadequacy of using this way of measuring blood pressure all the way back then? And why haven't we found a more accurate way to measure blood pressure close to 120 years later?
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[00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. Today is Wednesday and we are doing our special science for humans episode with my co-host. Dr. Jeff. Golini. He'll be with me in just a second. We're talking about something that's very important to everyone in the audience whether you lift you don't lift you just interested in losing weight.
[00:00:55] You're just interested in staying healthy. And it's the way they read blood pressure [00:01:00] today. And those of you have been listening to the show for 13 years now that I've had an issue with this for a very long time and I'll get into it when I have. Dr. Jeff on with me here in a second. But of course we have to thank dr.
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[00:02:09] So this is this is something that you and I have both noticed the idiocy in for a very long time. Sorry about that. I didn't put my phone on silent. It was like, where's that coming from? So let me tell this story real quick. Okay, so when I got sick over 20 years ago, I went to my doctor. Dr.
[00:02:32] Jim Swift nice guy. And he prescribed blood pressure medicine for me. Now. I was 330 pounds. So I assumed I needed blood pressure medicine, but when he prescribes it I thought I'm going to get a blood pressure cuff of my own and a sister and a stethoscope of my own and I'm going to learn how to take my own blood pressure.
[00:02:51] Imma start doing it myself. And being the inquisitive guy that I am I started to notice something. I noticed that [00:03:00] if I sat on my sofa and put enough pillows next to me to prop my arm up. Pretty close to the level of my heart. I got one reading versus if I held my arm out on its own. I got another reading verses if I dropped my arm to about a 10 to 15 degree Arc.
[00:03:18] So now my fist is Down Low by my waist. I got a completely different reading and I don't wait a minute. Blood pressure is supposed to be so important. How could these little things these little variables influence your blood pressure so dramatically and I asked dr. Swift at and his reply to me was it doesn't matter if it's off it gives us a baseline so that when we medicate you.
[00:03:45] We see how much it drops and I said, but what if you're medicating people that don't really need it because you're getting an inaccurate reading and I gave him the analogy that I've gave to you a little while ago off the air I said, could you imagine trying to measure oil [00:04:00] pressure by squeezing the hose and trying to determine what the pressure inside the hose is you not taking into account that the rigidity of the hose itself the resistance that that provides?
[00:04:12] And that's why in cars the pressure is measured internally of the oil system and not from the outside. Now. I sent you a study and I thought what a great study. This is a study that shows the phenomenon that I'm talking about actually takes place based on the muscularity of the upper arm of the subjects in the study.
[00:04:35] The study was done. I want to say in Japan. No, it's done in China. And basically with the findings were where that the men who had the more muscular, even though they're they will lean the more muscular forearms tended to be hypertensive or have full-blown high blood pressure and they attributed it to compressing the tissue of the upper [00:05:00] arm in an effort to try and compress the artery is probably not a wise way to measure blood pressure.
[00:05:10] Yeah, I mean that was very interesting. And as I have always wondered, you know, the inconsistency in the way it's taken when you go to the Mayo Clinic. I did a little research to find out. What is the proper way I mean, what are what are things that affect blood pressure and you know from food to Coffee to dehydration to where your arm is how much sleep you've had all these things affect these blood pressure readings, but you and I have both been in for physicals.
[00:05:43] Matter of fact, I just have had a couple physicals recently and the one gal took the blood pressure over top. Of my long sleeve shirt, we think about that like like, oh there's a it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter right? That's what [00:06:00] I said to her. I said wait, would you want me to take my arm out?
[00:06:02] No, it doesn't matter and no one says hold your arm parallel. Let's take the other arm to have a baseline to see if it's accurate. Let's take it twice. I can tell you one thing about. These instruments is they're not perfect. You know, they have to be calibrated but in any science when I'm testing something using a very sophisticated piece of equipment, I got to run a Baseline.
[00:06:28] I gotta run something to make sure that the measurement I'm getting is accurate. I can't just run something and go. Okay. Yep. That's the result. You have to have a known quantity of something. Yes, and then you compare where your machine is measuring to to say. Oh, no my measure my measurement is coming five pounds under then the known quantity.
[00:06:45] I have to adjust that. Yep. And then when I run near infrared measurements, I do it five times if I don't get five. Readings that are within a very minut [00:07:00] difference then I start all over again because something's not right. You can't get one reading that's you know 10 and then the rest are you know, three or four.
[00:07:09] So again with blood pressure you would think they would do it two or three times to make sure it was accurate switch arms. I asked the girl one time I said well. Because they always say what arm do you want and I said, well what happens if I switch arms. Oh, we'll probably get a different reading and I'm going that that alone that alone should tell you something's wrong with the process what I mean is you're gonna prescribe medication to lower my blood pressure shouldn't you absolutely know what it is before you medicate me and not some.
[00:07:38] Oh, well, you're going to get a different way. Wait a minute. If you get a different reading in the other arm, that means that the way you're reading blood pressure is inaccurate. I don't you know, and and when I really sat down and thought about I went and looked and here's all these different devices for sale for home from the wrist to the finger to [00:08:00] sitting down to arm cuffs looking at the ratings on how accurate they are.
[00:08:05] You know, some of them you can buy for $6.99. I'm thinking how many people are taking their blood pressure and assuming they have high blood pressure going to the doctor. The doctor verifies. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, we're close to you and then here goes medication. I think I saw a study that said something like 30 to 40 percent of people are medicated and they really don't have unnecessarily right and so let's listen to this.
[00:08:32] Dr. J. Yeah, I didn't tell you Italian internist name she Epona Riva, Roxy. Invented what is now known as the sphygmomanometer manometer speak to my meat eater you say it blood pressure cuff in 1896 all a hundred and twenty years ago roughly, right? They knew then it didn't work because he was [00:09:00] working with the man named Dunlop who happened to be in the rubber manufacturing business who created the first pneumatic cuff and it was only two inches wide.
[00:09:12] And so when he said the two-inch wide cuff was what was hurt the people. Because all the pressure had to produce in one small area. They went to a much wider cuff and they got different readings. They went. Wait a minute when we read it with a 2 inch cuff we get this reading when we read it with the 6 inch cuff we get that reading right then and there they should have said scrap this idea.
[00:09:37] It sucks. It doesn't work. But instead Harvey Williams Cushing. I believe Cushing's disease is named after him brought it to the United States in 1901 and became the gold standard for both measuring and making the decision to prescribe blood pressure medication blood pressure medication is the number one medication [00:10:00] prescribed today.
[00:10:00] Think about this for a second. So they're using this inaccurate actually quite fallible. Method there are so many ways to change the reading I told you off the air I had dr. Swift take my blood pressure and I tensed up my upper arm and it was 20 milligrams of mercury higher than when my arm is relaxed.
[00:10:25] And I think about this for a second when the girl used to measure my blood pressure. I used to hold my arm out for her. My arm is heavy just by doing that and not letting it rest in her hand. I changed my blood pressure. So when the doctor takes your blood pressure, oh and we all know this or a doctor J.
[00:10:44] You know this because we're bodybuilder types. We have bigger upper arms. You need a larger cuff to measure our blood pressure but most officers don't have it and they squeeze the heck out of your arm. And then if you have white Coat Syndrome like me. [00:11:00] When they squeeze my arm my arm tenses up my blood pressure goes up.
[00:11:04] I start to panic that restrictive feeling this. Yeah, it's time for the medical community to address the fact that they using a caveman era device to measure blood pressure and prescribing medication in a lot of cases unnecessarily. It's time to change. You know what and I'm going to make a comment doctors.
[00:11:26] They're just too busy. I mean, you know, I don't think doctors are intentionally going, you know what this doesn't work, but I don't care, you know, they're so busy with the amount of patients. They have to see and what they have to do. Do you think the medical industry knows that this is not right?
[00:11:42] But yes, they're in the business of selling blood pressure medicine know how but I don't think it's the doctors as you point out because if the doctor turns around and goes I'm going to do something different and. It happens to one person. Oh, he loses his license because he because he ignored what's known as the standard of care, even if the [00:12:00] standard of care doesn't work and there and you know, there are no real private practices anymore.
[00:12:07] I mean, it's not like the old days where they could do what they want. I mean they all work for the hospitals because of the liability issues, you know. Right. They wanted they have a larger. Oh, right. They want to be protected the protocol. Yes, and I know that for a hospital to change the protocol.
[00:12:22] Oh my gosh, it's years. You know, they've got to go through this and that and board approval and you know, probably government approval, but. And this is the other thing is, you know, you were talking about this armband was developed back in the 1800s. What we have now done is we've tried to modernize it with electronics and I was seeing that one of the rating systems was saying that the old-fashioned ones were actually more accurate than the electronic ones because half the time.
[00:12:56] The electricity causes some issue [00:13:00] and the electronics don't always work accurately. I mean think about a piece of electronics right? I mean again if they aren't calibrated we have stuff we have to calibrate multiple times during the day like scales. You have to calibrate them every time before you use.
[00:13:17] I wonder how many times they calibrate these blood pressure. Units never come on who's calibrated? But some doctors office who's doing that? Nobody know maybe somebody comes in once a year, you know and calibrates them but I can guarantee those should be calibrated before each use to make sure it's working properly.
[00:13:37] But even if they calibrate the original information is able to be phenomenal. Yeah, because you know, if you read my blood pressure, they could read your blood pressure. Three times on the same day and get three different readings. How could that be accurate? And don't and I'm not saying your blood pressure went up I'm saying you're sitting in the same spot [00:14:00] for all three readings except one reading you're a little tense because you're anxious and your arm is tensed because think about this for a second doctor J.
[00:14:09] So imagine we use the premise of the current blood pressure cuff. Let's say we are measuring pressure in a hose. So we put the cuff around the hose and we pump it up and we wait until the hose gets crushed completely and it stops the flow, which is another I want to point out another area of easily error easy error on this process.
[00:14:35] It stops the flow. And then we gently let the pressure off until the flow starts again. And as soon as we hear the flow start that is where we get our reading from. Okay now take that same hose and wrap a bunch of blankets around it. Yeah, and now take the wait a minute the pressure in the hose didn't change but the reading change dramatically you have all this [00:15:00] tissue all this muscle all this fat all this tissue.
[00:15:04] And all you want to do is crush this artery that's intermingled with the tissue. This is this makes zero sense, but then let me take it a step further. The gold standard is for a doctor or a nurse who's in taking the data to use a stethoscope to listen for the exact moment that the blood stops flowing through the ordering and then when they gently release the pressure here the blood flow to the artery.
[00:15:33] I've done this thousands of times for myself in my case. I know what it sounds like. I know what that whoosh noise sounds like right but. It took me a long time to figure out what was the whoosh of the blood of the heartbeat and what was the wish of this the blood coming through the Audrey again?
[00:15:54] So this is another area where people that's why a lot of these nurses they have to take it two or three times before they make a [00:16:00] decision because they're trying to triangulate. Okay. What? Yeah, what's heartbeat? And what's actually blood flowing now. Yeah, and it is I mean, you know, they are basically guessing.
[00:16:11] On it and you know, most of the people who do the blood pressure are just you know interns intake people. They don't have a lot of training and as I have experienced one time, it's shirt up one time is shirt down, you know, no one has said put your arm at your heart are loading your heart, right?
[00:16:31] And no one has asked me. Did you drink coffee this morning? That's a big crucial deviation, you know to raising blood pressure. But here's the other thing is most of the people they get prescribed blood pressure are people who are overweight who have a lot of fat and out upper arm, right? So again, you know from the study we see the more mass kind of your blanket around the hose syndrome is going to give a [00:17:00] higher reading.
[00:17:00] Yes. Yes, and now we're going to take a break, but you actually found an Israeli company that is working towards solving this problem quite by accident just in preparation for Today Show, right? Yeah, that's what they're saying. It looks It looks interesting. Let's do this. Let's take a quick commercial break.
[00:17:17] We'll talk about that when we come back stay tuned. Welcome back. We're talking about the way the medical orthodoxy reads blood pressure. It's wrong. It's incorrect. It's stupid quite frankly in the fact that it hasn't been changed since the early 1860s. I mean try to late 1860's tells you that they don't they don't care.
[00:17:40] They don't care that I mean, we don't use the same x-ray technology from when it was first created. We don't use any of the same but yet this dinosaur. It continues to hang on every doctors wall and is the gold standard for measuring blood pressure and it is completely inaccurate and all I have to do is point to any [00:18:00] important internal fluid pressure reading on any important system from your pool to your car and show you that they don't measure pressure that way and if it's if it's important enough for those stupid things.
[00:18:14] Why is it important for human beings and human health? Absolutely, and you know that's what the researchers at the Jerusalem College of Technology and the sure he's etic Medical Center in Israel. They're claiming they developed a more accurate measure for systolic blood pressure. They presented their findings just this past spring and Colorado, but they go on to say that automatic blood pressure devices are often used which you know all the time used to measure blood pressure, but they're in a.
[00:18:47] Period they have significant errors and lead to prescribing medication to patients who don't need it. Wait a minute. We do we said all that dr. J you and I just said all that [00:19:00] the research they have proven it. So the technique is pretty interesting is pretty Advanced, but they have developed a they're using some technique and I'm not going to pronounce this right called photo sigmography
[00:19:16] and they're saying it's more accurate measure of this systolic blood pressure. So they still use a cuff wrap around the arm, but then they have a new Electro optic probe that goes on the finger and they say that the finger probe is similar to that of a pulse oximeter right extender.
[00:19:39] That it includes a light source admitting light into the fender finger and then a detector which measures the light transmitted through the finger and they're saying that this transmitted light exhibits pulses at the heart rate and that it's much more accurate than trying to listen read [00:20:00] do something.
[00:20:01] So again looks. Like a little something different. I know that they have finger meters. I'm not sure what technology that is. So this is the some new technology to a fail and I've always said so what I've always envisioned in my head was using ultrasound because ultrasound could measure the speed in which blood is moving and ultrasound can also measure the viscosity.
[00:20:33] Of the actual blood and I'm sure that there are ways to extrapolate that data using formulas and truly gauge too much closer degree the internal pressure of a fluid and there are you know, you look at all chemical manufacturing cars. Pressure cookers. I mean there is technology to measure [00:21:00] pressure because it's crucial to the operation of these things now granted.
[00:21:04] It's on the most of the time it's on the inside, but you know what there's a way of taking that technology and using some type of infrared source to be able to you know, go through. Using like this light to detect you know what that pressure is. Well, I just went I just had blood drawn this morning for my annual labs and actually.
[00:21:31] I was thinking about the show today and I thought the phlebotomist put that needle in and two seconds and obviously she had like 10 vials to fill up but if but she could have left it there and pulled it out five seconds later. What if we can go internal if we really are interested in there?
[00:21:49] Yeah, look at look at when they put in a drip. I mean it stays in that's a good point. There is a way of going internally they could they could go. Okay. I'm going to check your blood pressure now [00:22:00] and they and they swab your arm and they put the little needle in and that needle has a sensor that's attached to a big Community hundred and they go your blood pressure is 1 and 26 over 78 and I bet you if they took the cuff out you'd be 150 over 90.
[00:22:14] Yeah, I mean it's like wait a minute. That's a huge difference and it's and it's important enough if in fact, yeah what the medical Orthodoxy says, dr. J that keeping your blood pressure low and they're lowering it every five years to a lower number wearing that pretty soon. It's going to be like you're almost dead if they keep coming out with these edicts then shouldn't they be working harder to evaluate?
[00:22:39] What blood pressure is in the first place? And. Possibly like the car industry where we know and I have personal inside information will do a story on that sometime that carburetors and patents were purchased up that got crazy gas mileage. [00:23:00] I can bet you that the drug industry has purchased up patents and research and things on people developing a better method more accurate because look when you get on blood pressure medicine, what's the next thing that happens?
[00:23:14] Your triglycerides and cholesterol and blood sugar and right. It's all it's nothing. It's not what that to write three four. It's a cascading event. This is a I've been it's a trillion dollar industry. Why would they want to fix it? It's really sad, isn't it? Isn't it said you know when you really look back and you think about this similar to Battery Technology come on, you know, I mean, it hasn't changed and you know a hundred years.
[00:23:43] What's up with that? Yeah, give me a break. Yeah, something's wrong. Yeah, it's time to like I said, they could easily insert a fairly small gauge needle and read your blood pressure and moments and it would be internal it would be accurate. It's time to stop this [00:24:00] nonsense. It stopped. It's time to stop treating people like they're stupid because that's what I think most people realize anybody was ever taking their blood pressure at home as figured out what I figure.
[00:24:11] Depending on what type of day you take it is going to change. It's kind of like the weather here in Montana. If you don't like the weather wait five minutes. Yeah, they you don't like your blood pressure reading wait two minutes or tried on a different place. Oh, okay. I'll put it on this arm. Oh, yeah, that's good.
[00:24:25] I like that one. By the way. Did you get snow already? We did last Sunday. It's no. I can't believe it. It's so hot every place else right now. Oh, I was actually in North Carolina. I just got back late last night and it was 86 up there but got back to 34 degrees last night. What we do we're going to North Carolina.
[00:24:52] What's up that Europa distribution visiting and then just visiting some stores and things so little bit of EFX business. Did you see any [00:25:00] people that know you from social media and stuff? You know, yeah, I mean, I went into a store that I had never been in Charlotte supplements and you know, the guy recognized me he knew of the brand because he was carrying it.
[00:25:15] Neither Scott nor myself had ever visited them. But you know he acted it was kind of cool when you go in someplace and you know, I'm used to going in and you know trying to make that introduction and they act like they already know you so I'm assuming it must be from social media. Yeah, it's got to be and by the way before we close this interview.
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[00:26:12] I haven't gotten a ticket tell me how to get there. How do they get the free bottles again? You know what we're just we're figuring that out today. Oh, come on how they're going to go about it right now if they go to EFX sports.com and you look for the golden ticket, it will give you the rules on basically you have to send in a self-addressed stamped Jiffy flat rate Jiffy envelope and you'll get a 333 gram bottle of carbon big bottle for free.
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[00:27:33] I'm going to I'm going to be thinking about this here. You really got my wheels turning on this whole blood pressure thing. I know I'm telling you. They just need to look they just need to put a small needle in your arm or the Probe on it and they be and they read it. Yeah, they read it in 10 seconds and they go.
[00:27:49] Okay. Here's your blood pressure and that's. That's it. The problem sighs. Well, I'm going to develop something. I'll give you the credit and share some of the money. That's all. That's what I here we go. Absolutely. I brother [00:28:00] everybody talk to you next week stay tuned. We'll be right back with more superhuman radio.
[00:28:07] I feel the need to make some recommendations after Today's Show. I didn't want dr. Jeff to be on with this because I don't know that he's down with what I'm about to say. If you could turn the concerned about your blood pressure, you should be checking it at home yourself. The wrist cuffs seem to be fairly easy to use.
[00:28:26] You don't have to learn about listening to blood flow stop and start with the stethoscope, and you should always take your blood pressure at the same time. Unless you're looking to see the effects of a particular training scheme or diet or poor sleep on blood pressure. You should take your blood pressure.
[00:28:48] At the same time in the same place. With your arm at the exactly the same position. And I think you should be taking your blood [00:29:00] pressure at home for another reason a lot of people get anxious when they get to the doctor. They're afraid of what they're going to find out. They're afraid they're going to be told they have to be put on a medication more and more people have white Coat Syndrome simply because.
[00:29:14] They're reluctant to allow their doctor to F them up put them on a medication. They don't even want to hear about it. So they get they get nervous just the idea of going to the doctor. So take your blood pressure at home. Take it at the same place with your arm. I would stack pillows or use a table in front of you and let your arm rest on it.
[00:29:40] Make sure you're not holding your arm out. That will change the reading the cuff that goes on the wrist seems to be easy to use and an automated they run anywhere from 30 to 40 dollars at CVS or Walgreens and. [00:30:00] if you take it in the morning and at night taking at the same time at the morning and at night if it's bedtime take you to both time, you're going to see a difference in reading your blood pressure is always going to be higher at night.
[00:30:12] Then it is when you first wake up in the morning. Assuming you're not overtrained. In fact checking your blood pressure in the morning could benefit you if you are worried about getting over trained if you want to use that as another metric to determine whether or not you're getting close to overtraining your blood pressure will go up in the morning as well as your heart rate when you wake up.
[00:30:33] Do it yourself. If you go to the doctor and you if you check your blood pressure three or four times a week at home. You check it once in the morning once at night before bed, two three four times a week at home doesn't take long takes maybe 45 seconds for that little thing to pump pumps up and then it stopped and then gives you reading Boom.
[00:30:56] So let's say you check your blood pressure at home. It says it's 120 over 70 [00:31:00] 8 in the morning at night. It's 134 over 82. These are actual numbers that I read.
[00:31:09] And you do this three or four times a week. Then you go to your doctor and your doctors insists on checking your blood pressure. Let him check it. Don't worry about what he finds if he goes man your blood pressure getting up there. It's 180 over 87 say yeah, that's not really my blood pressure. I check my blood pressure at home numerous times a week and it's the way you're reading it or the calibration of your device or just that I'm a little anxious right now.
[00:31:35] Don't let them push you into it. Well, yeah, but I've got to prescribe you something don't say don't prescribe anything. I'm not going to take it. And if you do prescribe me something I'm just gonna throw the prescription away because I check my blood pressure at home. I know what it is now, okay.
[00:31:52] So let's say you are running moderately high blood pressure. Let's say it's higher than you want it to be citrulline. Malate has been shown in [00:32:00] numerous studies to lower blood pressure. Why because it increases nitric oxide and vasodilation also. Are you getting insulin resistant? Check your blood sugar in the morning.
[00:32:11] If you're waking up in the morning consistently in your blood sugars in the 90s and above. Well sure you're going to have high blood pressure because angiotensin-converting enzyme is being squirted out of the through the kidneys to tighten up the blood vessels. as insulin Rises. So does angiotensin-converting enzyme that's why most people are on an Ace inhibitor for blood pressure angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor.
[00:32:38] So if your blood pressure is going up and you're concerned about it, you don't need your doctor to tell you to be concerned about it. You'll you know, you should be concerned about start supplementing with citrulline Malate. I would take 6 to 8 grams a couple three times a day. and. If in fact your diet has been less than optimal start cutting back on the [00:33:00] starchy and sugary carbs and get your sleep straight out if you're not sleeping well.
[00:33:06] I can tell you your blood pressure is going to be up because your insulin levels are going to be up because your blood sugar is going to be all over the place if you're not sleeping well. So get your sleep straightened out. That's a whole other issue, but you don't need a doctor to tell you. You can do it yourself.
[00:33:27] And you can manage it yourself. And you can make the lifestyle changes to correct it yourself without being put on a blood pressure medication. So don't be forced into taking blood pressure meds. Check your own blood pressure. Know what it is so that you can speak authoritatively to your doctor and say no something's wrong with your blood pressure cuff because I check mine at home all the time.
[00:33:55] And here's what it always is. And most of the nine out of 10 times, they'll back off [00:34:00] the go. Okay, as long as you know, but then think about that for a second. If you check your blood pressure at home, and you know what it is. But your doctor checks it and he says it's hi. But then you tell them I check my blood pressure three or four times a week once in the morning and once before bed and it's always 126 over 72.
[00:34:22] And he goes, okay, as long as you're keeping track of it think about that exchange for a second. So he knows that he's probably not right. Otherwise, he would go look your machine is wrong. This one's right you're wrong. I'm right but no the fact that the aqueous is because they know that they know themselves probably from school that you could check your blood pressure four times in the same sitting and get four different readings depending on how you hold your arm.
[00:34:49] Whether your muscles are tense, you know, like a host of different things that will alter it alter the reading I should say the blood pressure staying the same. We're just reading it in accurately. [00:35:00] So don't be afraid to push back if your doctor wants to put you on a blood pressure medicine. As long as you are checking your own blood pressure at home.
[00:35:12] That's the critical thing here. You have to be checking your own blood pressure at home. And you should be checking your own blood pressure at home. You know, if you followed my show, you know that I'm a huge proponent of checking your own blood sugar at home, even though you may not be diabetic.
[00:35:26] It's important to know that number. It's important to know it for a variety of reasons Health as well as recovery and training and so on and you should be checking your own blood pressure at home to you shouldn't be subjected to being surprised by a doctor who goes. Hey, your blood pressure is really high.
[00:35:43] We got to we got to prescribe something for you now I check it at home. So there you go. That's a little word of advice for superhumans and we'll see you tomorrow with more super human radio tomorrow. We're going to talk about why you should be taping your mouth shut at night. I'm a huge proponent of this and I hope that it helps a lot of [00:36:00] people see you then.
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