The quiet habits that sit around a blood pressure reading.
Short notes on what the numbers describe, how ordinary routines move them, and why two readings taken hours apart rarely agree.
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Recent notes
A handful of articles drawn from questions readers actually send us.
What the two numbers on the cuff actually describe
One number is the push when the heart contracts, the other is the pressure that never goes away between beats — and they rarely move together.
Read article →Salt gets the blame. Potassium is rarely mentioned.
Most conversations about the plate stop at the salt shaker. The mineral on the other side of the balance almost never comes up.
Read article →Why a morning reading and an evening one disagree
Readings drift across the day by design. Knowing the shape of that curve keeps a single measurement from meaning more than it should.
Read article →Written slowly, on purpose
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