Half of Americans have hypertension, a silent condition you can monitor at home. Use the 7-2-2 rule: measure blood pressure twice daily for seven days, take two readings each time, and average them. Check your waist-to-height ratio with a tape measure at your belly button; keep it below 0.5 to avoid excess visceral fat.
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Get a blood pressure cuff at home and check your blood pressure. If you can't do that, find a friend that has a blood pressure cuff and take it on a regular basis. It's really the silent killer for a reason, because it's not a problem till it's a problem. 50% of Americans have it, and many Americans don't even realize that they have it. And it's the most modifiable cardiovascular risk factor that we have. And doing it once at your primary care visit is not enough. You need the 7-2-2 rule for 7 days, twice a day, 2 measurements, record them, take an average. That's what your physician really wants to know and what they need to know to be able to come up with an accurate number. And then blood pressure's not just random. It, it's caused by certain things, right? Absolutely. You can actually figure out too. Well, that'll come to the next suggestion. It's not always your weight, it's the distribution of your body fat. And that's why I really recommend that people are checking their waist-to-height ratio. Tape measure is a very cheap medical device. It really is. Be honest about where it is and where you're measuring it. Belly button. Belly button. Yeah, it's got to be at the belly button. And you don't want your number to be greater than 0.5. And that's just an indicator again of the amount of intra-abdominal fat, that visceral fat that functions really as an endocrine organ. Those are 2 very simple places. You don't have to go to a physician's office. You don't have to do any of that.
