John OsborneChief Medical Officer, ClearCardio LLC · Preventive cardiologist and Chief Medical Officer at ClearCardio

How to Measure Blood Pressure the RIGHT Way #highbloodpressure #hearthealth #cardiology

14 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise health‑advice segment, the speaker warns that high blood pressure often goes unnoticed because many people feel fine even when readings are elevated. He explains that blood pressure typically peaks in the early morning due to a surge of stress hormones—cortisol, epinephrine, norepinephrine, and adrenaline—released as the body prepares for waking. Because this morning spike represents the worst reading of the day, he advises measuring blood pressure first thing in the morning to capture the highest value and better assess cardiovascular risk.

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High blood pressure, the silent killer. Because your blood pressure could be normal, it could be modestly elevated, really elevated, or really, really elevated, and odds are you'll feel fine. Check your blood pressure in the morning because the blood pressure in the morning is generally the highest blood pressure of the day. And I want to see the worst blood pressure of the day because at night our body is preparing us for the stress of waking up. We make cortisol, lots of adrenal hormones. We make epinephrine, norepinephrine, adrenaline, all these stress hormones. Begin to pour out of our body, our hypothalamus, our brain, in the early hours of the morning, so that our blood pressure starts going up in preparation for the stress of waking up. So that's why in the morning, our blood pressure is generally the highest that it's going to be over the next 24 hours.