May 29, 2026
A home blood pressure monitor is only as useful as the technique behind it. Small errors in preparation and positioning can throw your readings off by […]
May 28, 2026
High blood pressure is widely understood as a heart risk. Its connection to dementia is less well known. The research tells a more useful story. Here […]
May 20, 2026
Blood pressure is not a fixed number. It follows a 24-hour rhythm, and the readings you are seeing at home are windows into a pattern that […]
May 14, 2026
Your resting heart rate is low. Your blood pressure looks fine. Your standard labs came back clean. None of that tells you what is happening inside […]
May 12, 2026
The new ACC/AHA guidelines expand cholesterol screening to include ApoB and Lp(a), push for earlier treatment, and give CAC scores a bigger role in clinical decisions. […]
May 8, 2026
For most of my life, I assumed more training was better. My own numbers, and a deeper look at the research behind them, told a more […]
April 27, 2026
A blood pressure reading means something different at 60 than it did at 40. Here is what changes in your arteries with age, and why the […]
April 24, 2026
My Cleerly scan came back clean. Zero plaque. My calcium score is zero. My arterial function is strong. And none of that tells the full story. […]
April 20, 2026
A standard blood pressure reading tells you something real. But it doesn’t tell you everything. Here is what your arm cuff misses about your brain, heart, […]
April 15, 2026
In many people, it develops years earlier. Here is what that means for how you monitor your cardiovascular health. If your blood pressure is normal, that […]
April 10, 2026
You can hit 10,000 steps and never once challenge your cardiovascular system. No stimulus, no adaptation. Here’s what I track instead, and why it matters more […]
April 8, 2026
My imaging came back clean. My blood markers didn’t. Understanding why that’s not a contradiction is what made me think about arterial health in three distinct […]
