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480: The longevity treatment no one’s talking about | Peter Attia, M.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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The Importance of Blood Pressure

The kidneys are kind of a miraculous little organ. They take up a fraction of your body weight, about 2%. And yet they're receiving with every beat of your heart 20 to 25% of your blood flow. Blood pressure that's too high is very damaging to these microscopic tiny capillaries there. We see this all the time where we see people that have been walking around with low grade untreated high blood pressure and by 60, they have the kidneys of a 90 year old.

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