[jyl]

There was a thread recently about how to reduce one's blood pressure.

That got me interested in looking at my own blood pressure and how it changes in response to time of day, my situation, activity, and maybe some counter-measures. I'm going to show what I am seeing, and I'd be interested in any thoughts/comments. Data is presented as "systolic/diastolic heartrate". I use a cheap wrist cuff device, not sure how accurate but it is convenient.

5/8

9:15 pm laying quietly in bed 120/82 56 and a little later 126/79 55

5/9

2:10 am woke in middle of night, in bed 119/75 45
4:32 am woke up, still half-asleep, in bed 114/73 41 lowest HR I've ever recorded
6:57 am at work, reading emails 130/82 63 hmm, this seems like borderline hypertensive
9:53 am at work, market open, watching stocks move, my daily performance teetering on negative today 147/93 49
10:08 am at work, decided to lay down on the floor and relax for five minutes, curious to see what would happen 128/78 51
1:35 pm at work, reading a kind of disappointing earnings report 146/92 52 nteresting my BP seems to react differently from my HR, they don't go up/down together

I'm going to post the rest of today, then tonight I will start drinking an assload of beet juice and stop adding salt to my food, and in a couple days I will check if that reduces my BP. Supposedly the beet juice should act quickly, I don't know about the salt intake reduction.