Peter Attia maintains that blood pressure should be treated aggressively to reach 120/80 mmHg, provided it does not cause adverse side effects or quality of life issues.

“my aspiration is that we can get you as close to 120 over 80 as we can without harming you because there are certainly potential harms that are associated with treating people to these low numbers”

Ethan Weiss asserts that 120/80 mmHg is a normal blood pressure target regardless of age, and higher readings should be treated as abnormal.

“my take on this now is different than it was 15 years ago and that is that 120 over 80 is normal no matter where you are in life and that anything above that is abnormal”

Essential hypertension is driven by inflammatory processes in the kidney and the consumption of sugar, which raises uric acid levels.

“it does appear that salt really is important and one of the key discoveries was that the kidneys are often normally handle salt fine but they develop or acquire a change in the kidneys that lead them to hold on to sodium and the mechanism has been identified just in the last few years it's due to th”