A family physician’s guide for high blood pressure
What actually lowers your blood pressure, and what doesn’t.
Your Blood Pressure by the Numbers
Book 2 · Coming soon
Food, salt, movement, sleep and supplements for high blood pressure, graded and ranked the same way.
*And no, I don’t sell supplements. — Dr. Ryan Kasky, DO
Book 2 of the By the Numbers series. The series launches as three books: A1c first, then blood pressure and cholesterol. Check back here for release news.
About the book
Does it work, how much, and is it safe?
High blood pressure rarely announces itself, and most people who have it feel completely normal, often for years. This book checks every food, habit and supplement against the published research and asks three questions: does it work, how much, and is it safe? Each one gets a grade, from Supported to Harmful, a real number that says which reading moved (office, home or a 24-hour monitor), and a priority: Start here, Add next, Optional extras or Skip. It’s written for adults with high blood pressure, or with blood pressure that’s starting to creep up, to use with their doctor. It adds to your medicine; it never replaces it.
Free printables
The pages from the book’s appendix
The same pages the book prints, ready for your fridge or your next visit.
Your Daily 8
Eight habits, one box a day: lower-salt choices, moving on purpose, half your plate vegetables and fruit, a potassium food, sleep and more. Letter size, 1 page.
Home blood pressure log
How to take a good reading, a home-week grid for morning and evening readings, how to average them, and what to do about a very high reading. Letter size, 2 pages.
No email, no signup. Print a fresh Daily 8 each week.
Updates and corrections
Research changes. So will this page.
When a new study changes a number or a grade in the book, or a reader finds a mistake, it will be listed here with the date.
No updates or corrections yet.