jkaufman comments on Mike Darwin on Kurzweil, Techno-Optimism, and Delusional Stances on Cryonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jkaufman 11 October 2011 10:24:11PM 2 points [-]

high blood pressure

How much can you choose to not have high blood pressure? How much is genetic? How much depends on our actions but not in a way we understand yet?

Comment author: dlthomas 11 October 2011 10:30:20PM 1 point [-]

Avoiding smoking, obesity, and inactivity helps, but then it is listed separately. Choice of diet can help, for sure - lowering sodium intake will generally lower blood pressure, for the typical western diet; I believe that vegetarianism can help as well. There are also blood pressure medications - I am not sure whether "otherwise as described but with pre-medication high blood pressure that is being successfully treated with medication" puts you in the demographic or not.