The muscle is the organ of longevity. That's just pitch perfect. If I look at my own evolution

through this when I was doing really hardcore endurance type events, I was doing zero strength

training back there. A lot of it was because of a time management, but it was also like,

I don't need to do that. You know, I'm swimming, I'm running, I'm riding, I'm doing all these

things. I don't need to do it. That's total misconception. Again, you need both. Both of those

pieces are really, really crucial. Dr. Jeremy London, welcome. What is blood pressure and why does it

matter in terms of cardiovascular health? Super simple, you know, just to kind of the bare bones is that blood pressure, to think about

it as a risk factor is the amount of resistance that the heart is seeing with each beat.

Now, that's not the whole picture, but I think that that is the way you should think

about high blood pressure in particular, because that's where the risk comes from. Because as you get

this kind of hypertoned in your blood vessel systemically, that's what's cranking up.

The blood pressure, the heart is having to work harder with each beat.

It's seeing more resistance.

Well, the heart is a muscle, just like any other muscle.

And over time, that muscle is going to become thickened and less efficient over time.

And so when you have untreated high blood pressure, not to mention

kidney problems and- That's the thing. It's not just, doesn't just impact your heart,

high blood pressure impacts your kidney just as much. None of these things happen in a vacuum.

Yeah, yeah. You know, everything is, everything is, everything is interconnected. But specifically,

if we're talking about cardiac involvement, that's really where it comes from is the workload

that the heart is seeing. An increased workload over time is dangerous because at some point,

the heart is going to start to fail. And when we look at longevity,

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