meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Chasing Life

The New Healthy Blood Pressure Rules

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.47.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Nearly half of Americans have high blood pressure — and the guidelines for managing it just changed. Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains the new rules, including surprising advice on alcohol. Plus, he answers a listener’s follow-up: does the recommended daily dose of “morning sunlight” change when it’s cloudy, rainy, or even snowing? New blood pressure guidelines recommend an earlier start to treatment and skipping alcohol, CNN, August 14, 2025 Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults, The American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association, August 14, 2025 Our show is produced by Eryn Mathewson, Jennifer Lai, Grace Walker, Lori Galaretta, Jesse Remedios, Sofia Sanchez, Kyra Dahring, and Madeleine Thompson. Medical Writer: Andrea Kane Showrunner: Amanda Sealy Senior Producer: Dan Bloom Technical Director: Dan Dzula Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Welcome to Paging Dr. Gupta. This is the place we get to tackle the questions that matter the most to you.

0:09.1

And today, you're going to hear a great question from a loyal listener. But first, we wanted to start with some health news that affects millions of people out there.

0:17.4

Kira is back with us. Please T us up.

0:20.4

Hey, Sanjay. Okay, so our office was buzzing about these new

0:25.8

recommendations on how to control blood pressure. And so I'm curious, what's different than before?

0:31.5

And what do we need to know now? Yeah, so I've been thinking about this a lot. I've gotten a ton of

0:37.1

questions about the blood pressure guidelines.

0:40.1

So let's start with this, just a little bit of context. First of all, this is the first time the guidelines have been updated since 2017. Really important.

0:49.6

And if you look at the United States as a whole, close to half, right around half the people have

0:55.2

hypertension. Okay, so I want you to have this context. These recommendations typically come

1:00.6

from a collection of health organizations, such as the American Heart Association, the American

1:05.2

College of Cardiology. These groups meet, and occasionally they will release an update if they agree that there's enough

1:12.6

new evidence that demands it. So again, this is the first update since 2017, and they thought

1:18.8

it was important enough to publish this report. I'm going to tell you what it says right after the break.

1:32.8

Here's the truth about AI. AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into.

1:38.9

ServiceNow puts AI to work for people across your business, removing friction and frustration for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier,

1:47.5

all built into a single platform you can use right now.

1:51.1

That's why the world works with ServiceNow.

1:54.3

Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK slash AI for people.

1:59.1

Race the rudder. Raise the sales.

2:01.6

Raise the sales.

2:03.0

Captain, an unidentified ship approaching.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.