Well I don’t think if you have BP at 139/89 means you are overweight, my husband has high BP and he is very fit for a 59 yr old, not at all overweight/fat, he has muscle (big upper body), hardly any fat on him. He works out & does Jiu jitsu. He’s had high BP pretty much all his adult life. I have lower BP than he does and I am overweight, though in the last year I have lost some weight, but it’s hard when I have health issues that hamper exercising. I do some but it’s not easy. It’s rather frustrating to be honest, not to be able to do things. Years ago my BP use to be so low the nurses always had a hard time getting my BP. The BP machines hardly worked on me, so they had to do it manually and sometimes even then they had a hard time. I had good BP all through my pregnancies also, drove my husband crazy, lol. I didn’t work out or anything, just always going/doing things.
139/89 is not necessarily an issue, especially since, in your husband's case, it's something that has stayed consistent.
Some people naturally have a higher blood pressure, just as you had a naturally lower blood pressure for much of your life.
And I didn't make it clear in my original reply, but I believe those blood pressure medications are often misprescribed and are to be avoided if at all possible, especially if you're in the 120/80 to 139/89 range.
As far as losing weight, exercise is not required to lose it. Intermittent fasting is definitely an option I can vouch for. I've already lost 6 inches around my waist that have crept up on me since getting married over a decade ago.
Here's a video on intermittent fasting by Dr. Sten Ekberg. He does a very good job of explaining the science behind it on this and many other videos-
They taught us 120/80 was baseline normal in Physical Education class when I was in high school in the 1990s.
I'm pretty sure they try to tell people that's Pre-Hypertension now.
If your blood pressure is 139/89, they call that High Normal.
In either case, they recommend blood pressure medication.
If yours is 139/89, you're probably overweight and need to lose some weight and exercise and it will correct itself pretty quickly, imho.
Well I don’t think if you have BP at 139/89 means you are overweight, my husband has high BP and he is very fit for a 59 yr old, not at all overweight/fat, he has muscle (big upper body), hardly any fat on him. He works out & does Jiu jitsu. He’s had high BP pretty much all his adult life. I have lower BP than he does and I am overweight, though in the last year I have lost some weight, but it’s hard when I have health issues that hamper exercising. I do some but it’s not easy. It’s rather frustrating to be honest, not to be able to do things. Years ago my BP use to be so low the nurses always had a hard time getting my BP. The BP machines hardly worked on me, so they had to do it manually and sometimes even then they had a hard time. I had good BP all through my pregnancies also, drove my husband crazy, lol. I didn’t work out or anything, just always going/doing things.
You're right. It doesn't necessarily mean that.
I used the word "probably" for that very reason.
139/89 is not necessarily an issue, especially since, in your husband's case, it's something that has stayed consistent.
Some people naturally have a higher blood pressure, just as you had a naturally lower blood pressure for much of your life.
And I didn't make it clear in my original reply, but I believe those blood pressure medications are often misprescribed and are to be avoided if at all possible, especially if you're in the 120/80 to 139/89 range.
As far as losing weight, exercise is not required to lose it. Intermittent fasting is definitely an option I can vouch for. I've already lost 6 inches around my waist that have crept up on me since getting married over a decade ago.
Here's a video on intermittent fasting by Dr. Sten Ekberg. He does a very good job of explaining the science behind it on this and many other videos-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZhkFOCeZMQ