The "Silent Killer" Affecting 1 in 2 Adults Globally (& How To Track It *From Your Wrist*!), With Dr. Jay Shah.
Ben Greenfield Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Hypertension isn’t a snapshot—it’s a movie, and most of us are missing the plot.
Technology can outpace tradition when it’s patient-first, not doctor-first.
This conversation will break new ground by flipping the hypertension narrative from a dry medical topic to a human behavior puzzle—cracking why we ignore what kills us and how tech can jolt us awake. Unlike other podcasts where Dr. Shah might recite Hilo’s specs or his CV, here he’ll wrestle with the messy realities of healthcare inertia, his own career gamble, and the psychology of change. The fresh angles—his pivot story, the unseen patient barriers, the next wearable frontier—will spark revelations Jay hasn’t unpacked elsewhere.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast, it is the number one |
| 0:05.7 | preventable cause of death in the world by far. It causes 11 million deaths per year. Roughly one in |
| 0:12.4 | three of the world's adults has high blood pressure. 50% of people don't even know that they have it. |
| 0:18.1 | It is the number one sort of preventable chronic disease in the world. |
| 0:23.6 | It's something to track and optimize. |
| 0:25.6 | It exceeds in almost every other biomarker and importance that I can think of. |
| 0:30.6 | High blood pressure isn't just a disease of elderly. |
| 0:34.6 | High blood pressure often starts in our 20s and 30s of life. |
| 0:40.0 | And the thing is it's silent, right? You don't feel high blood pressure. It's insidious. It's |
| 0:45.2 | silent and over time is where it does its damage, such that by the time someone's 55, 60 and has a heart |
| 0:52.9 | attack, has a stroke, has kidney disease, |
| 0:55.4 | has some other major event caused by hypertension, it's way too late. But that's when we |
| 1:00.7 | identify it oftentimes because of the acute event that happens at the end of 20 to 30 years. |
| 1:06.8 | Welcome to The Boundless Life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologists, and nutritionists, and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond. |
| 1:34.2 | I'm a light geek. I think everybody knows I'm super picky about lights. And in my office, I've been messing around with this new light from a company called Chroma called the Sky Portal. Technically, |
| 1:40.8 | it's called the Sky Portal 2.1 because 2.1 just sounds cooler. All right. So what exactly |
| 1:46.4 | is this? Well, first of all, you know that a lot of lights will blast too much of the harsh, |
| 1:50.9 | dark blue spectrum, which is harsh on the eyes and the brain. Or a lot of these healthy lights, |
| 1:57.7 | they're too dim, they don't feel natural. So the Sky Portal 2.1 is designed to actually work with your biology. |
| 2:04.7 | There's an adjustable ratio between two different light channels. |
| 2:07.8 | You got daylight mode and nighttime mode. |
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