Peter Attia questions if his baseline blood pressure while working is truly 120/80, given he ensures it is low through five minutes of calm.

“the first is I can always breathe my blood pressure down to normal in other words there's never been a f minute window when if I don't sit there and really focus on breathing I can't get that blood pressure to come to normal but most often than not that first reading the second I sit down especially in August it got better in October and September was kind of a transition month it's kind of normalized now but it was not uncommon for that first one to be as high as 140 over 90 if I just you know was literally doing something not exercising but if I was you know doing something active and then I went and sat down like the equivalent of the guy who shows up from the parking garage you know just parked the car had to walk up one flight of stairs sits down 140 over 90”

“if you look at my spreadsheet and all of my phone data my blood pressure looks perfectly normal for the last 6 months I've averaged below 120 over 80”

“but I kind of feel like I'm cheating Ethan because to guarantee that it's low I have to take five minutes of being calm which then makes me wonder I know that that's in line with how the Sprint study was done and you could argue well Peter You're simply you're actually doing something that's less extreme than what they did because they did three measurements over 10 minutes but I think but deep down I know my blood pressure is not 120 over 80 when I'm sitting at my computer you know writing because when I check that blood pressure straight away it's it's it's above that”