Originally Posted by
genejockey
This Doug tried to beat familial hypertension by riding miles and miles, eating lean meat and bushels of salad, and didn't move the needle on the sphygmomanometer at all, so he bowed to the inevitable. Even losing 30# and riding nearly 6000 miles so far this year didn't help the BP. Or maybe it did, and without that I'd be truly f***ed.
It’s not a defeat or failure to take medicine for BP. High blood pressure is sometimes inevitable with age.