Author: Road Bike Rider

By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. High blood pressure puts you at increased risk for suffering a heart attack or stroke and damaging every organ in your body. Lowering high blood pressure helps to protect you from these complications (JAMA, 1970;213:1143-52). Blood pressure is usually at its lowest at bedtime.

One of our regular RBR readers submitted this article about his recent experience with multiple concussions, one of which resulted in a dangerous brain bleed with stroke-like symptoms, which includes some questions at the bottom for the rest of our readers. If you’ve had a concussion related to cycling (or even otherwise), we’d be thrilled…