Breathing and Blood Pressure
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Change your breathing and Lower Your Blood Pressure
New research shows that slowing down your breathing for only a few minutes a day can have a real effect on your blood pressure. If you can take less than ten breaths a minute then you could change your blood pressure control within a matter of weeks.
Dr David Anderson works at the National Institutes of Health and is beginning to think that how we breathe could influence how our body regulates our blood pressure. He also believes that it is more related to our body's ability to digest salt than to the relaxation caused by slow breathing.
He's now using a breathing control device called Resperate to do research on the subject.
The Resperate device helps train you to slow-breathe.
Dr Anderson heads research into behavior and hypertension at the NIH's National Institute on Aging. He believes that slow breathing with resperate can improve our ability to cope with a high salt intake.
Read more about this here
If he's right, the work could shed new light on the intersection between hypertension, stress and diet."If you sit there under-breathing all day and you have a high salt intake, your kidneys may be less effective at getting rid of that salt than if you're out hiking in the woods," said Anderson, who heads research into behavior and hypertension at the NIH's National Institute on Aging.
New research shows that slowing down your breathing for only a few minutes a day can have a real effect on your blood pressure. If you can take less than ten breaths a minute then you could change your blood pressure control within a matter of weeks.
Dr David Anderson works at the National Institutes of Health and is beginning to think that how we breathe could influence how our body regulates our blood pressure. He also believes that it is more related to our body's ability to digest salt than to the relaxation caused by slow breathing.
He's now using a breathing control device called Resperate to do research on the subject.
The Resperate device helps train you to slow-breathe.
Dr Anderson heads research into behavior and hypertension at the NIH's National Institute on Aging. He believes that slow breathing with resperate can improve our ability to cope with a high salt intake.
Read more about this here
If he's right, the work could shed new light on the intersection between hypertension, stress and diet."If you sit there under-breathing all day and you have a high salt intake, your kidneys may be less effective at getting rid of that salt than if you're out hiking in the woods," said Anderson, who heads research into behavior and hypertension at the NIH's National Institute on Aging.
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