Can the Way You Breathe Lower Your High Blood Pressure
Could you lower your high blood pressure by changing the way you breathe? There have been some medical reports and studies that say that people who learn to breathe in certain rhythm at a pace below about 10 breaths per minute can lower their high blood pressure.
There DOES seem to be something to these reports of lowering blood pressure by breathing "correctly" and there is at least one company that markets a kind of biofeedback device to train you in how to breathe to lower your blood pressure.( Search on Amazon, for example).(There is also at least one "breathing app" for ios and Android). Of course, some of the studies that tout the breathing effect on blood pressure are by the doctors who started the company. Still there are studies from other sources that seem to corroborate the effect on blood pressure.
What are the Mechanisms of High Blood Pressure?
The mechanisms of high blood pressure remain somewhat unknown but the medicines that have been developed to lower high blood pressure work by methods such as lowering the heart rate and widening the diameter of arteries. Lowering sodium seems to help and one of the most common blood pressure meds is a diuretic that expels water from the body.
Next time we'll look at some of the medical reports of the effect of breathing on lowering high blood pressure.
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