More on Lowering Blood Pressure With Coordinated Breathing

Can the Way You Breathe Lower Your High Blood Pressure

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Could you lower your high blood pressure by changing the way you breathe? So previously I had mentioned Maybe Lowering BP with Breathing that there seemed to be an association between how you breathe and your blood pressure. An article that appeared several years ago in the medical journal, Hypertension, was called Slow Breathing Improves Arterial Baroreflex Sensitivity and Decreases Blood Pressure in Essential Hypertension.



Researchers said in the article that they were able to demonstrate that slower breathing did result in lower blood pressures in people with high blood pressure (i.e. hypertension) and postulated that some people with high blood pressure have a problem with their barorelfex.




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The baroreflex or baroreceptor reflex is one of the body's mechanisms for maintaining blood pressure. It provides a negative feedback loop in which an elevated blood pressure reflexively causes heart rate to decrease therefore causing blood pressure to decrease; likewise, decreased blood pressure activates the baroreflex, causing heart rate to increase thus causing an increase in blood pressure. The researchers suggest that slower breathing is somehow resetting the maladjusted baroreflex.




Here is another video about a biofeedback device that is supposed to help train you to breathe more slowly and lower the blood pressure.