RespErate for high bp?

I have used one and it did reduce my blood pressure. It slows your breathing down which is what happens when you meditate. Both work if you practice regularly.

I've seen some reports on other forums of music lovers hating the quality of the "music" played by the machine but that's a personal thing.

You may be interested in reading about Mukta Vati - this has had a dramatic effect on my BP.

While this thread has resurfaced may I bring you up to date with the change in my blood pressure following Weight loss using ]this low Carbohydrate eating plan. I was 127<>96ish I'm now 106<>65

May I also remind readers that although exercise is particularly helpful for blood pressure lowering and I would support extra exercise where possible it is not an essential element to the plan and it is possible to reduce weight and lower blood pressure even if extra exercise is not practicable. Exercise and blood pressure


Do remember also that Plasma 25(OH)D levels are inversely and independently associated with the risk of developing hypertension. so ensuring your vitamin d status is optimum by taking effective amounts of Vitamin D3 through the winter will help lower your blood pressure.

Melatonin for high blood pressure?

What's better than fish oil?

People interested in lowering blood pressure may be interested in this newly listed piece of research.
Interindividual variation in serum sodium and longitudinal blood pressure tracking in the Framingham Heart Study. It concludes In our large community-based sample, serum sodium was not associated with blood pressure cross-sectionally, or with blood pressure tracking or hypertension incidence longitudinally. which I am sure will surprise people who Haven't been listening to Gary Taubes Some people are very slow on the uptake.

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That's very rude and uneccessary, and such comments are not welcome on this forum.

So I presume you are happy to have health professionals repeating out of date information ad infinitum. The history of medicine shows it usually takes 50 yrs before new discoveries are applied by doctors. Given we now have the internet and new science research finding can be available over the world in a matter of hours, why is it acceptable for health professionals to endlessly repeat information that has little or no basis in fact?

I repeat it simply is not acceptable to me that UK doctors still haven't understood the need for Vitamin D and it's impact on the incidence of many chronic conditions and it effect on mortality reduction.

Similarly we see the same reluctance to acknowledge the health advantages of a low carbohydrate diet or the fact that although exercise is extremely good for heart and brain it is NOT an essential component for weight loss.

We have, as a population, to exert some pressure on our health professionals to get their act together to PREVENT the incidence of chronic conditions where possible.

Current Obesity levels are inevitably going to lead to a massive increase in Alzheimer's, heart disease, diabetes and cancers. But health authorities are stuck on a dogma that continually repeats the errors of the past. All over the world people are successfully keeping diabetes under control through the use of a low carbohydrate diets but our diabetes experts continue to give out the advice that carbohydrates are an essential part of every meal. It's almost as if they have forgotten that for 2 million years before the invention of farming human bodies evolved to function without refined carbohydrates.

To be fair we also evolved without access to salt, evidence for the first salt mines only goes back 6000years, so maybe we have had less time to evolve to cope with salt than we have to dairy and gluten although there are plenty who are allergic to lactose / gluten.