"I think it's promising," Joyner says about the prospects of integrating strength training for the respiratory muscles into preventive care. The training helps prevent high blood pressure too The reductions are higher when people combine multiple medications, but a 10 mmHg reduction correlates with a 35% drop in the risk of stroke and a 25% drop in the risk of heart disease.
Research has shown many common blood pressure medications lead to about a 9 mmHg reduction. "That's the type of reduction you see with a blood pressure drug," Joyner says. The impact of a sustained 9 mmHg reduction in systolic blood pressure (the first number in the ratio) is significant, says Michael Joyner, a physician at the Mayo Clinic who studies how the nervous system regulates blood pressure. Shots - Health News How the 'lost art' of breathing can impact sleep and resilience When people breathe into it, the device provides resistance, making it harder to inhale. The hand-held machine - one of several on the market - looks like an inhaler. To test what happens when these muscles are given a good workout, he and his colleagues recruited healthy volunteers ages 18 to 82 to try a daily five-minute technique using a resistance-breathing training device called PowerBreathe. "The muscles we use to breathe atrophy, just like the rest of our muscles tend to do as we get older," explains researcher Daniel Craighead, an integrative physiologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. New research shows that a daily dose of muscle training for the diaphragm and other breathing muscles helps promote heart health and reduces high blood pressure. Now, there's accumulating evidence that strengthening the muscles we use to breathe is beneficial too. It's well known that weightlifting can strengthen our biceps and quads. Recent research finds that just five to 10 minutes daily of exercises that strengthen the diaphragm and certain other muscles does the trick. Simply improving our breathing can significantly lower high blood pressure at any age.
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