LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE WITH DEEP BREATHING
LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE WITH DEEP BREATHING 'Strength training for breathing muscles' holds promise for a host of health benefits. Working out just five minutes daily via a practice described as "strength training for your breathing muscles" lowers blood pressure and improves some measures of vascular health as well as, or even more than, aerobic exercise or medication, new CU Boulder research shows. The study, published recently in the Journal of the American Heart Association, provides the strongest evidence yet that the ultra-time-efficient maneuver known as High-Resistance Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST) could play a key role in helping aging adults fend off cardiovascular disease -- the nation's leading killer. In the United States alone, 65% of adults over age 50 have above-normal blood pressure -- putting them at greater risk of heart attack or stroke. Yet fewer than 40% meet recommended aerobic exercise guidelines. "There are a lot of lifes...