Novel 5-minute Exercise reduces blood pressure, heart attack risk
It is beyond imagination that working out or following an exercise schedule just 5 minutes a day, without lifting a single weight or jogging a single step, can reduce your blood pressure and heart attack risk.
Researchers have launched a clinical trial to learn more about the ultra-time-efficient exercise known as Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (MIST) that can achieve these results.
Developed in the 1980s as a means to wean critically ill people off ventilators, MIST involves breathing in vigorously through a hand-held device- an inspiratory muscle trainer- which provides resistance. Imagine sucking hard through a straw which sucks back.
" It's like strength training, except it's for the muscles you use to inhale," explains a researcher.
"It's only 30 breaths. It takes people about 5 minutes and so fat it looks like it is very beneficial to lower blood pressure and possibly boost cognitive and physical performance".
During early use in patients with lung diseases, patients performed a 30 minute, low resistance regimen daily to boost their lung capacity.
But in 2016, researchers published results from a trial to see if just 30 inhalations per day with greater resistance might help sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea, who tend to have weak breathing muscles, rest better.
In addition to more useful sleep and developing a stronger diaphragm and other inspiratory muscles, subjects showed an unexpected side-effect after 6 weeks. Their systolic blood pressure plummeted by 12 millimeters of mercury. That's about twice as much of a decrease as aerobic exercise can yield and more than many medications deliver.
Prof. notes that systolic blood pressure, which signifies, the pressure in your vessels when your heart beats, naturally creeps up as arteries stiffen with age, leading to damage of blood-starved tissues and a higher risk of heart attack, cognitive decline and kidney damage.
While 30 minutes per day of aerobic exercise has clearly been shown to lower blood pressure, only about 5 % of adults meet that minimum, government estimates show. Meanwhile, 65% of mid-life adults has high systolic blood pressure.
Researchers have launched a clinical trial to learn more about the ultra-time-efficient exercise known as Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (MIST) that can achieve these results.
Developed in the 1980s as a means to wean critically ill people off ventilators, MIST involves breathing in vigorously through a hand-held device- an inspiratory muscle trainer- which provides resistance. Imagine sucking hard through a straw which sucks back.
" It's like strength training, except it's for the muscles you use to inhale," explains a researcher.
"It's only 30 breaths. It takes people about 5 minutes and so fat it looks like it is very beneficial to lower blood pressure and possibly boost cognitive and physical performance".
During early use in patients with lung diseases, patients performed a 30 minute, low resistance regimen daily to boost their lung capacity.
But in 2016, researchers published results from a trial to see if just 30 inhalations per day with greater resistance might help sufferers of obstructive sleep apnea, who tend to have weak breathing muscles, rest better.
In addition to more useful sleep and developing a stronger diaphragm and other inspiratory muscles, subjects showed an unexpected side-effect after 6 weeks. Their systolic blood pressure plummeted by 12 millimeters of mercury. That's about twice as much of a decrease as aerobic exercise can yield and more than many medications deliver.
Prof. notes that systolic blood pressure, which signifies, the pressure in your vessels when your heart beats, naturally creeps up as arteries stiffen with age, leading to damage of blood-starved tissues and a higher risk of heart attack, cognitive decline and kidney damage.
While 30 minutes per day of aerobic exercise has clearly been shown to lower blood pressure, only about 5 % of adults meet that minimum, government estimates show. Meanwhile, 65% of mid-life adults has high systolic blood pressure.
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Labels: cognitive & physical performance, exercise schedule, inhale, Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (MIST), lung capacity, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), reduces BP & heart attack risk, ventilators
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