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Forum - RESPeRATE User Reviews
Topic - Advice needed from experienced users
I bought a RespeRate a couple of years ago, and used it for a time, as well as improving my diet and exercise, and my blood pressure went down to good levels--though it wasn't all that elevated.
Recently my blood pressure jumped way up, and I'm now on meds....
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Normal and slow breathing
Topic - Breathing
Q: What's the benefit with breathing slower? I have high blood pressure. Yet, I breathe less than 8 times per minute naturally.
A: In the clinical practice setting, a normal resting breathing rate for adults is usually considered to range from 12 to 20 breaths a minute. Each person also has some variability in their breathing rate over the day and from day to day. Studies to determine normal adult breathing have primarily looked at rate, how many times the chest rises and falls during a minute.
Clinical studies with the RESPeRATE have shown that breathing...
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54! non-drug ways to lower blood pressure
Topic - 54! non-drug ways to lower blood pressure
I currently have a list of 54 different suggestions (non-drug) to lower blood pressure. As part of this blog, I want to work my way through the list and give you my impressions and thoughts on this list. My list was composed roughly in the order that I found them. Many of these points have the potential, on average, to lower blood pressure by 2 to 5 points. My idea here is that although each one might have a small effect, combinations of 7 or more of them may allow for substantial reductions in blood...
