Where can I buy one?
Amazon. PowerBreathe. Around $70.
5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
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#12Doctors hate him
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#13Any idea on how to do this without the device?
Probably someone with Pranayama can comment - to me this seems a modification of anuloma-viloma (alternate nostril breathing).
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#14The article mentions that the device is used during the inhale. Doesn't clarify if it's also used during the exhale or not. (I just rolled-up my fist and breathed through it. And it provided lots of resistance. So it looks like I might be able to make this work with just my fist.) If anyone knows, please hit reply and let me know.
I'm not sure I understand the question. The point is to breathe in and out as strongly/deeply and slowly as possible. You don't "do" anything aside from breathing and increasing the difficulty mode as your strength improves (over e.g. weeks). If you breathe out quickly you're losing a large amount of the benefit of the exercise. PS - I own a POWERBREATHE Sport, no relation to the company or this study.
The article mentioned what to do during the "inhale" but didn't mention "exhale", so I wasn't sure if one still does the restricted breathing during exhale or not.
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#15The article mentions that the device is used during the inhale. Doesn't clarify if it's also used during the exhale or not. (I just rolled-up my fist and breathed through it. And it provided lots of resistance. So it looks like I might be able to make this work with just my fist.) If anyone knows, please hit reply and let me know.
I'm not sure I understand the question. The point is to breathe in and out as strongly/deeply and slowly as possible. You don't "do" anything aside from breathing and increasing the difficulty mode as your strength improves (over e.g. weeks). If you breathe out quickly you're losing a large amount of the benefit of the exercise. PS - I own a POWERBREATHE Sport, no relation to the company or this study.
Powerbreathe seems like an unnecessary uni-tasking gadget conforming to western sensibilities.
Zen and the Brain by James Austin details his study of Zen monks brains which revealed this breathing-stress connection scientifically decades ago.
If I remember correctly, the exhale is especially important to triggering certain relaxation states; brains of monks who were especially focused on long exhales were appreciably different from other monks.
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#16I wonder if you can stack the breathing exercises (9pt reduction) with grip strength exercises (10% reduction) for even more benefit.
Edit: People are disagreeing with this? Why?
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#17Where can I buy one?
Amazon. PowerBreathe. Around $70.
Looks like the ones used in the study are an order of magnitude more expensive than the ones on amazon.
Amazon (Plus model), $70: https://www.amazon.com/POWERbreathe-Fitness-Breathing-Traine...
From manufacturer (K3 model), $500: https://www.powerbreathe.com/product/k3/
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#18Any idea on how to do this without the device? Probably someone with Pranayama can comment - to me this seems a modification of anuloma-viloma (alternate nostril breathing).
You could try this instead. It has similar benefits.
https://highbloodpressurebegone.com/how-to-do-hand-grip-exer...
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#19I wonder if they got the idea from watching Wim Hoff videos on YouTube.
Interestingly enough, I entered a friend’s clinical research study last year where they’re looking to replace the standard cardiac stress test by proving their hypothesis.
Essentially, they believe that by purposefully engaging in a combination of deep/long/shallow/etc. ("Wim Hoff style breathing techniques" - my friend’s words not mine), and get a patient to hyperventilate basically (in a controlled environment and developed protocol/framework), they could produce similar results and draw similar clinical conclusions as one would after a traditional stress test. They had me do two hours of various breathing techniques while simultaneously imaging my heart and then my brain using fMRI imaging.
* NAD but I managed to get the DICOM files and found some open source software (Horos) and loaded up the slices and it was super cool seeing what was going on during the different breathing *
I recently caught up with the individual and was told the study is in its final stages and so far looks very promising (which I’m sure all researchers say right but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt).
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#20I wonder if you can stack the breathing exercises (9pt reduction) with grip strength exercises (10% reduction) for even more benefit. Edit: People are disagreeing with this? Why?
What grip exercises?