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Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

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Re: Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

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Eat less, move more, make sure you sleep.

That "eat less"needs to be elaborated. Eating less beef is not the same as eating less tomatoes. :-)

In the context of caloric intake, it basically is the same thing. People (population level) eat too much food. Which foods should they eat, exactly, is essentially premature optimization in this context.

Re: Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

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Seeing these decrease in numbers really emphasizes the strength of exercise as an intervention. It's lot just isometric exercise, but all types here that significantly lowered blood pressure. And it's not just blood pressure, it's basically all bad health outcomes, according to other meta analyses. People want to know what food to eat, what food not to eat, and what supplements to take, what drugs to take. But we sho…

"Exercise makes you healthier" is hardly an earth shattering revelation. Everyone knows the benefits of exercise, especially unhealthy people. That is still usually not enough of a motivator, however, hence the reliance on fad diets and drugs.

Given the obsession with changing what a person invests over the obsession with exercise, I'm not sure people really know how effective exercise is.

Re: Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

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I don't know if people think these posts are useful but they are starting to become tiring enough to be spam. If I wanted ChatGPT's response I'd ask it.

sorry, thought others might also be curious since LLMs are notorious for hallucinating but fared well here. unfortunately, cannot delete because of our comments. :(

Might be better to preface this was that explanation. Something like "interesting it didn't hallucinate" and summarize the response. When it's copy-pasted verbatim it looks like spam.

Re: Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

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To save time on reading here is the key finding on the decrease of blood pressure from various exercises. aerobic exercise training (−4.49/–2.53 mm Hg) dynamic resistance training (–4.55/–3.04 mm Hg) combined training (–6.04/–2.54 mm Hg) high-intensity interval training (–4.08/–2.50 mm Hg) isometric exercise training (–8.24/–4.00 mm Hg) Here’s a link on what isometric exercise is. https://www.healthline.com/health/fi…

Honestly I think aerobic training is more effective than isometric training at reducing blood pressure, I think most people (and studies) just don't do enough of it to see the effect. You really need to be doing a minimum of 90 minutes of zone 2 training 5 - 6 days per week, which isn't especially difficult but it's just more than most people are willing to do. There's no doubt that doing squats or whatever will redu…

That number is insane. I ran sub 3:30 marathons doing 2.5 hours of aerobic training a week, which is perfectly reasonable for a healthy adult.

Re: Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

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post #19

Seeing these decrease in numbers really emphasizes the strength of exercise as an intervention. It's lot just isometric exercise, but all types here that significantly lowered blood pressure. And it's not just blood pressure, it's basically all bad health outcomes, according to other meta analyses. People want to know what food to eat, what food not to eat, and what supplements to take, what drugs to take. But we sho…

"Exercise makes you healthier" is hardly an earth shattering revelation. Everyone knows the benefits of exercise, especially unhealthy people. That is still usually not enough of a motivator, however, hence the reliance on fad diets and drugs.

I don't think people realize that even a little amount exercise will make a difference tho.

Something as simple as a daily fast walk is going to do wonders for one's health when compared to a 100% sedentary life.

Re: Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That "eat less"needs to be elaborated. Eating less beef is not the same as eating less tomatoes. :-)

In the context of caloric intake, it basically is the same thing. People (population level) eat too much food . Which foods should they eat, exactly, is essentially premature optimization in this context.

In the context of caloric intake, it’s especially true due to caloric density. Cutting out the beef cuts significantly more calories than cutting out the tomatoes which are mostly water. There are about 77 calories per oz of steak and about 5 calories per oz of tomato. Which foods you choose to eat and their calorie density can have a huge impact on overall calorie consumption.

Re: Study suggests isometric exercises best for reducing blood pressure

#49

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Eat less, move more, make sure you sleep.

That "eat less"needs to be elaborated. Eating less beef is not the same as eating less tomatoes. :-)

What about eating fewer chocolate/coconut covered almonds?

Dark chocolate, of course. Healthier.

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