Slow Breathing: "A Genuine Breakthrough In Natural Blood Pressure Control"

"The answer to many people's high blood pressure could be simply to breathe easy."*

* The Times (the U.K.'s Nr. 1 newspaper), October 16, 2004

Slow breathing: significant drops in blood pressure...

Hard numbers can be difficult to come by because, as a rule, medical journals only allow access to their full details through subscription.

Nevertheless, publicly-available extracts report findings such as these from the American Journal of Hypertension:

RESULTS: BP reduction in the device group [slow breathing device] was significantly greater than a predetermined 'clinically meaningful threshold' of 10.0, 5.0 and 6.7 mm Hg for the systolic BP...

In fact, systolic blood pressure drops averaged 15.2 points in this particular study. You can access the report for yourself through our Clinical Results page.

This corresponds well with peer- and FDA-reviewed claims made through slow breathing research:

• Top results averaging 36 points systolic and 20 points diastolic (top 10% of results compiled from multiple studies)

• Average overall results of 14 points sytolic over 8 points diastolic

On the next page you'll find sound reasons why the BreathEasy System is often able to surpass even these results... along with documented testimony from users who regularly do so. Occasionally people report results like those above from our demo alone!

And let's not forget that blood pressure reduction is only one of the many benefits of slow breathing with music. You'll read more about these as well.

Significant and lasting results...

Big drops in blood pressure are great... but they're not so significant if they're only temporary. After all, you can easily reduce your systolic bp by 20 points or more by just relaxing - but it will creep back up again within hours.

This is also what happens with slow breathing the first few times. But, unlike the effects of passive relaxation, those of slow breathing have an amazing quality: they are cumulative, meaning they build up, lasting a little longer each time until they continue around the clock.

Big drops in blood pressure, cumulative and lasting effects and a high response rate: truly a breakthrough in natural blood pressure control.

Blood pressure and other health "breakthroughs" appear in the media nearly every day; what makes slow breathing different?

Slow breathing is unique because it has solid scientific credentials. In fact, the modern form of slow breathing was clinically-developed by medical doctors.

The slow breathing device they developed has even won FDA approval. For scientific and medical recognition the method had to fulfill three major requirements:

• Clinical proof using the same rigorous testing methods as used for drugs: randomized, double-blind trials.

• Repetition is a second essential requirement. Slow breathing has proved itself in at least 10 formal clinical trials and numerous other studies.

• Finally, testing methods and results must be published in peer-reviewed medical journals. Slow breathing trials have been published in respected journals around the world including the Journal of Human Hypertension, the American Journal of Hypertension, Harefuah (Israel), Hypertension (Italy), The Lancet (UK) and the Journal of Clinical Hypertension.

The evidence is strong enough for slow breathing to be endorsed by leading medical institutions including Harvard Medical School, The Mayo Clinic, Rush-Presbyterian Hospital and the American Heart Association.

Just one example from the Mayo Clinic:

Here's a brief review of what can slow breathing do...

Hypertension rarely acts alone...

High blood pressure, chronic stress and anxiety and bad sleep and moods feed off each other and affect every aspect of your health and well-being. If you can get a grip on these it can change your life.

Unlike drugs and even most natural remedies, your breathing (and music with BreathEasy) influences virtually every aspect of your health. The deep relaxation and other effects that you get through slow breathing with music affect you in ways that no amount of passive relaxation can do.

What you get with BreathEasy are secondary benefits, not side effects. These are just some of the life-enhancing benefits slow breathing with music can bring you:

• Lasting relief of chronic stress and anxiety

• Intensive relaxation

• Greater energy (due to improved blood flow and increased oxygen levels in the blood, among other things)

• Enhanced sleep and moods

• On-the-spot relief of anxiety/panic attacks

• Lower LDL cholesterol levels and improved cardiac health

• Way to cope with pregnancy-induced hypertension (babies love it too!)

• Greater respiratory fitness

• Higher rate of detoxification (did you know that the respiratory system accounts for up to 70% of the body’s removal of toxins?)

The idea that our breathing affects not only our blood pressure but many diverse aspects of our health is nothing new...