Heal High Blood Pressure – Just with a Sound

It seems like the kind of claim a snake-oil salesman would make: “This sound can lower your blood pressure!” But according to an article in the International Journal of Cardiology, it’s perfectly true.

Not only that, it’s effective even for people who couldn’t quite bring themselves to ditch all their old bad diet and lifestyle habits or whose medications didn’t help their hypertension.

Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University studied 212 people with type 2 diabetes and hypertension who weren’t responding to treatment. They were taking the drugs, but they hadn’t cleaned up their diets and started exercising (which is very common).

The team gave one group 20 minutes of 800 kHz (low frequency) ultrasound to the forearm, another got 20 minutes of 500 kHz (very low frequency) ultrasound to the forearm, and two received fake treatments.

Ultrasound is what bats and dolphins use to navigate, and we humans use it to take radar-style pictures of the insides of living bodies without causing harm like x-rays do. The machine sends out high-frequency sound waves that can’t be heard; they bounce back and are interpreted by the hardware to show moving images of what’s going on.

Results:

The 500 and 800khz groups both experienced lower blood pressure and pulse rates, but the placebo group did not. And for some reason, the 500khz ultrasound was the most effective.

Forearm nerves— like all nerves—originate in the spinal column, and researchers think that the high-frequency sound works by suppressing the sympathetic nerve activity that triggers the fight or flight response.

This is what the body uses to prepare us to deal with danger—increasing blood pressure so that there’s enough oxygen getting to the muscles to run away or fight and increasing blood sugar so there’s enough energy for that imminent exertion. There’s more it does besides, as it gets us ready to run away or tangle with our attacker.

Stress is ever-present in the modern world, even though we don’t have to face hungry wild animals anymore. For example, stress at work and at home can affect our emotions in a negative way and sitting around too much stresses the body too. The constant diet of bad news we see around us leaves us feeling powerless and is another cause of stress. These are almost worse than being stalked by sabertooth tiger, because they are constant sources of stress, and the fight or flight response wasn’t meant to be activate all of the time.

Luckily, even if you don’t have access to ultrasound equipment, you can still lower your blood pressure with these three super effective exercises. Take a look at them here…