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High blood pressure is usually blamed on unhealthy lifestyle choices, such as bad diet and lack of exercise.<\/p>\nHigh blood pressure is usually blamed on unhealthy lifestyle choices, such as bad diet and lack of exercise.<\/p>\n
But a new study, from Dr. Nobuo Sasaki and colleagues at Hiroshima University, reveals a healthy habit that people with high blood pressure tend to have.<\/p>\n
The researchers examined 2,400 adults to find out whether high blood pressure influenced bedtime and sleep quality.<\/p>\n
Peculiarly, they found that men, but not women, with high blood pressure tend to fall asleep earlier than those with normal blood pressure.<\/p>\n
In their study, hypertensive men went to bed, on average, 18 minutes earlier than their healthy peers: 11:10 PM versus 11:28 PM.<\/p>\n
In addition, they discovered that hypertensive men slept worse than those with normal blood pressure, to the extent that they scored with insomniacs as poor sleepers.<\/p>\n
So, does going to sleep early cause high blood pressure?<\/p>\n
Not at all.<\/p>\n
The study merely suggests that the tendency to fall asleep early can indicate that you already have high blood pressure. <\/p>\n
If this is the case, you may want to get yourself tested.<\/p>\n
Most likely, this happens because those with high blood pressure never get the \u201clow-blood-pressure rest\u201d in the middle of the night that healthy people get. Therefore, their bodies are under stress 24\/7.<\/p>\n
Our blood pressure exercises are designed to break this stress-circle high blood pressure cause. <\/p>\n
They give your body and mind something I call a \u201cFocused Break\u201d, which reboots your system to a healthy blood pressure level in as little as nine minutes.<\/p>\n