{"id":21426,"date":"2020-01-02T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=21426"},"modified":"2019-12-31T05:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T10:57:36","slug":"these-heart-health-exercises-are-twice-as-effective-as-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2020\/01\/02\/these-heart-health-exercises-are-twice-as-effective-as-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"These Heart-Health Exercises are Twice as Effective as Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheseHeart attacks and strokes are caused by blocked blood flow in the heart and up to the brain.<\/p>\n

To prevent this and improve cardiovascular health, doctors recommend a change in diet, exercise and then of course drugs (lots of drugs).<\/p>\n

But there is a different, more natural method of treating heart disease. One so easy and effortless, it\u2019s almost like doing nothing.<\/p>\n

And now, a new study from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, published in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology<\/em> has proven this easy method TWICE as effective as drugs.<\/p>\n

Relaxation has been found to be an effective way of improving blood flow, so researchers decided to test whether transcendental meditation could be a useful addition to coronary heart disease treatment.<\/p>\n

They recruited 56 people with coronary heart disease, including those who had recently had a heart attack, had coronary artery bypass surgery, or had suffered from chest pain.<\/p>\n

They divided them into four groups: <\/p>\n

–\tThe first received treatment with exercise and healthy eating,
\n–\tthe second received transcendental meditation,
\n–\tthe third received meditation with exercise and diet,
\n–\tand the fourth received conventional drug treatment. <\/p>\n

The blood flow to and from the hearts of the people in the transcendental meditation\/cardiac rehabilitation group improved by 20.7 percent and the transcendental meditation group improved by 12.8 percent. <\/p>\n

Exercise and diet treatment increased it by 5.8 percent, and with drugs 10.3 percent.<\/p>\n

Why is this relaxation technique so effective? <\/p>\n

Psychosocial stress worsens coronary disease. But decreased stress leads to decreased hormones, and therefore a drop in blood vessel inflammation. Hence, why transcendental meditation helps with the fight against cholesterol. <\/p>\n

For years, we\u2019ve been using specific mindfulness and relaxation exercises \u2013 somewhat similar to TM \u2013 to treat blood pressure. You can learn these simple blood pressure exercises here\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But transcendental meditation alone is not enough to lower your cholesterol. Follow this step-by-step strategy to bring your cholesterol down to a healthy level without drugs in 28 days or less\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heart attacks and strokes are caused by blocked blood flow in the heart and up to the brain. To prevent this and improve cardiovascular health, doctors recommend a change in diet, exercise and then of course drugs (lots of drugs). But there is a different, more natural method of treating heart disease. One so easy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,17,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol","category-heart-health","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Meditation-295713490.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21485,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426\/revisions\/21485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}