Meditation is one of the best medicine for all to keep us fit and healthy. It makes us soo fresh and brisk throughout the day. Meditation reduce our high blood pressure and maintains a same blood pressure level. By doing yoga and meditation we can avoid many diseases. It also prevent us from heart diseses.
"Yoga and Meditation is the God's gift"
If we do meditation we can get good sleep at night and we can feel fresh in the early morning. Many of the should avoid jung foods, because it causes many diseases and health issues to us. From now we should avoid giving jung foods to the children. It is soo harmful to our health. As said earlier, Yoga and meditation is god's gift to us we want to make use of it properly. Do meditate and do yoga and be fit and healthy for long days.
There are many medications that have proven to be effective in lowering your blood pressure. But lifestyle changes such as exercise, diet, refraining from smoking, and hydration have also been proven to enhance the effectiveness of the drugs.
“Hypertension is known as the silent killer because you may experience no symptoms. It is a major risk factor for heart disease, kidney failure, and stroke and can potentiate other medical issues such as diabetes and elevated cholesterol.”
Researchers randomly divided participants into two groups. Both groups completed an aerobic exercise program. Then, one group added fifteen minutes of yoga five days a week. The other group did fifteen minutes worth of stretching five days a week. This intervention lasted three months.
“Many studies have looked into the beneficial physical effects of Transcendental Meditation, Tai Chi, and other forms of mind-body exercises. This study, which focused on yoga, is [a] good reinforcement that our mind plays a significant role in our physical health and that these techniques should be incorporated into our recommendations for lifestyle intervention.”
The study authors noted that there are a few possible reasons why they saw more of an improvement among the participants that did yoga. It could decrease the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, decrease cortisol levels, and promote vasodilation.
Dr. Pianko weighed in with his thoughts and said there could be several explanations, “including the effect yoga has on our autonomic system.”
“Our adrenal glands produce our fight-or-flight hormones which increase both our heart rate and blood pressure. Specific types of yoga can decrease our cortisol level, which is a stress hormone, thereby reducing our blood pressure. Exercise with the addition of yoga can modulate these hormones to a level of tranquility,”
“As with results seen with other mind-body blood pressure lowering activities, there seems to be a true correlation with our mental health influencing our stress hormone levels. Mechanisms remain unclear and may be related to sleep pattern changes; however, the outcome benefit is seen.”
The study did have some limitations. First, it only included a limited sample size and was done over a short time frame. This indicates the need for more extensive studies with more long-term follow-ups.
The study authors acknowledge that they may have misclassified some participants who were more newly diagnosed with high blood pressure. They also did not measure participants’ exercise capacity.
“Yoga is probably a better alternative after exercise training than stretching because there’s an add-on effect of yoga compared to stretching. The add-on effect is blood pressure, heart rate, and inflammation [improvement]…This study will probably stimulate others to do bigger studies with different populations, and if the science adds up in the same way then practice could be changed.”
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