# Daily 'Breath Training' can work as well as Meds to reduce high blood pressure

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**Created:** [21 September 2022 13:18 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/daily-breath-training-can-work-as-well-as-meds-to-reduce-high-blood-pressure/74591 "2022-09-21T13:18:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [21 September 2022 13:18 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/daily-breath-training-can-work-as-well-as-meds-to-reduce-high-blood-pressure/74591/1 "2022-09-21T13:18:12Z")

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> It’s well known that weightlifting can strengthen our biceps and quads. Now, there’s accumulating evidence that strengthening the muscles we use to breathe is beneficial too. New research shows that a daily dose of muscle training for the diaphragm and other breathing muscles helps promote heart health and reduces high blood pressure.
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> “The muscles we use to breathe atrophy, just like the rest of our muscles tend to do as we get older,” explains researcher[Daniel Craighead](https://www.colorado.edu/iphy/people/research-professors/daniel-h-craighead), an integrative physiologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. To test what happens when these muscles are given a good workout, he and his colleagues recruited healthy volunteers ages 18 to 82 to try a daily five-minute technique using a resistance-breathing training device called [PowerBreathe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5U7mDhFi4). The hand-held machine — one of several on the market — looks like an inhaler. When people breathe into it, the device provides resistance, making it harder to inhale.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nd5U7mDhFi4/hqdefault.jpg "POWERbreathe - How it works.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5U7mDhFi4)

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[https://text.npr.org/1123500781](https://text.npr.org/1123500781)

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