Yoga and Meditation 3 Times a Week Improves Heart Disease Risk
Research from Yale University School of Medicine. Findings show that people who practice yoga and meditation at least three times a week may reduce their blood pressure, pulse and -- most importantly -- their risk of heart disease.
Moreover, yoga improves heart health in both healthy individuals and those with diagnosed heart disease, who conducted the study while training at Yale. have some volunteers taking a six-week yoga-meditation program improved blood vessel function by 17%. Blood vessel function, also called endothelial function, is the way vessels contract and expand to aid blood flow and is a measure of healthy vessel function. However, study participants who had heart disease had close to a 70% improvement in endothelial function.
Endothelial function is an important indicator of atherosclerosis because as the disease and plaque build-up progresses, the blood vessels become less supple and less able to constrict and expand.
"The endothelial function improved in the total cohort of patients and was most dramatic in patients already diagnosed with heart disease," he explains.
And, it doesn't take years of lotus positions and meditation to see improvement -- the study volunteers had measurable improvement in just six weeks, he says. The yoga and meditation program included 40 minutes of postural yoga, 20 minutes of deep relaxation, 15 minutes of yoga breathing, and 15 minutes of meditation.
This article is from the WebMD Health News
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