Research explains BP reduction during TM
It has been known for thirty years that the Transcendental Meditation technique has a consistent and reproducible effect on reducing high blood pressure. Recent studies have even shown its value in those groups which doctors find the hardest to treat with standard methods such as salt restriction and strong antihypertensive medication, including elderly inner city indigent populations. Now the mechanism behind this effect has been elucidated by a group of scientists headed by Dr. Vernon Katz of Emory University Medical School according to a study in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
TM appears to reduce the resistance to the flow of blood from the heart by dilating the blood vessels in the vascular bed of the tissues. Interestingly this is the same mechanism of action of many of the newer and more popular antihypertensive medications. It seems that a TM practitioner with high blood pressure is able to accomplish in a natural way what is otherwise only done through drugs.
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