How Breathing Hacks the Vagus Nerve to Lower Blood Pressure and Inflammation

[heart beating] This was a study that I wanted to show you all.

Long-term effect device-guided slow breathing on blood pressure regulation and chronic inflammation patients with essential hypertension using a v- a wearable device.

So basically, what they did in this study is that these patients had breathing exercises that was guided by a cell phone app.

So the cell phone app tells them, "Okay, breathe.

Now don't breathe.

Now expire.

Now take a deep breath in." So it made...

It guided them through a breathing pattern, okay? Now, why was I interested in this? 'Cause I told you that all he's doing when he's doing this is he's hacking the vagus nerve.

That's all he did, right? Right.

And look at the results.

There was a significant decrease in blood pressure after one month of exercise.

How did the blood pressure come down? Because bringing down the blood pressure is the job of the parasympathetic nervous system, the vagus nerve.

And a significantly continuous decrease in TNF-alpha was also...

What does that mean? A significantly continuous decrease.

It kept going down.

TNF.

What is TNF? Tumor necrosis factor-alpha.

So that's an inflammatory marker.

So when I'm doing your advanced lipid panels, starting now, I've been doing them.

It's the Cleveland Heart Lab stuff that I'm looking at.

I'm looking at interleukin six.

I'm looking at tumor necrosis factor.

Unfortunately, some of the insurances don't want to pay for it.

But this tells me that if your tumor necrosis factor level is high, you have a lot of inflammation in your body.

And didn't this study just show me that I can decrease it just by breathing? How cheap is that? So who's gonna pay for this study in the future? Nobody.