You're talking about a Resp@rator. This is an Israeli product and I've owned one for a couple years. It works by assisting you to slow your breathing. You put on a set of ear speakers, turn on the machine and it measures your rate of inspiration and expiration and displays that so you can record a starting place. It then proceeds, over a 15 minute time span, to slow your breathing by pacing you with a pleasant sounding tone. One to inhale, a different one to exhale. Over the 15 minutes, these tones get farther apart and by the end, you're only breathing a few times a minute. This opposed to 12 or 15 times at the beginning.
Bottom line, it works well to lower BP, rather dramatically, which I always checked before and after. I quit using it because without my Rx each day, the treatment had no lasting ability. I lost weight, pay more attention to my diet and, with the meds, I'm in the area of 130/70, give or take.
Incidentally, I have a church friend who ran the respiratory lab at a huge hospital nearby. I asked her about this and she confirmed there is validity here. But, she also confirmed it doesn't last, even if done daily, as I did. |
