Your Good Health Matters

Your stress response can significantly affect heart and blood pressure. One of the effects of the Fight or Flight response is to tighten the peripheral arteries on the surface of the body. This is to prepare your body for possible injury and give you a better chance of survival if you are physically hurt. But, as mentioned earlier a chronic stress response can keep your arteries restricted and narrow even at rest and this increases your blood pressure and makes your heart work harder than necessary. One of the biofeedback devices we have available for home use is the Resperate. FDA cleared for treating high blood pressure and stress it is essentially a breathing trainer that trains your relaxation response by using the breath. This therapeutic relaxation works to dilate the arteries back to their normal size thus reducing blood pressure and your stress response.