A Breakthrough In Natural
Blood Pressure Control

April 15, 2001: The Journal of Human Hypertension announces a remarkable blood pressure breakthrough by a pioneering team of hypertension specialists and medical researchers:

Their report is but the first of many to appear in medical journals, soon to be followed by the worldwide news media. You may have seen the reports yourself in newspapers, magazines or on TV news. At least 10 rigorous clinical trials document results like these:

• Dramatic blood pressure reductions: top ten percentile of results averaging 36 points systolic and 20 points diastolic...



• Average overall reductions of a significant 14 points systolic over 8 points diastolic...

• Extremely high response rate: 82% of even resistant hypertensives responded to this method in a clinical trial published in the American Journal of Hypertension in June 2003...

• Cumulative effects that continue building in both amount and duration over time. The results are significant, lasting and accumulating drops in blood pressure...

• The means to avoid, reduce or even eliminate the need for potentially dangerous blood pressure medications and their side effects...

• Life-enhancing related benefits like stress and anxiety relief, better sleep, increased energy and much more. In fact, this technique is often the beginning of a new and healthier lifestyle.

Here's a short extract from one of the clinical trials:

"RESULTS: BP reduction in the device group [slow breathing device] was significantly greater than a predetermined 'clinically meaningful threshold' of 10.0, 5.0 and 6.7 mm Hg for the systolic BP..."

American Journal of Hypertension
16 June 2003

In fact, they obtained systolic blood pressure reductions averaging 15.2 points in this particular study. You can access these report for yourself through my Clinical Trials page.

Are these the sort of results and benefits that would make a real difference in YOUR life?

They've certainly made a big difference my life and in the lives of many others. In fact, the slow breathing device the doctors developed from their research has since helped tens of thousands of people to lower their blood pressure naturally and beat hypertension.

But the device itself is merely a learning tool... the real power to lower blood pressure comes from within you.

The ability of breathing to lower blood pressure and to obtain many other health benefits has been known since ancient times...

The circulatory and respiratory systems (and the nervous system too) are closely connected and work in parallel: where one goes the other follows.

When your heart rate and blood pressure rise, your breathing rate goes up in unison...

So doesn't it follow that your heart rate and blood pressure go down when your breathing slows?

Breathing affects every part of our system. And it's not just the rate of breathing that's important; how long and how deeply we inhale and exhale influence blood gas levels, which in turn affect blood chemistry with direct and dramatic significance to our blood pressure.

"People thought reactivity to stress is why blood pressure went up... But it may be they were just holding their breath.

When you're not breathing deeply, your body doesn't properly rid itself of carbon dioxide. Excess carbon dioxide makes your system acidic so your body compensates by upping sodium levels, which in turn can raise blood pressure.

The heart rate speeds up, arteries constrict, blood pressure, blood sugar and respiration increase and gastrointestinal activity decreases."

Margaret A. Chesney, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine

It all adds up to the fact that breathing is one of your body's most powerful regulators of blood pressure.

Health and medical "breakthroughs" are announced nearly every day... what makes slow breathing different?

The power of breathing to affect the heart and blood pressure has been known for a long time but the slow breathing doctors did something new... they set about discovering the most effective way of harnessing and optimizing this power.

Over the following years, they along with other medical experts carried out the most rigorous testing of any natural blood pressure treatment ever... testing that has been published for debate in numerous peer-reviewed medical journals.

In fact, their methods even won FDA approval. For this they had to meet these these standards of scientific credibility:

• Clinical proof using the same rigorous testing methods as used for drugs:  randomized, double-blind trials...

• Repetition: slow breathing has proved itself in at least 10 formal clinical trials and countless other studies of all types...

• Finally, testing methods and results had to be published in medical journals for review by other medical professionals. Slow breathing research has been published in respected journals around the world including:

  - Journal of Human Hypertension
  - American Journal of Hypertension
  - Journal of Clinical Hypertension
  - Harefuah (Israel)
  - Hypertension (Italy)
  - The Lancet (U.K.)
  - Circulation (journal of the American Heart Association)
  - and many others

With these credentials, it’s no surprise that leading health organizations either endorse and/or teach slow breathing. These include Harvard Medical School, The Mayo Clinic, Rush-Presbyterian Hospital, the American Heart Association and many more.

"The deep breathing exercises can help lower both systolic and diastolic blood pressure... Slow, deep breathing reduces activity in the part of the nervous system that controls blood pressure, which allows blood pressure to return to normal."

Sheldon G. Sheps, M.D.
Mayo Clinic Emeritus Hypertension Specialist

Friday, May 16 2008 - REUTERS and other news agencies announce: "Listening to music found to lower blood pressure"

Research by the Center for Preventive Cardiology in Maryland and published at the annual convention of the American Society of Hypertension reports that "listening to half an hour of music each day may significantly lower your blood pressure".

What's so surprising about that? - you may ask. Music therapy has been used for health purposes for decades.

That's true, but it had very little solid, scientific backing.

But now for the first time in the Maryland study they were able to accurately measure changes in the body that occur while listening to music.

They found that listening to enjoyable, relaxing music was able to expand blood vessels by an average of 26%.

The result is a dramatic increase in blood flow that not only lowers blood pressure but also reduces build up of cholesterol and other harmful substances. In fact, TIMESONLINE reported the same news with the headline: "Music Can Lower Cholesterol Levels".

Detecting and measuring blood vessel expansion was not the only first for the Maryland study. The findings also made it possible to to explain...

How and why music can lower blood pressure...

They found that listening to music actually stimulates production of nitric oxide, a gas in the body responsible for numerous health benefits... even life itself. One of the many important roles of nitric oxide is to regulate blood pressure by triggering the contricting and expansion of blood vessels.

As a matter of fact, the way we breathe also helps to determine nitric oxide levels. In this way, breathing and music make ideal partners. You can read much more about the wonders of nitric oxide in the next page, "How it Works".

The Italian Connection...

Medical experts in Italy have for a long time experimented with music as an antidote to hypertension. They've shown that relaxing to music decreases theta activity and increases alpha, a state associated with deep but alert relaxation and stress reduction.

"Listening to music is soothing and has often been associated with controlling patient-reported pain or anxiety and acutely reducing blood pressure. We are excited about the positive implications for both patients and physicians, who can now confidently explore music listening as a safe, effective, non-pharmacological treatment option..."

Pietro A. Modesti, M.D. PhD
University of Florence, Italy

Music and its partner on the road to lower blood pressure...

These effects of music are well known but the Italians have taken their work to a new level: One of the under-reported aspects of these music trials (both in Maryland as well as in Italy) is that participants listened to music "while practicing slow, controlled breathing exercises".

Listening to music has powerful effects... but they tend to be only temporary. Just hours later your stress levels and blood pressure could be pegging out again.

Slow breathing has dramatic and lasting benefits...but it can be tedious, which cancels out the benefits. In fact, slow breathing requires relaxation to be effective. The more relaxed you are, the greater the benefits.

What's more, it's very difficult to maintain a steady, controlled style of breathing without some form of guidance, especially at the start (and all the while maintaining a state of deep relaxation?).

But put them together and you not only solve all these issues - and get the benefits of both - but you create something entirely unique and greater than just the sum of two parts...

The BreatheEasy System of Slow breathing with Music is the complete solution...

BreatheEasy uses the very same clinically-proven breathing techniques in a unique guided breathing track woven into some of the the world's most beautiful and relaxing music. Real music, for a world of difference as you will discover below.

• Listening to music is relaxing, which we know is important for maximizing the benefits from slow breathing...

• It's also enjoyable, which makes you come back for more and thus indirectly improves results...

• And we can also take comfort in knowing that enjoying music is not just in the mind. It exerts its own very real powers on our blood pressure as well as our overall health...

But there's another way that music plays a crucial role in the slow breathing with music "system". It works through a natural process that experts describe this way:

"External rhythms modulate internal rhythms"

What this means is that our body's internal rhythms such as heart rate, blood pressure, respiration and even brain waves are influenced or modulated by external rhythms. At one extreme this could be the orbits of the moon and planets and at the other extreme the rhythm of a boat's oars dipping into and out of the water. In other words...

Our breathing and heartbeat naturally try to synchronize with the music we listen to...

This is why fast, vibrant music makes us want to get up and dance and slow music relaxes us. That's not rocket science but in the BreatheEasy System I use this natural tendency for body/music synergy by carefully selecting and editing the music tracks to reinforce the desired breathing rate and pattern.

So music plays a dual role in the system: While relaxing you it also acts to influence your breathing and thus reinforce the guided breathing track.

As you progress through the program you rely less on the breathing track and more upon the beat and rhythm of the music as well as the internal rhythms that begin to develop within you. In this way you will eventually be able to practice slow breathing with your own music or any other way that you enjoy relaxing.

This makes BreatheEasy probably the only blood pressure remedy/program that develops complete independence from external resources. This builds confidence. You surely can't say that about drugs, supplements or special diets!

Real People, Real Results...

In the box below you can read comments and feedback from BreatheEasy users. Some correspondence stretches over a year or more and you can see that these are not merely temporary effects or the result of some placebo effect.

As with all user comments on this website, full documentation is on file in accordance with FTC regulation.

NOTE: No treatment is 100% effective. Beware of anyone claiming otherwise. These examples are published to show what is possible with the BreatheEasy System and what real people do achieve. You may not get the same results.