Meet a woman who had her blood pressure checked at the NBC for fitness and health Expo event that suggested she needed to try a different approach to getting her blood pressure under control.
56-year-old Rosemary Palmer Powell had been taking medication for her high blood pressure for years but after getting a check in last year’s NBC for health and fitness Expo she started down the whole new treatment path, “I’ve been doing Transcendental Meditation for six months and has really changed my life”
Rosemary was selected to be part of a Howard University hospital study on the effect of Transcendental Meditation on high blood pressure and has been meditating for 20 minutes twice a day. Experts believe it helps to relax the brain and to relieve stress, which can lower blood pressure meditation.
Howard University Hospital cardiologist Dr. Otelio Randall was leading the study. His team is comparing blood pressure rates among two groups of patients: those who were meditating and those who aren’t.
Patients in the study comment that meditation is helping. 49-year-old Kelly Jones, ” it was always difficult for me to sit down for 20 minutes but once I got to learn to meditate the proper way, it got easier and easier, and then I wanted to do it”.
Kelly says that the study has already had a very positive effect and her blood pressure is in the low range
Rosemary Palmer has been meditating for the past six months now. She’s still on medication, but the dosage is lower now. She comments that “eventually you become calmer and you can handle stressful situations more.”
The American Heart Association reports that Americans have high blood pressure more than ever before, which increases the risk of serious medical conditions.
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