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Fortunately, you can reduce your blood pressure numbers with a few simple lifestyle changes. Also a recent study by the Journal of the American Heart Association found that you can help improve your blood pressure with five minutes of breathing exercises six days a week. Many patients seek to reduce blood pressure through breathing as an alternative to medication.

Breath control therapy relaxes the involuntary nervous system and helps regulate the heart and other bodily functions. This guide includes several breathing techniques to help lower blood pressure and improve your health.

https://www.modernheartandvascular.com/breathing-techniques-that-lower-blood-pressure/

Garlic reduces blood pressure, improves cardiovascular health, activating nitric oxide, improving the intestinal microbiome. The status of vitamin B12, B2 and B6 activate methylation pathways in combination with the sulfur in garlic, playing an important role in the responsiveness of blood pressure to garlic.

https://www.spandidos-publications.com/10.3892/etm.2019.8374?text=fulltext# (2020).-----

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fft2.289 (2023).----

The gut microbiota and its metabolites, such as short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), lipopolysaccharides (LPS), and trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), affect hypertension and atherosclerosis. It was shown that hypertensive patients have a lower abundance of SCFA-producing microbiota and a higher abundance of gram-negative bacteria, which are a source of LPS.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18871-1 (2020).--

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/10/2982 (2020).--

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006295222003963 (2022).--

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/19/9673 (2022).--

Garlic can reduce blood pressure, waist circumference, body mass index, LDL-C, triglycerides, and inflammatory markers. It can also increase HDL-c levels and can improve cardiovascular parameters such as coronary artery calcium, microcirculation, epicardial and periaortic adipose tissue, low-attenuation plaque, carotid intima-media thickness; and carotid intima-media thickness.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408398.2022.2043821 (2022).--

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ptr.7729 (2023).--

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378874123008280 (2023).--

https://bmccomplementmedtherapies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12906-023-04038-0 (2023)

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