Study provides evidence that breathing exercises may reduce Alzheimer's risk (Helps everyone)

Medical Xpress / USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology / Scientific Reports ^ | May 1, 2023 | Constance Sommer / Jungwon Min et al

[ConservativeMind]

The exercise was simple: inhale for a count of five, then exhale for a count of five. Do that for 20 minutes, twice a day, for four weeks.

Volunteers' heart rate variability increased during each exercise period and the levels of amyloid-beta peptides circulating in their blood decreased over the four weeks of the experiment.

That's because the way we breathe affects our heart rate, which in turn affects our nervous system and the way our brain produces proteins and clears them away.

A 2020 study found that heart rate variability drops on average 80 percent between twenty and sixty years old. This finding could explain why we struggle to sleep deeply as we age.

Mather asked participants to do biofeedback exercises twice a day, for 20 minutes.

Half the group was instructed to think of calm things. Meanwhile, they were instructed to keep an eye on their heart rate, making sure the heart rate stayed as steady as possible.

The other group was told to pace breathing in rhythm with a pacer on the laptop screen—when the square rose, they inhaled, and when the square dropped, they exhaled. Their heart rates tended to rise in peaks as they inhaled. Their goal was to increase breathing-induced oscillations in their heart rate.

The researchers took blood samples.

Researchers looked at two peptides, amyloid beta 40 and 42.

Accumulation of amyloid beta is believed to trigger the Alzheimer's disease process.

In Mather and colleagues' study, plasma levels of both peptides decreased in the group who breathed slowly and tried to increase their heart rate variability (HRV) by increasing oscillations.

Of the study's 108 participants, half were 18 to 30 and half were 55 to 80. The younger and the older adults showed similar effects of the interventions on plasma amyloid beta levels.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

The first sentence of the posted excerpt speaks of inhaling for a count of five and exhaling for a count of five. A person shouldn’t be able to hyperventilate while breathing at that rate. Try it for a minute or so and you’ll see.

[ckilmer]

It seems that methelene blue also reduces alzheimers.

Interestingly, cancer is anerobic. Methelene blue provide oxygen to the cells.

https://www.mwhp.com/methylene-blue-and-red-light-therapy-for-dementia-parkinsons-and-alzheimers-disease/#:~:text=Remarkably%2C%20methylene%20blue%20has%20been,tangles%20and%20beta%20amyloid%20plaque.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Nervous Tick.

Shucks! Time for a good LTC policy! Sounds like you are going to end up in a memory care unit. You have my sympathy!

Controlling your heart rate. Slow breathing controls it, but.... Capt. Obvious stuff. Develop good habits. Pray. Easier if you don't smoke or be an alcoholic or eat Crisco out of the can. Avoid red bull shots or double expressos....of course don't take meth. Don't read the news or watch porn while you do this. Don't do this while driving on urban highways. Do not try this at a Sports Bar.

If you can do this in some natural setting, back yard, a garden, a park. Old white guy thing...go fly fishing or garden. Sit in a Church garden. Or Modern sort of stuff. "Forest bathing (Shinrin Yoku)"; or while sitting in a Japanese Garden. (I know...there are so many of these around. ... Get a screen saver!)

This is what the Army is doing with soldiers:

Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors

[Nervous Tick]

>> Shucks! Time for a good LTC policy!

LOL! Touche.

I have an excellent LTC policy. IF they don’t go broke. ;-)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

LTCs; And I hope neither of us ever need it!.

I have one for me and my wife. Not sure how good it is. There are better options now for LTCs now than when I got it.

Had a stroke in 2018. Pushed me into retirement. Now I am a gardener and lawn boy.

LTC....I told Misses to not hold off once its needed. Use it as soon as you can.

(Sometimes I sit in the church garden and look at the flower beds where my fellow parishioner are interred. (Cue "Greys Elegy"!))

[Faith65]

Mrs Submareener and I use this device. It really helps a lot with breathing after 77.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/The+Breather/page/FB6F8037-8685-49FB-9F19-286740AFAD7D

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Thanks!

[goodnesswins]

So, an exercise routine?

[goodnesswins]

Looked at that Hof video...THAT seems like such fast breathing...I would pass out....at least if not walking or running

[KittyKares]

I must confess I haven’t looked at more than one minute of it. Thanks for doing the research.