One of the major risk factors for heart attacks and strokes is blood pressure, alternatively known as hypertension, which could be curbed through cutting down of salt intake and incorporating exercise regime into day-to-day life. This disorder for most people involves a cocktail of tablets and drugs, which cause several other side effects like tiredness, insomnia, cold hands and feet, dizziness and constipation. But no one ever thought of controlling blood pressure by means of slow breathing and meditation, which eliminate any kind of side effects infused by the tablets and drugs. Resperate is a device that lowers blood pressure by teaching patients to slow their breathing which promises to cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes without the use of drugs. The device starts off by monitoring the number of breaths taken in by a patient per minute. Then it introduces musical notes through the headphones which helps the patient to inhale in one note and exhale in the next, scaling up the length of each note, allowing the patient to breathe slowly. The contrived effect is that the slow breathing relaxes the muscles in blood vessel walls making them more flexible, eventually easing the pressure exerted on them when the heart tries to pump blood round the body.

Resperate device involves a sensor, which is strapped around the chest, which monitors the breathing rate for a couple of minutes and feeds the data back to the handset. The handset’s microchip then works out the ideal breathing rate for each patient and plays the appropriate musical tone through the handset. The clinical trials prove that usage of this device for 15 minutes helps to cut down the blood pressure substantially. However, it is advised that nobody should stop taking the pills without consulting their GP.

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