Whatever exercise you do, add yoga to the mix—it power-boosts the benefits.
It amplifies the good effects of most exercises and helps prevent cardiovascular disease, say researchers from Laval University in Canada.
They monitored the good effects of yoga on a group of 60 volunteers with hypertension (high blood pressure). All of them did 30 minutes of aerobic exercise five days a week, and half added yoga to the regimen and the others instead did stretching exercises.
After three months, blood pressure levels were lower in both groups, but it had reduced more in the yoga group. Their systolic blood pressure was reduced by 10 mmHg compared to a reduction of 4 mmHg in the stretching group. Yoga also reduced the resting heart rate and an overall risk of developing heart disease over the next 10 years.
Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2022; doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2022.09.019
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