Friday, October 2, 2009

Keep Your Heart Health with Yoga

Yoga exercises for eight weeks is proved to benefit patients with heart disease who had a heart attack and reduce the signs of a risk of inflammation which is often associated with death, according to a recent study published recently.

More than five million U.S. citizens suffer from chronic heart disease one condition, in which in the long run will come to the heart can not pump blood efficiently to the body.

Health problems and deaths from the disease remains in high levels even now already uses drugs effective therapy to cope with these conditions.

Researchers at the School of Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta who assess the effectiveness of spiritual practice of yoga for six weeks by 19 patients who had suffered heart attacks, get the physical exercise of yoga to reduce the signs of inflammation associated with heart failure, while it also has increased tolerance of physical exercise and quality of life.

"Many people believe that the additional practice of spiritual health yoga will also benefit heart health recovery," said the researchers who carried a presentation on their findings at the annual meeting of Heart Disease. "In addition, yoga exercises also give effect to the mechanism of action involving the advancement of the patients who had experienced heart failure.

The study also found striking differences in the levels of biological signals in the blood - interleukin-6, reactive protein-C and cellular extra dismutase superoxide between patients who underwent a spiritual practice of yoga with health patients who only received standard therapy. Patients who do yoga exercises, receive medical treatment without experiencing complications.

In addition patients who follow the practice of yoga has decreased symptoms or biological signs in the blood by 26 percent who set the standard quality of life compared with 3 per cent decline from just patients undergoing medical therapy alone.

"Yoga is a type of aerobics, because it is not surprising such impact in terms of signs of the inflammation," said Dr. Nieca Goldberg, who suggested the spiritual practice of yoga and tai chi a martial arts traditional come from China to the patient, thus Reuters.

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