Als Empfänger einer Herztransplantation möchte ich alles tun, was ich kann, um meine Gesundheit zu fördern. Also begann ich Anfang Oktober 2025 mit dem Meditieren. Ich habe oft gelesen, dass Meditation nicht nur die geistige Gesundheit, sondern auch die körperliche Gesundheit, einschließlich des Blutdrucks, verbessern kann. Also beschloss ich, ein Experiment zu versuchen. Jedes Mal, wenn ich meditierte, habe ich meinen Blutdruck (systolisch/diastolisch in mmHG) und meine Herzfrequenz (Schläge pro Minute) richtig gemessen vor und richtig nach jede Meditationssitzung. Ich habe immer 20 Minuten meditiert. Und ich habe jeden Datenpunkt aufgezeichnet. Die Grafiken zeigen die systolischen, diastolischen und Herzfrequenzänderungen im Verlauf von 3 Monaten (insgesamt 43 Meditationssitzungen).
Was halten Sie von den Ergebnissen?
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Has it affected your general blood pressure too?
Interesting. Would be cool to see if the reduction in blood pressure was due to specifically the meditation, or just sitting stationary for 20 mins. If you got the same effect from 20 min reading a novel, then it would seem meditation has little to do with it. Thanks for sharing.
Do you happen to have a twin who underwent the same operation? If so, then Nobel prize here we come. If not, then do you ‚feel‘ different after meditating?
Instead of a linear line I would use a 7, 14, 15, or 30 day trend line.
This is interesting, OP. I have Essential Hypertension (inherent), so I have been medicated nearly my entire life (I’m 66). I also take several blood pressure readings daily—out of necessity—and have learned that fluctuations can result from practically any activity, especially eating, drinking, showering, sleeping, and practically any physical activity (even a full bladder). As a result, I tend to take readings at times as far removed as possible from any confounding variable.
Did you take this precaution, too? Do you always meditate in the same way at the same time of day?
Problem is with anything like this, correlation is not causation. Healthy lifestyle diet exercise age, time of measurements, need to also be taken into account. Also doctors will be better to ask. That all said, meditating and being aware yourself is highly beneficial. I prefer the term mindfulness training rather than meditation, there are some good free apps out there for guided training.
There will probably be a far clearer trajectory if cutting out added salt and sugar, processed food and saturated fat, which I assume you’ve been following too.
All in all good work, keep up the journey friend. I love collecting data.
So. Work started again on Jan 5 ha?
Sitting quietly and relaxing for 20 minutes lowers your pulse and heart rate.
Can’t really tell anything more from so little data to be honest. General downward trend could be for anything.
your „before“ also trends down, so meditation might even help lowering BP during the whole day