Heart health improved by Yoga
June 15th, 2010 | 
Practicing Yoga daily can improve heart health through breathing exercises, stretching, relaxation, and meditation as per a research team at IIT-Roorkee in Uttarakhand.
The team remarked that people who regularly practice Yoga experience strengthened parasympathetic (vagal) control, which is indicative of improved autonomic control over heart rate and so a healthier heart.
From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Want to have a healthy heart? Practice yoga daily as Indian researchers have claimed that breathing exercises, stretching, relaxation and meditation improve heart health.
According to the researchers at IIT-Roorkee in Uttarakhand, heart rate variability, a sign of a healthy heart, has been shown to be higher in yoga practitioners than in non-practitioners.
Ramesh Kumar Sunkaria, Vinod Kumar and Suresh Chandra Saxena of the Electrical Engineering Department evaluated two small groups of men in order to see whether yoga can improve heart health.
The team also remarked that the spectral analysis of HRV is an important tool in exploring heart health and the mechanisms of heart rate regulation.
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