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Bad posture could raise your blood pressure

Posted August 11, 2007 11:14 AM

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Scientists have found a direct link between the neck muscles and an area of the brainstem that controls heart rate and blood pressure. THAT office job might be raising your blood pressure in more ways than one. A link between the muscles in the neck, blood pressure and heart rate has long been suspected. Now Jim Deuchars and colleagues at the University of Leeds, UK, have found a direct neural connection between these neck muscles and a part of the brainstem - called the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) - which plays a crucial role in regulating heart rate and blood pressure. Deuchars's team was using mice to investigate how the brain responds to a variety of stimulatory and inhibitory proteins. They noticed that a group of brain cells connected to the neck muscles kept firing in response to both types of proteins, suggesting the cells played a very active role in the brain.

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Re: Bad posture could raise your blood pressure

08/11/2007 1:42 PM

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08/11/2007 2:43 PM

Got a link or a pic' so we can see? That chair sounds interesting...

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08/12/2007 2:39 AM

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08/12/2007 2:57 AM

Cheers,

That chair looks a lot more comfortable than what I'm sittin on right now.

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08/12/2007 9:50 AM

That bed and chair.... errrrmmmm what weight would they support???

Not that I'm overweight but I am finely sculpted , big boned and taught muscular body type so weight is a consideration here....

John

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08/12/2007 11:45 AM

Second that question: could it support 6'5" 200# (bed or chair)?

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08/12/2007 8:23 PM

Interesting photos. I wonder about the comfort factor for those of us taught to sleep on our sides, as most physicians suggest. Do you have photos for such "alternative" positions? Costs?

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08/12/2007 7:34 AM

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