Lagos: MRI Research Shows Resonant Breathing Prevents Brain Blood Vessel Constriction
Dr. Leah Lagos · Dr. Leah Lagos and Joe Mazzulla: Control Your Heart, Conquer Your Stress · Sep 19, 2023 · at 47:19
Clinical psychologist Dr. Leah Lagos explains the neurological and vascular mechanisms behind resonant frequency breathing under high stress.
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“My colleagues at Rutgers looked at what happens To the brain during resonant frequency breathing. And what they found through MRIs was something called vasovagal constriction. So during stressful moments, the blood vessels would constrict to shunt blood flow and oxygen to the brain. Well, make sense why you would have myopic thinking then. And with the resonant breathing, what they found was the diameter of blood flow, or excuse me, of blood vessels was larger. It's, it stayed open, much more like the baseline state, so you are much more likely to not have a cognitive manifestation of stress”
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