Stanford's New Study Validates Ancient Breathing Technique

Re:Stanford's New Study Validates Ancient Breathing Technique by boxcarr on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:06PM (#34512474)

From the blog post:

> Interestingly, those who felt the greatest boost in mood also experienced the biggest drop in heart rate variability.

A drop in HRV isn't generally good. So I check the paper, and found this:

> No significant changes were found in heart rate variability or resting heart rate over the course of the study in either of the groups (Figures 4C and 4D)

There was a reduction respiratory rate for those an increase in daily positive affect. Bottom line, unclear if this particular study points to a positive health outcome other than feeling happier.

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Re:Stanford's New Study Validates Ancient Breathing Technique by curiouska on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:13PM (#34512526)

From the paper:

Interestingly, change in respiratory rate was negatively correlated with change in daily positive affect (Figure S5; r = - 0.24, p < 0.05), suggesting that participants who showed the highest reduction in respiratory rate also showed the highest daily increase in positive affect over the course of the study (Figure S5).

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Re:Stanford's New Study Validates Ancient Breathing Technique by curiouska on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @07:15PM (#34512538)

But as you said, the main finding reported was an increase positive affect.

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