Have you ever wondered if there are more natural ways to lower your high blood pressure,

guard against Alzheimer's, loose weight, feel better?

Well, it turns out there is.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we learned a little bit more about how to keep our heart healthy, and we start with ways

to improve our heart rate variability.

Everyone feel for your pulse.

Hold out your hand, thumb up, and feel for the knobby bone at the top of your wrist.

Okay, now slide your hand down across the front of your wrist.

Feel those like strands of spaghetti, those are across the front of your wrist. Feel those like strands of spaghetti.

Those are the tendons in your wrist. If you press lightly between that knobby bone and that first

tendon, you should feel your pulse. Got it? Okay. Now, what we're going to do is feel what happens

to our pulse when we take a deep breath. We're going to try it twice to do is feel what happens to our pulse when we take a deep breath.

We're going to try it twice.

Try to feel what happens to your pulse when you inhale and when you exhale.

All right, here we go.

Slow inhale, slow exhale.

One more time.

In?

Out.

What happened when you breathed in and breathed out?

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