If you control your breathing and deliberately slow it down, your heart rate will also slow down. anxiety, apprehension, worrying, fear etc can have a direct on heart rate.

The main circulation I.B.T. logic:

The theory behind Inclined bed therapy is that for every breath exhaled we release a tiny pulse of denser solutes back into the main arteries which gravity can act upon in favour of the circulation, which in turn affects the venous return and stroke volume in the heart. This will cause the heart to become more efficient at moving the blood around when we are on an inclined, and when walking. Standing still and sitting applies direct pressure to the vessels and surrounding muscle, ligaments and skin tissue and narrow the vessels so the heart backs up pressure ( a main cause of feinting)

Shallow Breathing
The same scenario also applies to rapid shallow breathing, we still release pulses of denser blood back into the main artery and after passing back through the heart these solutes are drawn down the artery but there are more of them, even though they are not as concentrated as when the lungs are fully inflated and deflated from slower deeper breathing. This serves to accelerate the heart and the respiration and I believe it is the main cause of asthma hyperventilation.

School Girl Asthma attack

While out walking the dogs, I came across 2 schoolgirls, one looking terrified and crying the other in hyperventilation having an asthma attack. She was in serious trouble. Right away, I said listen carefully, she nodded unable to talk and in distress. On breathing out count to 5 seconds before inhaling try to repeat this for each breath, which she did.

Within 2 minutes her breathing and presumably her heart rate had returned to normal, she became relaxed and the attack was ended. They both thanked me and with smiles wider than the grand canyon walked calmly as if nothing had happened.

Before reading the following article, apply the density changes released by exhaling to the explanations given in it.

Also take into account the action of breathing into a paper bag for hyperventilation. Here it would serve to eliminate the density changes in the lungs due to breathing the same volume of moist air in and out of the lungs so that no pulses of solutes will enter the main artery. Result: breathing would return to base line rapidly.

http://www.asthmacare.ie/hyperventilation-and-asthma.pdf

I can also hear my own heart beating while laying on an inclined and have experimented many times slowing down my breathing by releasing a longer slower exhale and counting to 5 seconds or more before inhaling. I can hear the changes in my own heart rate within 30 seconds.

Normally, while sleeping on an inclined bed the heart rate slows down and the respiration rate slows down significantly by 10-12 beats per minute and 4-5 breaths per minute, which is a huge difference to a person sleeping flat. The same changes took place in 2 sleeping dogs (who didn’t mind a stethoscope) on an incline.

While awake however, as previously stated, we can consciously and subconsciously alter our breathing and the angled bed will make use of the number of breaths we take either way. Even subtle changes in breathing can start a steady acceleration of the heart, which in turn inflates and deflates the lungs quicker in a vicious circle, but now you know how to intervene and reverse this.

So please experiment with this method of controlled respiration and do come back and let us know what you find.

You can also purchase a professional stethoscope from ebay as I did for a few dollars / pounds, so you can observe the changes more effectively.

Check out the new forum on http://www.inclinedbedtherapy.com

A subject I have not yet touched upon relates to the gravitational pull of the moon and how it affects the circulation in all living animals, fish, insects, trees and plants. And yes even humans!

There are six pages to this important review of the literature, which has been graciously provided free. So please spend time reading all six pages.

The lunar cycle: effects on human and animal behavior and physiology

Micha? Zimecki

Department of Experimental Therapy, The Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroc?aw, Poland

Summary

Human and animal physiology are subject to seasonal, lunar, and circadian rhythms. Although the seasonal and circadian rhythms have been fairly well described, little is known about the effects of the lunar cycle on the behavior and physiology of humans and animals. The lunar cycle has an impact on human reproduction, in particular fertility, menstruation, and birth rate. Melatonin levels appear to correlate with the menstrual cycle. Admittance to hospitals and emergency units because of various causes (cardiovascular and acute coronary events, variceal hemorrhage, diarrhea, urinary retention) correlated with moon phases. In addition, other events associated with human behavior, such as traffic accidents, crimes, and suicides, appeared to be influenced by the lunar cycle. However, a number of reports fi nd no correlation between the lunar cycle and human reproduction and admittance to clinics and emergency units. Animal studies revealed that the lunar cycle may affect hormonal changes early in phylogenesis (insects). In fish the lunar clock influences reproduction and involves the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis. In birds, the daily variations in melatonin and corticosterone disappear during full-moon days. The lunar cycle also exerts effects on laboratory rats with regard to taste sensitivity and the ultrastructure of pineal gland cells. Cyclic variations related to the moon’s phases in the magnitude of the humoral immune response of mice to polivinylpyrrolidone and sheep erythrocytes were also described. It is suggested that melatonin and endogenous steroids may mediate the described cyclic alterations of physiological processes. The release of neurohormones may be triggered by the electromagnetic radiation and/or the gravitational pull of the moon. Although the exact mechanism of the moon’s influence on humans and animals awaits further exploration, knowledge of this kind of biorhythm may be helpful in police surveillance, medical practice, and investigations involving laboratory animals.

Key words: lunar cycle • reproduction • melatonin • immune response

Source:Postepy Hig Med Dosw., 2006; 60: 1-7.

http://www.biology-online.org/articles/lunar_cycle_effects_human/summary.html

New Centrifuge Simulates Gravity for Astronauts
It could stop bone and muscle mass loss
http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Centrifuge-Simulates-Gravity-for-Astronauts-117366.shtml

By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor

23rd of July 2009, 09:02 GMT

Astronauts lose a lot of bone and muscle mass on extended stays in space
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Ever since astronauts started spending prolonged periods of time in space, on space stations, for instance, it has become obvious to space agencies that the effects of microgravity on the human body are to be reckoned with. The longer the stay, the greater the loss of bone and muscle mass that the astronauts report. Now, experts have finally devised a mechanism to counteract the effects of low gravity. The NASA centrifuge simulates 2.5Gs of pull on users, and utilizing it requires only one hour per day. The human testing was conducted at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston.

The research bears enormous meaning to future space exploration missions, which could see people sent to Mars inside spaceships. With more than a year of traveling in zero-gravity, and another one on the way back, the astronauts that would undertake such an enterprise could find themselves upon their return unable to stand up or walk. Already, ISS commanders that remain on the station for six months exhibit large problems with adapting to Earth's gravity all over again, and need therapy to help them.

The NASA centrifuge that was recently tested works by spinning people, positioned with their feet outwards, about 30 times each minute, a rotation every two seconds. In the experiments they conducted on “pillownauts,” experts at the University of Texas determined that just one hour of exercise with the centrifuge was enough to restore muscle synthesis, ScienceDaily informs.

Pillownauts are people aiding NASA in understanding the effects of microgravity. They remain in bed for months on end, with their bodies angled in such a manner that they mimic the effects of reduced gravity and prolonged space stays. If the centrifuge works on them, then it will most likely work on the real astronauts too, the scientists behind the research believe.

“This gives us a potential countermeasure that we might be able to use on extended space flights and solve a lot of the problems with muscle wasting. This small amount of loading, one hour a day of essentially standing up, maintained the potential for muscle growth,” Douglas Paddon-Jones, an associate professor at the university, explains. He has also been the senior author of a new paper detailing the find, published in the July issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology.

“We've studied elderly inpatients here at UTMB – 95 percent of the time they're completely inactive, and in three days they lose more than a kilogram of muscle. A human centrifuge may not be the answer, but we are interested in seeing if something as simple as increasing the amount of time our patients spend standing and moving can slow down this process. This NASA research is one of a series of important studies that we hope to ultimately translate to a clinical population,” he concludes.

My dreams are incredible.

Last night I was driving an old friends fast car Hilman Imp, that was race tuned, a car we used to pile in and wreak havoc hammering it around sharp bends with an 8 track stereo belting out Deep Purple, David Bowie, Erick Clapton and Led Zeplain. But the car was not mine, it belonged to another good friend Terry Richards. Are kids today any worse than we were?

I was belting up a hill which was familiar when a capri behind me was flashing me down and sounding the horn. When the driver got out, he come over to me and said; "Hey Andy long time no see how you doing? And how come your driving this? I thought you drove a merc? (Joey Round, known to some friends as Squary, but to me Joey) Me and Joey go right back to childhood, born in same rough old Longbank road in Oakham, Joey was a great bloke and always looked out for us younger kids.

I said to Joey, you are supposed to be dead? He said don't be daft, laughing in his usual way and we talked about his supposedly being dead. I even told him I had seen the death certificate. I then said the merc is back at home with an old Austin, Later we were in the pub with friends laughing with Joey and me saying he was dead, when clearly I was mistaken. I also met Jackie Nash, his wife who he divorced, also a very good friend and was telling her about Joey and how he was very much alive. The dream lasted for a very long time.

I was not thinking of him or Jackie or anyone in particular when I went to bed, or indeed had I thought about either of them for a long time.

During the dream, I even realised I had made a serious error on facebook Tividale Comprehensive School site adding RIP to his name and to many other damned good friends that died far too young, and needed to go back to the site and change it asap.
Jackie died of cancer a few years ago :(
Joey died of cancer in the throat a few years back :cry:

I have no reason why this dream was triggered but writing this and telling my wife about it is making my hairs stand on end, it was very lucid and beautiful and did not feel at all like a dream.

We can learn a lot from our dreams, but would need to find out how different brain activity is on Inclined Therapy. Alas, we would need the use of a sleep centre to determine what's happening in the brain activity at night compared to flat bedrest.

I believe that the brain needs good circulation of cerebrospinal fluid and bloodflow to organise and recall these memories. But this was much more than a memory recalled, it was truly astonishing and vivid.

I believe also, based on what happened to the girl with cerebral palsy in Kent, who walked at school for the very first time after around 8 months of Inclined Therapy and many more reports of memory improvements, that the brain uses the direction of gravity to improve circulation and restore supposedly irreversible damage.

What I think is based upon 16 years of research into Inclined Therapy and it's positive effects on people with multiple sclerosis with hundreds of people showing remarkable recoveries. Given sufficient time most of the symptoms you have mentioned as improvements can be achieved without any surgery! To add credence to this statement I urge you and others reading this to read through the Inclined Bed Therapy threads and try to find anyone who is not experiencing benefits from I.T. And should you find them, wait 4 weeks and read their later reports.

As to whether surgery has helped to accelerate these improvements we can only rely on the posts from people who have had the same surgery and not been using Inclined Therapy. These can be found in the CCSVI Tracking project. Study these reports and see if the same improvements have been achieved using angioplasty or stent procedures alone. Then weigh up the differences between those who are and those who are not using I.T combined with surgery. This is why I asked for an inclusion in the CCSVI Tracking thread to indicate whether or not I.T. is being used by the posters.

Given the results of the posture poll so far, it is difficult to understand how Neurological damage which is undoubtedly influenced, if not caused by posture can be restored when the posture that initiated it is not addressed. CCSVI and Surgery alone does not explain these non-surgery improvements seen in people on this forum who have tilted their beds and not received any surgical intervention.

Swollen twisted veins in the legs or varicose veins as we call them can be returned to normal looking veins by controlling posture alone. Surgery at best provides a temporary fix with varicose veins, because the surgery does not address what causes them to become varicose veins. More superficial veins will become varicose veins to take the diverted blood flow and it’s inherent high pressure. The swollen veins inside the neck and close to the spine are not disconnected from the same venous that supplies the legs, so there should be no doubt that these abnormal veins in the neck and next to the spine are undergoing the same reconditioning that the chronic venous insufficiency undergoes in the legs using I.T.

Zamboni has argued in an email to me that these veins cannot be restored using posture alone. If this is the case, then CCSVI cannot be the cause of ms! If this isn’t the case and these veins are becoming unrestricted due to avoiding a flat bed, and sleeping on an inclined bed, just like varicose veins have been shown to respond, then and only then can Zamboni’s theory be shown to play a roll in the onset of ms!

Another possibility is that everyone on this forum who is reporting positive results using Inclined Therapy 1. Is either involved in some major conspiracy to prove a layperson is correct about circulation and gravity 2. Placebo effect can be shown to stretch over 11 years of complete ms symptom relief with Terri Harrison. Zamboni argued that placebo couldn’t be entertained as an explanation for 4 months of symptom relief in a video relating to ccsvi procedure. Or 3. Inclined Therapy is bringing about these obvious improvements without surgery and if this is the case, then posture is identified as a definite causal effect and the big finger points at the way we all sleep and sit! CCSVI could indeed be the reason that some people sleeping flat develop multiple sclerosis and many people never develop neurological symptoms using a flat bed.

It would be simple to prove what is happening with regards to CCSVI by people asking for a repeat Doppler scan while laying at an angle, laying flat, sitting up and standing up. These are the parameters that should be tested immediately to determine what if anything is changing in the venous return.

We will have to be vigilant and wait to see if anyone who is about to have these tests will ask for a scan on an inclined platform or bed.

BBC NEWS
Brain blood vessels clue to MS Wednesday, 10 February 2010

More than 55% of multiple sclerosis patients have been found to have constricted blood vessels in their brains, a US study says.

The preliminary results are from the first 500 patients enrolled in a trial at the University of Buffalo.

The abnormality was found in 56.4% of MS patients and also in 22.4% of healthy controls.

The MS Society said it was intriguing but not proof that this caused MS - as one leading expert claims.

Testing theory

The New York researchers were testing a theory from Italian researcher, Dr Paolo Zamboni who claims that 90% of MS is caused by narrowed veins.

“ These results are intriguing but it is important to remember that although people with MS may show evidence of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in screening studies, there's no proof as yet that this phenomenon is a cause of MS, nor that treating it would have an effect on MS ”
Dr Doug Brown, MS Society

He says the restricted vessels prevent the blood from draining fast enough and injure the brain by causing a build up of iron which leads to MS.

He has already widened the blockages in a handful of patients including his wife.

MS is a long-term inflammatory condition of the central nervous system which affects the transfer of messages from the nervous system to the rest of the body.

The Buffalo team used Doppler ultrasound to scan the patients in different body postures to view the direction of venous blood flow.

The 500 MS patients, both adults and children, also underwent MRI scans of the brain to measure iron deposits in surrounding areas of the brain.

The full results will be presented at an American neurology conference in April.

There were 161 healthy controls.

'Cautious optimism'

Robert Zivadinov who led the study at the University of Buffalo, said he was "cautiously optimistic and excited" about the preliminary data.

"They show that narrowing of the extracranial veins, at the very least, is an important association in multiple sclerosis.

"We will know more when the MRI and other data collected in this study are available."

Dr Doug Brown, Biomedical Research Manager at the MS Society, said: "These results are intriguing but it is important to remember that although people with MS may show evidence of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in screening studies, there's no proof as yet that this phenomenon is a cause of MS, nor that treating it would have an effect on MS.

"The next step is to determine what this actually means for MS and an investigation into whether there's any potential therapeutic benefit from treatment will be pivotal for this novel theory."
Story from BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8509830.stm Video

The following paper requires a thorough read:


Is Bed Rest An Effective Treatment Modality for Pressure Ulcers?
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Look at the patient lying long in bed.
What a pathetic picture he makes.
The blood clotting in his veins,
the lime draining from his bones,
the scybola stacking up in his colon,
the flesh rotting from his seat,
the urine leaking from his distended bladder,
and the spirit evaporating from his soul.
— Dr. Richard Asher, British Medical Journal, 1947




Conclusion
Practitioners often express concern that medical and scientific studies are difficult to interpret for clinical use; however, in terms of the complications of bed rest, agreement between all existing sources is remarkable. Although illness severity may leave no choice except bed rest, the rest itself is rarely what is of benefit. Practically every organ and body system promptly and progressively deteriorates when it is inactive (see Table 4).2
In this time of focusing on best practices and patient outcomes, examining the practice of bed rest is appropriate. If effort were directed at conducting a randomized control trial to reevaluate the practice of bed rest, assuming that bed rest could speed the healing of pressure sores, the complications of this treatment are so well documented that this practice cannot be considered “safe.”
Alternatives to bed rest include optimizing the nutritional status of the client and managing pressure and shear throughout the client’s daily activities. Managing pressure and shearing forces outside of the bed may be one way to improve client outcomes and quality of life. - OWM
http://www.o-wm.com/article/3194

Facebook | CCSVI in Multiple Sclerosis: News from Dr. Zamboni - CCSVI lesions classified as congenital

Common sense always prevails.

Committee of experts from 47 countries and chaired by prof. Byung Lee B, Georgetown officially clasified CCSVI as congenital deformities, and prior venous lesions in MS.

http://phleb.rsmjournals.com/cgi/reprint/22/6/249.pdf

Report



But what's all the excitement about something everyone knew. It was obvious that CCSVI was present before or at the time of ms. No one can deny this.

But what causes the CCSVI? I would imagine it is not present from birth, so what has caused this to develop?

What alters the pressure inside those veins to cause them to twist and strangulate?

Answer based on those cases we see in thisisms who have adopted the Inclined Therapy method must be posture related!

How else can these people be recovering function and sensitivity without surgery?

More to the point, it certainly looks like that old favourite of humans, sleeping flat is suspected to be the main contributing factor for both ccsvi and ms.

Remember, this is the third study we are seeing identical patterns of recovery in.

And then those varicose veins recovering again without surgery using I.T. paints a glorious picture of how sleeping flat must have been the main contributing factor that initiated their development and maintained their progress. Again no surgery required!


So if this can happen in Varicose Veins, Chronic Venous Insufficiency and lead to recovery from multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury and "cerebral palsy in a child in Kent" it must be having an observable affect on CCSVI if CCSVI is contributing to ms. If CCSVI is not affected by I.T. then there is obviously another underlying cause.


And I suspect that the liquid crystal properties of myelin might have something to say about this.

Lesions are lesions. M.S. = Multiple scars in the nervous system and / or brain. Those scars have not gone away because someone has opened up the plumbing and placed an insert inside.

The circulation in the arteries and veins is separate from the nervous system. The heart does not affect the circulation in the nervous system, so this plumbing job can address lethargy and blood flow related problems, assisting people to become more active, which will inevitably lead to better posture for longer periods. Perhaps it is activity that is helping ms symptoms rather than the plumbing job?

But at least CCSVI now has an official stamp, it's a start.

YouTube - Bricks under the bed, Rat Poison and CCSVI

Experts: Sitting too much could be deadly - Boston.com

It's about time "the experts caught up" I have been researching this for 16 years and proven that posture is very important for maintaining circulation! Without circulation we are dust.

My research involves density changes in fluids from exhaling and constant water vapour loss from the skin and eyes.

Titlting the bed allows gravity to influence the density changes in the blood and in doing so assists the circulation.

Inclined therapy is where a person raises the head of the bed by 6 inches so the whole bed tilts from head to toe.