On: Daily Step Count and All-Cause Mortality: A Dose-Response Meta-analysis

[tuukkah]

Lots of focus on the step count while IMT/IMST breathing muscle training seems much more convincing (for the young and healthy as well as for the frail):

"5-minute breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27747943

"Thanks HN: For Me, Breathing exercise for High Blood Pressure is Working" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27980060

[tuukkah → tuukkah]

Breathing resistance training might even reduce the need of Covid emergency care and the long Covid symptoms:

"Respiratory Muscle Performance Screening for Infectious Disease Management Following COVID-19: A Highly Pressurized Situation" https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30347-8/fulltex...

[Tenoke → tuukkah]

The IMT study this is based on is tiny compared to the meta-analysis for steps. It also only tested blood pressure and for a short amount of time compared to all-cause mortality over years in the meta-analysis.