{"id":25535,"date":"2019-11-27T16:56:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25535"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:56:47","slug":"top-6-ways-to-lower-your-resting-heart-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25535","title":{"rendered":"Top 6 Ways to Lower Your Resting Heart Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"401\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Measuring_Pulse-1.jpg\" alt=\"Measuring Pulse\" class=\"wp-image-25536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Measuring_Pulse-1.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Measuring_Pulse-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your resting heart rate is one factor used to identify potential health conditions and gauge the health of your heart; by maintaining your resting rate from 60 to100 beats per minute you lower your risk of cardiovascular disease and improve your overall health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a healthy demand is placed on your heart muscle it grows stronger, but an unhealthy demand may increase the risk the muscle will weaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A healthy nutritional intake has a positive impact on your heart health and resting heart rate; conversely, nicotine and alcohol intake will negatively affect your heart health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aerobic exercise is a stress reducing activity, as is yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi; Buteyko breathing improves your oxygenation and reduces stress, while Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) help reduce stress and improve your weight loss efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fitness.mercola.com\/sites\/fitness\/archive\/2019\/11\/01\/ways-to-lower-resting-heart-rate.aspx\">https:\/\/fitness.mercola.com\/sites\/fitness\/archive\/2019\/11\/01\/ways-to-lower-resting-heart-rate.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your resting heart rate is one factor used to identify potential health conditions and gauge the health of your heart; by maintaining your resting rate from 60 to100 beats per minute you lower your risk of cardiovascular disease and improve your overall health. When a healthy demand is placed on your heart muscle it grows &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top 6 Ways to Lower Your Resting Heart Rate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25537,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535\/revisions\/25537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}