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Research shows anti-hypertensive drugs improve heart rate more in patients who listen to music after taking medication. Among musical genres, classical music is the one with greatest efficiency at reducing arterial pressure; authors of the study speculate whether music acts on the patients' parasympathetic system, increasing their capability of absorbing medication.
In addition to remembering to take the medication prescribed by their cardiologists at the right times and going to the trouble of making healthy lifestyle changes, patients with high blood pressure (hypertension) can include a pleasing beneficial activity in routine treatment of the disease thanks to the discovery that listening to music significantly enhances the effect of anti-hypertensive drugs.
[...] "We've observed classical music activating the parasympathetic nervous system and reducing sympathetic activity," said the principal investigator of the FAPESP-funded project. The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems constitute the autonomic nervous system, which maintains homeostasis. The sympathetic nervous system accelerates heart rate, constricts blood vessels and raises blood pressure. The parasympathetic nervous system controls the body at rest, slowing the heart, lowering blood pressure, and stabilizing blood sugar and adrenaline.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:09PM (5 children)
Music can intensify the effects of adrenaline. Try it yourself. If you don't have a really fast car, or a crotch rocket, then beg, borrow, or steal one for a joyride. (On second thought, stay away from the crotch rockets, unless you have experience with them.) Light that fire, right after you plug in some speed demon music. Highway to the danger zone, highway to hell, radar love, the list goes on and on.
You'll forget to be scared when the ass end starts slipping and sliding on the curves. Hell, you'll forget to be scared when that monster oak tree looms over you, and swallows your ass whole!
Yeah, I can believe music can help along other drugs. I just don't listen to much of that kind of music. Well, I don't think so, anyway . . . this doesn't count does it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zkjQVh5KmQ [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:14PM
so true
i listen to my anime soundtracks while i'm swallowing ass and it totally lose myself in it
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:00PM
Radar love?
Ok, I had to re-listen to it and it does have a good beat to it, but still not what I'd consider speed demon music. Then you have Enya as "drug music"??? The point of the article is that our auditory nerves have an impact on other aspects of our physiology beyond the ear. Even if you've only ever tried alcohol I'm sure you've experienced music being more interesting than without, and it doesn't matter what type it is.
Here's a mind-bender for you, this music video was created by someone who swears up and down they never did drugs before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cQcD0BwI3c [youtube.com]
So "that kind of music" is quite a subjective statement. Don't worry, you're not crazy at least not all the time!
(Score: 2) by riT-k0MA on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:42PM
Speed demon music? [youtube.com]
Personally, I had to pull this one off of my car's playlist as it caused me to hit those windy mountain passes [too] hard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @03:55AM (1 child)
Only if the car is American. Try European or Japanese and the sliding will go away for the most part.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 19 2018, @02:15PM
Well, yeah, most of us are aware of the differences between front, rear, or all-wheel drives. And, when you drive like a madman, they can all come unglued from the road. Who makes cars with engines in the rear? Not Americans, LOL!!