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!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:20PM
self-medicated
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:52PM (3 children)
The mechanism they describe seems to indicate that the music just has an independent effect on the blood pressure, that adds to the one of the medication. This is something very different to intensifying the effect of the medication. The latter means that you don't get the effect if you only listen to music, without taking any medication.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:22AM (2 children)
Exactly my thoughts.
Music works by itself.
I doubt it has any effect on medicine uptake beyond what a simple dosage adjustment would do.
Now Grapefruit, [mayoclinic.org] that's different. It can either enhance or depress medicine uptake and its pretty unpredictable which affect it will have on any given patient at any give time.
Combining the grapefruit, medicine and music might be totally suicidal.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:00AM
So now we know how Prince died. He had been taking medicines, had been listening to music (basically his whole life) and then somebody offered him grapefruit. Damn.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday April 19 2018, @04:27AM
But the question remains: Does grapefruit affect the effect of music? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:21PM (5 children)
I don't what that crap kids nowdays call "music" is, but it does the exact opposite of lowering my blood pressure.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:37PM (2 children)
I guess your parents said the same about the stuff you listened to in your youth.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:50PM
The rushing noise was the sound of my point flying over your head :)
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:45PM
Led Zeppelin vs Any band of today.
Joan Jett vs Katie Perry.
Pink Floyd? The Who? Janis? The Doors? Bowie? Eagles? Could keep going.
And it is worse with many country singers. Patsy? Merle? Cash? George? Vs Kenny chesney(sp?)
Hell Wham blows away most new shit.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:53PM
Get pumped, old man
Raise that heart rate
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:59AM
-eneration since the dawn of humanity. The ancient greeks did, I expect the romans and the babylonians as well.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by EvilSS on Wednesday April 18 2018, @10:23PM (1 child)
Let's see, your group's music selection is... ah..... Rammstein!"
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday April 19 2018, @12:59AM
Apocalyptica is a personal favorite for that time of my night.
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