Can Yoga Lower Blood Pressure?
In stressful situations, your body releases hormones like epinephrine that cause blood pressure to rise and heart rate to accelerate. Whether chronic stress contributes to hypertension is less clear.
Some activities that people often think should lower stressfor example, excessive alcohol consumption and smokingactually increase blood pressure.
Publication Review By: Lawrence Appel, M.D., and Rafael H. Llinas, M.D.