(From the Personal Blog of RESPeRATE User, Larry Asakura) — So I’ve been using Resperate for about two months now – it was purchased using my remaining FSA monies from last year. I was a little skeptical at first as the device itself is VERY expensive ~$300, but I was at the “use it or lose it” stage of my remaining FSA funds so gave it a shot.
How does it work? Well the basics are that it uses meditative breathing techniques to slow your breathing down without effort. You place a sensor around your chest and listen to breathing tones through earphones and match your breathing to the “in” and “out” tones. That’s it.
At first the default session is 15 minutes and takes a couple of min to get used to the concept.
I found the hardest part to be the initialization period (the first min or two) where the device tries to recognize your breathing pattern. The pattern shows an outline of a person that fills with bars as you inhale and reduces bars as you exhale. I found that the best way to setup is to strap the sensor as instructed and then watch the breathing pattern in the device display. You should see the “in” and “out” pattern match your breathing. If there is a delay or it stays “full” with bars, you have it too tight. If you have it too lose, the bars will not “fill” the outline of the person.
The next thing I found is that 15 minutes a session (every other day) didn’t really do much for my blood pressure. At first I thought it wasn’t working but upped it to 20 minutes a session and it dropped pretty significantly (~15 systolic/5 diastolic). I’m currently at 30 minutes. I then tried to see if deviating from diet and exercise would increase my blood pressure, and to my surprise – it did increase slightly – but not to the extent before I was on Resperate. I stopped using the device for about a week and my bp increased slowly but steadily. Anyway my results may be an anomaly but hope to have more data and updates in the future with continued use.
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RESPeRATE’s Response:
Many of our customers have brought up Larry’s complaint that RESPeRATE is expensive. Please accept our response.
We are a small company dedicated to helping people to safely and effectively lower their blood pressure naturally through device-guided breathing.
Safe and effective have been guiding mantras for the company since the original concept of RESPeRATE by our Founder and Chief Scientist Beny Gavish, an Israeli biophysicist, 18 years ago.
In order to ensure that RESPeRATE is effective and does what we claim it does, we have spent many years developing the product and it has undergone 10 clinical trials, many of which have been published in prestigious peer reviewed medical journals.
In addition, RESPeRATE has been submitted to the US FDA and the UK National Health Service for review and evaluation.
We have FDA clearance since 2002 and most recently the UK National Health Service have recognized the benefits of RESPeRATE after a detailed review of the clinical studies and a cost benefit economic model. The NHS determined that the cost of RESPeRATE was outweighed by the benefits of having more people in the UK with controlled blood pressure.
Ensuring that we are selling a product that is safe and effective has taken many years and has been a very costly endeavor. Some of this cost is built in to the cost of RESPeRATE.
In addition, we have a dedicated staff of RESPeRATE specialists in New York City who are committed to helping all of our customers to get the most out of RESPeRATE. Our RESPeRATE Cares Program provides unlimited phone and email support to our customers. We are not just selling you a product, we are selling you a guaranteed way to lower your blood pressure naturally.
Finally, we know that RESPeRATE is not for everyone. Some people prefer to use other methods to control their blood pressure. Similar to medications, a small percentage of people do not respond to RESPeRATE. For those customers who do not wish to keep RESPeRATE, for any reason, we offer a 60 Day Money Back Guarantee.
We want to make RESPeRATE available to everyone who is interested in a proven non-drug way to lower blood pressure. We are a small family company and we understand the many costs involved in daily life. If you would like to try RESPeRATE but are concerned about the cost, please give us a call in New York at 1-877-988-9388 and speak to one of our dedicated RESPeRATE specialists. You may qualify for special RESPeRATE pricing.
Sincerely,
RESPeRATE Cares Team
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I have been using Resperate since June 2011 and my blood pressure has not improved. I have followed the instructions for use very carefully and have not given up due to the rather steep financial
expenditure for the machine. I have received many emails from
the Resperate team with advice – but to no avail. I am writing this
to confirm that some people do not respond to the effects of Resperate.
I am sorry to hear that you have not yet had success with RESPeRATE. We really want to help you to get the most out of your devic., Please give us a call at 877-988-9388 any time M-F 9am-6pm est so we can assist you. In addition, you can email us at [email protected], or even chat with us live on our site at http://www.resperate.com. Again, we really want to help you reduce your blood pressure with the device, so please contact us.
May I add, in repsonse to Rob who mentions that Resperate is “VERY
expensive – $300,” that I spent $451.77 including tax & shipping.
I have been using this device for about a year with good results–regular readings of 90/60–but at my physician’s insistance am also taking a low dose HCTZ (Losartin) daily. I do 15 minutes every morning, a good way to staart the day calm and relaxed. The first couple of minutes gets me lots of “try to breathe more steadily,” commands, but I am pretty sure the machine just thinks I breathe too slowly (about 2.5-3.0). I find it easy to find other times during the day to practice slow breathing similar to the pattern I have each morning on Resperate and suspect that adds to my success. Over time the cost of the machine easily beats the cost of BP medicine (not to mention a quadruple bypass!)
I purchased my original Resperate about 4 years ago and have used it off and on during that time. About 1 year ago I was asked to participate in an ad for Resperate, but said that I had some reservations about the product: The revised machine is very cumbersome with 3 parts instead of the attached belt on the old machine; the “voice” interrupts often, sometimes after just a cough; it takes a considerable amount of time now to show on the machine the adjusted pace of breath.
I never heard from anyone about my comments, and, of course, was not considered for your ad.
In addition, I find Dr. Rowena’s comments to be simplistic and elementary and not a help to anyone who has any basic knowledge about their own blood pressure problems.
I have been using Resperate for 2 months now. I have found that it has introduced a calming effect into my life and a positive meditative habit. I have borderline high BP so i am hoping that by using this 3-4 times a week will help me to avoid BP meds. It’s too early to tell about the effects on BP readings although they are stabilizing. But I know that meditation sevaeral times a week is a positive thinng for my spiritual and emotional state of being.
I decided to buy respirate after reading about it 6 mths ago as my BP was making me feel quite ill very high 210 over 99 at one point so had a stay in A&E I must say it is amarvellous machine!…in that my BP has improved but more to the point I take time to relax with Resperate which I’m quite disiplined about taking 15 minutes sometimes more just sitting & enjoying the tune that Resperate plays in time with my breathing I’m so pleased I came accross it & who knows it might prolong my life so thank you …..
I am concerned that this blog post suggests that Reserate is an appliance for meditation.This could put a lot of people off. It is an appliance to help with controlled breathing only,with the out breath being longer than the in breath. Having used it for a year I have found it helpful in keeping my BP down within an acceptable range.
I have been using the machine for almost 2 years and theres no significant effect to my blood pressure.During the 3 to 6 mos I called the support team as to how but inspite my pressure did not change, i have talked to person a real resperate user and asked but to no avail but I’m still using it. I guess the effect of the machine is not the same.