{"id":3469,"date":"2026-11-10T23:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2026-11-10T23:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T23:40:22","slug":"brief-breathing-exercises-blunted-stress-responses-in-small-student-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"Brief Breathing Exercises Blunted Stress Responses in Small Student Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes of controlled breathing may blunt the body&#8217;s short-term reaction to a stressful speaking task, according to a small study published in Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/brief-breathing-exercises-blunt-the-body-s-physical-reaction-to-acute-stress\/\">reported by PsyPost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Texas State University and the University of Toronto Mississauga randomly assigned 66 university students to normal breathing, box breathing (equal-length inhale, hold, exhale and hold) or prolonged exhalation (a short inhale followed by a slower exhale). All then gave a speech in a virtual version of the Trier Social Stress Test. The normal-breathing group showed rises in heart rate, self-reported anxiety and salivary alpha-amylase, a stress-related marker, while neither breathing group showed those spikes. Cognitive performance did not differ between groups.<\/p>\n<p>The authors noted limits: the sample was small, young and healthy, the judges were pre-recorded, and heart rate variability was not measured during the breathing itself. The study tested short-term stress reactivity, not long-term health outcomes or treatment of any condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes of controlled breathing may blunt the body&#8217;s short-term reaction to a stressful speaking task, according to a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}