New research shows health benefits from Jewish tradition (Use of tightened arm straps)

Medical Xpress / University of Cincinnati / PLOS ONE ^ | Jan. 18, 2023 | Bill Bangert / Sheryl E. Koch et al

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Research shows that people who wear tefillin, leather bands used in a Jewish religious practice which involves the tight wrapping of an arm with the bands, may receive cardiovascular health benefits. The study suggests those benefits are the result of ischemic or reduced blood flow preconditioning which produces protection from the damage caused by heart attacks.

The use of tefillin dates back to scriptural commandments urging the faithful followers to comply with religious law and to "bind them as a sign upon your arm." Rubinstein says the binding of the arm and the discomfort users often report may serve as a form of preconditioning and offer a substantial degree of protection against the damage that occurs when someone suffers a sudden loss of blood flow (acute ischemia) or after the blood supply is restored to a tissue or organ after an ischemic event (reperfusion). Such injuries occur during a heart attack when a section of the heart is deprived of oxygen and then damaged further when blood flow is reestablished.

"What we found is that wearing tefillin caused changes to the heart rate associated with lowering of the metabolism as measured via heart rate variability," says Rubinstein.

"This is a low-intensity way of protecting people from heart attacks."

"You have a very common and very deadly disease. We are showing a path through which anyone can precondition themselves to decrease the amount of damage that they suffer from a heart attack by wearing a very simple device," says Rubinstein. "This is a potential game changer for how we approach cardiovascular disease prevention. Decreasing the amount of heart attack damage by even just two-fold is something that will change outcomes for millions of people."

[ConservativeMind]

This is a simple conditioning method that provides long-term benefits, but it would require some daily changes.

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“offer a substantial degree of protection against the damage that occurs when someone suffers a sudden loss of blood flow (acute ischemia) or after the blood supply is restored to a tissue or organ after an ischemic event (reperfusion).”

That claim ought to be weighed against any negative repercussions to general blood circulation patterns due to the constrictions on the arms in the general sense. Any artificial constriction of blood flow has to generate counter-offsetting measures in the blood flow generally. Blood flow is a holistic not a fragment system, with information transmitted in feed back loops throughout the system and with operations in the system affected by what information is transmitted. Constrictions to blood flow are not a zero-sum thing.