Product Info

RESPeRATE - The proven way to Lower Blood Pressure

• No side-effects
• Doctor recommended
• Clinically proven

RESPeRATE - Lower your blood pressure... without side effects

Dr Chris Steele demonstrates RESPeRATE on Breakfast TV

Personalized and Easy to Use:

1. Wrap the sensor belt over your clothes, and put on the headphones.
2. Breathe normally as RESPeRATE analyzes your breathing pattern.
3. Follow the musical tones that guide your breathing to the therapeutic zone.
4. Listen to the personalized voice instructions, which will guide you when needed.

Please note: RESPeRATE should only be used as part of your overall health program for achieving goal blood pressure, as recommended by your doctor. RESPeRATE can be used safely with medication or lifestyle modifications such as diet and exercise.

Clinically proven
RESPeRATE is the only non-drug medical device clinically proven to lower blood pressure.

Relaxes blood vessels to reduce blood pressure
RESPeRATE's breathing exercises relax the muscles that surround your small blood vessels, allowing blood to flow more easily. Within weeks, these effects accumulate, resulting in a sustained blood pressure reduction.

Works safely with other blood pressure treatments
Pleasant and relaxing, RESPeRATE can be used safely with medication or lifestyle modifications such as diet and exercise.

All you have to do is breathe
RESPeRATE is effective because its patented technology adapts to your unique breathing rate and pattern, and interactively guides you to reduce your breathing rate effortlessly.

Includes everything you need to start lowering your blood pressure today:
RESPeRATE device & Breathing sensor, Headphones, User manuals and Four AA batteries.

Harness the therapeutic power of paced breathing
Scientific evidence shows that paced breathing, when performed routinely and without effort, can lower blood pressure. RESPeRATE's patented technology paces your breathing subliminally, which has been proven to lower blood pressure significantly.

Clinical trials prove
RESPERATE significantly reduces blood pressure without any side effects.

For best results, use for 15 minutes per session, at least 4 times a week.

RESPeRATE's analyzes your breathing and composes prolonged inhale and exhale tones

You synchronize your breathing to RESPeRATE guiding tones

Technical Information

• Model: RESPeRATE RR-150
• Display type: LCD
• Power source: four alkaline batteries, 1.5v (type AA)
• Battery life: two months, with regular use of 15 minutes per day
• Maximum audio output: 1.5mW RMS @ each ear with 32 ohm headphones
• Device display respiration rate range of: 2-42 BPM but guides between 5-20 BPM
• Operating temperature: 10°C - 40°C (50°F -104°F)
• Operation humidity: 30 - 75%
• Storage temperature: -10°C-70°C (14°F - 158°F)
• Storage humidity: 30- 85%
• Weight: 480grams
• Outer dimensions: approximately 17cm(L) x 13cm(W) x 8cm(H)

Introduction

RESPeRATE the first medical device clinically proven to lower blood pressure (BP) in an effective and pleasant way.

Note: RESPeRATE should only be used as part of your overall health program for achieving goal blood pressure, as recommended by your doctor.

RESPeRATE can be safely used in conjunction with medication and lifestyle modifications such as diet and exercise.

The therapeutic power of breathing
Modern science has only recently confirmed that structured, therapeutic breathing, performed correctly can significantly lower blood pressure. The therapeutic power of breathing has been known for centuries and is used predominantly in relaxation techniques such as meditation and yoga. Effortless therapeutic breathing can be difficult to perform on your own effectively without years of training and individualized coaching RESPeRATE makes therapeutic paced breathing easy to do on your own.

Breathing with RESPeRATE makes the difference
RESPeRATE's patented "Interactive Paced Breathing" technology, ingeniously takes advantage of the body's natural tendency follow external rhythms. Composed of a Breathing Sensor, a computerized unit and headphones, RESPeRATE automatically analyzes your individual breathing pattern. It then creates a personalized melody as it subliminally paces you to slower breathing to reach the Therapeutic Breathing Zone of less than 10 breaths per minute.

The physiological result
The muscles surrounding the small blood vessels in your body dilate and relax. Blood is allowed to flow more freely, and pressure is significantly lowered. After each exercise with RESPeRATE, your breathing returns to its normal rate and pattern. Nevertheless, the beneficial effect on blood pressure is accumulating.

To achieve best results

• Create a relaxing environment for your RESPeRATE sessions. Sit in a comfortable chair in a quiet room where there are minimal distractions.
•  "Therapeutic breathing" occurs when you breathe slower than 10 breaths per minute without an effort. Breathe lightly and naturally without force or tension.
• Your goal is to log at least 10 minutes of slow therapeutic breathing per session. With as little as 40 minutes of slow breathing per week, significant blood pressure lowering begins and is maintained. Additional use may provide even better results. Daily sessions, if possible, are recommended.
• Be patient. As with any physical exercise program, you can expect to see notable progress within four to six weeks.

Continue using RESPeRATE regularly and you will experience additional, sustained reductions in blood pressure.

Using your RESPeRATE Device
Preparing to Use RESPeRATE

Step 1: Set Up
1. Install the batteries: When using RESPeRATE for the first time, install the 4 AA batteries in the battery compartment at the back of the device

II. Take out the headphones and sensor: Carefully remove the headphones and the sensor from the storage compartment located within the top part of the device itself

• Pull the cables with care. Both the sensor cable and headphones are already connected to main unit from the inside of the storage compartment.

• Return the sensor to its compartment at the end of each session. It's best not to wind the cable around the sensor.

Step 2: Determine the best position for the sensor
Breathing involves movement of the chest, abdomen, or both. The best position for the sensor depends on how you breathe. The following procedure helps to determine if you breathe predominantly from the chest or abdomen.

Sit comfortably on a chair. Lean back and place your right hand on the right side of the chest. Place your left hand on the upper abdomen, above the navel. Breathe normally. Feel which hand moves first when you start to inhale and exhale. That is the location to place your Breathing Sensor.

Loosen any tight clothes or belt that might restrict your natural breathing.

 

If you are unable to determine the preferred position, place the sensor on your upper abdomen.

Step 3: Put on the sensor belt
Place the sensor belt around your upper abdomen or chest over your clothing. Buckle it up at the front of the body with the cable below the sensor. (See Step 2 to determine the best position for the sensor.)

Check that the label side of the sensor is placed against your body and that the cable extends downward.

While sitting, position the sensor unit and adjust the belt to fit snugly. Be sure it is neither too tight nor too loose. Slide the blue sensor unit slightly left and right along the belt to ensure it can slide freely.

Step 4: Put on the headphones
Put on the headphones. Verify that the headphones are plugged into the jack, which is located on the right-hand side of device, marked with the headphone icon.

When the headphones are fully inserted into the jack, listen for a "click."

Put on the headphones. Lean back slightly, as sitting forward restricts your breathing movement.

You're ready to begin your RESPeRATE session.

How to Use RESPeRATE

Step 1: Turn RESPeRATE On
Press the orange On/Off button, located on the right-hand side of the device. At first, RESPeRATE momentarily displays your Weekly Therapeutic Breathing Time. This is the total time in minutes that you have spent in the Therapeutic Breathing Zone over the last 7 days.

Note: Therapeutic breathing time is accumulated when you breathe slower than 10 breaths per minute as guided by RESPeRATE. To achieve best results, we recommend that you accumulate at least 40 minutes of Weekly Therapeutic Breathing Time. When first used, this number will show "0" minutes.

Once you have used the device for 7 days, this number shows a "running tab". With each new day, it adds a day and drops a day of your daily therapeutic breathing time. It will never show "0" minutes again unless you have accumulated zero therapeutic breathing time for 7 consecutive days.

Step 2: Breathe normally (Recognition Phase)
(voice instruction)
At the beginning of each session, breathe normally. It is not recommended to purposely try to breathe slowly or deeply. Simply allow RESPeRATE to learn your natural breathing rate and pattern.

Each breath that RESPeRATE detects is represented by two short "measuring tones" as well as changes in the Breathing Gauge.

A short high note signifies when to begin to breathe in. A short low note signifies when to begin to breathe out. The vertical Breathing Gauge that appears on the display fills as you breathe in and empties as you breathe out.

Each breath detected and analyzed by the device appears as a triangle on the display. Once four breaths have been analyzed, (and four triangles appear on the display), a melody begins. This is the start of the Breathing Exercise Phase.

! If the "measuring tones" or Breathing Gauge do not match your feeling of breathing out, the sensor needs to be positioned differently. Please refer to the Troubleshooting section in your User Manual, Sensor Position Help Mode, page 39.

Step 3: Breathe according to the guiding tones (Breathing Exercise Phase)
(voice instruction)
Once RESPeRATE has recognized four stable breaths, it displays your breathing rate in minutes (e.g. 17.8 breaths per minute, or BPM). The Breathing Exercise Phase begins now, signified by the start of the melody and the voice instruction to "breathe according to the guiding tones".

RESPeRATE composes a melody according to your individual breathing pattern made up of two distinct guiding tones. By gradually prolonging the breathe-in and breathe-out tones, RESPeRATE gently slows your breathing toward the Therapeutic Breathing Zone of less than 10 breaths per minute.

Simply synchronize your breathing with the breathe-in and breathe- out guiding tones of your personalized melody. Inhale gradually when you hear the high tone and exhale gradually when you hear the second, low tone. Breathe comfortably without effort and avoid holding your breath. To assist you distinguishing between the two tones, voice instructions of "in", "out" accompany the first few breaths. The movements of the "guiding figure" are synchronized with the guiding arrows and tones.

Within a few breaths, the voice instructions stop, but you are to "close your eyes, and continue following the guiding tones".

After one minute, the "guiding figure" and arrows disappear. This is because a visual guide requires far more attention than an auditory guide, which reduces the therapeutic effect.

! If you are having difficulty learning to synchronize your breathing with the guiding tones, try changing the melody to #4. (Personalizing RESPeRATE, Selecting a Melody, page 22 of your user manual.)

Step 4: Therapeutic Breathing Zone
(voice instruction)
Once your breathing has slowed down to below 10 breaths per minute, you are notified that you are entering the Therapeutic Breathing Zone. The "1 0-Therapeutic Minutes clock" icon appears on the display, as well as your breathing rate (eg. 9.8 bpm in the top figure).

Each additional minute spent in the Therapeutic Breathing Zone appears as an additional segment filled in on the Therapeutic Zone display clock. Once the "10-Therapeutic Minutes clock" (bottom figure is completely filled (10 minutes), a second ring appears around the original clock. It continues to fill in with each additional minute spent in the Therapeutic Breathing Zone.

! Your goal for each session is to achieve at least 10 minutes of your 1 5-minute breathing session in the Therapeutic Breathing Zone.

Please complete the 15-minute exercise session. The more therapeutic minutes accumulated, the better the likelihood for a greater blood pressure reduction.

To view the exact time spent in the Therapeutic Breathing Zone during the current session, press the information (i) button at any time during the session.

If the guiding tones become too slow to follow effortlessly, or if one of the tones is either too short or too long to follow, stop following the guiding tones.

Stop following the guiding tones and breathe naturally. You may take off the headphones for a short time. Within a few breaths, RESPeRATE automatically adapts itself to your present breathing pattern and gently begins the slowing process again.

This is neither a fault or mistake. It is RESPeRATE's interactive way to keep pulling you towards your individual slowest breathing rate by using prolonged exhalation that remains comfortable.

It is counter-productive to overly prolong your inhale or exhale periods beyond what is comfortable for you, or to momentarily hold your breath in order to keep in sync with the melody. For more information, see the tips that follow.

RESPeRATE automatically ends the session after 15 minutes. It notifies you, "Session is ending. Bye for now," (20 seconds before the end. It gradually lowers the volume until it completely shuts off. (To change the session default duration, see page 23 of your user manual).

We recommend that you store the RESPeRATE sensor and belt in the compartment at the top of the device in order to protect it from damage. It is best not to wind the cable around the sensor.

! Important tips:
Be patient—results are at hand. While the pleasant experience of each RESPeRATE session is immediate, achieving a sustained blood pressure lowering result can require 4—6 weeks of regular use.

Breathe effortlessly. In order to effectively lower blood pressure, it is essential to breathe effortlessly during the entire RESPeRATE session. Normal breathing is usually 12—18 breaths per minute. In the first few sessions, your slowest comfortable breathing rate achieved might be higher than 10 breaths per minute. Don't push yourself. Within a few RESPeRATE sessions, your breathing rate will likely decrease to below 10 BPM.

Breathe gradually. Avoid holding your breath after inhalation. Effortless breathing is best achieved by a gradual inhalation through the nose, then a gradual exhalation through the mouth.

One easy way to prolong exhalation is to purse your lips as if you were blowing out a candle.

Avoid other breathing techniques. During the RESPeRATE session, we don't recommend other breathing techniques such as breath-holding or Buteyko. These manoeuvres require effort which is counter-productive to lowering blood pressure.

The more therapeutic breathing minutes, the better! Be sure to accumulate no less than 40 therapeutic breathing minutes per week. Remember that the more time spent in the Therapeutic Breathing Zone, the better your chances of achieving greater blood pressure reduction.

Remember, it's not a competition. The slowest breathing rate and pattern that is comfortable for each individual varies from person to person and from day to day. Only you can decide when breathing becomes uncomfortable.

The goal is to reach the Therapeutic Zone of slower than 10 breaths per minute, not to reach as slow a breathing rate as possible. Making an effort to achieve an excessively slow breathing rate (i.e. below 5 breaths per minutes) may not be as beneficial in lowering blood pressure levels.

Stay awake. RESPeRATE is very relaxing. Some users have been known to fall asleep. If snoozing, your breathing may become faster and you may not be able to accumulate Therapeutic Minutes. It's best to stay awake.

Indications for Use
RESPeRATE is intended for use as a relaxation treatment for the reduction of stress by leading the user through interactively guided and monitored breathing exercises. The device is indicated for use only as an adjunctive treatment for high blood pressure together with other pharmacological and/or non-pharmacological interventions.

Over-the-counter Use

Contraindication
None known

Precautions:
Do not use this device without consulting your physician if you suffer or have suffered in the past from: active ischemic heart disease/unstable angina, severe congestive heart failure, chronic atria fibrillation, stroke resulting in permanent impairment, chronic renal failure, severe asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), like chronic bronchitis and emphysema, or major organ failure.

Inter-Cure strongly recommends that you do not modify your hypertension treatments without the advice and consent of your physician.

Do not use your RESPeRATE when you need to be alert or to concentrate, or when using heavy equipment. Do not use RESPeRATE while driving.

If you experience any side effects or if you feel any change in your general health or mood, immediately discontinue use of your RESPeRATE, and contact your physician.

Breathe naturally throughout the exercise. Excessive deep breathing may cause dizziness and/or palpitation.

Please note: RESPeRATE should only be used as part of your overall health program for achieving goal blood pressure, as recommended by your doctor. RESPeRATE can be used safely with medication or lifestyle modifications such as diet and exercise.