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From: Frontiers

Watch these puppies to lower your blood pressure and stress levels

Lowering your blood pressure in an office setting could be achieved by simple means, suggests a new Frontiers in Public Health study. Researchers showed participants several puppy videos totaling 15 minutes, including ones where puppies played in a pool or in a rural yard. They measured blood pressure, variations in blood pressure over time, and pulse rates before and after the intervention. Because these scientifically structed videos lowered participants' blood pressure and pulse rate, they may present a low-cost, scalable, and medication-free solution for workplace stress – an ever-increasing public health issue – the authors wrote.