A three-month study found that elastic blood flow restriction training improved every metabolic marker in people with metabolic syndrome: hemoglobin A1c, blood pressure, lean muscle, fat loss, and cholesterol. The standard exercise control group saw no meaningful change.
We also have some preliminary data about metabolic syndrome, which is being overweight, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and high blood sugar. And it's kind of the American disease. These people who had this syndrome were randomized to either a elastic BFR arm or to just doing the exercises themselves. And after three months, there was dramatic improvement in the group that did the BFR training and no real change in the group that didn't. In terms of hemoglobin A1c, which is a marker for hyperglycemia, in the case of their resting blood pressure, in case of their lean body mass and subcutaneous fat, and in case of their lipid profiles, it's tremendously exciting.
