Overview
- Continue Research posits that lifelong gravitational pull reduces cerebral blood flow by up to 17% when upright and that chronic underperfusion of the hypothalamus and brainstem could help drive ageing.
- The group cites literature suggesting cerebral blood flow declines about 0.7% per year and links lower flow to higher all-cause mortality risk.
- Preliminary data shared by the team reports passive inversion increases brain blood flow more than active yoga inversions and that six weeks of daily 10‑minute passive inversions produced a 7% rise in average brain flow, framed as roughly a decade’s worth of decline reversed.
- The measurements were gathered using a newly invented experimental proxy device for continuous brain-flow tracking, and the findings have not undergone peer review or independent replication.
- A physician critic publicly labeled the claims misleading and potentially dangerous, arguing that inversions can trigger protective autoregulation and raise risks for older adults or those with hypertension, glaucoma, or cardiovascular disease.