Healthy breathing
James Nestor did a lot of research about healthy breathing .
He is saying that no matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly.
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines.
Scientists discovered that 90 % of us is not breathing correctly. Forty percent of the population is suffering from nasal obstruction and 50% are habitual mouthbreathers.
The advise of Nestor:
1) Don't breath through your mouth! If you do breath through your mouth your bloodpressure and heart rate will go up, the risk for snoring and sleep apnea are very high. Sleep apnea can cause hypertension, cardiovascular, metabolic and cognitive problems. In the US they research at the moment the effects of sleep tape (on your mouth) for snoring amd sleep apnea. Temporary mouthbreathing when you are laughing or doing sports will have no long term effects on your health.
2) Exhale longer. Move the diafragm up and down.
3) Chew. Over the last 300 years there has been a dysevolution (the opposite of evolution for the better) this explains why we are breathing poorly: because of lack of chewing our huge sinus cavities, strong jaws and straight teeth have become smaller and weak. We should eat food that requires 1,5 hours a day of hard chewing.
4) Breath more, on short occasion. It is good to breath heavely for máximum 30 minutes a day, to stress the body on purpose, because it can function properly the other 23,5 hrs.
5) Breath slow and steady. The perfect breath is: breath in for 5,5 seconds, then exhale for 5,5 seconds. That is 5,5 breaths a minute for the 5,5 liters of air we need.
Practice it every day as long as you want to.
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