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Breathing
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Physiology |
People
learn dysfunctional breathing habits, that compromise respiratory fitness. Breathing directly
regulates body chemistry, including pH, electrolyte balance, blood flow,
hemoglobin chemistry, and kidney function.
When these considerations are compromised as a consequence of learned breathing
habits, the biochemical balancing function of breathing is disturbed, and respiratory fitness is itself
compromised. The most common dysfunctional breathing habit is overbreathing. Overbreathing is breathing that results in
a carbon dioxide deficit, a physiological condition known as hypocapnia. The resulting disturbances in acid-base chemistry may have profound
immediate and long-term effects that trigger, exacerbate, perpetuate, and/or
cause a wide variety of emotional (anxiety, anger), cognitive (attention,
learning), behavioral (public speaking, test taking), and physical (pain,
asthma) changes that may seriously impact health and performance. The CapnoTrainer® is used first, for
helping to identify these habits, and then second, for learning new ones that
may restore healthy chemistry. Based on surveys regarding ambulance calls, 60 percent of
the ambulance runs in the larger USA cities may be a direct consequence of
symptoms precipitated by overbreathing, a learned dysfunctional habit. It is estimated that 10 to 25 percent of the
U.S. population may be suffering some of the effects of learned
overbreathing! Here is basic
respiratory physiology fundamental to understanding the effects of
dysfunctional breathing, specifically hypocapnia. Topics may be read in sequence by clicking
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