Respiration and the brain
Our breathing has profound effects on the brain. Insignificant changes in respiration (if we believe that our breathing is OK), can reduce the oxygen supply and blood flow by 20-30%. How should we breathe day and night, so that a maximum of the oxygen supply to the brain have? Breathing is the best for our nervous system?
While over 95% believe that the deep breathing patterns or large for the health, medicine is good andphysiological evidence (hundreds of publications) has answered to the contrary. In fact, there is no single study that has confirmed and found that deep breathing or improved good for our health. Why?
If you are 100 quick and deep breaths in a row, you can faint and weak due to ... Hypoxia of the brain. There are dozens of medical studies have shown that this effect is confirmed. Hyperventilation is a danger to health. Healthy people have light, slow and shallow breathing andexcellent oxygen supply. If you observe your breathing healthy relatives and friends, you will see, hear nothing and nothing. It is the responsibility of the sick patients (with asthma, heart disease, bronchitis, cancer, diabetes, depression, fatigue, insomnia, addiction and many other problems) to breathe hard and have low oxygen saturation of the tissue as a result. You are hyperventilating.
You can measure your brain oxygenation
Use stress testing to stop the breath. Breatheprevent normally seated, after the usual pinch of the nose exhale (slight unconscious breathing), and measure the breath period just before the first distress or discomfort. [Warning. Some, not all, people with heart disease, migraines, panic attacks, and experience negative symptoms minutes later after this light version of the test. If this happens, they should avoid this test.]
The most common error is to exaggerate the test. In this case, you will find thatStress increases gradually. It's time to stop. If you fail the test correctly, you will not be gasping for air after the test. Must, in fact, your breathing exactly the same, right after the test, as it was shortly before.
What are the typical results?
Seriously ill in hospital, and terminally ill patients 1 to 10 s oxygen. With the approaching death, their breathing becomes larger, deeper and heavier, while breathing time to zero: 5, 4, 3, 2 owned, andonly 1 seconds shortly before death. (You may remember seeing hectic and dramatic last gasps of dying.)
Ill patients with mild forms of the disease (asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, etc.) are about 10-20 s. These patients are usually medication to control their symptoms. Asymptomatic asthma, heart patients and many others have little more than 20 s oxygen.
Healthy adults should have, according to published western results about 40 s, but aGroup of Russian MDs practicing holistic Buteyko Self-oxygen therapy showed that 60 out of oxygen about 150 s is incompatible with chronic diseases or diseases of civilization. Therefore, they represented 60 s as the goal of therapy.
What are the causes of hypoxia in the brain when we breathe through?
When we breathe harder or deeper, we will remove too much CO2 from all the cells of the human organism. This leads to:
* Reduced blood flow to the brain. CO2 deficiency causesConstriction of blood vessels (arteries and arterioles) and our brain receives less blood supply. This physiological fact may be found in many medical textbooks. As Professor Newton from the University of Southern California Medical Center recently reported, "cerebral blood flow of 2% per mm Hg decrease in CO2" (Newton, 2004). This means that every second is reduced to decrease the oxygenation index, blood flow to the brain by about 1%. Less blood means a reduced supplyGlucose (the main fuel for the brain under normal conditions), oxygen and other nutrients. It also introduces progressive accumulation of waste products in the tissues.
* The Bohr effect suppressed. As we know, is transported by hemoglobin, the oxygen in the blood cells. How do these red blood cells know where they release more oxygen and where less? Or why else would they unload more oxygen in the places where it is more needed? The hemoglobin cells sense higher concentrations of CO2 and releaseOxygen at these places. The effect depends strongly on the absolute values of CO2 in the blood and the lungs.
When CO2 concentration is low O2 cells found in red blood cells. (Scientists call this effect "increased hemoglobin affinity for oxygen). Therefore, CO2 deficiency leads to hypoxia or low oxygenation of body cells (the suppressed Bohr effect). The more we breathe at rest, the lower the oxygen supply of cells in vital organs such as brain, heart, liver, kidney,etc.
Not only is the flow of oxygen (less vasoconstriction), but its release is hampered by low CO2 concentration (the Bohr effect). This further reduces brain oxygen supply.
Do clinical trials show that patients with severe mental or emotional problems breathing?
In 1976 the British Journal of Psychiatry published a study on CO2 measurements in 60 patients with neurotic depression and endogenous depression is not delayed (Mora et al, 1976). All patientswas unusually low carbon dioxide levels.
Later, in 1990, American psychiatrist (from the City University of New York) reported findings from several groups of patients with anxiety, panic, phobias, depression, migraine, and idiopathic seizures. The summary states that "virtually all subjects were noncontrol for moderate to severe hyperventilation EEG and associated cardiac arrhythmias. It also notes that hyperventilation, and abnormal electrical signals inthe brain at the same place.
Canadian scientists from the Department of Psychiatry (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg) measured carbon dioxide concentrations in over 20 patients with panic disorder. Their average CO2 was also among the medical standard (Asmundson and Stein, 1994). There are many other studies that report unusually low CO2 levels for people with various psychological and neurological problems.
Hyperventilation is the cause of healthProblems?
There is no evidence showing that people can suffer with normal breathing parameters of neurological or psychological problems. All available research shows that all patients with depression, schizophrenia, phobias, panic attacks, ADD, ADHD, addictions, insomnia, etc., have abnormal breathing manifestation of chronic hyperventilation.
The references can be found here: References (http://www.normalbreathing.com/refer.html)
Self-oxygenationTherapy
If you normalize your breathing, your breath will stop time will be approximately 40-60 s (a lot of oxygen into the body and brain), and your health problems with the brain or the central nervous disappear are related. Russian Dr. KP Buteyko developed MD medical oxygen therapy itself as "Buteyko method known. He trained over 200 MDs on the Buteyko oxygenation therapy in practice to use. The primary goal of this therapy is to normalize the breathing and bodyOxygen supply. Normal breathing is invisible and inaudible. It is easy and relaxed: We accept small or small inhaling and exhaling once for a longer relax, then we take ... Since these MDs, however, found it a difficult target to change his breathing. It requires many steps and changes. Find out more about the Buteyko self-oxygen therapy, respiratory, tissue oxygenation and respiratory training on my website.
Atom Feed (xml)