BREATHING

BREATHING MECHANICS ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CELLULAR ENERGY

Breathing offers oxygen which is actually a primary nutrient to the body, the brain can only survive for a matter of minutes without this critical nutrient, while you can survive for days without water and weeks without food. The way in which you breathe determines how much oxygen your lungs can take in and how effectively your cells can utilize that oxygen. An optimal or sub-optimal state of cellular respiration is reflected in the way you breathe.

Breathing through the mouth, heavy, fast, in a jerky fashion, and/or noisily are all indicators that your cellular respiration is struggling. You may be breathing a lot of oxygen, and your blood may be saturated with oxygen, but your cells are not able to use as much O2 as they need. If your cells, not just your blood were well oxygenated, your breathing would become and remain nasal, slow, light, smooth, and silent. You would feel relaxed, energetic, and clear-minded as a result. When you breathe too fast you inhale more O2 than your body can possibly use, which is useless, and in fact, taxing to the system. It’s a form of hyperventilation that continually wastes precious energy. We only need a little more than a few breaths per minute to receive all the oxygen our bodies need. The flip side of the coin: when you breathe too much - too fast, too heavy - you continuously exhale more CO2 than your body should. The problem is that without enough CO2 your cells cannot utilize the oxygen. CO2 is essential to making O2 available to your cells. In short, even when there is sufficient O2 surrounding your cells, if there is not enough CO2 around, your cells can't use that oxygen.  What is the culprit? Exhaling too much. Why do you exhale too much? Because you inhale too much, and each superfluous inhale is systematically followed by a superfluous exhale.

If your respiratory rate is between 18 and 20 breaths a minute, you will only be utilizing 50% of the oxygen on average, in contrast to a breathing rate of 6-8 breaths a minute which yields 85% utilization! The oxygen that we inhale has a positive (Para-magnetic) charge, whereas the water in our bodies has a negative (Di-magnetic) charge. Between the two opposing magnetic forces, the working potential is created in the form of cellular energy. Oxygen in fact has the highest paramagnetic charge of all the elements found in nature.

Your breathing rhythms and posture are intimately tied to your mental/emotional state. There is a corresponding breathing and postural pattern to each mental/emotional state. States characterized by fear or anxiety for example will engender fast but shallow breathing which will drive the sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight response) and lead to increased acidity in the body. Correct breathing will also help to alkalinize the blood and to mediate the level of acidity in the body. If you already have an acidic ph because of poor diet and lifestyle factors and also don't breathe effectively, your body will be unable to mediate the acidity created from metabolism and cause fatigue and a breakdown of biochemistry and physiological function over time. 

Your nose is effectively a filter for your airways. It is much easier to assimilate pressurized, moistened, filtered air than it is to expose your lungs to atmospheric conditions, which is what you are doing when you breathe through your mouth. Nitric oxide production is also increased by up to 600% when we breathe through our noses which are involved in exercise performance and metabolism.