Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
Sounds like a simple yes/no question, but it turns out that many folks breathe incorrectly, night and day, that can lead to serious health problems. Do you know that you should only breathe through your nose 24x7, even while exercising? Well, I sure did not know until I read an article by Dr. Mercola that he called "Some of the Most Amazing New Health Information I've Seen in Years"
There are many health problems caused by month breathing including problems created even as a young, mouth breathing, child that can cause head/face distortions that can eventually lead to sleep apnea for example.
More to the point for this Board; do you know that if you are having a panic attack that taking deep month breaths actually makes it worse by restricting blood flow to the brain?
The article written by Dr. Mercola contains a 90 minute video presentation (available for free only through 9/25) by a leading researcher in this field Patrick McKeown. Be sure to watch this presentation that while obviously intended for doctors, provides valuable information on the causes and results of month breathing. The presentation does get deep into the medical field, but we non-medical folks can obtain some very interesting and useful information. (Please note that this issue is not about night breathers with sleep apnea, but about the importance of mouth breathing all the time.)
The information provided is now known to be critical to each person's health in many ways, so please take a look and listen to the video presentation.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/09/19/buteyko-breathing-oxygen-advantage.aspx?e_cid=20150919Z1_PRNL_art_1&utm_source=prnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20150919Z1&et_cid=DM85654&et_rid=1128535431
There are many health problems caused by month breathing including problems created even as a young, mouth breathing, child that can cause head/face distortions that can eventually lead to sleep apnea for example.
More to the point for this Board; do you know that if you are having a panic attack that taking deep month breaths actually makes it worse by restricting blood flow to the brain?
The article written by Dr. Mercola contains a 90 minute video presentation (available for free only through 9/25) by a leading researcher in this field Patrick McKeown. Be sure to watch this presentation that while obviously intended for doctors, provides valuable information on the causes and results of month breathing. The presentation does get deep into the medical field, but we non-medical folks can obtain some very interesting and useful information. (Please note that this issue is not about night breathers with sleep apnea, but about the importance of mouth breathing all the time.)
The information provided is now known to be critical to each person's health in many ways, so please take a look and listen to the video presentation.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/09/19/buteyko-breathing-oxygen-advantage.aspx?e_cid=20150919Z1_PRNL_art_1&utm_source=prnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20150919Z1&et_cid=DM85654&et_rid=1128535431
My experience of breathing as calming is actually to not breathe. The oxygen starvation starts causing relaxation and reduction in pain. I first learned this in labour: if you moo, like a cow, slowly and low, in labour you can lower your pain levels by I think about 1/4. That's a significant amount when you're in labour. :D
I would agree that people without medical reason should breathe through their noses in public if at all possible, as mouth-breathing makes them look special needs, and it sounds awful. but a blanket idea of never breathing through the mouth only works for people who won the genetic lottery and have nice broad, open sinuses, not impeded by polyps, and obviously not broken noses either.
I understand that people with medical issues in their nose will not be able to breathe only through the nose. However, the point of the article (which is an easy to read, and condensed version of the video) is that many people mouth breathe as a habit. As explained in the article and more deeply in the video, mouth breathing is both unnecessary, and dangerous to a person's health in numerous ways. I never knew that there was any difference at all between mouth and nose breathing when in fact there are numerous reasons never to mouth breathe if at all possible.
Panic attacks (or high anxiety), was barely mentioned in the video presentation and only to point out how things have changed. It is common to hear someone say take deep breaths under this circumstance, when in fact just the opposite is true (take light breaths through the nose).
Anyway, I thought that the article was very interesting, educational, and very different from what most people believe, which is why I posted it.
The not breathing thing sounds interesting too.
FYI - - If you have not already, please take the time to watch the video at the link in my first post (before it expires after Sept. 25); it will explain a lot. Surprisingly, oxygen is not the only critical gas in this game; there are actually three, and only the nose provides one of them. Also, month breathing throws the correct mixing of these three gases out the door, which is where the long term medical problems come into play (and panic attack problems).