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The first revolution in my health was when I learned some breathing exercises.
Just this step took me from having to take seven medications, to being completely medication free — in about two weeks.
I learned this technique back in 2005, and life has been wonderful since then.
What I was doing was essentially introducing the idea of “air hunger” into my life.
With air hunger, my body readjusted its thermostat for how much oxygen gets delivered to my tissues at a time.
And less breathing leads to quicker healing and better health!
You don’t realize it, but we breathe too much.
I found that the more I breathed, the more unhealthy I got.
By breathing less, my body actually learned to oxygenate my tissues better.
And I got healthier.
So breathing less let me quit all of my medications.
You can do the same thing and potentially to get off of any medications you’re on — it’s an easy technique.
Everyone can learn it.
I’ve taught this technique more recently as “bag breathing.”
And I’ve coached many people to almost perfect health with these methods.
So here’s a new study that shows that the bag breathing method works in an actual clinical study.
The researchers took people who had spinal cord injuries, and they gave them simple breathing exercises.
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The breathing exercises were intended to cause what is called transient hypoxia for the patient.
Transient hypoxia is when you are taking in less oxygen.
They instructed the patients on how to breathe less for a few minutes each day.
The researchers were testing this idea of breathing less to see how it impacted the healing process.
And by picking people who had the same type of injury, they could compare healing times more easily.
That way they could focus on breathing less would speed up healing for these spinal cord patients.
The breathing exercises were a training of sorts.
The body has a sort of thermostat mechanism that determines how much it wants you to breathe.
And by doing breathing exercises for a few minutes each day, your body adjusts how much you need to breathe.
In turn that lowered thermostat allows you to breathe less all the time, without your having to think about it.
And it turns out the less you breathe, the healthier you are.
I know, it seems odd, but it really works.
It’s even better when you do this “breathe less” exercise while you’re walking.
Walking generates carbon dioxide, and this extra carbon dioxide allows you to get better results faster.
But does all of this help you to heal faster or not?
Well… yes, it does.
In the study, people who were walking with these breathing exercises healed much faster.
Transient hypoxia (through measured breathing treatments), along with overground walking training, improves walking speed and endurance after spinal cord injury.
So the patients who were breathing less healed faster.
Like I said, the study really has nothing to do with spinal cord injury.
But it’s very interesting because spinal cord injuries are extremely difficult to heal under normal circumstances.
And this study showed that breathing exercises helped the spinal cord injuries to heal quicker.
The truth is that any injury or illness can be improved, and often cured, by breathing less.
Breathing less is also why people who live in high-altitude tend to live longer.
If you’re breathing less, you will live longer.
This seems completely off the wall and backward since we KNOW that we need oxygen.
And we get oxygen by breathing.
But the strange thing is that the less you breathe, the more oxygen reaches your tissues.
And more oxygen reaching your tissues makes you healthier.
Breathing less is probably one of the top one or two most important things you can do to restore your health.
It can lower your blood pressure to normal.
It can remove the fibrosis in your penile tissue.
Breathing less can clear your arteries and make your heart beat more evenly and more strongly.
There’s almost nothing that you can’t do by breathing less.
http://ajplung.physiology.org/content/274/2/L212
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