The main causes of poor health and low body oxygenation in modern people relate to sedentary lifestyle (lack of physical exercise) and stress. Soviet and Russian MDs practicing the Buteyko method agree that advance of chronic diseases during last century took place due to drastic changes in lifestyle of humans. We used to exercise up to 6-12 hours per day before the industrial revolution. When we exercise, we have higher CO2 values in the arterial blood. Hence, our breathing center adjusts to higher CO2 values. Later, after exercise, our breathing is lighter and we have higher CPs (body oxygen test results). Sedentary lifestyle and lack of exercise (or exercise with mouth breathing) causes chronic hyperventilation and reduced body oxygenation leading to cell hypoxia. Physical exercise with mouth breathing also has negative effects on health of most people, as this web page explains: www.normalbreathing.com Stress is another factor that leads to chronic hyperventilation syndrome or breathing more than the medical norm. It is known that stress and anxiety can cause strokes, chest pain (heart attacks), epilepsy seizures, acute asthma attacks, and many other serious long-term health problems, such as acne, grey hair, obesity and weight loss, and even cancer. What is the exact mechanism? It is rather simple. Stress makes breathing heavy. We breathe more air, we get less oxygen in cells due to the Bohr effect and vasoconstriction due to low CO2. This page focuses on effects and …
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