If CO2 and Nitric Oxide had a baby
A higher tolerance for CO2 means more oxygen supplied to cells. Nasal breathing during increased heart rate activity increases our brains tolerance for CO2 and correlates to fitness levels. Couple this with Nitric Oxide and you have powerful results optimizing bodies performance.
Breath. We do it well enough to sustain us, but are we doing it well enough to sustain us for 100 years? No.
Our breath has shifted from thoracic excursion with a bigger diaphragm, breathing through the back and side muscles.
Unfortunately, this shift has changed our centre of gravity. If you think about the amount of hip and lower back injuries our older adults have because we are not teaching them how to breath diaphragmatically, which helps them feel more stable, is appalling.
Compressing throat and abdomen while nasal breathing with brain below heart = yoga therapy.
To gain a sense of control of your autonomic system and the way you breath you need to integrate the psychology of it. The understanding of why to change your behavior. If you don’t integrate why your breath changed as per your story you wont actually get the mechanics right and switch your autocorrect. The understanding of why the behavior changed to begin with or the myths you have that lead you on your current path.
What changed that switched your breath to shallow and fast? …
So, How Does Breathing Through Your Nose Impact The Production Of Nitric Oxide?
“Inhaling through your nose has been hailed as important by Yogis for 100’s if not 1000’s of years. The physiological significance was discovered only about 18 years ago. They discovered that the nasal cavities, sinusoids, make a large amount of Nitric Oxide continuously. That’s when you breathe in through your nose continuously you are going to carry that NO into your lungs. Your mouth does not produce NO. If you breathe through your mouth you are not going to get NO into your lungs. We also have cilli in the nose to filter and warm the air which makes better for O2 exchange in the lungs.”
When Nitric Oxide goes into the lungs it widens and dilates the pulmonary arteries so more blood flows through. Why do you want blood to flow through your lungs? You want it to pick up oxygen. The O2 is in the air. That has to get into the lungs. NO also relaxes and widens your airways like the trachea and bronchioles inside the lungs. They get wider and make it easier to take in air. Air has oxygen. You increase blood flow and you increase the oxygenation of the blood so when the oxygenated blood leaves your lungs it goes to the rest of your body.
Nitric Oxide has anti microbial effects. NO can kill bacteria, parasites and viruses. Currently 5 large clinical trials with patients who have severe Covid19 are being given NO gas by inhalation through special masks. The first study was completed recently where pregnant women with serious C19 were admitted to ICU and immediately administered NO by inhalation. All women in the trial delivered healthy babies soon afterwards.
NO production in the lungs allows blood flow to the lungs preventing thrombosis in the lungs.
The more yoga you do the better you will feel. Rule of thumb is show up as you are, do no more than what you can do now, and watch yourself grow with consistent practice. Do your yoga and all else will follow!