367: Hold Your Breath
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Did you ever hold your breath when driving through a tunnel as a kid? Do you now deliberately slow down your breathing to de-stress? The less you need to breathe, the longer you live and the better your health. So says Niraj Naik, a SOMA Breath instructor, who today gives us an overview of how breathing impacts our entire body, and how mindful breathing can help heal all of our systems.
He explains what happens in the body and brain over the long-haul with a committed breathwork practice. He goes over an easy exercise to assess where we are, as a starting point, and he also offers tips for how to begin breath training for all of the benefits it holds.
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| 0:00.0 | there is an awakening going on, but all of the studies are already out there, the science is out there, |
| 0:05.6 | it's all out there, we don't need to reinvent the wheel, all of these studies have been done before, |
| 0:11.7 | you know, even in recent, actually in fact, there's a whole field of science and a therapy called |
| 0:18.9 | Intamin hypoxic train, or IHHT, Intamin hypoxic, hypoxic train, okay, or therapy. And what this is, |
| 0:28.8 | is they use machines where you breathe in higher than normal oxygen for a period, and then hold your, |
| 0:35.2 | well, you breathe in very low oxygen, so it's like holding your breath, right, but you're breathing |
| 0:39.7 | very low oxygen. And what it does is it simulates going up to high altitude, what they found is that |
| 0:46.0 | people go to high altitude and come back down, they feel benefits, they feel better. This is because |
| 0:52.6 | they're holding their breath for a short period of time, it's like holding their breath for a short |
| 0:56.8 | period of time, it's like lowering the oxygen for a period, and what that does, that climatization, |
| 1:03.4 | which we can invoke with our breath, but they do, they do it through machines, but then mountaineers do |
| 1:08.4 | through climbing up mountains, what it does is it makes your body go, oh, I'm running out of oxygen, |
| 1:16.1 | so I need to prepare. So what it does is it produces more red blood cells, it produces better |
| 1:21.1 | capillularization, blood circulation, and what it also does is it increases blood flow to organs |
| 1:29.0 | that need more oxygen like the brain and the heart, and because of that then you become more adapted |
| 1:35.1 | to oxygen, so you need less oxygen, and that means the less you need to breathe the longer you live, |
| 1:41.2 | the better your health. |
| 1:42.0 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 1:53.5 | in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. We are your source for scientific knowledge and |
| 1:58.3 | traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 2:01.5 | Hey, go to here. Do you ever play around with your breath? Try to hold it when you're driving |
| 2:13.0 | through a tunnel, for example, or deliberately slow it down to relieve stress? |
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