You know, there's something about breathing and getting oxygen that's very good for your survival,

and when you don't have enough oxygen, it can really put a person into a panic attack or an anxiety attack.

So today we're going to talk about difficulty breathing or air hunger or another term for that is dyspnea.

And traditionally people know about this symptom coming from asthma or some type of pneumonia or

lung infection or COPD or maybe anemia or even a heart condition.

But what if you don't have any of those problems, right?

You rule those out and you still have this problem with your breathing,

which can really affect your ability to sleep.

There's some great information on this topic by two people, Craig Stewart and Steve August, and I'm going to put a link down below for their video because they have some really great data on this topic. You could probably call this condition pseudo-dismia,

which is kind of the opposite.

When you rest, it gets worse,

but when you exercise, it gets better.

So let's cover the four main reasons for this condition.

The first reason, which actually was Craig Stewart's reason,

he had something called silent reflux where there is some acid

regurgitating up through his esophagus, but the silent part means that you don't

have the heartburn. But you might have some of the other symptoms and you might not even feel them as well because they're silent but they're there.

So what does acid reflux or silent reflux have to do with your breathing?

Well apparently there's a lot of sensory nerves in

your esophagus that go right to your brain and that will give your brain certain information

that it's not getting enough oxygen, which will cause you to feel like you have

air hunger it will cause you to breathe more and gasp for air it'll cause you to

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