The Dangers of Over-Breathing with Dr. Peter Litchfield #259

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Breathing correctly is VITAL to your health... but it's also a concept often overlooked in the world of fitness, health, and nutrition. However, no body transformation program, or path to life optimization, is complete without it. Without proper breathing practices or techniques, you are setting yourself up for failure.

Dr. Peter Litchfield joins me on the podcast today for a truly transformative conversation about breathing mechanics for high performance, the balance of respiratory chemistry, and the psychology behind breath. Respiratory psychophysiology has been Dr. Litchfield's primary focus for over 20 years.

Dr. Litchfield is the President of the Professional School of Behavioral Health Sciences, which integrates physiological and behavioral sciences for innovative applications in healthcare, human service, and performance enhancement. He also serves as CEO for Better Physiology, Ltd., the manufacturer of CapnoTrainer instrumentation used for identifying dysfunctional breathing habits, and assisting people in replacing them with new functional ones.

You'll learn:

The Most Essential Component of Breathing That is Often Overlooked.
How to Maintain These 2 MAJOR Pillars of Blood Chemistry.
Which Health Issues are Associated with Dysfunctional Breathing.
What You Didn’t Know About Cardiovascular Fitness.
How to Self-Regulate Breathing for High Performance.

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0:00.0	Right, a lot of people, what they do is when they feel they need more air, will switch out of the diaphragm, if they're diaphragm, if they're diaphragm,
0:06.0	and move into the chest trying to expand and so on. And that in many people will trigger air hunger itself, because as soon as you do it, you feel restricted, because they have all this bone structure here, and people will get air hunger when they try to ventilate here so as they move from the easy
0:22.4	place to breathe to the difficult place to breathe they get a self-fulfilling prophecy where yeah
0:28.5	i'm i need more air because they feel that air hunger and then they try even more they lose more
0:33.5	carbon dioxide they start getting lightheaded they they start getting dizzy, they start getting
0:38.1	tetany in their muscles, they can't function, they're falling behind, they lose the rates.
0:43.6	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Muscle Intelligence podcast.
0:57.3	I am your host, Ben Pocolski, and today we're going to dive really deep into breathing.
1:03.5	Why breathing?
1:04.2	Well, breathing, I think, is the single greatest performance aid that most people are overlooking.
1:10.2	When most people talk about optimization of performance, hey, I want to work harder today,
1:13.6	I want an edge, they go for stimulants, they go for steroids, they go for, you name it, it's
1:21.6	probably not breathing. In my humble opinion, I think that breathing is the single greatest opportunity that most people
1:29.7	are not taking advantage of.
1:31.1	So even still at the highest level of human performance, whether it be pro sports,
1:36.1	MMA, boxing, you name it, an incredibly small percentage of people are leveraging the benefits of breathing.
1:46.9	Now, we all breathe 22,000 times a day on average.
1:50.7	How you breathe mechanically, massively implicates into how you move.
1:56.4	How you breathe from a cadence perspective massively implicates in your ability to be focused
2:02.6	and your ability to ultimately be to take things beyond what you currently are to focus at a depth.
2:10.6	How you breathe massively implicates in your energy production, your energy output, and so much more, your arousal states, your ability
2:21.0	to be heightened as far as arousal, your ability to be calm as far as arousal.
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