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317: How to actually tell if you’re breathing right | Patrick McKeown, breathing expert

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The Biochemistry of Breathing

Breathing is the amount or volume of air that a person is breathing per minute. Normal minute ventilation is between four and six liters of air per minute. But if we have a habit of overbreathing, we can be breathing 10 to 15 liters ofAir per Minute. This hard and fast breathing also puts the body more likely into a fight or fight response,. increase sympathetic drive and reduce the power of sympathetic drive. So there's so many things that are affected by it.

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