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

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The Importance of Breathing Lightly

Jason was a mouth breather until he read an article about the work of a Russian doctor. He discovered that it's not just enough to breathe through your nose, but also to have light breathing. Over breathing actually causes blood vessels to constrict and less oxygen to be delivered throughout the body. His results were when he first switched from out to nose breathing,. I did the nose and blocking exercise. And made a concerted effort to breathe only through my nose. The next day his wheezing dropped or decreased by about 50% in one week.

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