The Science Behind Breathwork

"the relationship between breathing and blood pressure has been known and understood for a long time. It boils down to this: elevated blood pressure accompanies those bodily states where rapid shallow breathing prevails. By altering breathing to a slow diaphragmatic mode, blood pressure decreases."

The Breath Connection, Dr. Robert Fried, PH. D., pg.152

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.00425.2022

https://www.prevention.com/health/health-conditions/a41396675/daily-breath-training-could-lower-blood-pressure/

...healthy breathing should be the first thing taught to a heart patient. A Dutch Study, conducted by a doctor named Dixhoorn, compared two groups of heart attack patients. The first group was taught simple diaghragmatic breathing, while the second group was given no training in breathing. The breathing group had no further heart attacks, while 7 out of the 12 members of the second group had second heart attacks over the next 2 years." 

Conscious-Breathing, Gay Hendricks, ph. D., pg. 16-17

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/605792

https://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/12-2010/reduces-panic-and-anxiety.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101220200010.htm

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10484-015-9279-8

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20873904/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10484-015-9279-8

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29740175/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5455070/

If we breath in oxygen (O2) and breath out carbon dioxide (CO2), where does the carbon come from?

https://youtu.be/nM-ySWyID9o

"The human body is designed to discharge 70% of its toxins through breathing. Only a small percentage of toxins are discharged through sweat, defecation, and urination. If your breathing is not operating at peak efficiency, you are not ridding yourself of toxins properly"

The Breath Connection, Dr. Robert Fried, PH. D., pg.152

https://psipt.com/one-of-the-top-3-indicators-of-your-life-span-your-breath/

https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2000/09/4857.html#:~:text=The%20UB%20researchers%20found%20that,more%20likely%20to%20have%20died.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35259917

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29740175

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-neuro-090121-014424

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/expphysiol.2008.042424