What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

TAKE A DEEP BREATH

Breathing is something we often take for granted. But it’s an area of our health we can affect profoundly with simple movements and breath practices.

Essentially, breathing is a continual tidal rhythm, drawing oxygen into the body with the inhalation and releasing carbon dioxide (CO2 ) out on the exhalation. This happens on a large scale through the lungs, but also via each and every one of the cells throughout the entire body in cellular respiration.

It’s the respiratory system that provides the means for vital oxygen to enter your body via your primary breathing organ, the lungs, into the bloodstream and ultimately through your whole body.

Healthy lungs working optimally take in about half a liter of air roughly 12–15 times

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