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After contracting Covid-19 and being put on a ventilator, Gresini Racing’s team boss Fausto Gresini’s condition is slowly improving. Hospitalised on 27 December, one month later the 60-year-old former world champion’s condition was described as “frag

It turns out the answer to life, the universe and everything is not 42 at all. It’s 5.5. Various religions through the ages, along with more recent scientific researchers, have found that 5.5 is the magic number when it comes to praying or chanting w

People think they lose weight through “burning it off” or profusely sweating, says Nestor, but they don’t. They do it through exhaled breaths. “For every 10 pounds of fat lost in our bodies, eight and a half pounds of it comes out through the lungs;

Breathing is a movement. Are you moving well? Ever felt particularly breathless out on the trails? Are you huffing and puffing before you’ve even hit the climb? What about heavy and tired legs that just won’t settle into the run? Yawning when you sho

We take breaths around 25,000 times a day but it’s not something we usually put much thought into. James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science Of A Lost Art, worked with scientists and medical experts to uncover the right way to breathe. “Most of

A A variety of physiology or lung function tests give the specialist information about your lungs, their condition and what may be wrong with them. These can usually be done in outpatients and many simply involve breathing into machinery. The commone

Wearing a mask is important to keep us all safe – but wearing one for long periods of time can sometimes feel claustrophobic, making it more difficult to breathe. Here’s how to make mask-wearing more bearable. ‘Breathing with a mask on feels unnatura

Breathing is not something that we have to think about, and is controlled by muscle contractions in our body. Breathing is controlled by the diaphragm, which contracts and expands on a regular, constant basis. When it contracts, the diaphragm pulls a

These areas are where air enters the body so that oxygen can be transported into and around the body to where it’s needed. Carbon dioxide also exits through these. This is part of both the respiratory and digestive systems. A flap of connective tissu

The primary organs used for respiration in humans are the lungs. Humans have two lungs, with the left lung being divided into two lobes and the right into three. The lungs have between 300 and 500 million alveoli, which are where gas exchange occurs.

“The first thing we do when we’re born is inhale. The last thing we do is exhale,” says Dr Noah Greenspan, founder of the Pulmonary Wellness Foundation and the Pulmonary Wellness and Rehabilitation Center in New York. It’s a mostly automatic, unconsc

Slowly inhaling and exhaling will help calm your nervous system, lower your heart rate and, ultimately, lead to you feeling far less tense in bed. Try this NHS-recommended breathing exercise: 1 Lie down, arms away from your sides, palms facing up.

For most of her career, Monika Charyga believed people didn’t fully understand her job. The 28-year-old would mention that she was a respiratory therapist at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, and someone would guess that she examined people’s lung ca

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

Stand up, place your hands on your stomach and take a deep breath in, relaxing your abs. Now blow out through pursed lips and keep blowing out ALL the air. You should feel your deep abs tighten and draw in as they try to expel the air. The same thing

Think about the last time you attempted a heavy lift or did a series of crunches. Did you remember to breathe? “Most commonly, people hold their breath through a movement,” says Belisa Vranich, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, fitness expert and author

There are around 7.6 billion people in the world and, remarkably, even though we share the same air, we each breathe in a completely unique way - the pace, rhythm, and flow of our breath are as distinctive as our thumbprint. Sometimes we need the ey

Camilla is keen to find something positive in these difficult times. As she says: “We have all been broken open for some learnings here, and to ask ourselves the question: ‘What really matters to me?’ “We are all running so fast, we need to ask: ‘Can

Alison uses a variety of breathing exercises to help clients with asthma and other conditions, and everyone can benefit from improving their breathing, Alison says. Here are two techniques you can try for yourself. This is used to help clear the nose

Much of the pair’s preparation came from their previous escapades, building physically fit bodies and navigational professionalism. While Hillary used his experience on the many glacial mountains of New Zealand to his advantage, Norgay had six prior

There are 300 million air sacs in the lungs. Known as alveoli, each one is surrounded by a web of ultra-fine blood vessels. Here oxygen from the air passes into red blood cells and carbon dioxide made by the muscles passes into the air. This exchange

You’d be surprised how many of us don’t breathe in a healthy way – either holding our breath or shallow breathing – and the negative effects are cumulative, so it’s worth paying attention to it now. Place coloured sticky dots around your house as a r

Critical care physicians are questioning the wide use of ventilators for #Covid19, saying that a large number of patients could instead be treated with less intensive respiratory support.

A shortage of ventilators will put lives at risk, so health authorities around the world are doing everything they can to get more

When you’re stressed and anxious, your breathing may become shallow or you might hold your breath, which means you’re not taking in enough oxygen. This can lead to lower levels of oxygen and higher levels of carbon monoxide in your blood and the resu

I have never been able to breathe through my nose. I’ve tried sprays, inhalers, rinses – even an operation. Is salt therapy the answer?

We’ve all been there — you swallow a piece of food that was too big and begin to panic that it won’t go down. For some people, it actually doesn’t go down and starts to become a medical emergency. However, taking too big a bite isn’t the only thing t

What if I told you that strength, speed, power and health all start with your nose? Depending on how you breathe, you can either maximize or depress your martial arts performance. Just because you’re breathing doesn’t mean you’re breathing correctly.