Interview
The Breathing Expert: Mouth Breathing Linked To ADHD, Diabetes & Child Sickness!
- The modern environment is linked to a surge in health issues including diabetes, asthma, metabolic and autoimmune disorders, anxiety, and ADHD, with bad breathing habits identified as a primary contributing factor.
- Listening for a child's breathing while sleeping is cited as a critical diagnostic indicator, and fixing underlying sleep-disordered breathing is expected to resolve the vast majority of ADHD cases according to researchers.
- Carbon dioxide levels exceeding 800 to 1,000 parts per million are predicted to cause cognitive and physical impairment, bone demineralization, kidney calcification, and chronic inflammation, with potential indoor rises to 1,500 or 1,700 ppm noted over a few-hour timeframe.
- Employers and educational institutions are expected to mandate fresh air intake within the next few years as performance declines due to poor indoor air quality become apparent.
- Lung function is predicted to decline rapidly after age 30, with accelerated shrinking for women between ages 50 and 60, and lung size is considered the greatest predictor of lifespan.
- Chronic stress is associated with poor breathing habits, while reversing these habits may reduce or entirely reverse symptoms of asthma and anxiety.
- Cardiovascular exercise and yoga are expected to expand lung capacity by 15 to 20 percent, and adopting healthy biomechanics should improve workout performance and reduce exhaustion.
- Specific breathing patterns can lower blood pressure by 10 to 15 points within minutes for some individuals.
- Practice is expected to allow the average person to increase breath-hold time (Bolt score) to 40 seconds or more.
- Recommended breathing rhythms include 5.5 seconds in and 5.0 seconds out for most adults, 8 seconds in and 8 seconds out (4.5 breaths per minute) for those taller than 6 feet, and a 3-second rhythm to start with for children.
- Snoring and sleep apnea symptoms are expected to recur after surgical interventions like adenoid or tonsil removal unless core breathing dysfunction is addressed.
- Future editions of the author's book will be updated regarding indoor carbon dioxide levels, while a BBC Maestro series is intended to serve as a practical guide for improving breathing conditions.
- The author's book is expected to become required reading for understanding the consequences of misaligned breathing habits, and subscription to the associated channel is promised to result in improved content quality.