On Breathing and Over Breathing: Health Impacts, Interview with Lisa Jordan

How we breath impacts our health through many pathways, including:

  • Its influence on the state of our nervous system (huge!)
  • Production of nitric oxide (with nose breathing vs mouth breathing), which is important for dilating blood vessels
  • The balance of oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2), which need to be in the right balance to allow cells to actually get oxygenated

In this interview with Lisa Jordan we discuss this and more! Including signs to watch for that one might over breathing, which reduces the oxygenation of your cells and tissues!

Scroll down to watch video, and here also are some of the resources she mentions.

Books

Breathe by: James Nestor

The Oxygen Advantage by: Patrick McKeown

The Way Of The Iceman by: Wim Hof

The Yoga of Breath and Pranayama Beyond The Fundamentals by: Richard Rosen

Apps

Breathing Pattern version 1.1.0 (free -$)

The Breathing App (free)

Float ($)

Breathing & HRV: MindBreath (in app purchases)

Breathwrk (in app purchases)

Balance ($$)

Calm ($$)

Buteyko Pro ($$$)

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