Breathing is Super Important

We can survive for weeks without food, and days without water. But we can only live for minutes without oxygen. Breathing is super important.

Two factors have been identified that negatively affect the quality of our breathing.

One is food, to be specific, sugar. Too much sugar intake stimulates your sympathetic nervous system and increases your blood pressure. As a result, your breathing becomes shallow and fast, thus lowering your ability to take in oxygen fully.

Sugar, by the way, is one of cancer cells' most favorite foods, according to many prominent doctors.

The other is posture. Mouth-breathing and slouching are things to watch out for. Mouth-breathing biases our nervous system toward a sympathetic state (=more excited than calm). Slouching simply decreases the amount of oxygen reaching your lungs per breath.

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I recommend you to breathe through your nose, not to slouch, and limit your sugar consumption to a sensible level.

As a closing remark, let me share with you something I learned recently. Seventy percent of detoxification is enabled by breathing. Our cells are made clean by virtue of breathing well. However, there is one type of cell in our body that does not require much oxygen for its survival. Can you guess what that is? Cancer cells. They are anaerobic (嫌気性) whereas all the other healthy cells are aerobic (好気性). In other words, when you make the quality of your breathing bad with excessive sugar intake as well as bad postures, you are inadvertently making the potential cancer cells in your body very, very "happy".