How to Naturally Increase Oxygen - 2 Breathing Exercises

If you want to increase your oxygen absorption and improve your respiratory health, breathing exercises can be very effective. Contrary to popular belief, simply breathing faster is not the solution. In this video, we’ll explore how oxygen and carbon dioxide work together, and some exercises you can do to improve your breathing biomechanics.

Your O2 Levels Are Likely “Full”

Contrary to popular belief, most people have optimal blood oxygen levels between 95-99 percent all throughout the day. Think of your blood oxygen stores as your tank of gas, when the tank is full, it’s full. There’s no added benefit to keeping the pump running and letting the gas spill out on the floor. Surprisingly, most people over-breathe, meaning their minute-by-minute respiration rate is 10, 20 or even 30 percent higher than it needs to be. Accelerated breathing can be fueled by stress, anxiety, and poor health.

Your CO2 Levels Are Likely Lacking

Constant over breathing unnaturally reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the lungs and has a cascading impact on your gas exchange balance. To understand the paradoxical relationship between oxygen and carbon dioxide, it’s helpful to learn the Bohr Effect. This phenomenon, discovered by Danish researcher Christian Bohr, explains how oxygen binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells. Carbon dioxide plays a crucial role in releasing oxygen from hemoglobin and making it available for cellular use. Hyperventilation, or fast breathing, leads to excessive oxygen intake without an adequate level of carbon dioxide. This is why fast breathing can cause dizziness, headache, or even fainting.

The Goal is Balance

As is true with everything in health, the objective with breathing is to find balance. This
means slowing the breath and training them muscles of respiration. When it comes to breathing, balances refer to the rate of breathing and the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide respectively.

Resistance Breath

The diaphragm is your main breathing muscle and can be strengthened through resistance training just like any other muscle. To create resistance, it’s helpful to inhale through a resistance device or even an aluminium straw.

To add to the benefits of this exercise, we’ll deliberately slow and deepen the breath to optimize CO2 levels. Inhale through a resistance device as you count 1-2-3-4; and exhale through your nose for 4-3-2-1.

Broom Pole Extension (2 min)

The broom pole extension exercise involves holding a broom pole behind your back with your arms positioned at a comfortable width. This exercise helps increase flexibility in the thoracic region, allowing for improved breathing mechanics.

Breathing exercises can be a powerful tool in optimizing your oxygen utilization and enhancing overall breathing biomechanics. It is important to remember that hyperventilation does not increase oxygen levels in your cells. However, there are specific use cases where controlled hyperventilation may be beneficial, such as stimulating cortisol in the morning or preparing the body for physical activity. By incorporating these breathing exercises into your routine, you can experience the benefits of improved breathing and enhanced oxygen absorption. Let's get started!

VIDEO CONTENTS
00:00 Are you a bad breather?
00:40 Intro
01:55 Hyperventilation
03:12 Importance of CO2
04:24 Optimal breathing rate
05:38 Breathing exercises
05:51 Exercise #1 - Resistance Breathing
07:26 Exercise #1 starts
10:47 Exercise #2 - Stretching Exercise
11:21 Exercise #2 starts

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[The-Contractor]

Coming from someone with over 50 years of diligent breath work, your information is sound and of real value to people looking for something other than drugs for health maintenance.

[devashishsingh]

Resistance breathing: called ujjai in pranayam and has many other benefits - thyroid, throat chakra and key brain point activation, improving focus, works the lung and diaphragm etc

[Drake-Krueger]

I learnt about this randomly from a video game in 2014. Not until I grew older, I started realizing how beneficial breath-work can be. For a decade, i've been struggling with mental health issues and the breathing exercises I use helps tremendously in many aspects of my life. This video is the first time I see and hear about this specific exercise. Great video with simple explanation!

[Wholistic]

2 minutes in and I'm already thinking: "finally, someone who makes sense! All along I thought I was the only one who saw this whole oxygen bonanza was out of proportion and that that's not how breathing works!". Thank you so much for this free content! Namaste

[Morricone]

I learnt about this randomly from a video game in 2014. Not until I grew older, I started realizing how beneficial breath-work can be. For a decade, i've been struggling with mental health issues and the breathing exercises I use helps tremendously in many aspects of my life. This video is the first time I see and hear about this specific exercise. Great video with simple explanation! 👍

[totallyautonomous]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:

00:00 🌬️ Breathing deeply and rapidly doesn't necessarily increase oxygen effectively; it can lead to dizziness and headaches due to CO2 imbalance.
01:27 💡 Focusing solely on oxygen levels can overlook the importance of CO2 balance, necessary for oxygen absorption at the cellular level.
03:16 📊 Most people have oxygen saturation levels of 95-99%, and over-breathing can disrupt CO2 balance, limiting oxygen delivery to cells.
04:40 ⚖️ Optimal breathing involves a balance between oxygen and CO2; slower, normalized breathing patterns can improve respiratory efficiency.
06:25 🏋️ Strengthening the diaphragm muscle through resistance can improve respiratory coordination and efficiency.
10:31 🧘 Stretching exercises for the thoracic region can enhance posture and intercostal muscle flexibility, leading to better breathing efficiency.

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[johnzimmerman]

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[Jenesis]

I learned to swim since last July. My out of water breathing has improved so much, too. Thank you for this session. I will add your breathing exercises to my daily workout. I find deep and slow breathing helps with stress and pain reduction.

[gyozakeynsianism]

Excellent sound editing!

Also, great, clear explanation. Thank you!

[MrLiohman]

My Garmin watch has similar feature. It is basically 4, 4, 4, 4 - breathe in, hold, breathe out, hold, then repeat. Is is done for a total of about 20 breath cycles.I am considering giving it a more serious try as I thing I struggle with unconsciously holding my breath while sitting at the desk etc. Thank you for putting in an effort and uploading this video.

[ndchieh]

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[milanassimova]

Thank you! I will try that out. I had Covid with pneumonia and my breathing needs improvement. Five months but is still most of the time below 95

[karinkuhn]

thank you... great video... i love seeing you add practices to round out the information

[danielmarmen]

Thank you for putting together such an amazing resource. Clear, concise and scientifically informative.

[fabianleon]

I have been improving my breathing for about 4 months, this video helped me me a lot to understand in simple words
Thanks for sharing

[sophieamirian]

THANK YOU FOR TEACHIN US COUPLE OF MORE USEFULL BREATHING METHOD ❤

[rjac]

I love doing breathing exercises, 10-15 deep breaths in a row then hold for about 10 seconds and then completely exhale and hold for 60-90 seconds feels very nice

[wendywyvill]

Ya Lucas! another great video. I teach in HK Pure Yoga and have studied with Robin Rothenberg and Patrick and have been teaching functional breathing for many years in my Asana classes. I love how your videos are so educational but in a very easy way to understand. Thanks so much for sharing.

[hidearCellofGod]

😂😂😂 I am 63 & I do yoga since my 22, when I went living in a kundalini yoga ashram for 5 years, we did lots of pranayama and 1 hr of yoga followed by 1 hr of meditation every day, I have never done a breathing as you Show here, 😂😂😂 and I never passed out, nor had ever headaches, I do a special yoga breathing and feel great! It is so powerful that causes rejuvenation, wrinkles dissapppeared in a 70 years old lady, after a 120 practice and business went better, I love that of some meditation practices, that help us to stop the Nonsens of the ego mind, 1 hr yoga followed by 1 hr mantra singing followed by 1 hr of sossharschan chakra kriya, was our practice, thanx for reminding me, I must start this yogi practice again, 6-9 am, in the ashram used to be 04;00 - 6 am in Mexico, in India 2-5 am in Germany, 6-8 😂😂😂thnx for sharing