The simplest measure of stress is to check how long you can comfortably hold your breath after a normal outbreath when at rest. It is called the control pause (CP) and was devised by a Russian doctor Professor Konstantin Buteyko who spent his entire life researching chronic hidden hyperventilation, the very common consequence of modern stress. For more info on this check out Buteyko Method on Google. Meanwhile if your CP is over 45 seconds you are one of the very few healthy breathers, if it is under 20 seconds you will almost certainly be suffering the ill effects of over-breathing or hyperventilation. Every asthmatic, hypertensive, panic attack sufferer, sleep apnoea sufferer etc is breathing two to three times more air per minute than normal, that's the major cause of their illness! Where did this chronic hidden hyperventilation come from? The fight/flight resonse to repeared stressors.
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The simplest measure of stress is to check how long you can comfortably hold your breath after a normal outbreath when at rest. It is called the control pause (CP) and was devised by a Russian doctor Professor Konstantin Buteyko who spent his entire life researching chronic hidden hyperventilation, the very common consequence of modern stress. For more info on this check out Buteyko Method on Google. Meanwhile if your CP is over 45 seconds you are one of the very few healthy breathers, if it is under 20 seconds you will almost certainly be suffering the ill effects of over-breathing or hyperventilation. Every asthmatic, hypertensive, panic attack sufferer, sleep apnoea sufferer etc is breathing two to three times more air per minute than normal, that's the major cause of their illness! Where did this chronic hidden hyperventilation come from? The fight/flight resonse to repeared stressors.
October 10, 2011 - 5:02pmThis Comment
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