Breathing Dynamics

Over the last few weeks from our posts you have learned what causes Cardiovascular Disease but How does sleep improve your cardiovascular condition?

Sleep and Breathing - Breathing and Sleep
You know there are many beneficial results from good, restorative sleep for every aspect of our health.

And the flip side…The short story is that almost anything which disrupts one’s sleep increases one’s heart rate and blood pressure.

These disruptions stress the blood vessels - particularly those in your heart and brain – eventually leading to heart attacks and strokes.
One of the most common sleep disruptions is poor breathing. And since there is no body function more important than breathing, interruptions in breathing stress the body particularly hard.

So how can you get better sleep? Message us today to find out! Start your journey to lowering your risk!

Cardiovascular Disease: Inactivity, Sitting and Sleep.

Many widely known phrases express this fact well: “Sitting is the new smoking” or “Any activity is better for your heart than sitting” and many others. As dramatic as those phrases may sound, they are quite literally true, with substantial research to confirm that.

Stay tuned to posts this month to learn from Dr. Baba how getting better sleep, and better breathing can actually prevent Cardiovascular Disease!!

Insufficient sleep can make two-year olds out of all of us!

We can be easily irritated, experience memory loss, as well as be tired during the day and less productive.

Message us today to learn how breathing dynamics can elevate your sleep to the next level!

It is common to get more tired as we get older, for a variety of reasons…
The most missed reason is that our breathing becomes less effective – but it can be improved! Inefficient, less effective breathing produces a cascade of downstream effects in our body!

Less effective breathing can cause, aggravate or mimic these conditions and symptoms:
1. Reduced fitness and energy
2. Increased fatigue, exhaustion, or irritability.
3. Difficulty getting to sleep, insomnia, upper airway resistance, sleep apnea.
4. Increased high blood pressure.
5. “Brain fog,” a spaced out feeling or a “not there” feeling.
6. Headaches and migraines.
7. Anxiety, panic attacks, mild depression.
8. Asthma, bronchitis
9. Blood sugar dysregulation, diabetes
10. Posture changes affecting the neck and lower back.

If any of these symptoms apply to you, call us at 316-927-8981 for an evaluation to determine whether you could be helped with breathing and myofunctional training!

How do allergies affect your sleep?

Our last post explained how there are two types of sleep disruption disorders caused by allergies.
Overtime these disruptions will effect you day to day life.

Repetitive arousals essentially cause your body to go into a chronic state of low-grade stress, making it even more reactive to the environment. This becomes a vicious cycle. After months or years of inefficient sleep, many people feel tired, groggy, lose motivation, focus and concentration and become anxious or depressed.

Sleep Disruption has many bad effects. Beside just plain being tired, it can cause hypertension, insulin resistance and diabetes, obesity, anxiety and depression, tooth grinding (bruxism), ADHD, lack of sexual desire, heart attack and stroke just to name a few.

Simply said, restful sleep is one of the most important things we can do for our physical, emotional, and mental health – and clear, easy nasal breathing is a fundamental part of good sleep!