Your BOLT Score: What it is and How to Improve It
We are all concerned with unfavorable blood pressure or cholesterol reading but people look at you blankly when asked “what is your BOLT score” . This breathing test measures how well your body uses oxygen and how well you tolerate carbon dioxide. It reflects how well you recover from stress, your fitness level, how well/quickly […]
CO₂ Tolerance: What Happens When You Improve It?
When we think about breathing we usually only think about the oxygen your body needs to survive. Most people don’t know that the amount of CO₂ you have in your blood has a significant impact on how much oxygen your body can use. CO₂ tolerance impacts your stamina, your focus, how calm you are, and […]
How Better Hormone Health is Supported by Nasal Breathing
There’s much more to breathing than moving air in and out of your lungs. It has a direct impact on how your body manages hormones like testosterone, cortisol, and melatonin and indirectly impacts others. These hormones control energy, stress, recovery, and sleep. Nasal breathing supports better hormone health. In the sections ahead, we’ll take […]
Why Your Breathing Gets Worse With Age and How to Reverse It
While we may all feel we are experts at breathing since we do it so often, we don’t realize it becomes more difficult with age. Naturally our lungs lose strength, habits change and harden, and overtime stress begins to impact the way we breathe. As our breathing gets worse with age it impacts our health. […]
Mouth Breathing: The Hidden Problems After 50
If you’re like most people you don’t really give any thought to how you breathe. This is because you do it every day without notice. Unfortunately, if you breathe through your mouth, especially while at rest or sleeping you could be doing great harm to your health from mouth breathing. Problems with mouth breathing […]
What Functional Breathing Actually Means
You may never really think about how you breathe, yet it matters a lot. Especially as you get older, functional breathing is something you should consider as it can be the secret behind how much stamina you have, your level of focus, the sleep quality you get, and your energy levels. While your breath […]
How Nasal Breathing Boosted My Energy and Improved My Life
A few years back, every day felt exhausting. I’d wake up tired, I relied heavily on caffeine just to stay focused at work. And, I was even more tired and cranky when I got home. I figured it was just part of getting older. But I was wrong. Nasal breathing was a concept I wouldn’t […]
Are You Breathing Wrong?
Breathing may seem simple, even automatic to most. But what if your breathing is impacting your health? While most people will never bother to answer “are you breathing wrong?” they feel that their poor breathing habits, which affect their sleep, energy, focus, and health, are just a part of getting older. So they plug away, […]
Why You Need to Stop Mouth Breathing While Sleeping Now!
If you breathe through your mouth while sleeping you are not only reducing the effectiveness of your sleep, which has its own problems, but are prolonging a bad habit of breathing that negatively and profoundly impacts your health. If your not sure how you breathe while sleeping, ask your partner. Chances are if your mouth […]
Active Breathing for Better Health
We breathe constantly, perhaps 9,000 to over 20, 000 breaths per day without giving it much thought. If you practice breathing and use an active breathing cycle you can not only improve your breath but also your life. The ability to breathe properly boosts your health in surprising ways. Let’s take a look at how […]