It's that time of the week for another fatal convenience. This is a bite sized segment that addresses some of society's fatal conveniences and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them. I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in makes us believe we have to tap water, shampoo, sunglasses, food. I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday choices that could not only be harming us, but even killing us.

So let's dive in. Hello, everybody, welcome to the show, another edition of Fatele Convenience. We are getting some great momentum from all of the fatal conveniences, the reality that our reality has been altered without our best interests in mind. But the genesis of this show was my father in the eighties, late 80s, early 90s, was suffering from chemical sensitivity disorder and was the first time I had ever heard of someone having cognitive, physical, emotional changes detrimental to themselves from fragrances, from deodorant, shampoos, carpets.

My dad suffered from this. He could function. He would blank out. He would fall out. He could think. And this was a highly intellectual person, a professor, a counselor, a couple master's degrees. And my dad was debilitated by the modern day. Inconveniences the fatal conveniences that led him to start drinking again and ultimately pass away from alcoholism. So that created this part in me and seeing the reality of seeing the world differently and realizing that companies that products that personal care products to everything in between can largely affect us and affect our health and affect our education system, affect our ability to effectively have a great life for our convenience is largely is dedicated to my father, who suffered directly as a result of many of the fatal conveniences in our society.

So about 17 years ago, he passed away from alcoholism and was isolated more than ever because of these fatal conveniences, because of paint, carpet cleaners, fire retardant and sofas, Cologne's shampoos, laundry detergent. That was my dad suffering every day from that stuff. So today we are going into the fatal convenience of shallow breathing. If you haven't heard my episode with Patrick McEwan, this sets up this fatal convenience perfectly because this is all about shallow breathing, how detrimental shallow breathing is.

And that could be looked at as thoracic breathing, upper respiratory, thoracic breathing. If you're taking a deep breath and now take a deep breath in, if your shoulders are raising, you are not diaphragmatic diaphragmatic breathing. You are breathing from your upper respiratory, a stress response and you are not breathing correctly. You breathe correctly upon birth. And now we have to get back to and retrain ourselves to breathe correctly again. So the fatal convenience is that we just breathe, we're unconscious, we're running around mostly stressed out, especially this year.

And the more thoracic upper respiratory breathing we do, the more we are actually staying and remaining in stress.

One of the greatest things you can do for yourself and your life and your health and your stress levels is learning to breathe. So if you haven't again checked out the Patrick McEuen nose breathing episode that you need to check that out, his book, The Oxygen Advantage, and there's a lot of advantages to that.

So basically, when you shallow breathe shallow from your chest, your thoracic upper respiratory area, and largely then with your mouth and find yourself holding your breath, you're getting less and less er less and less nitrogen, less and less oxygen and just hold your breath over time. You can't. It's one of the greatest things and on the planet to keep life moving forward and creating life and that is of oxygen. So when you're not breathing consciously and you've trained your body to keep breathing from a stressful point of view, then you're just increasing your stress response and then that sends out a cascade of stresses in your body caused by the shallow breathing.

So you could be stressed and then shallow breathe. You could be shallow breathing and cause your body stress. And most people most people I just worked with an athlete today, an Olympian, and I was teaching them some how to turn on the body and activate it neurologically. And then I realized this guy's never been able to know how to breathe like it is a perfect specimen, super athlete. And I said, take a deep breath. And his shoulders went to his ears and he had no idea how to turn on his diaphragm.

And in about ten seconds, we showed him how to breathe in from your diaphragm and then breathe that up into the chest and we'll go into that about what you can do about that stuff. But shallow breathing just makes the stress response more. And then you develop a habit and your body develops a habit to stay in that stress response based on the kind of breathing you are doing, which then triggers your cortisol, triggers your mind and locks you into that routine.

So the long term shallow breathing is where we have some serious. Consequences all the way down to what the mitochondria are doing. But then there's a certain amount of lymphocytes or white blood cells that are there to defend the body from all kinds of invading organisms, and it lowers the amount of these proteins that signal the immune system. So therefore, the more shallow you are, the more stressed out you are, the less disease fighting immune cells will be able and capable of defending your body.

So just think about that for a second. Running around in the covid area, No. One shallow breathing. You're not receiving the vital oxygen you need and oxygen. We know oxygen rich body systems doesn't allow for bacteria, virus or fungus to thrive. And so you're lowering your oxygen levels and at the same time, you're conditioning yourself to this stress response that is lowering. Absolutely. Lowering your actual immune system that's there to defend your body. So what we need to do is shift that kind of system into diaphragmatic breathing.

I'm just going to cut to the chase right now. If you are in a safe place where you can do this, but your hands just below your belly button and take a breath in through your nose and in lightly, push your hand out as you take a breath in. The first response should be the stomach being pushed out. Now women and guys are trying to keep your abs flat and flexed and all of that stuff largely that is keeping you stressed.

Let that out, let that stomach out and let that diaphragm fill up from the lower belly button and then fill that up and then the chest. And so if you find your chest expanding first, then you know you're not diaphragmatic breathing and you are stress breathing. So there's a lot of different ways to fear, shame, sitting, trauma accidents, all of that stuff could turn on the sympathetic response of breathing and largely shut off your ability to diagrammatically breathe again.

So I have a lot of research in the show notes and there's some incredible science behind this. If you run down the rabbit hole of shallow breathing as it relates to muscle and joint pain, I'm not going to get into that right now. But it is unbelievable how all of these things, the results that demonstrate the importance of diaphragmatic breathing on functional movement on the body to increase oxygen, increase the immune system, increase muscular balance, increase motor control skills, and as well as improve physiological responses all across from metabolism, because with the stress responses on, you're not breaking down food efficiently at all.

And that is of big concern over a long period of time, because obviously you're not receiving what it is that you actually need from the nutrients because you're in this cortisol freaked out state if you're getting lost already between thoracic breathing, diaphragmatic breathing. Basically, we need to slow down the yogis and everything else have been telling us through all ancient religions to shallow breathe, slow down and develop the slow, controlled, nasal breathing in the nose and exhale two times as long on average on the exhale.

So that slows everything down and then switches you from the sympathetic poor response and fight or flight to the parasympathetic higher response of higher performance, better performance, higher oxygen levels, better immune system. This type of practice, if you take away just this one thing in the nose, just like Patrick McEwen said in the nose, out the mouth, nice, slow, controlled, don't press out or push out or squeeze your stomach just in the nose and then at a rate of two times your inhalation, slow that breath on the exhale.

And that largely will take you in the direction that you need to go to break all of this down. Slow breathing, slow breathing, slow breathing. This optimizes ventilation. This increases gas exchange. The arterial oxygenation maximizes the. Vagal tone, this is the limbic deep system in the body, so dampens that and maintains that parasympathetic response and that sympathetic balance and optimizes cardio respiratory system and improves on that gas exchange. Of course, the the oxygen levels, as well as allows for the body to perform better physically and lowers the stress level mentally.

And according to many studies and many reviews, autonomic optimized respiration would appear to be the band of about six to 10 breaths per minute. That's really what you're looking for. You're looking for the band between six to 10 breaths per minute. If you're breathing shallow, if you're breathing faster than that, you can almost guarantee that you are in a fight or flight. In the present study, they've investigated the diaphragmatic slow breathing as a single intervention method for sustained attention improvement.

So Kids 8D do some light breathing with your kids. And by the way, their depression will lower. There's several studies I cited with PTSD, the improvements of almost all cases of PTSD improving just by slow breathing, obviously lowering anxiety, lowering depression. So here's what I want you to do. These are the things that we can do. Catch yourself from a thoracic point of view before each meal. I want you to put your hands below your belly button and push out your belly and increase your diaphragmatic response.

And then secondly, it fills your chest. OK, so before each meal, upon waking, upon going to sleep, that's five different times you can practice diaphragmatic breathing and this will exponentially improve your life, your health, your mental outlook, physiological response, your metabolism, your stress response and lower your cortisol, increasing the different aspects that get affected by the stress response and improve your digestion, which will improve your muscle tone and it will improve your oxygenation, which is one of the greatest defense mechanisms against viruses, bacteria, degeneration.

And it will just make you feel better. You will be happier around the people that you love. Do it with your spouse, do it with your friends, and this will absolutely improve your life. Again, if you haven't listened to my episode with Patrick McEwen, listen to that right after this. And you will improve your life by nose breathing and understanding how to breathe again from your diaphragm and then opening up all aspects of your life and your health and your improvement towards being a better human.

OK, that's breathing in a nutshell. In a verrucas nutshell. All right. I love you everyone. Enjoy the breathing, enjoy the exercises, improve your life. I love that most of these things that you can do are free and you can do just by making the choice of doing them. Please do this one. You will be a happier, better, more powerful human as a result. And remember, I love you.

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Oh, and if you haven't had a chance to check out the interview I released earlier in the week, here's what you missed.

When you think of a kid's intelligence that's often determined by what they achieve academically, but nobody is considering the sleep quality of these kids and a child with high intelligence, but with poor sleep quality, they're not going to do well academically. And yet this kid then will have self-esteem issues. You know, they'll probably know that there's something lacking, but they don't quite know what it is. And that was me. And it's not just your sleep that's affected.

Your mood is affected. Breathing was affected. My ability to partake in sports was affected. Some times people say that I'm I'm here, you know, kind of taking pity on myself. No, no, not at all. I was fortunate enough. We now know it was 25 to 50 percent of the children in the same boat.

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