Modern life keeps us stressed on purpose: demanding jobs, money worries, constant speed. Chronic stress raises your respiratory rate and shortens your life. Slower, deeper breathing expands your lungs, improves CO₂ tolerance, and lowers perceived stress.
We do live in a world that is addicted to stress. Hmm. Everyone loves their stressful job. Everyone loves worrying about money, about everything, fast-paced life. And this plays a massive toll on your respiratory rate and your longevity. If you take a wee bit of time to breathe in deeper, open your lungs up, slow your breathing down, then you have massive benefits such as the ability to handle CO2. You're not as stressed. You can work better under stressful situations through altering your HRV or heart rate variability. So it's a one thing affects the whole system.
And also for longevity, increasing your healthspan as well, which I think is really key.
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