Why Breathing Patterns Change with Aging #shorts

Name: Why Breathing Patterns Change with Aging #shorts
Uploaded: 2022-10-18T15:00:41+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: Children breathe with their diaphragm, using full lung capacity. Adults shift to shallow shoulder breathing because of stress and social conditioning…

18 Oct 2022 · 0 min

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Children breathe with their diaphragm, using full lung capacity. Adults shift to shallow shoulder breathing because of stress and social conditioning, which reduces lung capacity and changes blood CO2 levels.

When we're kids, we run around screaming, using our full diaphragm as a singer would. We're probably screaming, accessing our full capacity of our lungs. But as we're aged, we're taught to breathe very shallow, sit quietly in a classroom, and not activate that full lung capacity. And then over time with leading a more stressful life, we change our breathing patterns. We tend to breathe in our shoulders, as you just mentioned, which then alters the carbon dioxide in the blood.