Mihail Pautovmedic, IC Fundeni · Doctor Mihail - Medic specialist în chirurgie generală, Educator de sănătate

Respirația e foarte importantă atunci când faci dușuri reci sau scufundări în apă rece ☝🏻👨🏼‍⚕️🥶

18 Jan 2025 · 2 min

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This YouTube clip (Romanian-titled: "Respirația e foarte importantă atunci când faci dușuri reci sau scufundări în apă rece ☝🏻👨🏼‍⚕️🥶"), created/uploaded by Mihail Pautov (2025-01-18), is an English-language instructional monologue about breathing techniques for cold-water immersion. The speaker gives step-by-step practical guidance: practice a nose-in/mouth-out rhythm (on land, e.g., in wind) before entering, enter steadily to manage cold shock and resultant hyperventilation, then progress to nasal-only breathing. The speaker explains physiological benefits claimed from nasal breathing after immersion—parasympathetic activation, increased nitric oxide, improved oxygen diffusion to red blood cells, and better peripheral perfusion—framed as circulation and oxygenation benefits to limbs and organs.

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You found a lake you want to dip in? Let's just say. Yeah, yeah. So you would take off your clothing. You have your swimwear on, and there's a cold wind. Try to see if you can use that breathing technique in the wind. Just depending on how much wind there is, you can do it for one minute or you can do it for a few seconds. But try to get into the rhythm before you go in, because then you just have to continue that, and it's easier for the brain to just do the same thing. Yeah. And you can focus on that. So breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. And when you then start to go into the water, you will activate that cold shock, and that's gonna activate also your hyperventilation. So you will have that state of, like, not feeling you can really breathe. But that's okay. You are in control. You don't have to rush in, but you can. But go steady and don't, don't go up to your knees and think, oh, I'm going to. To go back. Okay. Just be determined on what you do. Go in, breathe through like that. And if you can stay in the water for just a few seconds, try to breathe like this circle. See if you can get over the cold shock. When you do, you. You will be able to breathe only through the nose, in and out. And that is a good thing because that. That exercise in itself activates the parasympathetic nervous system. It increases what is also called nitric oxide. And we really want that perfect, perfect molecule in the body because that is also helping your oxygen level to the brain. Yeah. And it helps also getting that oxygen further out in your lungs and diffused to the red blood cells, and that will transport out to all your cells in the body. And you do want to get a better perfusion of oxygen in into your. All your limbs, all your organs, and out to your legs, your toes. The circulation part of this is a benefit.