Dr. Nicole Cain explains air hunger, the unsatisfying breathing feeling that worsens when you try to breathe deeper. Slowing your exhale with a straw or nervine herbs like Scutellaria and Avena sativa can break the panic cycle that makes you feel less oxygenated the more you gasp.
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This is part two of the video all about air Hunger. In this video, we're going to be talking about what you can do if you're struggling with air hunger. And all of the doctors have told you that everything is healthy and normal. I'm Dr. Nicole Cain, and my passion is to help you become your own mental health expert through education. And I have a holistic wellness collective. If you haven't checked it out, be sure to click on the link in my bio on my Instagram and learn more about how you could become the master of your own mental and emotional wellness using holistic strategies. Okay, so you have air hunger. You try to get a breath, and when you breathe in, it feels like the air just isn't satisfying and oxygenating. So you breathe deeper and deeper and you feel like you're getting less and less air. And then, of course, you feel anxious and you try to breathe more and you start to get worried that you're going to actually pass out from not having enough air. If you've been there, know that you're not alone. Air hunger is a real thing, and there are solutions.
Another name for air hunger is hyperventilation syndrome, which is basically where we breathe more and more and we end up breathing out too much carbon dioxide, making our bodies and our brains acidotic.
So here are a few tips of what to do. One solution is to slow your exhalation using a straw. The next solution.
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And nervine herbs. So we're thinking about scutellaria, avena, sativa, Kava kava, and Melissa, thanks for watching.
