Niraj Naik (speaker) outlines long-term benefits of SOMA breathwork—particularly the intermittent hypoxia component—when practiced at the recommended daily dose or as a 21-day protocol. He cites the paper "Therapeutic Potential of Intermittent Hypoxia: A Matter of Dose" (Navarette Apazo & Mitchell) as supporting evidence and lists benefits including enhanced spatial learning and memory; reduced pro-inflammatory mediators (lower inflammation); improved blood glucose regulation and lower cholesterol; stabilized blood sugar; reduced blood pressure (via increased CO2 tolerance and slower resting breathing rate); increased bone mineral density; stronger innate immunity; weight loss; reduced depressive symptoms and improved emotional state; improved myocardial contractility; and increased aerobic capacity/exercise tolerance. The speaker emphasizes dose and progressive adaptation over a 21-day journey.
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So here are some of the long term benefits you can get from SOMA journeys if you're doing the awakening process or if you're doing a daily dose where you're using a few rounds of intermittent hypoxia per day. So let's look at, let's focus on the daily dose. Let's say you're doing the daily morning routine every day. These are the kind of benefits you can receive if you stick to the dose. If you go crazy, you're not going to get the same benefits to stick to the dose that we recommend. You're going to receive these benefits. And you can read about this in this journal. The Therapeutic Potential of Intermittent Hypoxia A Matter of Dose, written by Angela Navarrette Apazo and Gordon S. Mitchell, which was published in the American Journal of Physiology, Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. Okay, you can look it up in Google and just search for Therapeutic potential of intermittent Hypoxia A Matter of dose. So intermittent hypoxia is really the one of the most powerful parts components of a SOMA awakening journey or SOMA daily dose because it brings in that positive stress response and lowers the oxygen down. And if you stick to our dose, then some of the long term benefits, according to this paper, are enhanced spatial learning and memory. So your ability to learn things and your memory are going to improve by doing this over the long term, which is really useful. It can also suppress pro inflammatory mediators. So it means it lowers inflammation in the body. This is something you can notice quite dramatically if you're somebody who's suffering from inflammation, like I was suffering from inflammation when I had an autoimmune condition and it really was relieved by doing this practice. It can also reduce blood glucose tolerance and cholesterol. So if you're somebody suffering from high cholesterol, again, cholesterol is associated with inflammation, high cholesterol. So if you can lower the inflammation, you're going to lower cholesterol, can even.
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Stabilize your blood sugar levels and it also reduces blood pressure. So over time, if you're somebody suffering from high blood pressure, it can actually reduce the blood pressure over time because you actually build up more tolerance to carbon dioxide and you'll be breathing less over time because our goal is to get you to around four to five breaths per minute per day at rest. And that will mean that your vessels dilate, your blood vessels dilate and you have lower blood pressure and less risk of strokes and heart disease, which is obviously very, very useful. It can also increase bone mineral density. So that means that if you're somebody suffering from things like osteoporosis, it can help you maintain strong bones, but it can also.
Help you to stay strong in general. If you're somebody who does a lot of fitness and exercise and endurance, you need strong bones to handle that endurance. It's going to help with that. It also strengthen your innate immune system, which is very, very useful. It can promote weight loss, alright? So if you're somebody who's suffering from obesity or if you're overweight, it can also help with that issue, okay? And it can reduce symptoms of depression. This is very, very powerful. It raises your love, your level of vibrational energy, it changes your emotional state dramatically, especially the rhythmic breathing parts. So if you're somebody suffering from depression, this could be something that can kick you and wake you back up into your normal, healthy, happy self. It can also improve myocardial contractile function. So that's the strength of your heart, okay. Which is really, really important if you want to stay young and healthy. And it can also increase your aerobic capacity and exercise tolerance. So if you're somebody who likes to be, stay fit and do a lot of endurance and fitness and long distance running, things like that, or if you're somebody who likes to do sports, if you're a football player or whatever, if you're a professional sports person, it's going to be really useful for you. And if you're an instructor.
You can take these benefits and see which kind of clients you can help them with using this one technique. And our 21 day protocol, or 21 day journey actually takes you on this journey where you're doing the breathwork in a way where you're getting the intermittent hypoxia in the right doses, progressively building up each week as you adapt more to having less oxygen. And over 21 days you can actually experience many of these benefits or more.
