Niraj Naik demonstrates a three-minute humming exercise that he claims produces seven times more nitric oxide than regular nasal breathing. The practice stimulates the vagus nerve and increases carbon dioxide tolerance through sustained tones while focusing on posture and breath control.
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You're going to be going on a breathing diet. We're actually going to be reducing your breathing down to reset, recalibrate, retrain you to have a slower, calmer, more subtle breath. It's just like a diet with food. You may go through a little bit of discomfort. You get this feeling of air hunger. And when you get that feeling of air hunger, that's actually a sign that this technique's working. And what that will feel like is a little bit of like, oh, I need to inhale, but I can still keep going. It's not like where you're gasping for air, it's where you just feel this little urge to breathe. But it's not an overarching urge to breathe. And that's what these reduced breathing exercises help you to do. What I tried to do was to bring in the most powerful pranayama techniques that improves your carbon dioxide tolerance ability to make nitric oxide, create this beneficial state called intermittent hypoxia, and also give you a dose of rhythmic breathing. Humming is actually my favorite exercise of all. I love humming, making tones. When you hum and you make one singular tone, your hums are going to get longer and longer and longer. You're going to be able to hold a single note, a beautiful long note, for long periods of time every hour. If you're talking a lot, spend some time just to hum. You can also do this in the sauna. One of my favorite activities is go into sauna and do humming. All right? That creates profound pain benefits because humming also, what it does is it stimulates the vagus nerve and instantly activates the parasympathetic and calms you down and it cools your body down. So if you're in a hot environment like a sauna, you're going to have to stay in there even longer. All right? Plus, it produces nitric oxide. Studies show that you produce seven times the amount of nitric oxide by humming than just nasal. Breathing.
Comfortably in an upright position with your back straight. With your tip of your tongue, point it to the back of your teeth, the soma chakra in the direction of your third eye. Inhale through both your nostrils and make a humming sound and bring your awareness to the buzzing between both your eyes. Center of your forehead, location of the third eye. Hum, vibrate and continue to make that tone for three minutes. To enhance the effect of this, you can change your focus so you're looking.
To your third eye with both your.
Eyes focus on this point. As you make the tone, you can also look the tip of your nose. Bring your focus to the tip of your nose as you make make the sound.
