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Controlled Breathing Calms Your Brain

October 4, 2018

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Stacie Collins

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The way you breathe — whether fast or slow, shallow or deep — is intricately tied to your body as a whole, sending messages that affect your mood, stress levels, and even your immune system. 

While it’s long been known that breathing is connected to your brain (and vice versa), it wasn’t until early 2017 that researchers discovered breathing may directly affect your brain activity, including your state of arousal and higher-order brain function.1 Breathing is initiated by a cluster of neurons in your brainstem. In an animal study, researchers were attempting to identify different types of neurons (out of a group of nearly 3,000) and identify their role in breathing function.
 

To read the article in its entirety, click on the link below.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/08/23/controlled-breathing-calms-brain.aspx

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