Blog – Breacting

The Paradox of Breathing: The Bohr Effect

You might think that the deeper and faster you breathe, the more oxygen your cells receive. But what if we told you that, sometimes, breathing “too much” could be limiting your energy and increasing your feeling of fatigue or anxiety? This is the surprising “Breathing Paradox”. In this article, we tell you why CO₂, that gas we exhale, plays a crucial and often misunderstood role in our oxygenation.

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Nasal Breathing vs. Mouth Breathing: Which Is Better and Why?

You may not have considered it, but how you breathe directly impacts your energy, your sleep, and even your mood. Fatigue, anxiety, poor sleep… many of these issues could improve significantly just by using your nose for what it was designed for. In this article, we tell you why this simple gesture is so powerful and how you can help your body remember the correct way to breathe.

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The three dimensions of functional breathing

This note is an introduction to “The Three Dimensions of Functional Respiration.” We explain to you in a simple way what these three aspects are – the chemical, the motion, and the mental / emotional – that make up a model to better understand how we breathe. A basis for future exploration.

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"For any athlete, oxygen is key. However, the role of breathing is rarely mentioned. The Oxygen Advantage method focuses on how to breathe to improve oxygen use, along with specific breath retention techniques to simulate height training. Having greater aerobic and anaerobic capacity allows us to do more with less, train faster and stronger with each breath."

"Many of the diseases to which civilized man is subject are undoubtedly the result of this common vice of breathing through the mouth."

"There are many meditation practitioners who do not even know the connection between their breathing and their meditation, or who are not aware that their unbalanced way of breathing hinders them. They don't know these things because their teachers didn't teach them. This is really tragic. It is especially tragic because the practice of diaphragmatic nasal breathing is so easy to learn and, using it, we can—with time and effort—essentially reset our nervous system and enter into the practice of meditation from a more embodied place."

"The breathing gesture is also a domain in which, from one technique to another, many static, unsubstantiated rules circulate: here, it is better to inhale than to exhale; there, exactly the opposite is said... Recently, I heard, during a television broadcast: 'How to breathe well, that is, with the belly and not with the rib cage, because thus the air circulates more freely'. Elsewhere, it is thought on the contrary, that we must absolutely develop costal breathing, etc. In the field of practice, I have discovered that none of these breaths is harmful in itself, that none is the only good one, but that we must know how to choose them at the right time."

"Although everyone knows that breathing is essential to life, I don't think most people realize how important it is that we breathe as a conditioning factor of our quality of life, and that includes our mental health, our physical health and what we call performance. That is, our ability to apply physical or cognitive skills so that, otherwise, we could not do so unless we respired correctly."

"The pressure of carbon dioxide in the blood should be considered an important factor in internal respiratory metabolism. If carbon dioxide is used in appropriate quantities, the absorbed oxygen can be used more effectively throughout the body."