episode 048
BREATHWORK & BLOOD SUGARS with NICK HEATH
There’s been a lot of craziness in our world as of late and most of us are going through some real pain. Some of us have experienced sickness, some of us have lost someone close, and some of us have felt the negative impacts of COVID-19 on our business or income. Ultimately, it all amounts to us feeling like we have zero control over our lives at this point in time.
One concept that keeps circling in my head is the importance of controlling what can be controlled. It’s that concept that plays heavily in this conversation with Nick Heath.
It’s not likely that the information we cover in this episode is going to cure our collective issues as a global society. But the concepts Nick shares represent a critical method to regain some control over our physiological and psychological state. At a minimum, this will serve as a launching point to a better world considering the weight of stress we are all currently under.
In this conversation, Nick and I discuss his early life with type 1 diabetes, his passion for the art and science of breathing, as well as his recent 100-mile ruck in support of the non-profit Health and Human Performance Foundation.
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RESOURCES
Nick’s Website – www.thebreathingdiabetic.com
Nick’s Instagram - @thebreathingdiabetic
Health & Human Performance Foundation – www.HHP-Foundation.org
Restoring Prana, Robin Rothenberg, et al.
The Relaxation Response, Herbert Benson, MD
Research Studies Discussed:
Nature Publication here
Damage or Dysfunction study here
The nose activating the olfactory bulb, which influences the amygdala, potentially showing a link to emotional control, here
Increased brain blood flow from intermittent hypoxia, study here
The therapeutic range of intermittent hypoxia, study here
Intermittent hypoxia helps immune function, study here
Mouth breathing increases upper airway resistance during sleep and increases OSA, study here
Inhale/exhale ratio study here
Nasal nitric oxide study here
Nasal nitric oxide, answer to gravity study here
Music credit - Friday, The Passion HiFi