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HYPERVENTILATION: WHAT IS IT?

Don’t confuse the deep breathing exercises (done slowly and rhythmically) with hyperventilation. ‘Hyperventilation’ means many, rapid, shallow breaths. This often accompanies and frequently causes anxiety, panic attacks and angina. It results in oxygen starvation of the tissues by causing the blood to become too alkaline.

Reduced levels of oxygen trigger the reflex mechanisms of yawning and sighing. Yawning and sighing are nature’s ways of forcing us to breathe deeply, in an attempt to raise the blood oxygen levels before they cause metabolic imbalances.

Hyperventilation is, in many ways, a misnomer, for although it draws in more air than normal breathing, the rapid in-out shallowness of its action means that less oxygen is taken up by the blood.

Also known as ‘over-breathing’, hyperventilation is, in fact, ‘under-breathing’. It causes serious acid/alkaline imbalances in the blood.

Water is important because we are made of it. Oxygen is important because we run on it. Under-drinking and under-breathing are epidemic and create metabolic imbalances that are stresses to the body. Stress can inflame mild (even asymptomatic) allergies into full-blown, troublesome ones.

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