Cold Night Sweats: A Sign of Low Body O2
Night
sweats (or sleep hyperhidrosism or cold night sweats) are defined as periods of nighttime
sweating that makes your nightclothes or bedding wet even in conditions of normal
thermoregulation.
One of the most common causes of night sweats in women over 40 is the hormonal changes related to menopause and perimenopause. There are many medical conditions that can cause night sweats in men and women. They range from infections and hypoglycemia and to HIV/AIDS and cancer.
Many medical drugs and even supplements (antidepressants, antipyrectics, hormones, hypoglycemic agents, tamoxifen, nitroglycerine, niacin, and Viagra) exacerbate or even trigger problems with night sweats.
Key causes of night sweats
However, in
the overwhelming majority of cases the key underlying cause of night
sweats is low body oxygenation due to positive static electricity of the human
body, mouth breathing, supine sleep, chest
breathing and hyperventilation. All these factors lead to low tissue O2
concentrations and promote chronic inflammation, immunosuppression, dysregulation of hormonal changes, and many other pathological effects.
The image on the left shows the effects of overbreathing in a person who breathes more than the medical norm. A similar picture takes place during night sweats due to heavy and fast breathing.
The Table below explains why night sweats are very common in modern people (both men and women), but were very rare during the first decades of the 20th century.
Nearly all cases of night sweats occur in people who have less than 20 seconds for the body-oxygen test, while the norm is about 40 seconds. (Dr. Buteyko's norm is 60 s.) Night sweats become severe, when the body-O2 content is less than 10 seconds or more than 4 fold below the norm.
How to stop night sweats
There are various methods and techniques that immediately lead to nearly double
reduction in intensity and severity of night sweats. Thus, you can stop night
sweats using the following techniques:
- Grounding your body for normalization of its electrical properties (Earthing)
- By preventing of mouth breathing
- By preventing of supine sleep
- Simple breathing exercise to reduce severity of night sweats (the same
exercise is used to stop cramps and muscle spasms).
However, in order to stop night sweats completely, one needs to get up to 25-35 seconds for the morning body-oxygen-test results. For example, people with cancer do not experience night sweats when they get about 20-25 s for their body-oxygen test (with daily CPs even higher). However, menopausal hot flashes require up to 35 s for the morning body O2 in order to disappear. This project may take some weeks or months. The details are provided on pages of this site. Thousands of people eliminated or stopped their night sweats completely using the Buteyko breathing method, and other techniques provided here.
Reference pages: Breathing norms and medical facts:
-
Breathing
norms: Parameters, graph, and description of the normal
breathing pattern
- 6 breathing myths: Myths and superstitions about breathing
and body oxygenation (prevalence: over 90%)
- Hyperventilation: Definitions of
hyperventilation: their advantages and weak points
- Hyperventilation syndrome:
Western scientific evidence about prevalence of chronic hyperventilation in patients with chronic conditions
(37 medical studies)
- Normal minute ventilation: Small and
slow
breathing at rest is enjoyed by healthy subjects (14 studies)
- Hyperventilation prevalence: Present in
over 90% of
normal people (24 medical studies)
- HV and hypoxia:
How and why deep breathing reduces oxygenation of cells and tissues of
all vital organs
- Body-oxygen test (CP test)
: How to measure your own breathing and body oxygenation (two in one) using a simple DIY test
- Body oxygen in healthy:
Results for the body-oxygen test for healthy people (27 medical
studies)
- Body oxygen in sick
: Results for the body-oxygen test for sick people (14 medical studies)
- Buteyko
Table of Health Zones: Clinical description and ranges for breathing zones:
from the critically ill (severely sick) up to super healthy people
with maximum possible body oxygenation
- Morning hyperventilation: Why people feel
worse and critically ill people are most
likely to die during early morning hours
References: pages about CO2 effect:
- Vasodilation: CO2 expands arteries and arterioles facilitating perfusion
(or blood supply) to all vital organs
- The Bohr effect:
How and why oxygen is released by red blood cells in tissues
- Cell oxygen levels: How alveolar CO2 influences
oxygen transport
- Oxygen transport: O2 transport is controlled by
vasoconstriction-vasodilation and the Bohr effects, both of which rely on CO2
- Free radical generation:
Reactive oxygen species are produced within cells due to anaerobic cell respiration caused by cell hypoxia
- Inflammatory response: Chronic inflammation
in fueled by the hypoxia-inducible factor 1, while normal breathing reduces
and eliminates inflammation
- Nerve stabilization: People remain calm due to calmative or
sedative effects of carbon dioxide in neurons or nerve cells
- Muscle relaxation: Relaxation of muscle cells
is normal at high CO2, while hypocapnia causes muscular tension, poor posture
and, sometimes, aggression and violence
- Bronchodilation: Dilation of
airways (bronchi and bronchioles) is caused by carbon dioxide, and their constriction
by hypocapnia (low CO2)
- Blood
pH: Regulation of blood pH due to breathing and regulation of other bodily fluids
- CO2: lung damage: Elevated carbon
dioxide prevents lung injury and promotes healing of lung tissues
- CO2: Topical carbon dioxide can heal skin and tissues
- Synthesis of glutamine
in the brain, CO2 fixation, and other chemical reactions
- Deep breathing myth:
Ignorant and naive people promote the idea that deep breathing and breathing
more air at rest is beneficial for health
- Breathing control: How is our
breathing regulated? Why hypocapnia makes breathing uneven, irregular and erratic.
Or go back to Symptoms of hyperventilation
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