Types of Breathing Patterns and Body Oxygenation
Here
is a video clip (from www.GoogleVideo.com) that is about different breathing patterns and their
effects on cell oxygenation:
"Breathing patterns" (it will open in a new window), or click on the picture
on the right side.
Note that the parameters of breathing patterns (typical minute ventilation or breathing rates, respiratory frequency, body oxygenation index, duration of inhalations, exhalations, and the automatic pause) all are calculated using medical references from the web pages in Section Homepage. The physiological mechanism (why deep or big breathing reduces tissue oxygenation and promotes the advance of chronic diseases) is considered in the next section Carbon Dioxide Effects.
This section (Breathing patterns and body oxygenation) considers the following respiratory breathing patterns list or types of breathing patterns:
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Normal breathing pattern (in healthy people) What is the
type of breathing pattern that is found in healthy or normal people?
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Ineffective breathing pattern (in the sick) What is the
respiratory pattern for mildly sick people?
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Heavy breathing pattern in the
severely sick Breathing pattern type in the severely sick and
critically ill people
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Ideal breathing
pattern Is there a special "ideal breathing" pattern for
super health and ideal body oxygenation?
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Types of breathing patterns
Summary or list of 4 types of regular respiratory breathing patterns
and their corresponding body oxygenation
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Irregular breathing
pattern (and disordered respiratory patterns) What about
tissue oxygenation in cases of irregular breathing patterns and/or
disordered breathing?
These web pages (about different breathing patterns) provide exact typical parameters for corresponding patterns, including durations of inhalations, exhalations and automatic pauses; minute ventilation; CP or body oxygenation index; and respiratory frequency.
These relationship between breathing frequency, CP (Control Pause) or stress-free breath-holding time test done after usual exhalation, heart rate or pulse rate, CO2 content in alveoli, could be found using the Buteyko Table of Health Zones, which was created by Dr. K. Buteyko, the author of the Buteyko breathing method.
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* Apart from these educational topics, there is a challenge that relates to our poor and limited ability to sense our breathing. That means the same person may have wide variations in automatic or unconscious breathing without noticing these large changes. This effect is common even for those people who regularly practice breathing exercises. Breath awareness: When do we notice that our respiratory pattern is too deep or heavy? Why so late? |
* The human organism can be considered as a mechanical machine that extracts oxygen from air and uses it for energy generation. Hence, we can consider the efficiency coefficient of the human body by finding the percentage of oxygen that is trapped by the lungs for different breathing patterns. Efficiency of lungs in O2 extraction: How efficient are the human lungs in oxygen extraction (depending on the breathing pattern type) for 4 breathing patterns? |