Business Innovators Radio - Just Breathe

Episode Date: December 3, 2023

When things are especially stressful, it can be hard to remember to breathe. But thinking about your breath could be just the thing to calm the storm. Working to master the art of mindful breathing can do more than relieve stress; intentional breathing can calm the nervous system and over time result in many positive health changes.In this episode, Dr. Dan and Angela explore the Art of Intentional Breathing. They’ll discuss the surprising benefits of mindful breathing, detail how to get started and share their favorite techniques and resources to turn intentional breathing into a healthy habit you can hang on to for a lifetime.To learn more about this and other hot health topics, follow us on social media and subscribe to our WTH podcast. If you have a specific health question or would like to find out if we can help you with a personal health challenge, check out our office page or contact us at 412-369-0400/ [e-mail] always, our mission is to help you Get Healthy and Stay Healthy for a Lifetime!What the Health?!https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/what-the-health/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/just-breathe

Welcome to What the Health, where anything health is fair game as we tackle the trends and bust the myths about health and wellness. Here are your hosts, Dr. Dan and Angela Toro. And welcome to another episode of What the Health. I am Dr. Dan here with my co-host. Angela, welcome back, guys. Get it out of the way real quick. Our disclaimer, as you guys know, we are here for informational purposes only. We are talking about health in no way offering individualized medical advice.

advice always talk to your trusted health care provider before making changes to your life or lifestyle. So with that being said, although I don't think there's really anything harmful that could be recommended coming from today's podcast. But who knows? We always say something. Very good. So today we are talking about breathing or I guess the more scientific term is respiration, which we're going to get into that about why there's two different types of respiration in the body.

But when we think of breathing, what do we think about it? Angela? I mean, I think the nice thing is we don't have to think about it. So imagine if we had to go through our day thinking, being conscious of our breathing. So luckily it is the way that we get air, oxygen into our body and expel carbon dioxide back out of our body. But it's yet one of those completely natural processes that we always talk about our body, how it's how it is designed to take care of itself. Automatically. Yes, without having to think about it. But what's really great about breathing,

it's one of those things that will happen without us thinking about it, but we also can control it. And we do have control over it. And practicing that control and that mindfulness when it comes to breathing can have a lot of really positive health benefits, both physically and mentally emotionally, because of the way that it interacts with the autonomic system. Yeah, exactly.

So anytime we say autonomic, You hear the word autonomic nervous system. We always talk a lot about it in terms of the stress response, fight or flight, which is the sympathetic fight or flight system or the rest and digest. That's the relaxation. That's the parasympathetic nervous system. Those are the two branches of the autonomic nervous system.

So anytime you hear the word autonomic, it means automatic. So it is part of your nervous system. That's actually what we're measuring in the office when we look at the infrared thermal technology and the scan over the spine, we're looking at temperature. Well, temperature is one of those automatic processes. Your body is self-regulating. So we're looking at that temperature change and deviation as a window into your nervous system and how it's adapting and functioning. So breathing is one of, you know, thousands of functions that the body automatically controls. But like you just said, it's very interesting. I don't know if I've ever actually thought of it

like that because you have no control over your blood pressure. You have no control over your heart, right, other than the fact that you can, you know, pump your muscles, that you can move your voluntary muscles and, you know, cause your blood pressure to go up through, you know, exercise. But it's, that's interesting that you mentioned that because it is, breathing is a process that you both have voluntary control and there is involuntary control over it. So that connection between, how you could tap some of those physiological processes. Wow. Look at that.

I always talk about, I had a professor, maybe I've mentioned this on a previous podcast. I have a professor in chiropractic school. He used to talk about MDLR, minimal daily learning requirements. So I've been asking my children when they come home from school, what was your MDLR today? But yeah, I have my MDLR. But anyway.

But yeah, and really, you know, that point of controlling it, manipulating it, and working with your, and I keep using the word being mindful of it, really comes into play with, you know, when you're talking about that bridge between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. Because so when we're in that state of stress, whether it's an actual physical stressor, like exercise, or a mental-emotional stressor, like your, you know, stress,

kids are all screaming and running around, or work is you're on a tight deadline, and you don't feel like you're going to be able to finish. all of those things are going to affect, you know, the things that we just talked about, heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing. So if you're exercising or if you're in that state of fight or flight that you need to be prepared to either fight for your life or run the heck out of there, your breathing's going to need to be quickly getting that pumping that oxygen in.

But the problem is it's going to be a much shallower breathing. Again, it's going to be that really short-term, short-term type of breathing versus when we're talking about the parasympathetic, the rest and digest time, that's where you really want that more deep, what we call belly breathing or a diaphragmatic breathing, where you're really inflating the entire lung. Yeah, exactly. I'm just going to breathe in the background. Perfect, perfect, perfect.

Got some white noise going here. But it's great. So that's why, you know, whenever people are really stressed, you always hear people say, oh, just breathe. And you're like, yeah, yeah. And it sounds, you know, it sounds so simplistic, but it is really true because it is the one thing you can control in those times of heightened stress. And even during exercise, you know, the type of sport that I'm in doing, you know, a kickboxing sport, we talk constantly about the importance of breathing and having to make sure that you're, you know, you're working your breath with the movements because that's the biggest thing we'll see people come in. You know, they might be athletic.

They might have done other sports. They might work out. But they come in and they don't breathe correctly and they feel like they're going to go down or they're going to throw up. And it's really important to like have that connection between the breath and the movements of the body. body both when you're doing something active and when you're trying to relax and learning how how and when to breathe the proper way can really have some again long term short term and long term impacts on your health yeah you bring up an interesting point there you know so you just talked about exercising and how you know if you're not breathing properly you're you know you'll end up

you know throwing up or even passing out and uh you know it's very interesting that yes you do have some voluntary control over your breathing but if you're not doing it right for a very short period of time, the body's going to find a way to take you back into an involuntary breathing because, you know, you see, if we have, you know, if we had voluntary control over many of the systems in our body, we wouldn't live there. Oh, yeah, that would be, that would be a lot to coordinate. So, yeah, so thank God we have a wonderful nervous system to coordinate all of that for us. But, but, yeah, the idea of that, you know, again, the belly breathing, the deep breathing,

you're, you know, you've got your diaphragm. So, you know, there's a lot of muscular control that works with, you know, pulling in the, you know, the oxygen from your environment into the lungs. And so the way that works is your, your thorax, basically your chest down, you know, down to the bottom of your ribs, you know, is a vacuum. And so when you are taking a deep breath in, what happens is your diaphragm, if you think of it, it's like an umbrella. And when you're breathing in, it actually, think of that umbrella being flattened out. Okay. So your diaphragm, which runs like an umbrella from the outside of the ribs and the spine all the way up into, up under the lungs, under the stomach, or I'm sorry, over the stomach. the lungs and under the heart. Well, it pulls down towards your feet. And what that does is that

creates that negative pressure in the chest. And so that negative pressure, since it's a lower pressure compared to the outside environment, well, pressure, as we learned in basic science class, you know, air always moves from high pressure to low pressure. If you don't know that, just take a balloon and pop it and you'll see where the air goes. But, um, but, um, but yeah, so the air then, because of that negative pressure environment, um, you know, inside the chest, because of your diaphragm pulling down, um, and again, your diaphragm is one big muscle. So again, neurologically controlled and you both have involuntary and voluntary control over it. If I want to take a deep breath right now, I can force my, I can, you know, voluntarily make that decision,

but then as I'm talking, I'm not. thinking about it, so it's under the involuntary control. So anyway, you can create that negative pressure. Air goes in and then it relaxes and then it just pushes, pushes back out. And again, there's, when you're under that involuntary control, it's just at a very low, you know, low tone, a little bit in, a little bit out. So you actually look at the depth or the amount of air that goes into the lungs. When you're not thinking about it, it's very very, you know, it's very, very shallow. I'm actually not really, I forget what the numbers are. I'm sure I learn them at some point, but, you know, the actual percentage of, you know, what normal respiration is in terms of the

actual percentage of how much volume of air your lungs can take in. It's actually, you know, probably a fairly small percentage of what you're breathing on a regular basis versus what a full deep breath of air that you can manage to take in in terms of your lung capacity. So, So yeah, so you've got your diaphragm. You've got your muscles between the ribs. And you think of like having ribs like that pork, you know, all that muscle meat that you eat off of the ribs. That's what you have on your rib cage. They're called your intercostal muscles.

Those also have to, you know, contract and relax in order to help your breathing. But then you talked about, I want to go back to this then, is you talked about the, you know, the short, shallow breathing when you're in the stress response. And so many of those muscles, they're what are called like the secondary respiration muscles, you know, because they don't kick in all the time. They are the auxiliary breathing muscles. They're the muscles that attach like, you know, from the top of your scapula or your shoulder blade. And they attach from the top of the collarbone. So if you take your shoulder blade, if you feel that in the back of your arm and then your collarbone, there's a lot of little muscles there. And then they actually follow up the neck and up even into like the back of the head,

you know, even the base of the chin there. So there's a lot of those muscles that will start to contract whenever you're in a fight or flight response. Because what happens is you're not using your diaphragm as much, especially if you start to fatigue or you're stressed. So what they'll do is they'll contract and they lift your shoulders up off of your throat. thorax up off of your rib cage and by lifting the uh the uh the shoulders up off of the rib cage you're able to take a little you know you're you're able to breathe more quickly yeah you're able to get air it's more it's more shallow breathing you're only pulling it into the top part of the lungs but you're able to do it at a very rapid rate and so that's the the challenge though is you know

doing that long term is not a healthy response because you're only engaging the very top part of the lung tissue, you're activating those secondary respiration muscles which are only meant to be activated during a short fight-or-flight response. We've talked about this in numerous times, right? Fire-flight response is a natural, normal, healthy response. The problem is we are chronically in it so often, so many times of our life. So, you know, our breathing is not designed to be held in those auxiliary breathing muscles up around our, you know, the front and back of our neck. And so so many people with neck pain and headaches, it's related to, you know, how they're breathing. It's like, because they literally, they don't know how to take a deep breath in.

And then, so what happens is, you know, so all those muscles get overactivated. And so you're pulling all those muscles up the side of the neck, you know, neck pain, headaches, you know, shortness of breath. You don't feel like you can take a deep breath in. But then also the use it or lose it principle comes into play. So they're not taking a deep breath in. So we've had this, you know, you know the patient we're talking about. We had this patient come in and again, just a very anxious individual, you know, woman in her golden years, definitely in her late 70s. And, you know, just having all of this mid back pain.

Well, she wasn't activating any of the breathing, any of the deep belly breathing. And it was right, her mid-back pain was literally right in the middle of the spine where the, where the diaphragm attaches to the spine. The diaphragm attaches to T-10, 11, and 12. And, you know, that's like the anchor of that umbrella I just talked about. She wasn't activating it. And so there was no gentle pull, which, again, is a natural, healthy pull on the spine. So it's like it was literally just, you know, getting weaker and weaker in there until the point of, you know,

she was having all of this pain because of all the, you know, the secondary little postural muscles were probably having to activate in that area because her diaphragm wasn't pulling in air. So, you know, so all that's very important. Go ahead. I'm going on here. No, I'm sorry. I was just saying, but again, what's interesting, because breathing is a completely automatic process, it's not something we're taught how to do.

And we've talked about this too, and we've talked about, you know, exercise and engaging core muscles and things like that. where, again, if you're not an athlete that hasn't trained and learned how to lift properly, it's not something that people just necessarily know how to do. And breathing is the same way. If you've never trained, you know, how to breathe, you wouldn't necessarily know that there's a right or wrong way to do it because you're just, you know, going about your day-to-day life. And something that I really always work with people, I've worked with her with and several people with is, you know, I always ask people like, take a deep breath.

And I'd say probably 99% of the time when people do, their shoulders go up. They're breathing into their chest. And so I say, now put a hand on your chest and a hand on your stomach. Now take a deep breath and only let the hand on your stomach move, not the hand on your chest. And all of a sudden it's like, oh, that's what it means to breathe. That's when I say belly breathing. That's what we're talking about is expanding that diaphragm. And if you do that just a couple times, those real deep belly breath.

It's amazing. You can literally see people relaxing. I've had to look like, oh, wow, like I can feel my heart rate coming down. I can feel like I just feel more relaxed. And it really doesn't take much. You know, a couple breaths like that is is really all it takes to really start shifting you from that sympathetic back to that parasympathetic. And, and again, because the parasympathetic nervous system, the rest and digest is where digestion, reproduction, muscle recovery, all of these. things happen. That's what it's really important to make sure that we're getting ourselves shifted back into that state. That's why I think about it when you're when you're chronically stressed, you tend to have stomach issues, whether it's constipation or the opposite where it's kind of going constantly. So heart problems. You get sick more often. Yep. So working the, yeah. So just working the deep breathing on a regular basis can really help, you know, again, relax some of those other, some of those other systems that start to shut down when we're in that chronic state of stress and allow. And, them to do what they need to do. Because a lot of, you know, again, what do people do when they have those issues? They take a pill. But honestly, it's all your body's doing is what it's supposed to do. It's in a chronic state of stress. So it's shutting down all those other systems.

So if you address the chronic stress, which breathing is probably one of the easiest ways to both, again, physically and mentally emotionally, get yourself out of that state of heightened stress. It just allows that body to finally shift back into that rest, rest and digest system. And again, less headaches, better digestion, better sleep, you know, doing that at night. I tell people, you know, put that on with some, you know, meditative music or whatever white noise and do your deep breathing. Oh my gosh. Yeah, it makes a big difference.

Like, do that instead of watching, you know, the latest horror documentary. I'll do that. I'm still awesome. Well, yeah, I mean. But yeah, it really, really plays an important role. And it's just something, you know, if you've never really try to do that, you know, take a second and put a hand on the stomach, put a hand on the chest, and just practice breathing so that only the hand on your stomach. And I'd say women especially struggle with this because, again,

we spend our whole life trying to suck our stomach in. And the last thing we want to do is fully, you know, expand it. But, you know, again, when you really feel the difference, it's like, oh, that's what a, that's what a deep breath feels like. Well, you know, you even go as far as to say as, you know, being, being overweight or obese. It's like you are literally, you know, especially for men. It's all that central obesity. Yeah, you know, women tend to carry, you know, excess fat more around the hips. Men carry it more in their stomach, in their gut, you know, and they, and part of that is

because of, you know, how the, you know, how the excessive fat around the organs is carried. So men won't, you know, get a lot of subcutaneous fat. Women will carry excess fat more as subcutaneous fat. We carry it more as visceral fat. That's why men have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease and, you know, another, a lot of other, you know, chronic illness because of how their bodies are designed to carry that excess fat. Because we're really not designed to carry a lot of excess fat. Yeah. You know, that's a whole other episode that we've talked about in terms of, you know, keeping your, you know, keeping your, you know, keeping.

a healthy, you know, body weight. But, but yeah, we carry that excess fat around our organs. Well, if you have, so the, let's talk about the organs under the diaphragm. You've got your liver, which is, you know, second biggest organ in the body next to your skin. You've got your stomach. You've got your all of your intestines. You get your spleen. You know, kidneys sit more on the back. But, but yeah, so if you start, you know, adding, you know, layers of excess fat to those organs, Well, you take up more space in that, you know, in the digestive cavity, in your abdominal cavity. So you have your thoracic cavity, which is, you know, that's the long, heart and lungs above the diaphragm. Yeah, well, you know, upper ribs and then, you know, diaphragm, you know, sits right under heart and lungs.

And then, you know, you've had all those other organs I just mentioned, stomach, liver, you know, spleen, you know, all the digested, the, you know, large and small intestines. So if you start adding layers of fat to those organs as digestive and filter organs in the abdominal cavity, well, your diaphragm doesn't have as much room to pull down. So it's harder to do the belly breathing. You know, that's the example of, you know, a larger individual bending over in the morning trying to tie their shoe. It's like I can't, I have to hold my breath to tie my shoe because I can't breathe because, you know, my stomach is literally my belly my abdominal cavity is literally preventing my diaphragm from expanding because I'm bending over and you know putting so much pressure on it so yeah all of that your you know

your physical um you know postural position has a lot to do with breathing um and so much of that has is why aeropractic um you know with your adjustments and you know the spine has played such a role in breathing. I mean, how often you get a job? And I was like, oh, I can breathe again. Oh, my gosh, I can breathe again. That's that midback one I know. And I'm like, oh, can't breathe.

So again, not that I can't breathe, but I feel like I can't take a full deep breath. Yeah, you're activating. Everything's expanding more. The ribs articulate, you know, they join with that middle back spine called your thoracic spine. And so all those ribs articulate from the front with the breastbone, and then they go around the body to form the, you know, the thoracic, the rib cage.

And then they attach to the back part of the spine. And when that's not moving appropriately, then again, it literally is harder to expand because the ribs aren't moving up against the thoracic spine. And so, you know, getting that adjustment, you know, we always talk about the neurological connection with chiropractic care. But there's literally just a biomechanical movement. better movement of your spine where it's like, oh my goodness, I can actually move my middle back and my ribs are expanding better and so I can take more air in. But there is also from a neurological standpoint, a connection with chiropractic and making sure nerve supply to the diaphragm.

You know, all my colleagues listening to this or, you know, medical or health professionals will love this one. You know, we always study for boards and, you know, you learn a bunch of little, you know, sayings just to remind yourself of what different. different things mean in different situations. And so C3, C4, C5, which are the nerve roots that exit out of the neck. C3, four, or five, those are branches coming off the spinal cord. Well, those three nerves form what are called the phrenic nerve.

The frenic nerve comes off of C3, four, and five, and innervate the diaphragm. So the saying was C3, four, five, keep the diaphragm alive. So, again, it was just one of those quick board saying. But so many times when I'm looking at someone's neck and they have a subluxation, a lock, misalignment, there's degeneration at 3, 4, 5, they can have issues with, you know, breathing. And, you know, a lot of times in young kids, they'll have, they'll develop, you know, asthma or activity induced asthma because you start to put their body under stress. And it's like, oh, shoot, I can't breathe as much. And that's exactly what happened to me. Whenever I, you know, developed asthma as a kid, you know, when I went into chiropractic school later on in life, one of my primary subluxations was found at C3.

And that was the start of that three, four, five. And I will never forget when I started getting my spine adjusted, checked and adjusted on a regular basis, you know, maybe on a weekly or every other week basis, my breathing improves significantly. So that has a major, major impact from a neurological standpoint. You know, if you have any type of breathing challenge or even if you don't know, you know, because again, that's a lot of times people come in and it's like, I didn't know I wasn't, you know, I was locked up or restricted in my breathing and it's like, wow, now I can take a deep breath in. Or, oh my goodness, my sinuses are now clear. Like, you know, because there's so much connection to the sinus around C1 and C2,

the very top two segments in the spine. You know, so much neurological and again, biomechanical connection. You know, our intern was, you know, working on giving me an adjustment the other day. And I had a little bit of congestion, fall weather turned. It's cold outside. You know, you got leaves coming out. And so I was having some of that congestion. Literally, as he was adjusting my C1 with the instrument, I could literally feel the thumping in my sinuses.

And then afterwards, it was like, oh, just started completely draining out. I'm completely clear, you know, over the last 24 hours. So it's like, it is amazing how connected that all is, you know, both neurologically and biomechanically. And when we keep that clear, you know, we're going to breathe better. And the breathing is kind of important. That's, yeah, kind of important. But, but yeah, so ultimately it's just, it's a matter of, again, being, being aware of how

that's the first step. So do you even feel like, do you feel like you can take a deep breath? Do you feel like you're, you know, do you know how to do deep breathing? And then again, practice, with everything, it's practice. It's, you know, I was fortunate that I, you know, I was in choir from an early age. And so that was a big part of what we worked on in practice was breathing into the belly. And so, I mean, it's something that I've been practicing my whole life. But for a lot of people, again, it's like, especially if you're talking about people that are later in their years and have gone, you know, 50, 60, 70 years of maybe never really taking a deep breath.

it'll take practice to learn that but once you really truly feel the difference and you can it's one of those things you can feel immediately the difference between a shallow breath and a true deep diaphragm breath you'll really again you'll start to notice a difference in mood energy digestion headaches you know all of those things that just come with the chronic the chronic stress will really start to be alleviated by making sure that you're getting that that true deep breathing in So what's that one, because you came across a book, I mean, several years ago. How did you, how did you come across that book? Did you recommend it actually? Well, I think because I think the patient recommended it to me. I think it was one of the sisters who come to see us. No, I recommended it to her. Oh, okay.

But it's, how did I come across it? I have no idea. Oh, I forget. Yeah, it was one you would recommend it, but didn't even read. And then I read it. I'm like, you should actually read this book. But yeah, it's called Three Deep Breaths. by Thomas Crum and it's it's more of a it's more for the stress reduction mindfulness side

so it's really told as a it's kind of told as a story you follow this guy through these you know through his kind of day yeah and he talks about the author talks about then how to you know how to incorporate breathing and mindfulness and each breath is a different you know has a different intention with it and it's just it's a really easy read um i've recommended just so many people because it does i think it just helps with that the the mind-body connection and there's still things that i think about you know it's the one they talk about the the first breath is the centering breath so just again being you know bringing yourself back to being being aware of where you are and using opportunities in this crazy hectic world where we would normally be would normally be a stressor and

Yeah, and taking it as much. So you're late for something and you hit that red light. And, you know, immediately it's like, ah, it's like, well, you can't do anything about the red light. You're at the red light. So instead, it's rush. No, don't do that. The number of people that I see doing that anymore is terrifying. Yeah.

You're not doing that. So, but yeah, but using that as an opportunity is, okay, I'm at this red light. So, like, this is now just time that I, that I have to sit and breathe and be present. So just that kind of, it talks more about how to incorporate the breathing throughout your day and how to shift your mindset of things that, you know, could usually be stressors and instead turning them into those, those opportunities. And it's just, yeah, it's just, it was just one of those books that it just was, you know, keep it in my car, I take it with me when I go hiking and I'll just, you know, turn to,

I've been so marked up with the pages and things underlined and pages folded over and I'll just turn to a certain passage that I enjoyed and, you know, refer back to. it. But yeah, it's just, it's, you know, I would highly recommend it if it's, you know, if you're somebody who does feel very stressed and does feel like, you know, you're just not even quite sure where to start. Maybe, you know, meditation's not really for you or, you know, you're just not even sure where to begin. It's, it's a good, easy starting point just to realize how much, you know, how much control we really do have in a world where we feel like we don't sometimes. So, well, and again, it's, it's probably, you know, it's pulling out the, what

you do have control and not stressing over what you have no control focus on what you can control I can go through that red light no I'm just kidding again do not which is why we had a disclaimer at the beginning after I said

what can we possibly recommend in this episode that would be it it was yellow oh my gosh it was pink it was pink oh my goodness I'm guilty but yes I would highly recommend that book

And yeah, and I'm sure we could find some other, you know, resources on more of the, you know, scientific. Yeah. But, yeah, for me, it's like, I just find the, I find the mindfulness of it so powerful. And again, and if you're focusing on that, you're going to get all the physical benefits, too, without really having to think about them. And that's where I, you know, that's, you know, that's sort of how I work with people. That's how I live my life is it's, you could, you can, you can always set out with, you know, these very specific goals, you know. I want to lose X amount of pounds. I want to lower my blood pressure.

I want to, you know, blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day, if you just, if you focus on your body and what your body needs, all those things are just going to come into play. So, yeah, you could sit there and go, oh, okay, now I've got to go practice my deep breathing so that I can get, say, well, but again, if it just becomes part of your, you know, your mindfulness practice, part of your wellness practice, you're going to get all those other, all those other benefits without even having to think about it. Yeah, yeah.

So I was going to discuss because everything we just talked about in terms of respiration is actually considered secondary respiration. Yeah, I know you wanted to touch on. We're going to, just an essence of time. We'll do another podcast about primary respiration. That has more to do with the literal central nervous system, the brain and spinal cord, and what the brain and spinal cord, which is bathed in, which is a very thin, layer of fluid, a bath of fluid called your cerebro spinal spinal fluid,

cerebrough being the brain, spinal being spinal cord. And really the, you know, the mechanics in all of that and the very, you know, important value of making sure that spine and cranium, the actual bones have very minimal movement. They have, you know, very small, you know, micro millimeters of movement. But it is important in terms of, you know, the pumping. mechanism of that cerebral spinal fluid. So that's actually what is considered primary respiration.

And that works from the cranium all the way down the spine, all the way into the tailbone. And so that can be impacted if any one of the spinal segments or the tailbone is locked up or, you know, you had an injury or, you know, concussions, head injury, you know, how you sleep, how you breathe. You know, because that was another thing we didn't even get into. I had a dentist friend. And we recently had a conversation because she's actually getting into, you know, some, you know, some other opportunities to help young children learn how to breathe properly because we don't, you know, there's so many things that we have done in our, in our culture, in our lifestyle that we've gotten away from, you know, actually learning how to breathe through our nose. And, you know, when you're breathing through your nose, that helps the development of the heart palate. That helps the development of the sinuses. that helps the development of the jaw and the alignment of the teeth.

And so if you look at how, you know, we've kind of evolved over the last, you know, probably century or two, you know, we've become very narrow in our, you know, in our breathing cavity, our sinus cavities, narrow in our jaws. And so you have, you know, more incidences of needing impacted wisdom teeth that need to come out because there's just no room in there. And a lot of that is tracked back to how we're breathing as influence. in young children. You know, so that's a whole other thing that, you know, that we, we didn't even get into

today in terms of, like, breathing through the nose versus breathing through the mouth. But I think we went over some very, very good information about breathing and, you know, being mindful of it, the control, you know, versus involuntary, you know, automatic process that it is and just making sure that if you really need to, you know, see if you or, you You have a son or a daughter, you know, a niece or nephew who is having health challenges that could be related to breathing. And maybe you don't even know if it is. It's something that we may be able to identify and, you know, and help. So if anything sounded, you know, like it resonated with you, please, you know, we've got a lot more information on our website.

We'll certainly put links in the podcast here depending on where you're looking at this. But do not hesitate to reach out to our website. Toro, T-U-R-O-Famley-Kiropractic.com. Always happy to send you any information or get in contact. You can reach out to us directly. But with that being said, I'm Dr. Dan. I'm Angela. Thank you guys so much, and we will see you next time.

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