BREATHING AS DETOXIFICATION METHOD

What we take into our bodies as nourishment, what we breath and what gets absorbed through our skins pores, must go through an elaborate process of breakdown,storage and discharge. Food we eat is eventually broken down into tiny energy components that provide fuel for cells. What we inhale also gets absorbed into blood via the lungs and after entering blood where it is then filtered by the liver, goes thorough an additional filtering process by the kidneys before becoming discharged as urine.

Our faithful and hard working internal filtering factories, responsible for body detoxification are:

• Liver,
• Kidney 
• Intestines
• Skin
• Lungs
• Lymph

What we store depends on the condition of these organs, our fat reserves, circulation and blood quality. 

There are many different ways to detoxification. Starting from having a healthy diet full of vitamins, proteins, Herbal and ayurvedic intakes, drinking lots of water and fruit vegetable juices per day, massage, daily exercise, emotional strength. But, here I am going to point towards another method of detoxifiying, that is Breathing practice.

Any activity that increases the exhalation can be very effective for helping to discharge carbon dioxide. like -Singing, reading aloud and breathing exercises all qualify as exhalation therapies. Some of the yoga breathing exercises are especially recommended,since they focus on the exhalation. Anulom-vilom, brastika and many various yoga methods can be practiced daily to get good results.

The word "respiration" means "to breath again." Yet, breathing is much more than the inhalation and exhalation of air. Our respiratory system is an intricate arrangement of spaces and passageways that serve to conduct air into the lungs. Air that we breathe is destined to supply oxygen to the individual tissue cells and remove their gaseous waste product, carbon dioxide. Our body's cells require a continuous supply of oxygen and a means for disposing the carbon dioxide that is produced by cells as a waste product.

There are two aspects to respiration:

1. The first is called external respiration and takes place in the lungs, where oxygen molecules from the outside air attach themselves to red blood cells and travel to the capillaries where the oxygen molecules slip through the wall of the capillary and are utilized as fuel by tissue cells.

2. The second is called internal respiration, which is  the gas exchanges between the blood and the body cells and within the cells. Oxygen leaves the blood and enters the cells at the same time that carbon dioxide leaves the cells and enters the blood vial the red blood cell. Once in the lung via circulation, we then expel this carbon dioxide as an exhalation. 

Our oxygen needs vary according to our activity. Lying in bed will require approximately 9 quarts of air per minute, whereas a mad four-minute dash could demand over 50 quarts of air per minute Depending on our build, we generally breathe in and out 12 to 20 times per minute, with children nearly twice as fast.

Often, inhaled bacteria and viruses can be destroyed in the nose and throat by a potent germ killer called a lysozyme. Deep in the alveolisacs of the lung are white blood cells, also known as scavenger cells, called macrophages. The macrophages engulf foreign matter and release enzymes that kill them. In the normal act of breathing, we can also take in other substances that might be carcinogenic; pollution fragments of lead,sulfur, nitrogen dioxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and substances called oxidants. Eventually, these carcinogens can make their way to our tissues via the blood stream and through the capillary walls.

  Above all  living a healthy life is about finding joy in living.