Inhale... Exhale... Inhale... Exhale.... This completely natural and innate mechanism that is breathing allows us, since our birth, to feed our oxygen reserve via inspiration and to reject carbon dioxide via expiration. And therefore to stay alive. We are born with our first breath and we end our journey on earth with a final effort, a final sigh.
However, breathing is not just for "just breathing". This function has a much greater potential, some aspects of which are sometimes overlooked. This neglect leads us to stop paying attention to the way we breathe: without any awareness and in a way that is far too automatic, at a fast and jerky pace.

A breath that is far too short and without any health capital.

As you must know, our body accumulates over the hours, days, months and even years, various toxins and toxics very harmful to our well-being. These are the result of several types of fouling and feeding is one of the factors of organic pollution. The simple fact of digesting is a reaction that produces carbon dioxide, acids, which we must evacuate.

It is a natural mechanism

This catabolic reaction creates two main types of acids:

1. The weak acids that are present during the digestion of, for example, vegetable proteins - found mainly in legumes, cereals, oilseeds. They release citric, malic, tartaric acids, etc., which are transformed by the body into carbonic gas and are therefore eliminated via the lungs.
2. Strong acids. When you eat a beef steak, therefore an animal protein, the digestion generates the release of this type of acids (sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, ...) which are not assimilated by the lungs and therefore the elimination takes place here at the level of the kidneys. An elimination much more complex for the body.
   Understand now why we advise you not to abuse animal proteins that may overload your emunctory and take you directly to a clogging and therefore a certain acidosis.

Let's go back to our lungs which must release 90% of the acids in our body. A spectacular work is orchestrated internally but with our life rhythms where nothing is done calmly anymore, where the breathing is not done entirely, we do not bring any support to our lungs.

How can we help our lungs to evacuate as much as possible?

It is absolutely necessary to involve the lower abdomen area by practicing long breaths in through the nose and quick breaths out through the mouth. Breaths should be slow and deep so that all the alveoli in the lungs expand. On the contrary, the exhalations should be faster. This way, the oxygenation of the blood and the evacuation of stale air will be optimal. Of course, this mechanism should not be practiced constantly, all day long, but allow yourself a few moments several times a day to "settle down" and breathe consciously. In the morning when you wake up and in the evening when you go to bed, for example.

Here's an easy exercise:

• Sit in a comfortable position with your back straight
• Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth, deeply
• Repeat five to six times
• Take a break for a few seconds
• Breathe in through your nose again and hold that air inside you for 5 to 8 seconds and exhale quickly through your mouth
• Repeat three to five times

The practice of yoga is also recommended because it includes clean techniques that are very favorable to the elimination via the lungs. When you practice meditation or yoga, you are working your lungs and making them 100% part of your activity.

Play sports, a prolonged activity that will allow your lungs to fill and empty properly through respiratory effort. Choose an aerobic (as opposed to anaerobic) type of activity such as brisk walking, biking, running, swimming, etc. Also prefer outdoor exercises that will bring you a breath of pure oxygen with each breath. Sporting activity will also allow your skin to sweat and therefore eliminate toxins also through this exit door. Elimination via the skin, kidneys and lungs is very important in the acid-base balance mechanism. Since the body seeks constant homeostasis to balance the pH of our blood, it is important to take care of your body and therefore to implement various little things on a daily basis that will support the work that is naturally put in place.