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Mission Organization Certification Workshops About Breathing Professional services Instrumentation Business Opportunity Downloads Links Contact us Are you overbreathing? Which brain is yours?	WORKSHOP: Are you overbreathing? Everyone, of course, agrees that good respiration is fundamental to healthy physiology and psychology. But, on the other hand, and unfortunately so, only a very few practitioners who do breathing training know about respiratory chemistry and how it regulates fundamental physiology critical to good health and optimal performance. Deregulated respiratory chemistry is commonplace, and can have profound immediate and long-term effects that trigger, exacerbate, and/or cause a wide variety of serious physical symptoms, psychological changes, and performance deficits. Overbreathing, the most common cause of deregulated chemistry, is breathing which results in extracellular CO2 deficiency (blood and cerebrospinal fluid) through excessive ventilation, a physiological condition otherwise known as hypocapnia. It is the effects of hypocapnia that may, in fact, in many cases, be synonymous with the so-called “effects of stress” as well as the “unexplained symptoms” reported by patients and healthcare practitioners everywhere. Breathing evaluation and training, without regard to this chemistry, leave out perhaps the most fundamental, practical, and profound factors that account for the far-reaching effects of deregulated breathing, as well as for the surprising benefits of proper breathing re-education. Hypocapnia causes physiological changes such as hypoxia (oxygen deficit), cerebral vasoconstriction, coronary constriction, blood and extracellular alkalosis (increased pH), cerebral glucose deficit, ischemia (localized anemia), buffer depletion (bicarbonates), bronchial constriction, gut constriction, calcium imbalance, antioxidant depletion, platelet aggregation, magnesium deficiency, hypokalemia (plasma potassium deficit), and muscle fatigue, spasm (tetany), and pain. These disturbances in physiology can trigger and exacerbate a wide variety of health-related complaints, as well as deficits in physical performance (e.g., sports), including: phobias, migraine phenomena, hypertension, attention disorder, asthma attacks, angina attacks, heart attacks, cardiac arrhythmias, thrombosis (blood clotting) panic attacks, hypoglycemia, epileptic seizures, altitude sickness, muscle weakness and spasm, sexual dysfunction, sleep disturbances (apnea), allergy, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), repetitive strain injury (RSI), and chronic fatigue. The symptoms precipitated are dependent upon individual predispositions. Continued