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Month: February 2011

Hyperventilation: Why breathing more isn’t necessarily better (part 2)

By joemillerFebruary 2, 2011January 3, 2018 Categories: Breathing, Health, Physiology 1 Comment

In part one of this series, I covered what might seem like a paradoxical outcome of hyperventilation—that breathing more than necessary actually reduces the amount of oxygen to the brain. In this installment, I’ll explore two more effects of my experience of over-breathing: involuntary muscle spasms while hyperventilating and long periods of apnea (not breathing)…

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