• Welcome to the DeeperBlue.com Forums, the largest online community dedicated to Freediving, Scuba Diving and Spearfishing. To gain full access to the DeeperBlue.com Forums you must register for a free account. As a registered member you will be able to:

    • Join over 44,280+ fellow diving enthusiasts from around the world on this forum
    • Participate in and browse from over 516,210+ posts.
    • Communicate privately with other divers from around the world.
    • Post your own photos or view from 7,441+ user submitted images.
    • All this and much more...

    You can gain access to all this absolutely free when you register for an account, so sign up today!

Training, Releasing Toxins, and the Lymphatic System

Thread Status: Hello , There was no answer in this thread for more than 60 days.
It can take a long time to get an up-to-date response or contact with relevant users.

Rojas

Member
Nov 12, 2012
7
1
13
Greetings,
So my intro to freediving has been going great. I took the FII level 1 course and loved it. I was out of the water for a while why I took care of some health issues – including a cut that turned into an infection. I mention that because my lymph nodes were already in overdrive, trying to fight the infection. While forced out of the water, I REALLY started doing CO2 and O2 tables aggressively as well as walking apnea and stair apnea (with a spotter). My PB’s for breathe-holding as well as distance in walking apnea and flights of stairs were all progressing nicely…until my lymph nodes REALLY went crazy – I mean multiple swollen lymph nodes. In addition I developed chest acne – never had it before in my life as well as another pus-filled abscess that SEEMED to be unrelated to the first one.

Having a lot of down time, I started reading about de-toxing the body and a lot of what I was doing – deep breathing – especially contracting/expanding the diaphragm appears to naturally release toxins.

So my question is- could I have possibly released too many toxins at a time when my lymph nodes were already fighting off an infection???

TIA
 
Reactions: Rik
Deep breathing probably has a lot of health benefits but I feel like aggressive apnea training puts stress on the body especially you are not used to it, and much more if combined with exercise. Breathing/respiration is part of how the body metabolises waste (ie CO2). I know there is research in therapuetic uses for hypoxia, but it is typically not combined with actual breathhold--I think patients breathe normally but at reduced O2 concentration. I want to say I read somewhere that the stress of freediving releases a lot of free radicals, and I know for myself when training heavily I have to pay increased attention to nutrition...

A physical with a blood test might be a good idea?
 
Frankly, call me a skeptic but I don't think that freediving detoxifies that much. It does more seem that your infection in progressive. Do yourself a favor and go to a physician.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more…