Commentary What Is Hyperventilation And Why Is It Such A Bad Idea?

[DeeperBlue.com]

Hyperventilation is any form of conscious or sub-conscious over-breathing. This means breathing more than the body needs for what it is trying to do. You wouldn’t breathe as if you were walking around when you are sitting on the sofa and you wouldn’t breathe as if running when you were walking. Hyperventilation can also be

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[alastair]

Thanks for the nice article. I find it fascinating how lowering CO2 through hyper ventilation simultaneously removes your discomfort and removes the very mechanism for liberating the stored oxygen you need to sustain a breath hold.
It's certainly a death trap that warrants more articles in this vein.
Did any of you see the awful post on CNN last week about poor Natalia? The "journalist" correctly linked hyper ventilation with blackout, but wrongly suggested that this was not only the cause of Natalia's tragic accident, but also that this is the de facto technique used by freedivers.
"Breathe up is just a euphemism for hyper ventilation", he wrote.
Tanya S can tweet all she likes about apnea in the Olympics, but it will never happen while misconceptions like this are being communicated by the mainstream media.
KK should post a "how I trained Tom Cruise to hold his breath for 6 minutes without hyperventilation."
Al