A healthy lifestyle

That a healthy lifestyle is necessary for people with chronic hyperventilation, seems to be very obvious. Yet it is a much more important aspect than one might suspect. In chronic hyperventilation, the acidity of the blood is continuously too low. As a result, all kinds of body processes are strongly influenced. If an unhealthy lifestyle is added to it, the body will endure it even more than it already does.

Healthy eating and drinking

Healthy eating and drinking is the basis of the combustion processes in our body. Varied food and drink and especially healthy products, provide a stimulus for the body. The body processes that are impacted by hyperventilation, benefit from the fact that the supplied nutrients correspond with the optimal setting of the body cells. Natural products are absorbed faster and better than unnatural products. Especially excessive alcohol consumption can – for people with chronic hyperventilation – turn out very badly. It can even lead to a hyperventilation attack. Therefore, be cautious with the use of alcohol. You do not have to exclude it, but drink in moderation and for example not through the week.

Take care of regularity in your life

The human body is a finely tuned biological machine. All kinds of body processes influence each other. And an important role in this is timing. The body knows when to eat, wake and sleep. It has adjusted the internal processes accordingly. When we go ‘out of our roof’ during the weekend, going to bed at four o’clock at night after consuming a large load of alcohol, we disrupt our daily rhythm of sleeping and waking in an extremely cruel way.

For the body, this is a huge attack on the finely tuned body processes. The body experiences this as stress. For people with chronic hyperventilation, this blow comes twice as hard. Especially because the body processes work less well due to the low acidity in the blood.

Sports and chronic hyperventilation

We do not need to tell anyone that sports is healthy, of course. But for people with chronic hyperventilation, (light) exercise is a very important link in the healing process. And we do not mean extreme sports, like setting a new world record running. But light exercises such as jogging, walking or (quiet) cycling.

In chronic hyperventilation the acidity of the body is too low. As a result, red blood cells can not deliver their oxygen properly to the tissues and muscles. It is therefore necessary to exercise lightly. The muscles can then deliver the performance of the body, without causing oxygen shortages in the muscles. Because of this you tune in on the reduced performance of the muscles and you get an optimal result.

Doing light exercises has another advantage. It helps to release and process the underlying stress. It provides a natural way to increase neurotransmitter levels in the brain. This releases stress. Our consciousness is less active during exercise. As a result, the subconscious mind can release and process stress.

A healthy lifestyle for people with chronic hyperventilation

Eat and drink healthy and live regularly – especially during weekends. Go to sleep at about the same time every day (preferably well before 12 o’clock at night). And get up every day at about the same time again. Do not break this rhythm, especially during the weekends. Do light exercises every day. At least half an hour to an hour. Alternate it with walking, cycling and perhaps a bit of jogging. A good ‘quality of life’ will be your part. And you facilitate the healing process. And that is essential for people with chronic hyperventilation.

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