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(Dr.Gauthama
Bhat is an Ear Nose Throat Specialist. Some half-wit circulated a message
suggesting deep breathing as the sure road to greatness. He has answered
it, in his effort to curtail such false propaganda among the ignorant
would be patients, showing his moral responsibility of a doctor.)
Normal breathing
& deep breathing
What has been
portrayed as =shallow breathing= in the passage is the real=normal=breathing.
When a person is at rest, he exchanges about 500mls of air in each breath cycle.
The rest of the lung volumes remaining unused. But they are there for a purpose.
Should a person start running or exercising, he requires a lot more energy or in
other words oxygen to perform that sport. That is when the reserve lung volumes
come into play and the person is able to cope with the physical stress. Just
imagine that a person is already breathing to his full capacity when he is at
rest utilizing all his reserves, and then he is forced to run to escape from
some danger, where will he be able to harness the energy/oxygen from. He has
already used up all his capacity!
Even though the
deep breathing suggestion looks intelligent on paper, the fact is that
nobody can do it in real life. It is simply impossible to breathe so deeply
throughout, life, consciously. This is because of the “original architecture” of
the body is to breathe shallowly at rest and breathe deeply only momentarily,
only when required. The way a normal human breathers during sleep is the true
breathing. It is inadvisable to change that rhythm. We can never exhale more
than inhaling or inhale more than exhaling. Because when one breathes at least
12 times in a minute and does it for the entire life, even a slight discrepancy
in the order of micro liters can cause either an excess or a deficit in the lung
volumes in a matter of few days-therefore again this theory I would
reject.
Lungs
will remain normal only when the inhaled and exhaled air volumes are
perfectly balanced which it done with such great fidelity!
Last line
for the one who suggests reorganizing human breathing on animals model:
If one wants to emulate a dog or an elephant, I think there are better
ways like - starting to bark or snouting like a pig or sporting a tail,
that is if you want to show your sense of humor! Great men didn’t
become great by doing whatever with their breathing or washing their
hinds. To represent it that way displays nothing but stupidity of the
person, who does it claiming to be clever. Do not follow such advice
and suffer. Our body is the best machine ever made. Let us not meddle
with the “Factory settings” it comes with and down grade our lives.
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