[HN Gopher] Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A ...
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Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A meta-analysis
of RCTs
Author : im_dario
Score : 23 points
Date : 2023-09-11 15:11 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nature.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com)
| mmaunder wrote:
| I've been doing O2 and CO2 "tables" which are breath hold
| exercises for free diving. For co2 you hold for 2 mins, breathe
| for 2, hold for 2, breathe for 1:45, hold for 2, breathe for 1:30
| and keep reducing the breathing until you're at 15 seconds. It's
| getting you used to co2 building up. Much more to it than that
| but the feeling during and after is incredible. Been doing yoga
| for 6 years and never had a feeling of calm like this. Check out
| STAmina if you're interested which is a free diving training app.
| Even integrates with pulse oximeters. And free diving itself is
| awesome and becoming very popular.
| Nicholas_C wrote:
| +1 for Stamina, I use this app for apnea training for surfing.
| Wim Hof also produces a similar calming feeling, there are some
| good guided Wim Hof videos on youtube that are easy to follow.
| tqi wrote:
| Is the estimated effect size (g=-0.35) -35%? That feels a bit
| high to me.
| westurner wrote:
| 4-7-8 breathing has origins in Pranayama FWIU?
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| "Effects of sleep deprivation and 4-7-8 breathing control on
| heart rate variability, blood pressure, blood glucose, and
| endothelial function in healthy young adults" (2022)
| https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277512/
| https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C47&q=Eff...
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| Pranayama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama
| Havoc wrote:
| Papers should really come with a "jump to discussion/result" link
| LegitShady wrote:
| I propose we call this the tl;dr
| eep_social wrote:
| I like it but maybe we need a non-abbreviation, maybe we
| could call it something like "abstract" or "executive
| summary" depending whether our audience is academic or
| commercial.
| nhumrich wrote:
| Its called the abstract. And its the first section of every
| official paper.
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| Right at the end of the abstract:
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| > Overall, results showed that breathwork may be effective for
| improving stress and mental health. However, we urge caution
| and advocate for nuanced research approaches with low risk-of-
| bias study designs to avoid a miscalibration between hype and
| evidence.
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