Air Quality Is Terrible!

I used to think it was just me, but air quality is in the toilet. If I still smoked I don't think I could get enough oxygen to survive from the air outdoors today. It's even worse indoors with our sealed up houses with no ventilation.

I just wrote an article about enhancing the quality of the air we breathe. Check it out.

One of the key issues one must address when dealing with breathing disorders like copd is staying active. By controlling the indoor air quality with an air purifier you have taken a first step in the right direction. Now you must push yourself to exercise not only your body but your pulmonary system and your cardiovascular system. Before copd this was important. With copd this is mandatory.

No exercise, lose control of your weight, even harder to exercise etc. This is the apathy spiral with leads to death. Avoid it. Exercise.

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You Need To Do Something

Be proactive.

Breathing Disorders | Upper Respiratory Tract

If external factors are all about the quality of the air we inhale, then the upper respiratory tracts is all about the quantity of air we inhale. What I mean here is that when we get:

• swollen nasal cavities
  
• sinus infections
• allergies
• infected adenoids
• allergic reactions which clog up our nasal cavity with phlegm.
• poor air quality causes inflammation in our nasal cavity.

I mean anything which restricts or constricts our breathing passages, we have reduced our ability to bring oxygen to the alveolus for exchange with the carbon dioxide in our blood. We must strive to enhance any good factors and minimize or eliminate any negative factors in our upper respiratory tract.

• nostrils
• nasal cavity
• pharynx
• larynx

More discussion in this article.

Whether it is quality or quantity, if you want to fight a breathing disorder like copd, then you had better resign yourself to minimizing the negative and enhancing the positive factors.

Breathing Disorders - External Factors

What do I mean by external factors? What defines the air before we inhale it. The condition or age of our body has nothing to do with these external factors yet these external factors definitely affect our ability to delivery oxygen to the blood and eventually to our tissues and organs.

There really are five external factors:

1. Elevation from sea level
2. Air pollution
3. Temperature
4. Humidity
5. Wind

These are discussed in this article.

There will be several posts and articles on breathing disorders as follows:
-external factors
-inhaling
-breathing exercises
-the trade
-distribution
-the second trade
-distribution
-the third trade
-exhale.

My interest here is totally self serving. I have copd which you know if your have read other posts. I am looking for a recovery strategy.

To date, the medical establishment does not believe that there is a cure for copd. Breathing disorders of which copd is a major player, are the fourth leading cause of death in the USA. No cure.

By the way, the main cause of copd is, how did you guess, smoking cigarettes. Once again big Tobacco dodges the responsibility for the human flotsam it's toxic product leaves behind. Perhaps someone should publish the pictures of all the major shareholders in big Tobacco and their families and children. Let all the victims of big Tobacco know which private schools and fancy subdivisions were paid for with their lives.

I have run across an interesting product while attempting to alleviate the symptoms of copd. It delivers oxygen in short blasts when needed. Personal Portable Oxygen