Learn to strengthen your lungs

Between 40 and 80 years of age, lungs They lose approximately 40% of their capacity. Part of its tissue is dwindling, the number of alveoli (cavity in the lungs) is reduced and there is also a decrease in the pulmonary capillaries.

Since the lungs they become less elastic due, among other factors, to the loss of elastin (a tissue protein) It is important to keep them in good shape.

In this regard, researchers from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health , both from the United States, ensure that it is possible to keep them young, as long as they put into practice a series of aerobic exercises and breathing techniques to strengthen the muscles of the diaphragm.

And is that playing sports makes a difference. During a study of long-distance runners, it was found that those who had trained for 10 to 20 years had diminished or completely reduced the loss of lung capacity associated with age.

 

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Other data reveal that the exercise causes the heart Pump more blood and let the lungs allow you to take deeper breaths. This translates into greater resistance, less fatigue, blood pressure Low and blood sugar in equilibrium.

On the other hand, there is respiratory reeducation, that is, learning to breathe well to perform better any daily activity, starting with exercise.

The breathing technique called abdominodiafragmática , is to make an inspiration through the nose with the diaphragm muscle: for this we must feel that while we take the air, our stomach it inflates.

Then you release the air with half-closed lips, contracting the abdominal muscles to help remove the air. This type of breathing can be done sitting, standing or lying on your back.


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