The Secret to a Healthy Life: A Pain Specialist

Everyone breathes.

When you are hungry, eat food,
You walk through growth.

We breathe, eat, and walk without being taught.
But if you breathe, eat and walk the wrong way,
Your body rusts without you even knowing it.
You might be wondering, “Could it be because of this?”
It's true.
Actions that are imprinted on the right brain and done instinctively
Rather, it can be the main culprit in damaging your health.
You need to breathe properly, eat properly, and walk properly.

Just correcting these three basic behaviors
We can regain a surprisingly healthy life.

- In the prologue

《Breathing Reset》 is a book written by the author, a pain specialist, to correct modern people's incorrect mouth breathing and upper chest breathing.
The author, an anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist, has been striving to provide patients with simple and fundamental treatment methods since opening a pain clinic in 2005.
Feeling the limitations of initial steroid treatment, he reached a conclusion after studying numerous data and clinical studies to identify the root cause of the pain and introduce an integrated treatment method.
The fundamental cause of various pains suffered by modern people, such as stress, panic disorder, indigestion, headache, insomnia, and scoliosis, is the breakdown of our body's system and balance.
And, knowing that breathing and bare feet play a very important role in correcting this, we applied this clinically and confirmed the effect of pain relief and improvement of autonomic nervous system symptoms in numerous patients.
The author has fully captured the 'importance of proper breathing' and 'how to breathe properly' that he has discovered through decades of research in 'Breathing Reset'.

The most basic blueprint that allows us to move, control, and live is DNA.
I need to know about this genie so that I can feel better.
Genie is a loyal servant who follows orders, but there are times when he is overly loyal and times when he becomes lazy.
Sometimes they have a hard time or act differently from their owner's intentions.
Because the genie's mission is not to make its owner healthy, but to survive and spread its offspring to future generations.

--- p.19

So, does Genie want to live as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer? No.
But now, in 2025, Genie controls our bodies with the same perspective as he did about 2 million years ago.
We need to know that.
This is not a question of good or bad.
It is said that if you know yourself and your enemy, you will win every battle.
If you live without knowing, you will not be able to adapt to modern times.

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If you breathe only through your chest without using your diaphragm, your heart will be overworked and its function will gradually decline.
There are more reasons to be concerned about heart function.
Oxytocin, known as the hormone of love and happiness, is known to be a neurotransmitter secreted from the posterior pituitary gland.
But recently, there was a study that found that oxytocin is also secreted from the heart.
Therefore, if you do not breathe properly, not only will your heart's circulatory function deteriorate, but oxytocin secretion will also decrease, which will have a more negative impact on your mind and emotions.

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The large amount of carbon contained in food is difficult to eliminate through urine alone, but this excess carbon combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, which is then eliminated through respiration.
This is a major means of weight control, as the reason you don't gain much weight even when you eat is because you expel carbon through breathing.
In particular, 84% of ingested fat is excreted through breathing.
In this way, our body needs carbon dioxide.

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There are many cases where Olympic stars or famous athletes surprisingly struggle to the end of their lives, and the reason is the active oxygen caused by extreme exercise.
When you exercise vigorously, you inhale a lot of oxygen and produce a lot of energy.
There's nothing I can do.
Moreover, if you breathe through your mouth and upper chest, the side effects are fatal to your health as they add to the active oxygen.
Moderate exercise is more beneficial to your health than intense exercise.

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Correct breathing is when you breathe slowly while lowering the diaphragm sufficiently.
As with all tissues, barriers deteriorate if not used.
When you are in a shortened and weakened state, even if you want to breathe through the diaphragm, it becomes stiff and difficult.
Before you know it, you've forgotten how to do it.
“Make your stomach bulge out, make it slim.” This is the first reason I have my patients practice this.

--- p.92

Our thumbs can move in opposite directions, not just in the same direction.
These characteristics enabled precise tasks such as sewing, using chopsticks, making fists, and throwing.
If you use your hands a lot, the nerves and blood vessels responsible for sensation and movement will naturally be distributed in greater numbers, and information exchange with the brain will increase.
The area of ​​the brain responsible for hand movements also naturally grows.
Using your hands a lot keeps your brain young.
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Our body's healing ultimately depends on improving immunity and increasing blood circulation.
It has been said that breathing through the nose itself increases immunity.
The nose is also a reservoir for nitric oxide.
When you breathe in slowly through your nose, this miracle molecule is delivered deep into your lungs, but diaphragmatic breathing allows the nitric oxide to reach even deeper into your lungs.
--- p.119

I have panic disorder, I have depression, and no matter how many injections I get, the pain in my neck and shoulders doesn't go away...
Proper breathing is very important in improving these various symptoms.
I speak to patients who trust me completely.
“Wear tape over your mouth 24 hours a day.
Keep it on except when eating or talking.
Just focus on your breathing.
“Walk barefoot and run very slowly,” is the author’s prescription.
Ultimately, it's all a breathing problem.
--- p.152

If you observe children who come for treatment for scoliosis, you will see some common characteristics.
The mouth is open, there are many buck teeth, breathing is shallow and gasping, and the muscles in the neck are visible.
I breathe almost 100% through my mouth and also do upper chest breathing.
He's also a bit short.
Ask your guardian.
“Do you often have a stuffy nose or rhinitis?”, “Do you snore or sleep with your mouth open?”, “Do you hate running?” Then they all ask, “How did you know?”
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It is better to practice proper breathing before going to bed.
This is because the body relaxes and the parasympathetic nervous system becomes activated, shifting into a mode of regeneration and healing.
We breathe 20,000 times a day without even realizing it.
What would happen if it piled up like this, one day, one week, one month, one year?
Depending on how you breathe, there will be tremendous cumulative effects, both good and bad.
--- p.202

Strengthening your abdominal muscles will strengthen your spine.
Gyms teach a variety of abdominal exercises, but you can effectively tone your abdominal muscles without these strenuous exercises through breathing exercises.
The 'lying crawl' exercise we learned as children strengthens our abdominal muscles while promoting coordinated movement of the entire torso.
--- p.220

Breathing means exhaling (呼) and inhaling (吸).
If you let out enough air, you will be able to inhale more air.
If you open the door for a short time to ventilate the room because it is cold in the middle of winter, the air will not be able to circulate to every corner.
The same goes for our bodies.
There must be sufficient ventilation.
All the old air must be removed before new air can come in.

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