{"content":[{"text":"What Is Needed","bbox":{"left":0.1192,"top":0.092332,"width":0.14600699999999997,"height":0.016926999999999998}},{"text":"What McKeown is saying is that we need much greater tolerance for increased levels of \n CO2. With over-sensitized CO2 receptors, you will have an early, increased desire to \n breathe when CO2 increases to normal levels. This creates a classic vicious cycle \n where you overbreathe, losing more carbon dioxide. Over time, this creates a lack of \n tolerance for normal CO2 levels in the blood.","bbox":{"left":0.1192,"top":0.124757,"width":0.759706,"height":0.09765399999999999}},{"text":"How To Test Yourself","bbox":{"left":0.1192,"top":0.263848,"width":0.200491,"height":0.016927000000000025}},{"text":"McKeown describes what he calls the Body Oxygen Level Test, or B.O.L.T. test. This \n test is best done first thing in the morning. In this test, you take a normal breath in and \n out. At the end of the outbreath, breathe in just a bit, then simply hold your breath. You \n may pinch your nose if that helps. You measure the time in seconds that it takes \n before the first physical impulse to breathe comes. You are not trying to hold your \n breath a long time here. You are just noting when you get to that first strong impulse to \n breathe.","bbox":{"left":0.1192,"top":0.296272,"width":0.749959,"height":0.13662400000000002}},{"text":"A common starting place for people with issues here is around 20 seconds. Under 20 \n seconds, you have a problem. The aim of his program is to get you close to 40 seconds. \n The closer you are to 40 seconds, the closer you are to having adequate CO2 levels. To \n increase your seconds in the B.O.L.T. test, you need to do certain exercises. It can take \n many weeks to increase B.O.L.T.","bbox":{"left":0.1192,"top":0.442636,"width":0.764089,"height":0.09692600000000001}},{"text":"With a history of vegetarianism, anemia, women of menstrual age, etc., low iron might \n be a factor in a low B.O.L.T. score.","bbox":{"left":0.1192,"top":0.549302,"width":0.743321,"height":0.0366240000000001}},{"text":"What Does “Good” Breathing Look Like?","bbox":{"left":0.1192,"top":0.62809,"width":0.38345799999999997,"height":0.016927000000000025}},{"text":"It is very important to breathe only through your nose. Mouth breathing is very \n damaging to the body if done a lot. He describes taping the lips closed at night with a \n 3M paper tape called Nexcare First Aid 3M Gentle Paper Tape. You do this with a 1 \n inch long piece of tape placed on the upper and lower lip. Sounds weird, but it works. \n For people who can’t stand that idea, you can find a stop snoring strap at \n oxygenadvantage.com Wearing the tape or the strap for three months is usually \n sufficient to retrain your body to breathe with your mouth closed at night.","bbox":{"left":0.1192,"top":0.660514,"width":0.7357870000000001,"height":0.13692700000000002}},{"text":"Stressed breathing is faster than normal, audible, produces visible movement, and \n involves sighs. With stressed breathing there is less oxygen release in the brain, making \n it hard to think clearly. Breathing when relaxed is abdominal, slow, gentle, calm, regular, \n relatively unnoticeable, silent, and through the nose.","bbox":{"left":0.1192,"top":0.807181,"width":0.764058,"height":0.07662400000000003}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}