In part 2 of our Tell Me Why podcast episode, Brendon Hansford, founder of IMD Breathwork, explains to Maria Botros how active breathing can improve people’s overall health and reduce stress.
Brendon: When you breath in, you activate your sympathetic nervous system, and when you breath out you activate your parasympathetic
Sympathetic nervous system is fight, flight and freeze, while parasympathetic is rest and digest, says Brendon
Brendon: In our classes within 3 minutes of a breathing exercise some people cry, and that helps release cortisol in the tears
Breathwork improves your sleep, immune system, release of glucose, and reduces stress and anxiety, says Brendon

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