Deep breathing is also good for our health, especially when we are anxious. Proper deep breathing can help all of us to calm down effectively. In addition, deep breathing can also play a good health care role in the life of the elderly. Let's take a look at the benefits of deep breathing for the elderly.

1, prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases

Especially our elderly friends, often take deep breaths in life, which is also very beneficial to help us all prevent and treat respiratory diseases. Common respiratory diseases include chronic bronchitis, asthma and emphysema. The lungs of these patients are inelastic and dilated, which affects their vital capacity. Deep breathing can gradually increase muscle contraction, which is beneficial to the effective expansion of chest and lungs, enhance the vitality of intercostal muscles, and gradually restore their elasticity and vital capacity, thus achieving the purpose of treating and relieving diseases. Therefore, it is recommended that the elderly often take deep breaths in their lives.

2. Prevention and treatment of hypertension

Hypertension is a common disease in the elderly, and frequent deep breathing can effectively prevent and treat hypertension. This is a method of deep breathing and lowering blood pressure tested by Professor Kitamura of Jichi Medical University in Japan. Its principle is that there are about 300 million small sacs called alveoli in human lungs. In the case of general breathing, only 80%-90% can work fully, and the remaining alveoli are in a state of waste. If you take a deep breath, you can make the remaining alveoli work. When the chest takes a deep breath, the alveoli located in the upper part of the lung are open; When you take a deep breath in your abdomen, the alveoli in the lower part of your lungs will also open. At work, all alveoli are producing prostaglandins. Through deep breathing, 80%-90% of alveoli that are already working can produce more prostaglandins than before. In this way, more prostaglandins enter blood vessels, thus dilating blood vessels and lowering blood pressure. Therefore, if our elderly friends have symptoms of hypertension in their lives, then all of us can often practice deep breathing, which can effectively alleviate the disease.

I believe that we have all realized some benefits of taking deep breaths frequently in the daily life of the elderly. We can know that elderly friends often take deep breaths, which can not only prevent some diseases of respiratory system, but also have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on hypertension.