Tell me why breathing has healing benefits

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. 

• 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 
• Breathwork improves your sleep, immune system, release of glucose, and reduces stress and anxiety