Modern People Having Poor Posture
- 08.07.10
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Observations
Being upright is and what the most natural body position. This was the norm during almost the entire history of humanity. Standing also was the norm in factories, plants, shops and offices up to the beginning of the 20th century.
Most modern people prefer to sit. Moreover, we can easily see in offices, colleges, schools and libraries that over 95% of people slouch while sitting and often when standing. The gait of modern people so shows signs of stress and muscular tension. Tense muscles distort our natural grace and elegance.
These negative tendencies are stronger in sick people. Severely sick people have even more muscular tension. They like to lie down during the day as well as at night. Chronic fatigue is a common complaint. Severely ill patients often lie for days and nights, since even sitting requires their muscular and mental efforts.
Why do we have all these negative effects?
Physiological causes
The state of our muscles depends mostly on circulation (blood flow) and their oxygenation and relaxation. Medical evidence shows that all these parameters are usually linked together through our unconscious breathing pattern. Let us consider how.
The first respiratory physiologists were called “cardio-respiratory physiologists” since the link between the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, as they found it, was very intimate. Yale University Professor Yandell Henderson, author of the first physiological text books, which one of the most prominent scientists in this area. His article “Carbon dioxide” was published in 1940 in Cyclopedia of Medicine. In the section with the title “Relations of Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen in the Body,” he wrote, “Moreover, under clinical conditions low oxygen and low carbon dioxide-anoxemia and acapnia-generally occur together. Each of these abnormal states tends to induce and intensify the other. ”
What does he mean? He claimed that low level of oxygen in the living body usually happens when cellular CO2 is low. Reduced CO2 values are possible only in conditions of over-breathing when we remove too much CO2 from body cells by breathing too heavy. Hence, the heavier we breathe, the less oxygen our bodies have.
Body oxygen content can be evaluated using the stress-free breath holding time test done after usual exhalation. (Pattern Exhale normally, pinch the nose, and count the time, but only until the fist signs of stress. As soon as this stress starts to grow, release the nose. After the test you should be able correct to resume your usual breathing. ) A century ago ordinary people had about 40-60 s of oxygen in the body.
Breathing of modern people is about 30-50% bigger than it was about a century ago. We are mild hyper ventilators.




