It takes basically a little over a second to breathe in, 20 times per minute to both exhale and inhale, or 1200 times per hour, 15000 times per day, (bearing in mind a slower breathing during your 7 hours sleep). In a year time, we would have spent 5 million times and a half breathing. Useful figures? Not really, but fun during a dinner party maybe.
To function effectively the cells of the body need a continuous supply of oxygen and a means of removing carbon dioxide. The respiratory system‘s primary function is to allow the efficient exchange of gases into and out of the body.
However, the fact is that people breathe less and less efficiently, due to the stress that modern life brings to us all. This poor breathing pattern is a door opened to many
