What do catching our breath, diving underwater and singing a tune all have in common? They all require us to take a deep breath, which supplies us with enough oxygen to perform other activities. We don’t usually give much thought to breathing, but we definitely notice if it gets interrupted.
The posts below touch on what happens when we breathe, a process that starts the moment we are born, and how it affects other parts of our body.
- Want to Improve Your Health? Try Pedaling with One Leg Instead of Two
- How the Kidneys and Lungs Help Each Other Restore Your Body’s Balance
- Climate Change Affects Our Health by Changing Air Quality
- Spotlight On: The Respiratory System
- Spotlight On: Cystic Fibrosis
- Spotlight On: Asthma
- May The Best Immune System Breathe!
- Brain-Lung Crosstalk: How the Brain and Lungs Communicate with Each Other
- Enjoy the Fall! (And Stay Healthy and Happy)
- Want to Lower Your Blood Pressure? Just Breathe (In)
- Exercise Recovery: Which Body Position Is Best?
- 2020’s Most-read I Spy Physiology Posts
- Mild Symptoms, Major Impact: How Getting COVID-19 Changed One Student’s Perspective
- How ACE2 Influences COVID-19 Severity in Older Adults
- How Physiologists Are Helping Patients Recover from COVID-19
- Why COVID-19 Makes It Hard to Breathe
- Ground-breaking Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Is a Testament to Basic Research
- How Do We Know When to Take Another Breath?
- Breathe Deep to Explore the Heart’s Physiology
- Time to Breathe
- The Iceman: Wim Hof Is a Real-life Superhero
- Pumpkins: Orange, Tasty and Good for Your Health
- Maybe She’s Born with It: Genetics Give Competitive Swimmers Their Edge
- When Sleep Problems Get in the Way of Your Greatness
- Did You Know?: A Muscle May Increase Pneumonia in Older People
- Spotlight On: Tuberculosis
- 2017’s 10 Most-read Posts
- Research and Education Help Babies Born Too Early
- The Trouble with E-Cigs: Why They May Pose More Harm than Good
- Why Does Air Pollution Affect More Women than Men?