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  1. Nord Wolf

    Breathing Exercises

    We all know how important breathing is, obviously. I’ve been practicing breathing exercises since I was a kid, over 40 years ago. That was when I started to learn them from my martial arts masters. Over the decades I learned more and more, and taught many of them to students through the...
  2. nerd

    CNS-related crashes with dominant nausea

    I'm curious if any of you has the same manifestation of acute crashes as I have. Because in my case, the sequence is relatively consistent among all the incidents. Yesterday, I had another lukewarm bath. These baths happen to change something so that I wake up early and feel ready for the day...
  3. Muon

    Is POTS a central nervous system disorder? (Blitshteyn, 2021)

    Is postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) a central nervous system disorder? (Blitshteyn, 2021) Same thread on Dinet forum Abstract Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a disorder of the autonomic nervous system characterized by a rise in heart rate of at least 30 bpm...