[LOOKISM ARCHIVE] Hyperactive SNS: the cause and cure

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All your organs and glands are controlled by your autonomic nervous system which is divided into the sympathetic nervous system (SNS for fight or flight) or your parasympathetic nervous system (PNS for rest and digest). This is how your organs and glands coordinate. For example, if you start breathing faster, your lungs send a sympathetic signal to your heart to start beating faster (and all the other organs) so you can fight-or-flight .
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Being permanently in a sympathetic state (hyperactive SNS) means your body doesn't enter a parasympathetic where it repairs itself and results in some terrible health consequences, not to mention high cortisol and burnt out adrenal glands.

(High breathing L/min=SNS activation, health subjects in blue)
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The cause
Eating an acid forming diet (junk food/protein) will increase the acids in your blood. Because you will die if your blood isn't between 7.35-7.45 pH, you must start breathing more to reduce the amount of CO2 (it's acidic) in your lungs, and thus in your blood (The % of CO2 in your lungs is always much high than that in the air). Over-breathing puts you into a sympathetic state. The problem is that you get stuck over-breathing, sympathetic state because the urge to breath is triggered by your blood's CO2 level and your tolerance to CO2 decreases if you've been over breathing for some time.

The cure
Start alkalizing your diet (Most acidic>Junk food>dairy>meat>starch), and increase your CO2 tolerance by exposing yourself to higher CO2 levels. Buteyko and pranayama practitioners for many decades, millennia respectively, have been doing breathing exercises to try to reduce their breathing. However, these are highly inefficient. The best way to reduce your breathing is to get some tiny plastic tubes (like a lollipop stick or these), push them through some foam ear plugs with the help of a needle, and stick these up your nose. These restrict the rate at which you can breath, allowing you to reduce your breathing, without any effort, whenever they are in. By changing the size of the tube you can control the rate of your breathing. Make sure you get tubes that that don't reduce your breathing too much or not enough.
Of course cutting out on activities, other than overbreathing like fapping and negative thinking, that activate your SNS will help; but, when you reduce you breathing to around 3-6 liters per minute, these activities make you feel so shit that you will want to stop naturally.

The benefits
  • Anxiety disappears.
  • Concentration and focus significantly increases.
  • Running feels amazing at about 3-6 liters per minute.
  • Negative, stressful thoughts will make you feel like shit, at about 3-4 liters per minute, and will make you stop all destructive thinking (I used the Buddhist philosophy: life=suffering, suffering is caused by desire, abstain from desire).
P.S. Your adrenal glands are probably fried, and you may have lower energy until they are repaired.
 
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Cope don't be ugly and all your problems will magically disappear
 
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Good thread! So sad 2 realise that Lookism is down. Boo kism is shit tbh!
 
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Legit stuff. Was never on lookism but these guys mogged hard in terms of knowledge
 
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I read every single one of his threads :Comfy: wish I ripped the site while I had the chance :feelsbadman:
 
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Dnrd aspirin and t4
 
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The best way to reduce your breathing is to get some tiny plastic tubes (like a lollipop stick or these), push them through some foam ear plugs with the help of a needle, and stick these up your nose
anyone tried this shit btw :ogre: I normally just do breath holds
 
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This is more about overbreathing causing too much CO2 exhalation from breath lowering blood CO2 levels which are required for many things, including actually utilising Oxygen. Ray Peat touches on this a lot.
All that much acidic shit is bullshit, but breathing is important
 
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