Why is sighing bad for you

These neuropeptides were known to influence breathing in humans, but no one had been able to work out how. By studying the pathway in mice further, they found that the peptides stimulate a second set of neurons, which then activated the mouse's breathing muscles to produce a sigh.

When the team increased the amount of peptide being produced, the mice started sighing times an hour, instead of Alternatively, they were able to stop the mice sighing altogether when they blocked the peptides. Further research is needed to confirm that this same pathway exists in humans, but the similarities in the mouse and human systems suggest we're on the right track.

One thing that still remains a mystery, however, is whether emotional sighing works the same way. According to studies Teigen, et al, , sighing can be an action to exclude the desires and intentions that are not wanted. Various causes could lead to intensify sighing, such as anxiety, overheating, stress and etc.

Since sighing could also suggest weak muscle tissue in lungs therefore the body needs chest to help breathing procedure. While hyperventilating patient exhale more than they inhale. This was caused by various reasons that resembles those that caused sighing. Therefore study supported the correlation between sighing and hyperventilation.

So is sighing bad for health? This suggest that there are third variables caused in this relation. The study about hyperventilation and sighing also pointed out that other studies had discovered artificial sigh have positive effects on oxygenation.

So a kiss may be just as kiss, as the song from the Hollywood classic Casablanca has it, but a sigh is not just a sigh. However the Californian study offers no answers as to why people might sigh when anxious, melancholy, or exasperated.

This article is more than 5 years old. Has science solved the mystery of the hiccup? Don't hold your breath. Rather than look at it as something you did as an insolent, grumpy teen, take it as something you do to relax from the stresses of adult life.

If only for a moment, you get to feel physical and psychological release from your troubles, before you tackle the enormous to-do list in front of you. The reflex is friend, not foe. At least that's how I'm going to defend myself while I'm sighing approximately 22, times a day. BTW, there's really nothing cute about eye-rolling, but we have a few tension-relief gestures to replace it with. And this one simple body-language move will snag you all the friends.

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