The Respiratory System:
Our respiratory system
brings air (oxygen) into our body and removes carbon dioxide and other toxins
from our body. The nose, windpipe (trachea) and lungs are the main parts of our
respiratory system. The windpipe, which begins from our throat and goes down. Branches
into two tubes (bronchi or bronchial tubes) that go to the two lungs. In our
lungs these two tubes further branch off into smaller and smaller tubes that finally
end in the tiny air sack (alveoli), of the lungs. Our lungs, which have
millions of these tiny air sacks (alveoli) are like balloons that fill up with
air when we breathe in, and partially empty of air when we breathe out. During
this process some air always remains in the lungs.
Most of us breathe
because it automatically happens to us. But what goes on behind our breathe is
very delicate process. When we breathe in, the air enters through our nose or
mouth follows the above mentioned path, and the oxygen passes through the walls
of the tiny air sacks and blood vessels and enters our blood stream. At the
same time, carbon dioxide and other toxic gases pass into the lungs (to the alveoli)
from the blood and are removed from our body through the same path when we
breathe out next.
Oxygen is an important nutrient
that our body uses in large amounts. We cannot live more than a few minutes
without oxygen. The carbon dioxide that the lungs remove from our body (from
the blood) is toxin (a poison). Large amount of carbon dioxide are continuously
produced by the cells of our body as a type of waste (during the process of
metabolism).
So, if our lungs and respiratory
system are weak, our body will not get as much oxygen as it always needs. This
will affect the proper working of all our body organs. Also, when our lungs are
weak, they will not be able to remove carbon dioxide and other toxins from our
blood as quickly as normal. This will result in our body having too many
toxins, which may give us unnecessary health problems.
Therefore you can easily
understand how things like smoking, mosquito coils, air pollution etc can
affect the delicate function of our respiratory organs. Through these acts we
take more poisons into our body instead of removing the poisons we are already
have in our body.
Have you ever experienced
and enjoyed the healthy effects of breathing unpolluted natural air? This will
have solutions to most of your respiratory problems.
