​Blood flow is deeply related to obesity.
 
Q. If the location of “Something” in the body falls, it is difficult to lose weight due to bad blood circulation. What is “Something”?
 
A. The stomach and intestines
 
If you have bad posture, the muscle of your lower abdomen becomes weak and can’t hold the stomach and intestines, and the stomach and intestines fall. The pressure makes the performance of the organs bad, causing indigestion or bad blood circulation. As a result, it makes difficult to lose weight. (Fig. 1 & 2)
 
 
1. Put back the location of the stomach and intestines
 
2. Activate the pump function of the calf
When the weakness of the calf muscle causes the pump function becomes weak, the blood in the feet can’t be circulated, causing the intolerance to the cold
 
3. Deepen the breath:
Deep breathing moves the diaphragm well, blood circulation is improved and losing weight becomes easier.
 
Activation of Blood Flow Switch
(1) Breathe in from your nose with bending your neck backward for 3 seconds (Fig. 3).
(2) Breathe out from your mouth, saying “Ha”, with moving back your neck for 7 seconds (Fig. 4).
This movement relaxes your neck and massages the organs because the diaphragm pushes the organs.
It is important to make sure that you tighten your back, anus, and stomach.
 
Q. What is the method to know whether your blood flow is good or not?
A. If the stool floats, your blood flow is good (Fig. 5).
 
Your stool floats means the condition of your intestinal environment is good. If you eat a lot of vegetables, intestinal gas goes into the space between the fibers, and the stool becomes lighter and floats in the water.

1. Hip Joint Oblique Stretch 
(1) Place a rolled towel under your buttocks (Falling organs go back to the original place) (Fig. 6).
(2) Breathe in for 3 seconds with raising your chin and breathing out (Ha) for 7 seconds with extending the back of your neck (Activation of Blood Flow Switch).
(3) Hold your right knee with your right hand and hold your left groin with your left hand and extend your left leg toward the lower left for 7 seconds (it is important that your tip of toes are upward) (Fig. 7 & 8).
(4) Move back to the original position (you should feel the blood flow).
(5) Repeat (3) and (4) 3 times for both right and left.
 
2. Pushing Back of Knee
(1) After (1) and (2) of , raise your right leg and hold the back of the right knee (Fig. 9).
(2) Relax your toes with breathing in for 3 seconds (Fig. 10).
(3) Pull toes toward your face with breathing out (Ha) for 7 seconds and push the back of your knee (Fig. 11 &12).
(4) Repeat (2) and (3) 3 times for both right and left legs.
 
3. Inner Thigh Hip UP (expects shape-up and keeping the right location of the stomach and intestines)
(1) Put in a rolled towel 2 inch above your knees.
(2) Activate blood flow switch.
(3) Raise your buttocks 2 inch above with pulling your chin.
(4) Keep the posture and raise your chin with breathing in for 3 seconds.
(5) Keep the posture and pull your chin back with breathing out for 7 seconds.
(6) Put your buttocks down slowly.
(7) Repeat this 3 times.
 
After 2 weeks of this exercise without changing the diet, her blood flow was improved and the speed of the blood flow became faster (Fig. 15), and she lost 4 kg (8.8 pounds) (Fig. 16 & 17).

When the area between the ribs is tight, the lungs can’t inflate very well so that we can’t breathe in deeply. So let’s loosen the area between the ribs and makes it easy to breathe in deeply.

Check how you feel in your lungs when you breathe in from your nose.

1. Flick the tendon under the clavicle. If you feel one of your lungs doesn’t inflate more when you breathe in, compared to another, flick the tendon of the lung that doesn’t inflate and feel the change (Fig. 2 Purple).

2. Loosen the area between the ribs from the clavicle to the 5th rib by rubbing them with your nails and fingertips. That makes the lungs easy to inflate horizontally and makes it easy to breathe in (Fig. 1).

3.  Loosen the both sides of the sternum by rubbing them with your nails and fingertips. That makes the lungs easy to inflate vertically (Fig. 2)
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4. We also breathe in the back of the lungs. After running, you can’t breathe without putting your hands on the knees, slouching your back. Loosen the area between the shoulder blades by rubbing the back of your head with your nails from the center to the outside and feel the change (Fig. 3).

How to improve the autonomic nervous system
by activating declined parasympathetic nervous system and keeping a good balance between the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system
 
There are mainly 2 kinds of breathing methods which are chest breathing and abdominal breathing.

Chest breathing is taking a deep breath from your nose or mouth with filling your chest.
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Abdominal breathing is when you inhale, you expand your stomach and when you exhale, you flatten your stomach.
 
Diaphragm breathing is expanding and flattening the chest and stomach at the same time, intaking more air. Intaking more air slows down the movement of alveolus in the lung and activates the declined parasympathetic nervous system.

It is a little difficult to do both breathing together, so the following is how to doh each breathing separately.
 
Chest Breathing
(1) Lie on your back and bend your knees (Fig. 3).
(2) Put your hands on your chest (Fig. 4).
(3) Inhale slowly feeling your hands move upward.
(4) Exhale slowly feeling your hands move downward.
(5) Repeat inhaling and exhaling for 5 times.
 
Abdominal Breathing
(1) Lie on your back and put your hands on the sides of your abdomen (Fig. 5).
(2) Inhale slowly feeling your abdomen expands.
(3) Exhale slowly feeling your abdomen flattens.
(4) Repeat inhaling and exhaling for 5 times.
 
If you continue 1 set of these breathing exercises in the morning and at night, the unbalancing autonomic nervous system starts to be balanced.
 
Effect of Diaphragm Breathing
 
A person who can’t be moved to tears with watching a touching movie and keeps sweating during eating hot spicy food and whose blood pressure doesn’t lower down during sleep checked the movement of his diaphragm. His lungs don’t expand very much and the diaphragm doesn’t move very much. After instructing him how to do the diaphragm breathing, his diaphragm moves largely (Fig. 6).
 
2 days after starting the diaphragm breathing, his blood pressure during a meal went down to the number of before a meal in 30 minutes (128 -> 146 -> 130). This shows that the parasympathetic nervous system is activated and calms down the sympathetic nervous system (Fig. 7 and 8).
 
His blood pressure during sleep which was as high as during daytime also lowered down.
 
5 days after the diaphragm breathing, he watched a touching movie and he could move to tears.

If you are parched when you wake up, you may not be able to live long.
 
A human being is constructed to breathe through the nose. When you are parched when you wake up, you don’t breathe through the nose but breathe through the mouth. If this situation continues for a long time, the immune system becomes weaker. The nose is a part of respiratory system so when dust or germs comes in, the nose filters them out to let only clean air pass through. The mouth is a part of digestion system so there is no filter. The dust and germs go into the lungs directly.
 
In a survey, they asked over 65 years old people whether or not they usually felt thirsty and 70 % of them answered Yes. They asked over 80 years old people the same question and only 30 % of them answered Yes. That means 40 % possibly dropped out between 65 and 80 years old because they were breathing through the mouth and their immune system was not strong. It is important to try to breathe through the mouth.
 
The method to prevent mouth breathing during sleep is Mouth Tape (Fig. 1).
When you go to bed, putting commercially available surgical tape on the mouth vertically prevents dangerous mouth breathing which lowers your immune strength. The tape doesn’t close your mouth completely because you can still speak with the tape on, but it reduces mouth breathing.
 
It is not good to breathe through the mouth not only during sleep but also during the daytime.
 
How to check if you tend to breathe through the mouth
When you close your mouth, check where the tip of your tongue is located.
If the tip of your tongue is touching the back of the lower teeth, you have high possibility to breathe through the mouth (Fig. 2).
The right location of the tip of the tongue is at the back of the upper teeth because when the tip of the tongue is touching the back of the upper teeth, it is difficult to open mouth so you can’t breathe through the mouth (Fig. 3).
 
How to change dangerous mouth breathing to nose breathing (Fig. 4)
When you breathe through the mouth, the muscles around the mouth are weak. The method to strengthen the muscles is AIUBE Exercise. In an elementary school in Japan, since the children started this exercise, the number of the children who got flu decreased by 90 %.
(1)Open mouth widely making “A shape”.
(2)Pull the lips toward both sides making “I shape”.
(3)Shoot out the lips making “U shape”.
(4)Stick out the tongue making “BE shape”.
You don’t need to make sounds but move the mouth. If you continue this exercise 30 times a day, your mouth breathing improves in about a month. Other effects such as smile lines become thinner or stiffness in neck and shoulder improves are expected.
 
Eating unsalted almonds as a snack is good to strengthen the immune system because almonds are rich in vitamins such as vitamin B or vitamin E which strengthen the immune system.