Dr. Ida Fonkoue

What we saw with this intervention is that acutely, while they were breathing, we were measuring the fight or flight response.

We have an electrode that we put in the nerve, just behind the knee, and I do that also in my lab.

And we could see that fight or flight response decrease in response to the breathing.

We could see that response in the breathing.

This was acutely.

We also sent them home with the device for eight weeks.

And when they came back, we saw that those who had the real device for eight weeks had a slower fight or flight response to this mental mat we gave them in the lab compared to those who use the sham device.

So there's something about breathing, yoga, being able to control your breath during a stressful event, because there's the traumatic event, but there will be a lot of

Acute one throughout your life that can remind you, remind you of that traumatic event.

For those who went to war, it could be the 4th of July.

Could be a reminder of what happened there.

So the clearly things that are done with breathing, some intervention, meditation, mindfulness, meditation, which for me still have something to do with that breathing.

And then daughters that are using music, music therapy, music has been used a lot.

And we all know people use music when they start to feel very anxious.

And I say very anxious is because PTSD was originally an anxiety disorder.

But because classifications are always move around, it was shifted.

But it was originally an anxiety disorder.

So the first thing that you can feel when you're exposed to something that reminds you of the trauma is that anxiety that starts to go up.

So for those who use music, meditation or breathing, studies have shown that that can help with that physiological response.

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