James Nestor

I think Irish ivy snake plants are also really good.

They're all going to do it, but at different levels of efficiency.

I'm curious what the researchers here find.

Sure.

So asthma is treated now with bronchodilators and oral steroids.

This is what they give people with asthma.

And they both work really, really well.

But again, they're not addressing the core issue.

What's the core issue of asthma?

Like sudden inflammation of the airway, right?

To where you can't breathe.

And it's this constriction and this paranoia.

What we have learned irrefutably, this is what we've learned

It's that people with asthma almost always have a very low tolerance for carbon dioxide.

And another way I'll say this is they can hardly hold their breath.

You ask an asthmatic to hold their breath, they go...

Wow.

So they have habituated themselves, not all asthmatics, but a lot of them have habituated themselves to be mouth breathers, to be constantly over breathing.

So when they sense that they are unable to breathe and that CO2 goes up, because that's what happens when you hold your breath, that CO2 goes up, it sets off alarm bells in their brain that this is an emergency.

They're having an attack.