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Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
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Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#92First of all, congrats! This looks great. As someone that plays music and has analog synths, I was impressed you even included a tweakable synth! One thing I was wondering is why the exhale is instructed to be out of the mouth. Does it have to do with needing the airflow to travel past the mic, or is there a medical reason for it? I have a long standing daily Buddhist meditation practice and also have a somewhat inte…
Thanks - really glad you appreciate the synth! I had a great time building out the synths and sequencers Exactly, so the inhalation is in through the nose and out through the mouth for the app partly to detect the exhalation, but also generally peak flow (which is a bit like lion's breath) and lung function measurements are measured by breathing through the mouth. It would also be great to have nasal breathing detect…
This would be good info to have in the app or in a FAQ type doc somewhere.
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#93Slightly OT, but MAC only? Really?! I think a big chunk of your target audience can't afford an iPhone.
Only problem with us Androids is a lot fewer pay for apps (I probably would).
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#94Looks cool. I would try it. I'm on Android. This could be a PWA for both web and Android targets. Not sure about iOS yet, do they still not support PWAs?
Or flutter to target all 3 :)
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a feedback loop that characterizes the stress/anxiety response, where people breathe faster, which in turn increases the stress response, causing even faster breathing. People with chronic anxiety also develop decreased CO2 tolerance over time[1] from this rapid breathing, perpetuating the chronic rapid breath. Breath exercises that increase CO2 tolerance like Buteyko breathing allow one to interrupt this pr…
I recently came across this by accident and your explanation jives. I noticed I would get fairly fatigued, and have to take a nap around 11am every morning, and eventually found that it was basically every 4-5 hours, even mid-day too. I would take a 10-20m power nap and usually wake up feeling really good, I would even hit REM in that time. Then a few months ago, I noticed when I was having this feeling I was usually…
Thanks for writing this all out—I too have a deviated septum and can relate to a lot of what you wrote. Have you considered surgery for your nose?
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#96It would be good to see this somehow tie in with HRV - heart rate variability. I've been tracking mine daily for 6 years, now.
Can recommend kubios app on phone and their desktop software is stunning, too. There are other apps i use - hrv4, for example and there are others. I prefer kubios as it is minimal and to the point.
Https://intervals.icu (sports/ body performance analysis) may be another place to show this.
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#97I can't test your app, since I don't have an iPhone, but I'm hoping you could answer a vaguely related question for me. One of my COVID readings was Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art , by James Nestor. Its author says, "humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly". Like your app, it proposes a lot of breathing exercises. It explains their benefits in terms of increasing CO2 tolerance, and believes that we'v…
My understanding from the book was that CO2 is an essential part of the mechanism that transfers oxygen to your muscles. If you breathe too much you have too little CO2, your muscles can't get enough oxygen and they don't work efficiently. I've no idea if this is true, but since I read the book I breathe less when exercising and it seems to help. Edited to add: I'd forgotten, when I first started breathing less during exercise it made a huge difference, like coming down from altitude. I recommend it.
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#98Why an app and not a website? Why does everything need to be an app these days?
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#99I’ve done a lot of freediving training and your app is now my fourth breathing app on my phone, so I may be an outlier, but in trying a few exercises in your app, I found that it was going way too quickly and causing me to over-breathe (hyperventilate) and get light headed. I played with the settings a bit and, while it helped, it was still nowhere near the right timing for me.
It’s interesting and beautifully done, but unless there’s something I’m doing wrong I’m afraid it’s just not usable for me in its current form. Perhaps there could be an advanced setting tucked away that let me bump up the exhale and hold times to prevent over breathing?
Maybe not the most useful feedback, but I’m always happy to see more apps in this space and I’d love it if this became part of my routine. And, as a side note, some information about what Lungy Deluxe actually adds would be useful to know if I want to unlock it.
Re: Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
#100I’ve done a lot of freediving training and your app is now my fourth breathing app on my phone, so I may be an outlier, but in trying a few exercises in your app, I found that it was going way too quickly and causing me to over-breathe (hyperventilate) and get light headed. I played with the settings a bit and, while it helped, it was still nowhere near the right timing for me. It’s interesting and beautifully done,…
Interesting feedback. What apps do you prefer?