Respiration is not the same as breathing, and is a chemical process which occurs in all of your cells. Gas exchange is a process that involves the swapping of gases that occurs at exchange ...

The need to breathe is obvious: inspiratory breathing movements underlie ventilation, pulmonary gas exchange, and homeostasis. The brain is heavily invested in maintaining and defending respiration.

The purpose of this study was to measure the ventilatory and gas exchange effects of wearing a mouthguard ... in VO2 during heavy exercise may be due to a 'pursed-lip' type of breathing which has been ...