Take a Hike in Southern California

I was diag­nosed with Asthma a year ago. Great huh? I already had aller­gies and I guess they were get­ting bad enough to aggra­vate my lungs into an Asth­matic state. Over a period of six months, I started on a few dif­fer­ent inhalers and finally came across one that worked pretty well. It was devel­oped for peo­ple who used to smoke. Well…it was the one that really worked best for me. I could breathe much bet­ter with­out always feel­ing like I needed to take deep breaths in order to just keep on breathing.

I’m only bring­ing this up because I also dis­cov­ered that my lung capacity—because of the smoking—was down by 15%. You really wouldn’t think that was very much, but if you are try­ing to hike like I am, then it must be a real fac­tor in why I’m not able to get as much oxy­gen to my legs as they would like when they really need it. In talk­ing with my aller­gist, he said I could not replace the 15% of my lungs that I had dam­aged by smok­ing, but that I could increase my remain­ing lung capac­ity and oxy­gen intake efficiency.

I decided that I would try and find a way to increase my lung capac­ity so I pulled up Wik­i­How and typed in “How to increase lung capac­i­ty”. The fol­low­ing arti­cle came up:  http://www.wikihow.com/Increase-Your-Lung-Capacity. I hop this will also help any of you hik­ers out there with some form of Asthma. I’m going to give their sug­ges­tions a real try to see if it will help me. Stay tuned…

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