Actively Recruiting
Effects of Hypoxic Breathwork
Led by University of California, San Diego · Updated on 2024-12-06
75
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
76 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This project will study changes that occur during a short period of intensive daily slow-paced breathing and breath hold practice (i.e., "breathwork"). On the first and last days of the week-long practice, investigators will conduct high-density EEG recordings during breathwork to evaluate spectral power, coherence, and causality dynamics of the brain when it is naïve to breathwork and after adaptation to a breathwork practice. Breath, blood, urine, saliva, stool samples, biometric data, and sleep EEG will be collected before the start of daily breathwork practice and again after 1 week of breathwork practice to examine the effect of breathwork on full body biochemistry, molecular biology, and sleep. Investigators will also use questionnaires to assess the impact of breathwork on stress and sleep quality.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Effects of Hypoxic Breathwork
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Persons aged 18 to 45 years
- Available for the entire duration of the study
- In good general health based on self-report
- Willing and able to follow the breathwork routine
- Agree to follow lifestyle considerations during the study
- Provide signed and dated informed consent form
You will not qualify if you...
- Current or past regular breathwork practice
- Current use of psychoactive medications such as anti-depressants or anxiolytics
- Pregnancy
- Habitual bedtime later than 11:30pm or regularly getting less than 6 hours of sleep per night
- Feverish illness within the past 10 days
- Regular smoker or tobacco user (more than 1 cigarette, gum, or pouch per month)
- Blood pressure above 140 systolic and/or 90 diastolic
- History of seizure disorder, asthma, or serious cardiac fibrillation disorders
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States, 92093
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
J
Julie Onton, PhD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Number of Arms
3
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