I was driving to work this morning on the motorway in the "fast lane." 🛣️ I was going up a hill when a concrete truck decided to move into the fast lane to overtake a logging truck. 🪵 The fast lane then became very slow, almost as slow as the slow lane, and it was amazing to see how quickly both lanes blocked up behind the trucks. 🚗
I am sure there is a proper name for this in traffic terms, but in lung terms, it's called "remodelling," where parts of the lung's bronchial system become inflamed or scarred, and airway movement around the blockages has to change, or shift, as a consequence. 🫁
In the traffic case, the cars began flowing again once the concrete truck eventually completed its passing maneuver and moved back into the slow lane. ✅ In the case of lungs, getting over a temporary blockage caused by inflammation in an asthma attack can get air moving again quickly. 💨 Permanent lung obstructions and scar tissue are a harder problem to manage. ⚠️
If you were to spread all your lung tissue out — the bronchial tissue and the alveoli (the air sacs throughout your lungs) — for someone with healthy lungs, the tissue would be the size of half a tennis court. 🎾
For someone with a lung disease, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), that healthy tissue might reduce to the size of a squash court. 📉
If you are only working with a squash court-sized surface, then being efficient with what you have is critical for breathing. This means acting on the variables you can, like reducing inflammation 🔥, increasing immunity (to reduce infections) 🛡️ and promoting efficient oxygen exchange 🌬️.
These are all factors we have developed Zestt Breathe+ to support, which is why we can measure changes in VO2 Max 📈 and reduced phlegm and inflammation in people who regularly take the product.
In breathing, especially with diseased lungs, every lane counts. You can't always clear the roads ahead, but you can make the lanes you do have as efficient as possible. 🫁