meet people who he would not otherwise have a chance to meet.  Service activities have included a trash pickup in downtown Davis.  He stated that the 2024 Baby Big Night was a nice success and the club is planning the 2025 event to happen in early May.    

Today’s Program # 2 featured Gautam Gandhi, M.D. who is board certified in the fields of internal medical and gastroenterology.  A passion of his is the “breath of life” noting that the record for a person going without breathing is 24 minutes underwater.  So what is the big deal about breathing?  For one thing deep breathing has been known to be a stress reliever for some 3000 years.  Slow breathing induces tranquility into our systems.  Our bodies self- regulate breathing to some degree causing us to take about 12 breaths per minute or 17,000 breaths every 24 hours.  If we live to age 100, we will take in some 620,000,000 breaths.  Dr. Gandhi stressed the importance of breathing through our nose instead of breathing through our mouth.  Our noses contain tiny hairs that strain out dust and other impurities before any damage can be done while breathing through our mouth offers no such benefit.   Ideally we breathe through our nose during sleep; if we breathe through our mouth we tend to have a dry mouth condition that then requires us to drink water at night which in turn leads to noisy breathing and poor quality of sleep.   Most of us tend to breathe through our mouths if we are exercising but Dr. Gandhi noted one distance runner who breathes through his nose.  There are many benefits of slow deep breathing.  We normally think of nitric acid as toxic but our bodies naturally produce some nitric acid which has been shown to interact with our blood in beneficial ways.