What Do Breath and Fingerprint Have in Common? Scientists Surprisingly Discover

The latest research from scientists proves that human breathing is unique. During an experiment that involved monitoring the breathing pattern of subjects, it was noticed that participants with shorter breathing and greater variability during sleep had higher scores on anxiety questionnaires.

Although it was previously thought that breathing was an almost automatic process that few people paid attention to during the day, in reality it is constantly monitored, and this model is extremely complex. Scientists explain it as a form of pacemaker that regulates automatic breathing patterns in accordance with our physiological needs.

Scientists have discovered that the breathing process is monitored by a network located in the brainstem and regulated in response to information from chemoreceptors and mechanoreceptors throughout the respiratory system.

Does breathing reveal emotions?

Researchers have proven that everyone's breathing is slightly different. Scientists have found that by monitoring a person's breathing for 24 hours and creating a map of their breathing pattern, they can identify a person with 96.8 percent accuracy based on their breathing pattern alone.

You would think that breathing has been measured and analyzed from every angle. And yet we have stumbled upon a completely new way of looking at this process. We consider our discovery to be a brain readout , says the author of the paper, Dr. Noam Sobel.

Most often, it is influenced by the emotions we experience. Scientists believe that further exploration of the secrets of the uniqueness of breathing could allow for better control of emotions and have a real impact on well-being. They see the application of their discovery, among others, in therapeutic practice. However, many studies are needed to determine whether we are actually able to change our attitude by changing our breathing.

Intuitively, we assume that how depressed or anxious you are changes how you breathe. But it may be the other way around. Maybe the way you breathe makes you anxious or depressed. If that's true, we may be able to change how we breathe to change how we feel , says Dr. Sobel.

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