Face Mask Wearing Affects The Central Nervous System And May Increase Sleep Apnea
Reason #152 that Face Masks Hurt Kids
Dear Reader,
The wearing of a face mask to protect against a respiratory virus is an act of grand deceit. It is a behavior that defies research on the topic. Wearing a face mask, as this article (one of many) points to — is unsafe to do and is ineffective.
Until the narrative around mandatory masking has changed, each day by 6am Eastern, I will both post here and send out a science-based reason why no one should wear a face mask.
I ask that you help me circulate these pieces to those around you who you believe could most benefit from them. It is important not to remain silent on this topic. These are important discussions to be having with friends, family members, business owners, healthcare practitioners, public servants, and others in the community.
-Allan
As already abundantly demonstrated, masks lead to lower blood oxygen and higher blood carbon dioxide levels.
In an April 20, 2021 article entitled “Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards?” Kai Kisielinski writes:
“In our work, we have identified scientifically validated and numerous statistically significant adverse effects of masks in various fields of medicine, especially with regard to a disruptive influence on the highly complex process of breathing and negative effects on the respiratory physiology and gas metabolism of the body. The respiratory physiology and gas exchange play a key role in maintaining a health-sustaining balance in the human body. According to the studies we found, a dead space volume that is almost doubled by wearing a mask and a more than doubled breathing resistance lead to a rebreathing of carbon dioxide with every breathing cycle with — in healthy people mostly — a subthreshold but, in sick people, a partly pathological increase in the carbon dioxide partial pressure (PaCO2) in the blood. According to the primary studies found, these changes contribute reflexively to an increase in respiratory frequency and depth with a corresponding increase in the work of the respiratory muscles via physiological feedback mechanisms.”
These lead to additional changes in breathing and heart function. Kisielinski continues:
“Thus, it is not, as initially assumed, purely positive training through mask use. This often increases the subliminal drop in oxygen saturation SpO2 in the blood, which is already reduced by increased dead space volume and increased breathing resistance. The overall possible resulting measurable drop in oxygen saturation O2 of the blood on the one hand and the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) on the other, contribute to an increased noradrenergic stress response, with heart rate increase and respiratory rate increase, in some cases also to a significant blood pressure increase.”
These changes impact deep in the brain stem. Kisielinski continues:
“In panic-prone individuals, stress-inducing noradrenergic sympathetic activation can be partly directly mediated via the carbon dioxide (CO2) mechanism at the locus coeruleus in the brainstem, but also in the usual way via chemo-sensitive neurons of the nucleus solitarius in the medulla.The nucleus solitarius is located in the deepest part of the brainstem, a gateway to neuronal respiratory and circulatory control. A decreased oxygen (O2) blood level there causes the activation of the sympathetic axis via chemoreceptors in the carotids.”
This disturbed breathing in a face mask, causes additional harm and is linked to hypertension, sleep apnea, and metabolic syndrome. Kisielinski continues:
“Even subthreshold changes in blood gases such as those provoked when wearing a mask cause reactions in these control centers in the central nervous system. Masks, therefore, trigger direct reactions in important control centers of the affected brain via the slightest changes in oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood of the wearer.
“A link between disturbed breathing and cardiorespiratory diseases such as hypertension, sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome has been scientifically proven. Interestingly, decreased oxygen/O2 blood levels and also increased carbon dioxide/CO2 blood levels are considered the main triggers for the sympathetic stress Response. The aforementioned chemo-sensitive neurons of the nucleus solitarius in the medulla are considered to be the main responsible control centers. Clinical effects of prolonged mask-wearing would, thus, be a conceivable intensification of chronic stress reactions and negative influences on the metabolism leading towards a metabolic syndrome. The mask studies we found show that such disease-relevant respiratory gas changes (O2 and CO2) are already achieved by wearing a mask.”
Mask wearing during the day may even increase sleep apnea at night and other physiological problems. Kisielinski continues:
“According to the scientific results and findings, masks have measurably harmful effects not only on healthy people, but also on sick people and their relevance is likely to increase with the duration of use. Further research is needed here to shed light on the long-term consequences of widespread mask use with subthreshold hypoxia and hypercapnia in the general population, also regarding possible exacerbating effects on cardiorespiratory lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome. The already often elevated blood carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in overweight people, sleep apnea patients and patients with overlap-COPD could possibly increase even further with everyday masks. Not only a high body mass index (BMI) but also sleep apnea are associated with hypercapnia during the day in these patients (even without masks). For such patients, hypercapnia means an increase in the risk of serious diseases with increased morbidity, which could then be further increased by excessive mask use.”
The body is an intricately balanced mechanism. Breathing is poorly understood by science. At this point in the great masking of society, we do not understand breathing much better, but we know this much: putting a face mask on a person is harmful to that person in many ways.
Those with existing risk of sleep apnea, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and high blood pressure are particularly vulnerable from the harm done by wearing a face mask.
The bestselling book "Face Masks In One Lesson" by Allan Stevo describes how to never wear a face mask again. The follow-up to the book, "Face Masks Hurt Kids," describes why to never wear a face mask again. We must defeat the awful, narrative around the mandates.
Examples of how face masks hurt kids will be posted to the Lockdown Land Substack each morning by 6am Eastern until the narrative around this ineffective and harmful medical intervention has shifted. Face masks are, in fact, not just harmful to children. Face masks are harmful to everyone. Thank you so much for helping me circulate this research.