e. It improves mood levels
f. It raises self-esteem
g. It makes you looks damn sexy (most of the time)

I assume you mean after exercise (not during)

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c. It decreases the heart output and work of the heart muscle must do.

Your body needs calories to burn and muscle is more calorie dense then fat

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Breaths/min and peak flow (deepness of breathing) both increase. Yes, this is because more oxygen is used for oxidative phosphorylation in the electron transport chain to make ATP. The oxygen levels in the tissues decreases, causing an increase in respiration, trying to pay back the oxygen that is being used.

You might want to talk with your chiropractor and massage therapist. It sounds like you’ve got either nerve restriction or membrane restriction going on.

Also, pay attention to how much tension you’re putting into your neck muscles… Too much tightening of the neck and you restrict nerve and blood.

Phoenix

More oxgen is being delivered to the muscle. This is true because, if the heart rate increases, more volume of blood is being pumped into the blood vessels and passed on to cell. Larger volumes of blood have more red blood cells (red blood cells are rich in oxygen due to hemoglobin molecule in them). There fore more oxygen is being delivered to muscle cells that need them.

Well, first of all you have to take into consideration the quality of the air during deep breathing exercise. There’s no use in doing deep breathing exercises outside in the middle of the day when the traffic pollution is most high. I think that is one of the main reasons tai chi is performed very early in the morning when there’s fresh dew on the ground, preferrably in a grassy area, near trees, or near some body of water.

An increase of oxygen in the bloodstream tends to normalize any abnormal blood pH levels, even if only temporarily. All cells need oxygen, and this should result in increased exhalation of carbon dioxide and also water loss in the form of urine, which by the way helps rid the body of metabolic waste products such as urea, nitrogenous products (which tends to be harmful to the body), acids, inorganic salts, etc etc.
Oxygen alone won’t account for muscle growth. In order for muscles to grow you need the right nutrients, water, and exercise. Runners tend to gain muscle not because of the increase in inhalation, but because of tensed muscles during the run. In other words, all of the movements present in runners facilitate in the muscle growth. You could do a series of tense-relax-tense muscle exercises and sit perfectly still and you will find that you have created some sort of change in your muscles.
In short, the respiratory system and cardiovascular system can be viewed as working together. Increased breathing, results in increased blood oxygen, results in increased exhalation of CO2, results in decreased blood pressure by decreasing LDL and dilating blood vessels and therefore can result in an increase in blood viscosity which is helpful to the heart since it should lower heart rate, ideally, if the patient is healthy to begin with.

Postoperatively, deep breathing helps prevent atelectasis (fluid collecting in the lungs as a result of immobility and anesthesia), which helps prevent pneumonia. In so doing. the oxygenation of blood is enhanced, which as the other poster mentioned helps the healing process, etc.

MORE OXYGEN AND OF COURSE MORE NUTRIENTS EQUAL FASTER HEALING.