"SECOND WIND"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 22

"SECOND WIND"

HOW AN ATHLETE'S ORGANS

FUNCTION.

The problem of how athletes! 'acquire second breath was considered recently ly the Royal Society at the concluding meeting of their session, the subject being brought forward by Professor Pem-' brey : and his colleagues, reports ;the " Manchester Guardian." Their conclusion, based on experiments with young men was that the exercise of running resulted in the acids in the body being increased. The result was laboured breathing and-a large excess of carbon dioxide in the cells of'the lung. ■ To meet this there was co-operation between the lungs, the heart, the kidneys,-and the skin, and when this was effected the athlete secured his second wind. . "

With the arrival of second wind there was a decrease, in the activity; ofv,the lungs, and it appeared from experiments that immediately on an athlete starting ■running a message was sent to the kidneys temporarily suspending their■; activities. The result "was that a perfectly' healthy man might be accused of suffering from albuninuria and be refused by an insurance company as a good life when, in fact, he was perfectly sound. Nature saw to it that the mechanism involved was "nit. undulystrained. ■■ ■ -