Buteyko Asthma Breathing Exercises Can Cure Supposedly Incurable Asthma

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Buteyko breathing cures can help many other health problems as well. Doctors tell you that it is incurable, but they only mean that they themselves can't cure it with drugs or surgery. They don't like the idea that there is a free cure from which they can make no money. Apparently your problems are caused by bad habits, and doctors don't want to believe that something as simple as changing your habits can cure you.

You can learn to cure your own asthma, and that of your children naturally and quickly. Best of all, you don't have to understand how it works - just use it!

When I heard that the basic facts about asthma breathing treatment were discovered a century ago by a Russian researcher called Werigo, I assumed that doctors were suppressing the information as they usually do with successful competitors. However once I read more details I realized that doctors wouldn't understand it.

Simple Asthma Breathing Exercises Model

I did the same biochemistry classes at University as the medical students. We were taught about the blood system being like a conveyor belt. In the lungs the utterly useless waste product known as CO2 was removed from the conveyor belt, and Oxygen was deposited on the haemoglobin molecules to be conveyed to every part of the body.

Shallow breathing was seen as being like constipation, and would cause a backup of waste products.

I resented having to learn about haemoglobin, but apart from that, it seemed fairly simple - too simple. The oxygen molecules seemed to know when to hop on and off of the conveyor belt by some magic.

Biochemist's View of Asthma Breathing Techniques

There are five form of CO2. I'm glad I didn't have to learn that at University - one form was enough for me. After this it gets complicated. It seems that the job of CO2 is to tell Oxygen molecules when to leave the blood stream, but you'll only be able to follow the explanation if you are a biochemist.

Better Asthma Breathing Exercises Model

Again the blood system is a conveyor belt. But now the Oxygen molecules only leave the conveyor belt when they are told to by the carbon dioxide variations. Now magic isn't involved. You just need to have CO2 to do the job.

Just one little problem - if you use the elementary asthma breathing model you'll breathe away too much of this vitally important (not useless at all) waste product. There won't be enough CO2 left to tell the Oxygen molecules when to get off, and your body will always be short of breath. What is worse, your body will try to compensate by shutting down your airways (asthma) and doctor's drugs will try to force them open again.

So much for the theory, and you should realize that it is still seriously over-simplified, though not as badly as the version that I was taught at University.

History of Buteyko Breathing Method

While still at University Buteyko noticed that as each patient got nearer to death their breathing rate increased, and soon he was able to predict to the minute when a patient would die. He himself had a life expectancy of a year because of extremely high blood pressure and there was nothing anyone could do to reverse the problem.

Fortunately he majored in clinical therapy, so wasn't brainwashed into thinking that only drugs or surgery could cure anything. On October 7th,1952 he invented a logical therapy for himself. If the closer he was to death the more deeply he breathed, why not try reducing his breathing?

It worked!!! Within minutes pain in his head, right kidney and his heart disappeared. Just to make sure he took five deep breaths and the pain came back. He again reduced his breathing and the pain went away. He lived another half century.

Doctors refused to accept the idea, but 31 years later it was proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and the USSR Committee on Inventions and Discoveries formally acknowledged Buteyko's discovery in 1983 and back-dated the acknowledgement to January 29th, 1962

What is the Buteyko Breathing Method Good For

What isn't affected by your breathing? Possibly growth of your toenails - I don't know.

The following are very strongly affected.
Wheezing, breathlessness, coughing, chest tightness, frequent yawning, sneezing, runny nose, congested nose, postnasal drip and snoring, a light-headed feeling, poor concentration, numbness, sweating, dizziness, vertigo, tingling of hands and feet, faintness, trembling and headache, the heart, typically a racing heartbeat, pain in the chest region, and a skipping or irregular heartbeat, anxiety, tension, depression, apprehension and stress.

I'd need a large singer's breath to say all of that list in one breath! So it's not just asthma breathing treatment. Buteyko's ideas can be used to help singers (that's why I'm interested) and most other health problems. And it's all free, once you have learned the asthma breathing techniques.

Australian Tests of Buteyko Breathing Method

It has been objected that most medical research tests have been made by people wanting to sell Buteyko products. In 1995 Brisbane's Mater Hospital set out to prove that conventional treatments were better than asthma breathing techniques, by doing an expensive placebo-controlled randomized blind study. This is the most expensive form of medical testing, so they had to be confident that drugs etc. would win dramatically.

Severe asthmatics between 12 years old and 70 were divided into 2 groups. After three months the hospital doctors began to wish that they had never started the tests. 90% of Buteyko patients reduced or eliminated bronchodilator use while there was a 9% increase in use for conventional patients. Buteyko patients used 49% less steroids while use was unchanged for conventional patients. 71% of Buteyko patients had reduced symptoms, while only 14% of conventional patients showed any improvement.

What Does This Mean to You

You are going to

• enjoy life more
• be more popular with your employers
• stop worrying that your kids might die in an asthma attack
• save money
• enjoy holidays without thinking first about emergency asthma treatment

The main disadvantage is that you are going to have to break your bad habit. If you are 70 years old you have to change a 70 year habit. If your child is 3 they have only had their bad asthma breathing habit for 3 years, so it is easy to change.

Of course, you'll have to pay some money to learn the technique, but as you can teach it to your children and grandchildren without paying any more it is a pretty good bargain! And think how much money you'll save on drugs. Here is how I think the two bargains below compare. I would buy both to get insights from both, but if you are strapped for cash use the table to help you to choose. After all, the savings in medical bills come later, these bargains have to be paid for now.

For people who can't learn from books, there are clinics in several countries that will teach you the methods, but it will cost you more for travel and accomodation. Or you could learn from the video. It really is that simple. I prefer a book, because I can keep going back to it again.

Now I've studied both offers, and I've changed my point of view quite a lot. The cheaper book encourages what the package calls "trying too hard" so that I had panic attacks and nearly gave up. The package told me how to avoid trying too hard, and gave two ways of judging my progress instead of just one. If you can afford it I reccomend the complete package now.