I cannot thank you enough for this information. I'm quite shocked between the pulmonologists I've seen and with the breathing tests and cardiologist appointments and primary care appointments I've had that no one has given me this information. During the breathing tests I've had, I was told to breathe through my nose, but never explained why it's important. I have always had a hard time feeling breathless when breathing through my nose and no one has ever mentioned what I could do to help that. I have been active, exercising regularly, strengthening my body, and yet, my pulse ox levels drop when I move around. I eventually got desperate enough to start looking into how to breathe to see if there was anything I could do, especially during workouts. My heart is healthy, my lungs are healthy... it's just that my oxygen drops. I was working out tonight and decided to look up a video to see if there's a specific way to breathe during exercise - and here we are. I have watched several videos already and this is POWERFUL information to have. It needs to be in the hands of more people because I can guarantee you that the majority of the world does NOT ever think about breathing, much less the proper way to breathe. We're always told it's an automatic function and so unless you are experiencing severe problems you don't give it much thought. It's crazy. Thank you so much. I had a pulse oximeter on while I was working out tonight and I was able to raise my oxygen levels by breathing through my nose. I still have this compulsive need to want to breathe through my mouth, but I watched his other videos and I know that this is an effect of breathing incorrectly for so long, so it's something I have to work on. Again, thank you so much for putting this videos out here for the world. I am definitely interested in getting your book and plan to share the knowledge with others. God bless!
Very appreciative of all your helpful and informative videos. So happy I stumbled across your channel. I use CPAP machine every night. Starting to worry that it may be causing me to overbreathe during sleep and thereby reducing too much carbon dioxide? I guess I am asking if it's okay to keep using the machine. Doing my best to breathe slowly during the day, taping mouth at night. Any thoughts or advice appreciated. Thank you so much.
So decreased CO2 in the blood constricts the blood vessels. So slow breathing widens the blood vessels. I'm assuming this leads to the conclusion that an increased tolerance of CO2 in the blood improves circulation?
Indeed @wiggles7976, With light breathing we can initiate the body's parasympathetic nervous system a.k.a. the body's relaxation response. CO2 is also a vasodilator so it opens up the vessels and helps improve blood circulation.
If I take a deep breath it feels nice and satisfying. But if I then try to take another deep breath it doesn’t feel satisfying and doesn’t relieve the air hunger sensation.
Have you done any videos on improving breathing during exercise? I've been following Patrick and other Buteyko people, which has absolutely fixed my insomnia and many issues with anxiety/stress.
If you pay attention to your breathing before thinking your breathing will be better because paying attention to thinking first is what people typically do so if their thoughts are agitated their breathing will be agitated then they'll feel agitated and act agitated then you breath abnormally, if you pay attention to the breath first and bring it under control until its normal and peaceful then your thinking will be normal and peaceful and you'll feel peaceful and behave like that. So it's our thinking that dictates how we breath.
As always great video; I've always told anyone training very hard that the 1 key element that needs to be present to burn fat is oxygen; so out of breath wastes more muscle and is extremely inflammatory.
Hi Mario. No, not at all. There are some similarites and some differences. WHM is a stressor. I also teach breath holding to stress the body but without hyperventilation pre breath hold. Also, very important to improv functional breathing patterns. See: oxygenadvantage.com/wim-hof/
I’m surprised also with benefits of Wim Hoff technique I’ve found some days when I’m hyper, if I start with that quick in/ out breathing it quietens me down before proceeding with the Butekyo practice Anyone else do this?? Also with regard to yoga facilitators saying take a deep breath ( which Always sets me racing) I use ‘take a ‘slow expansive breath,’
I find really hard to breath slow automatically without any effort. Usually, the body just breathe at a certain speed and waits for the next take when you are about to start sofocating. Kinda in the middle of hiperventilation and air hunger. Maybe i'm doing something wrong.
So when i have “air hunger”(feeling that i need more oxygen) mostly before i fall asleep, the best thing to do is breathe slowly and calm to get my breathing routine to normal?
I am a young classical singer and my singing teacher suggested the "Breathing Cure" book. I can honestly say the exercises in it have been changing my practice as well as day-to-day life. When I do these exercises before my daily practice, my singing feels free and my breathing feels effortless. I'm so excited there is also a UA-cam channel for the Oxygen Advantage - have clicked a big thumbs up and subscribed!☺️
Useless breathing exercises let's say. When you're not stressed but are feeling just fine. You begin doing breathing exercises .. for what. It's needles. It's forcing excess. You could go from feeling just fine to trying to catch your breath or, could work oneself nto higher blood pressure or anxiety.
In fact, even under moments of anxiety or high blood pressure, breathing harder or taking deep breathing ( trying to control the breath ) is not a good choice.
O2 cannot regulate itself and be released from the red blood cells (into the tissues) without the presence of CO2. I suppose they balance each other out, like ying and yang. Over-breathing = less CO2, trapped O2. Slow your breathing to increase your CO2 and your oxygen. Make sure you are nasal breathing too (through the nose). Learning to rest your tongue against the top of your mouth will seal your lips and help you to do this, if you're a chronic mouth breather like me. This is also the correct position that the tongue is meant to be in anyway.
The nervous system can only sense CO2 levels. It actually can’t sense O2 levels. That means it can only react to changes in CO2 levels. ‘Air hunger’ comes from high CO2, not low O2 levels.
O2 Advantage vs WHM = ? I’ve been doing both and I feel they may compliment each other. The CO2 receptors can be set at an improved mark with the 02A and the alkaline and hormone benefits can be taken advantage of with WHM. THOUGHTS?
WHM is basically intermittent hyperventhilation, which has health benefits like blood alkalizing, removing unhealthy mitochondria and replenishing with new healthy cells, strengthens abs if do it with a continuous ab roll when breathing, and can strengthen abds even more by ending each round with a tummo style breathe. It releases serotonin and that helps heal nerves, releases norepinephrine inna controlled manner which helps improve focus, releases adrenelaine in a controlled manner, it helps wake you up, improves immune system, helps fight allergies. It activates brown fat if done long enough, mainly because the body has to burn off the O2 or you die and burning brown fat is the quickest way. Also increases emotional resiliency when push self in breathe holds but stay calm and the ability to tolerate different types of breathing but remain calm. So ya, i do both WHM in morning and evening and this mouse breathing throught the day. Doing WHM strengthens abs so helps with posture and breathing and the healthier mitochondria help too.
HI Cindy. You need to slow down your breathing, improve BOLT score, breathe through nose using the diaphragm. As BOLT score improves, snoring reduces. However, if airway is not good, snoring can continue- due to poor airway. Snoring will reduce with higher BOLT score. But if airway is narrow, snoring can continue.
My husband says, when I tape my mouth I make a gurgling sound or depending on my head position. I think on my back is best, but. when I turn on my side I am quiet.
I cannot thank you enough for this information. I'm quite shocked between the pulmonologists I've seen and with the breathing tests and cardiologist appointments and primary care appointments I've had that no one has given me this information. During the breathing tests I've had, I was told to breathe through my nose, but never explained why it's important. I have always had a hard time feeling breathless when breathing through my nose and no one has ever mentioned what I could do to help that.
I have been active, exercising regularly, strengthening my body, and yet, my pulse ox levels drop when I move around. I eventually got desperate enough to start looking into how to breathe to see if there was anything I could do, especially during workouts. My heart is healthy, my lungs are healthy... it's just that my oxygen drops. I was working out tonight and decided to look up a video to see if there's a specific way to breathe during exercise - and here we are. I have watched several videos already and this is POWERFUL information to have. It needs to be in the hands of more people because I can guarantee you that the majority of the world does NOT ever think about breathing, much less the proper way to breathe. We're always told it's an automatic function and so unless you are experiencing severe problems you don't give it much thought. It's crazy. Thank you so much.
I had a pulse oximeter on while I was working out tonight and I was able to raise my oxygen levels by breathing through my nose. I still have this compulsive need to want to breathe through my mouth, but I watched his other videos and I know that this is an effect of breathing incorrectly for so long, so it's something I have to work on. Again, thank you so much for putting this videos out here for the world. I am definitely interested in getting your book and plan to share the knowledge with others. God bless!
Thks complete underdlying process of breath
Thank you
Very appreciative of all your helpful and informative videos. So happy I stumbled across your channel. I use CPAP machine every night. Starting to worry that it may be causing me to overbreathe during sleep and thereby reducing too much carbon dioxide? I guess I am asking if it's okay to keep using the machine. Doing my best to breathe slowly during the day, taping mouth at night. Any thoughts or advice appreciated. Thank you so much.
You can get a chin strap that will keep your mouth closed while on cpap.
Millions Thanks for your Excellent Information….
So decreased CO2 in the blood constricts the blood vessels. So slow breathing widens the blood vessels. I'm assuming this leads to the conclusion that an increased tolerance of CO2 in the blood improves circulation?
Indeed @wiggles7976,
With light breathing we can initiate the body's parasympathetic nervous system a.k.a. the body's relaxation response.
CO2 is also a vasodilator so it opens up the vessels and helps improve blood circulation.
One of the most important videos on the internet.
Hang on hang on ....
You solved my 1 year problem of feeling breathless after exercise
Thanks a lot!
Excellent video, very important knowledge, thank you Patrick
If I take a deep breath it feels nice and satisfying. But if I then try to take another deep breath it doesn’t feel satisfying and doesn’t relieve the air hunger sensation.
Have you done any videos on improving breathing during exercise? I've been following Patrick and other Buteyko people, which has absolutely fixed my insomnia and many issues with anxiety/stress.
He has! Please check them out!
If you pay attention to your breathing before thinking your breathing will be better because paying attention to thinking first is what people typically do so if their thoughts are agitated their breathing will be agitated then they'll feel agitated and act agitated then you breath abnormally, if you pay attention to the breath first and bring it under control until its normal and peaceful then your thinking will be normal and peaceful and you'll feel peaceful and behave like that. So it's our thinking that dictates how we breath.
A great comment
Holy run-on. It's like there's no pause for breath in this sentence.
Perfect
Nooice
Then why do i get light headed when breathing slow if breathing heavy reduces co2
As always great video; I've always told anyone training very hard that the 1 key element that needs to be present to burn fat is oxygen; so out of breath wastes more muscle and is extremely inflammatory.
So I guess this guy must be totally against Wim Hof Breathing Method ..
Hi Mario. No, not at all. There are some similarites and some differences. WHM is a stressor. I also teach breath holding to stress the body but without hyperventilation pre breath hold. Also, very important to improv functional breathing patterns. See: oxygenadvantage.com/wim-hof/
I’m surprised also with benefits of Wim Hoff technique
I’ve found some days when I’m hyper, if I start with that quick in/ out breathing it quietens me down before proceeding with the Butekyo practice
Anyone else do this??
Also with regard to yoga facilitators saying take a deep breath ( which Always sets me racing) I use ‘take a ‘slow expansive breath,’
Very useful information 👌
See on youtube "Strelnikova exercise to reduce asthma attacks."
Nice Video on Mouse Breeding.
So what is optimal.... a high BOLT score and a high VO2 Max?
I find really hard to breath slow automatically without any effort. Usually, the body just breathe at a certain speed and waits for the next take when you are about to start sofocating. Kinda in the middle of hiperventilation and air hunger. Maybe i'm doing something wrong.
Takes practice
Even when I have taped my mouth at night my brain finds a little crease to sneak out of and my husband could not do it all night?
Its just practise Cindy. Make sure lips are together before you apply th tape.
So when i have “air hunger”(feeling that i need more oxygen) mostly before i fall asleep, the best thing to do is breathe slowly and calm to get my breathing routine to normal?
I am a young classical singer and my singing teacher suggested the "Breathing Cure" book. I can honestly say the exercises in it have been changing my practice as well as day-to-day life. When I do these exercises before my daily practice, my singing feels free and my breathing feels effortless. I'm so excited there is also a UA-cam channel for the Oxygen Advantage - have clicked a big thumbs up and subscribed!☺️
Thanks, Natalka. Great to have you on board :)
It is so sad that these explanations be given so fastly.....
But best vid however
thumb up
thanks for sharing
Thanks
if you are doing lets say fairly High intensity exercise.. how should one breathe, nose of mouth?
What does it mean to breath hard??
Useless breathing exercises let's say. When you're not stressed but are feeling just fine. You begin doing breathing exercises .. for what. It's needles. It's forcing excess. You could go from feeling just fine to trying to catch your breath or, could work oneself nto higher blood pressure or anxiety.
In fact, even under moments of anxiety or high blood pressure, breathing harder or taking deep breathing ( trying to control the breath ) is not a good choice.
Honestly what better this or wim hof plz be honest
If increased CO2 widens arteries then blood pressure should drop. Has anyone done any testing?
Not widens, it constricts
@@darrenwalshe8513 .... and, it depends .... Lots of great illustrated anatomy and physiology tutorials on YT ....
Interesting video thanks I've been breathing too fast
Thanks for the comment @tjm105,
Just keep the mouth closed and breathe light, deep, slow and low.
Regards, Ronan
how can co2 increase and O2 maintain the same level? 1:20 -1:35min. Deas not depend on each other?
O2 cannot regulate itself and be released from the red blood cells (into the tissues) without the presence of CO2. I suppose they balance each other out, like ying and yang. Over-breathing = less CO2, trapped O2. Slow your breathing to increase your CO2 and your oxygen. Make sure you are nasal breathing too (through the nose). Learning to rest your tongue against the top of your mouth will seal your lips and help you to do this, if you're a chronic mouth breather like me. This is also the correct position that the tongue is meant to be in anyway.
The nervous system can only sense CO2 levels. It actually can’t sense O2 levels. That means it can only react to changes in CO2 levels. ‘Air hunger’ comes from high CO2, not low O2 levels.
You should breath hard to get in a lot of oxygen then stop your breath to built back the co2 to push all that oxygen and open up the blood vessel!
@@krymesuspectent9223 No
So would taping your mouth during exercise be enough or would we just compensate through the nose? What about taping the mouth and blocking a nostril?
well. To be sure of nose breathing during sleep, we will have a new tape called MyoTape. This will bring the lips together.
YES .... tape mouth and BOTH nostrils
@@jessetomahawk2306 hahaha right.
Breathing through the nose isn't a negative "compensation." It's function!
O2 Advantage vs WHM = ? I’ve been doing both and I feel they may compliment each other. The CO2 receptors can be set at an improved mark with the 02A and the alkaline and hormone benefits can be taken advantage of with WHM. THOUGHTS?
WHM is basically intermittent hyperventhilation, which has health benefits like blood alkalizing, removing unhealthy mitochondria and replenishing with new healthy cells, strengthens abs if do it with a continuous ab roll when breathing, and can strengthen abds even more by ending each round with a tummo style breathe. It releases serotonin and that helps heal nerves, releases norepinephrine inna controlled manner which helps improve focus, releases adrenelaine in a controlled manner, it helps wake you up, improves immune system, helps fight allergies. It activates brown fat if done long enough, mainly because the body has to burn off the O2 or you die and burning brown fat is the quickest way. Also increases emotional resiliency when push self in breathe holds but stay calm and the ability to tolerate different types of breathing but remain calm. So ya, i do both WHM in morning and evening and this mouse breathing throught the day. Doing WHM strengthens abs so helps with posture and breathing and the healthier mitochondria help too.
Yes, they do compliment each other. Targeting different things. Here is a more detailed explanation: oxygenadvantage.com/wim-hof/
I tape my mouth, but, i still snore, mostly when I have starches my husband says.
I sigh too much., too.
HI Cindy. You need to slow down your breathing, improve BOLT score, breathe through nose using the diaphragm. As BOLT score improves, snoring reduces. However, if airway is not good, snoring can continue- due to poor airway. Snoring will reduce with higher BOLT score. But if airway is narrow, snoring can continue.
My husband says, when I tape my mouth I make a gurgling sound or depending on my head position. I think on my back is best, but. when I turn on my side I am quiet.