Had depression for years and still seasonally does, but everything got easier when i DECIDED not to let my depression win, and that I don’t want to live like a rat. So I did smth about it and this year i moved to an extreme part of decluttering, feels great for me. But to actually have to routines on point and decide to stick with them is a gamechanger, and if i dont do it now it just feels weird. Lets say dishes, Never lets dishes sit after i eat. I clean up everything as i cook, then i eat and when the movie/episode is done I take my dishes and clean them straight away. It takes a minute, and the - i can go to bed being depressed until tomorrow. But it is easier to wake up and do things i like because its not mess everywhere. One other thing that helped me alot in my worst time was that okay, im going to sleep now but tomprrow will come even if i dont want it so i may as well do my best. The daylight came through bedroom window and i started feeling grateful about the rays hitting my face, i decided on ONE thing to do each day, vacuum, go for a walk or bake, just ONE thing, and kept it going. And today I am so much better and one can say whatever and be triggered from: you actually have to decide! But free will is a fact ppl. No matter what issue or sickness you got, free will is there, and we have to utilise it in the best way possible for us. And i firmly believe that anyone saying: oh i cant do this or won’t even try their free will, have to go a few rounds with themself about why they let the depression define and streer their lives. Why are you not willing to try, why are you hesitant to try and let go of the depression? How does it make you feel how you live right now compared to how you want to live? And if you don’t know how you want to live start at one place: cut put the people mean to you, do your hobby once a day, sniff the rain, hug a tree if it makes you happy. One step at the time and you’ll find it. 💕
Sending you hugs. There are so many moments of struggle, but I'm believing it'll get better for you, whether the improvement comes in the way you feel, your support, your mindset, or all of the above!
Getting Started by Peter Kolb While the Buteyko method introduced into the west has been getting excellent results, it does not entirely accord with Professor Buteyko’s recommended practice. During two weeks he spent in New Zealand in December 2000, he demonstrated the Buteyko technique as it should be practiced. Aim Firstly, it needs to be understood that breathing too much is a bad habit that leaves you with a debilitating shortage of carbon dioxide and bicarbonate. It usually results from long term, undischarged stress. Any stress makes you breathe more. If this is sustained over a long time period it becomes a habit. The physiology behind this habituation process is well understood. Buteyko therapy aims at reversing this, by habituating to less breathing. You do this by developing and sustaining a feeling of a slight shortage of air over a long time period. This gradually restores your carbon dioxide and bicarbonate levels back to normal. Maximum Pause While it is possible to stifle an asthma attack with a long and uncomfortable breath hold know as a maximum pause (MP), this procedure does not reverse your asthma and does not retrain the respiratory center to pace your breathing correctly. Professor Buteyko is emphatic that the maximum pause has no therapeutic value in restoring healthy breathing, which is the aim of his therapy. It is also dangerous for people with various disorders such as hypertension, heart disease, epilepsy, kidney disease and diabetes. It can also destabilize your breathing, making it worse. Unfortunately the maximum pause has been introduced into a westernized version of the Buteyko technique, much to the annoyance of the Professor. An understanding of the physiology behind the Bueyko method leaves no doubt that the maximum pause cannot improve your breathing. DIY/Self-help Professor Buteyko is firmly opposed to the DIY/self-help approach. The Buteyko technique relies 100% on patient compliance for effectiveness. Learning it from a script is like learning Yoga or martial arts from a book. Most people will experience changes in their bodies as their CO2 levels rise. These changes vary from one individual to another. Buteyko practitioners help you deal with these changes, keep you motivated and ensure that you do the breathing exercises correctly. Support for your Buteyko practitioner enables him to continue his work of bringing the technique to other sufferers. Nevertheless, very few people around the world have access to a Buteyko practitioner. So here are some basics to help get you started. Medication Do not make any changes to medication. Steroids must be taken as prescribed. Because of carbon dioxide shortage asthmatics often don’t make enough Cortisol (natural steroid) and must have supplements. Steroids are not just anti-inflammatories but they are needed by the body and without the right amount it can be almost impossible to get breathing back to normal. Your doctor will be able to review your need for steroids when you stop having asthma symptoms. Bronchodilators must be taken only when needed. As you progress, discuss with your doctor the possibility of weaning yourself off long acting bronchodilators and replacing them with short acting ones. That will give you more control over using them when needed. You should find that within days you will be able to overcome asthma attacks with reduced breathing and won’t need the bronchodilators. Nevertheless, you must always carry them with you for emergencies. Nose breathing Always breathe through your nose. If your nose is blocked perform the following exercise: After breathing normally (do not make any exaggerated breathing manoeuvre), hold your breath for as long as is comfortable, and then gradually resume very gentle breathing. It may help to pinch your nose, nod your head a few times or do some other form of exercise. In stubborn cases or when the blockage is due to a cold, you may have to try a few more times. To avoid breathing through your mouth in your sleep, you might like to experiment with a little light medical paper tape to keep your mouth closed. Mouth taping at night is not recommended by Professor Buteyko, but most people find it extremely valuable. If you do, protect your lips with suitable cream, use a low tack tape (some are quite aggressive), and make sure you fold a tab or handle at each end for rapid and easy removal. Do not go to sleep with tape on your mouth if this causes any form of anxiety. Comfort Make sure you’re comfortable before starting the exercises. Remove unnecessary clothing since the improved blood carbon dioxide will dilate blood vessels in the skin, thereby warming you up. Posture To get your posture right stand with your back to a wall, heels, shoulders head and bottom touching the wall. Now drop your shoulders. Keep this upper body posture when sitting. Relaxation While maintaining your posture, relax all the muscles in your chest, neck, shoulders, arms, tummy and particularly the diaphragm. It’s a good idea to tense them up a bit first before relaxing them so that you can properly identify them and make sure they are all relaxed. Normal Breathing Take off your shirt and stand in front of a full length mirror. Watch your chest and tummy for breathing movement. Make sure that your chest does not move at all, and only the upper part of the tummy moves, between navel and breast bone. The second thing to check for is that the tummy moves out with each in breath and not the other way around. Many people get this wrong. Your out-breath must be free, relaxed and unforced. Reduced breathing (RB) Your aim is to develop a feeling of slight hunger for air, sustain this over a period and do this frequently. In fact, this should become a habit so that you do it all the time until you have achieved your health goal. Try to feel your breathing and become aware of your breathing pattern. Now try to maintain this pattern while taking in just a little less air on each breath so that you develop a slight hunger for air. Initially try to sustain this for two minutes, then five and then ten. If you follow all the steps correctly, then you should feel really calm, good and even a little sleepy. If you already practice relaxation techniques, yoga etc, you can combine them with reduced breathing. Measuring your breathing Hyperventilators breathe more than normal in order to achieve lower than normal blood carbon dioxide levels. It follows that if you have to breathe more than normal, then you will also not be able to hold your breath as long as you should. Professor Buteyko has cunningly used this principle to measure your blood carbon dioxide by testing how long you can hold your breath. You start the pause somewhere in your normal breathing cycle. This is how you start the pause: Look up with your eyes and at the same time pinch your nose and start a stop watch. Just before it starts to get uncomfortable, stop the stop watch and resume normal breathing. You should be able to resume normal breathing without any effort and without taking deeper or more frequent breaths. Some precautions: - Do not take a deeper breath before the pause. - Do not make any attempt to empty the lungs before the pause. - Do not worry about which phase of the respiratory cycle you happen to be in before starting the pause. A pause is just an interruption of normal breathing. The time in seconds is called a Control Pause (CP). Asthmatics typically have a CP of 5 - 15 seconds. (But not everyone with such a low CP has asthma.) Your aim is to achieve a CP greater than 40 seconds, although for perfect health Professor Buteyko recommends a CP of at least 60 seconds. Doing a Set When at rest, correctly seated, comfortable and relaxed and after breathing normally for at least five minutes you are ready to do a set. A set consists of Pulse - CP - Reduced breathing - 3min normal breathing - Pulse - CP First measure your pulse and then do a CP. Record the results on a table. Then do reduced breathing for ten minutes. Breathe normally for three minutes, then take your pulse again and take another CP. If you’ve done your reduced breathing correctly your pulse should go down and your CP should go up. Sometimes the pulse remains the same. If it goes up you’re not doing it correctly. After three days you should be able to do around 8 to 10 sets a day. You can then start integrating reduced breathing into your daily life. Ideally you should aim at doing reduced breathing all day. That takes care of the exercises. Here are a few helpful hints to help your recovery. - Don’t eat unless you are hungry. Only eat until you have had enough. Eating increases breathing; eating excessively increases breathing excessively. - Don’t dress too warmly. Be careful not to overdress children. If you are worried about them being cold, check their ears, nose, hands and feet. If these are warm, they’re OK. - Make sure you get plenty of vigorous exercise. But don’t exercise to the point where you have to open your mouth to breathe. If any of these recommendations make you dizzy, sick, anxious or give you palpitations, stop immediately. If possible see a Buteyko practitioner.
About The Buteyko Method: A Summary of the Pathophysiology of Chronic Hyperventilation by Ira Packman, M.D. The fact that chronic hyperventilation (CHV) has an effect on the lungs is easily understood and explained. The systemic (whole body) effects however, are physically and physiologically distant from the lungs and therefore are more difficult to understand. The multi-system, wide spread systemic ramifications of chronic hyperventilation are numerous. These effects are all caused by the initial effect of pulmonary hypocapnia (low CO2) which causes spasm of the airways leading to asthma. The loss of CO2 from the lung on a long term basis causes a compensatory response throughout the body. This concept is called homeostasis which means that the body is always trying to stay in balance and return to its most comfortable state. A partial list of homeostatic controls would include: - Constant body temperature - Constant whole body water volume - Glucose levels - Mineral balance including sodium, potassium, magnesium, zinc etc. - Acid base balance (Ph control) The acid base/Ph control mechanisms are very sensitive and closely controlled, because the Ph of the body affects the function of every body system. It is this system that is activated when patients chronically hyperventilate. Understanding this concept, we can follow what happens with CHV. - The lungs continuously blow off too much CO2 causing local pulmonary hypocapnia (low CO2) and arterial hypocapnia. - The arterial hypocapnia immediately changes the Ph of the circulating blood causing an increase in the Ph (alkalosis). - The increase in the Ph causes a decrease in the delivery of Oxygen to all the bodies tissues due to the Bohr Effect (In an alkalotic environment, the hemoglobin molecules in the red cells hold onto the oxygen molecules more tightly and will not release the O2 to the tissues). - The kidneys see the alkalosis/Ph change and know that it must correct the bodies Ph back towards neutral (neutral Ph is a Ph of 7.40). Once CHV becomes long standing the kidneys response becomes an ongoing process in which the kidneys excrete bicarbonate in an attempt to correct the alkalosis which was created by the CHV. - The net result is a depletion of the bicarbonate buffers due to continuous over excretion of bicarbonate which also causes the loss of electrolytes including magnesium and phosphorous which are lost with the bicarbonate. - The loss of phosphorous also decreases the production of ATP (adenosine tri-phosphate) and ADP which are the bodies’ main source of energy. - This then causes a decrease in the functioning of many organs including the muscles, heart, lungs, bone marrow, immune system and liver. - These functional changes, coupled with the arterial spasm that occurs directly due to the low CO2 levels in the blood, are expressed in the long term as muscle fatigue, hypertension due to arterial spasm, decrease in the oxygenation of the brain, migraine headaches due to arterial spasm, spasm of the arteries supplying the gut, decrease brain function with memory changes, alterations in the production of proteins and metabolism of lipids in the liver causing elevated cholesterol. This is just a partial list of the systems, organs and bodily functions which are affected by CHV and the subsequent low CO2 levels in the lungs and blood. This concept regarding the origins and causes of these diseases is very radically different from the way medical schools teach about these diseases. It is revolutionary and may be too simple for many academicians to accept or understand.
“All chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused from a lack of oxygen at the cell level." Arthur C. Guyton, The Textbook of Medical Physiology*, Fifth Edition. * World’s most widely used medical textbook of any kind * World's best-selling physiology book
@@JDB61698 Why body dies? Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko said that there is no any reason for human body to die from physiology point of view. The body is perfect and able to completely renew itself if it has all elements needed to do this restoration work. But it does not live even 150 years while it has to live at least 300 years. Why? The answer is quite obvious. There are two main factors making our bodies sick and miserable. 1. There are two facts we have to consider here: 1.1 Life on Earth is Carbon (С) based. There are 3 main elements are used to build all living bodies. They are: C, H and O. The most bio-chemical structures in human body looks like Progestoron - C21H30O2 - a lot of carbon C, oxygen O2 and hydrogen H. Other elements like Ca, Na, Fe etc. also used but much less then these three. Carbon we get from food - organic structures which contain again a lot of C element. Another source of carbon is carbon dioxide CO2 which is sub product of cells breathing process: every cell consumes a lot of oxygen and throws outside CO2. Oxygen comes to cell from air breathing in via blood transportation system. Water is the great source of H - hydrogen. Oxygen is the most important: when we stop breathing brain cells die in 5 minutes. When we stop drinking water we die in 1-2 weeks because of lack of hydrogen. C - carbon is very important as well but it is less obvious. When we stop eating we can live for more then 3 month. But it is because our body produce a lot of CO2 inside via cells breathing process which supplies needed carbon to bio-chemical processes in the body. 1.2 Body consists of cells which need all three above elements. The cells do the whole work. If cells do not get what they need to function properly they just die. If body cells have everything they need they easily reproduce by just dividing. If all cells work properly the whole body is healthy and strong, it works like Swiss watch and can never die. In modern time our body cells suffer from great shortage of oxygen because of great shortage of carbon dioxide in the body tissue. This is the discovery of Konstantin Buteyko - scientific explanation why human body quickly gets sick, old and die. He called it the Deep Breathing Disease because we remove exhaling a lot of carbon dioxide through deep breathing. In medical science there is well known Bohr’s Law: if the level of carbon dioxide CO2 in tissue is low the oxygen - O2 remains in blood. It simply means that there is a lot of oxygen in the blood of modern men and no oxygen in inter-cellular fluid which is the living environment of all cells in the body. That is the main reason why we develop all kind of body disorders in all body systems - we do not give our body what it needs to function properly. What we expect? That’s why Buteyko Method of developing new breathing pattern and increasing of carbon dioxide level in the body heals more then 150 different disorders. It is not a miracle, it is just logic scientific approach based on correct understanding of human body. 2. The second reason is the constant body poisoning because of bad air, food full of pesticides and other poisons, wrong eating habits like years long mixing of incompatible products. The last factor is also based on the lack of body knowledge. For instance, to eat desert right after diner is the best way to poison body heavily because sugar is digested only in the lowest part of digestive system, in long intestine. When it stays in the stomach for some time it turns to spirit, get sucked in the blood and spread all around the body. When you do that for many years you kill by poisoning many cells in your body and the body feels and looks like garbage can. It is the same reason - ignorance and lack of ability to feel your own body which is the result of sick body and agitated mind. But just to change eating habits and try to avoid poisonous environment is not enough. The much more important reason why our body gets sick and quickly destroyed is the lack of carbon dioxide in inter-cell fluid. CO2 is the main component which is used to neutralize and remove poisons from body tissue. It cleans the body. When it is not enough of carbon dioxide the poisons are accumulated there and corrupt the most of metabolic processes. Even if we are get poisoned regularly but would have normalized breathing and normal level of CO2 the body would be able to stay healthy just by cleansing and removing most of poisons. But unfortunately most of us have low carbon dioxide level and poison the body by all means. The only solution is to increase CO2 in the body by normalizing its level in the system. There many additional tools and means how to stop loosing carbon dioxide like breathing exercises, diet, correct physical exercises, yoga and pranayamas etc. The list of disorders caused by low level of carbon dioxide is huge because every body system is effected. Our body metabolism includes about 200 vitamins and 1000 enzymes. Even with normal nutrition if there is a shortage of CO2 the assimilation of vitamins and enzymes dramatically decrease. Сalcium is washed away. The bones get fragile and the joints get slowly destroyed. And that is just a fragment of the whole picture of body disfunctions caused by carbon dioxide shortage. That is why Buteyko Method heals so many so different disorders like asthma, allergy, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease on early stage, irregular menstruation etc. It is because of the core metabolism of the body is disturbed. Hyper ventilation - deep breathing pattern, low carbon dioxide level resulting massive shortage of oxygen all around the body is the real cause of the most body disorders.
Had depression for years and still seasonally does, but everything got easier when i DECIDED not to let my depression win, and that I don’t want to live like a rat. So I did smth about it and this year i moved to an extreme part of decluttering, feels great for me. But to actually have to routines on point and decide to stick with them is a gamechanger, and if i dont do it now it just feels weird. Lets say dishes, Never lets dishes sit after i eat. I clean up everything as i cook, then i eat and when the movie/episode is done I take my dishes and clean them straight away. It takes a minute, and the - i can go to bed being depressed until tomorrow. But it is easier to wake up and do things i like because its not mess everywhere.
One other thing that helped me alot in my worst time was that okay, im going to sleep now but tomprrow will come even if i dont want it so i may as well do my best.
The daylight came through bedroom window and i started feeling grateful about the rays hitting my face, i decided on ONE thing to do each day, vacuum, go for a walk or bake, just ONE thing, and kept it going. And today I am so much better and one can say whatever and be triggered from: you actually have to decide! But free will is a fact ppl. No matter what issue or sickness you got, free will is there, and we have to utilise it in the best way possible for us.
And i firmly believe that anyone saying: oh i cant do this or won’t even try their free will, have to go a few rounds with themself about why they let the depression define and streer their lives. Why are you not willing to try, why are you hesitant to try and let go of the depression? How does it make you feel how you live right now compared to how you want to live? And if you don’t know how you want to live start at one place: cut put the people mean to you, do your hobby once a day, sniff the rain, hug a tree if it makes you happy. One step at the time and you’ll find it. 💕
Words of wisdom I needed to hear. Thanks, Sarah❤️
Aw, thank you Amy! I'm so glad!!
Struggling rn ❤ thank you for the reminder ❤ chronic illness
Sending you hugs. There are so many moments of struggle, but I'm believing it'll get better for you, whether the improvement comes in the way you feel, your support, your mindset, or all of the above!
Thank you, honey. I'm really struggling right now.
It won't be like this forever. Sending you love!
I needed this encouragement tonight thank you so much! As one mom to another I respect you !
I’m so glad the encouragement was there when you needed it! Thank you so much!!
Getting Started
by Peter Kolb
While the Buteyko method introduced into the west has been getting excellent results, it does not entirely accord with Professor Buteyko’s recommended practice. During two weeks he spent in New Zealand in December 2000, he demonstrated the Buteyko technique as it should be practiced.
Aim
Firstly, it needs to be understood that breathing too much is a bad habit that leaves you with a debilitating shortage of carbon dioxide and bicarbonate. It usually results from long term, undischarged stress. Any stress makes you breathe more. If this is sustained over a long time period it becomes a habit. The physiology behind this habituation process is well understood. Buteyko therapy aims at reversing this, by habituating to less breathing. You do this by developing and sustaining a feeling of a slight shortage of air over a long time period. This gradually restores your carbon dioxide and bicarbonate levels back to normal.
Maximum Pause
While it is possible to stifle an asthma attack with a long and uncomfortable breath hold know as a maximum pause (MP), this procedure does not reverse your asthma and does not retrain the respiratory center to pace your breathing correctly. Professor Buteyko is emphatic that the maximum pause has no therapeutic value in restoring healthy breathing, which is the aim of his therapy. It is also dangerous for people with various disorders such as hypertension, heart disease, epilepsy, kidney disease and diabetes. It can also destabilize your breathing, making it worse. Unfortunately the maximum pause has been introduced into a westernized version of the Buteyko technique, much to the annoyance of the Professor.
An understanding of the physiology behind the Bueyko method leaves no doubt that the maximum pause cannot improve your breathing.
DIY/Self-help
Professor Buteyko is firmly opposed to the DIY/self-help approach. The Buteyko technique relies 100% on patient compliance for effectiveness. Learning it from a script is like learning Yoga or martial arts from a book. Most people will experience changes in their bodies as their CO2 levels rise. These changes vary from one individual to another. Buteyko practitioners help you deal with these changes, keep you motivated and ensure that you do the breathing exercises correctly. Support for your Buteyko practitioner enables him to continue his work of bringing the technique to other sufferers.
Nevertheless, very few people around the world have access to a Buteyko practitioner. So here are some basics to help get you started.
Medication
Do not make any changes to medication. Steroids must be taken as prescribed. Because of carbon dioxide shortage asthmatics often don’t make enough Cortisol (natural steroid) and must have supplements. Steroids are not just anti-inflammatories but they are needed by the body and without the right amount it can be almost impossible to get breathing back to normal. Your doctor will be able to review your need for steroids when you stop having asthma symptoms.
Bronchodilators must be taken only when needed. As you progress, discuss with your doctor the possibility of weaning yourself off long acting bronchodilators and replacing them with short acting ones. That will give you more control over using them when needed. You should find that within days you will be able to overcome asthma attacks with reduced breathing and won’t need the bronchodilators. Nevertheless, you must always carry them with you for emergencies.
Nose breathing
Always breathe through your nose. If your nose is blocked perform the following exercise: After breathing normally (do not make any exaggerated breathing manoeuvre), hold your breath for as long as is comfortable, and then gradually resume very gentle breathing. It may help to pinch your nose, nod your head a few times or do some other form of exercise. In stubborn cases or when the blockage is due to a cold, you may have to try a few more times.
To avoid breathing through your mouth in your sleep, you might like to experiment with a little light medical paper tape to keep your mouth closed. Mouth taping at night is not recommended by Professor Buteyko, but most people find it extremely valuable. If you do, protect your lips with suitable cream, use a low tack tape (some are quite aggressive), and make sure you fold a tab or handle at each end for rapid and easy removal. Do not go to sleep with tape on your mouth if this causes any form of anxiety.
Comfort
Make sure you’re comfortable before starting the exercises. Remove unnecessary clothing since the improved blood carbon dioxide will dilate blood vessels in the skin, thereby warming you up.
Posture
To get your posture right stand with your back to a wall, heels, shoulders head and bottom touching the wall. Now drop your shoulders. Keep this upper body posture when sitting.
Relaxation
While maintaining your posture, relax all the muscles in your chest, neck, shoulders, arms, tummy and particularly the diaphragm. It’s a good idea to tense them up a bit first before relaxing them so that you can properly identify them and make sure they are all relaxed.
Normal Breathing
Take off your shirt and stand in front of a full length mirror. Watch your chest and tummy for breathing movement. Make sure that your chest does not move at all, and only the upper part of the tummy moves, between navel and breast bone. The second thing to check for is that the tummy moves out with each in breath and not the other way around. Many people get this wrong. Your out-breath must be free, relaxed and unforced.
Reduced breathing (RB)
Your aim is to develop a feeling of slight hunger for air, sustain this over a period and do this frequently. In fact, this should become a habit so that you do it all the time until you have achieved your health goal.
Try to feel your breathing and become aware of your breathing pattern. Now try to maintain this pattern while taking in just a little less air on each breath so that you develop a slight hunger for air. Initially try to sustain this for two minutes, then five and then ten.
If you follow all the steps correctly, then you should feel really calm, good and even a little sleepy. If you already practice relaxation techniques, yoga etc, you can combine them with reduced breathing.
Measuring your breathing
Hyperventilators breathe more than normal in order to achieve lower than normal blood carbon dioxide levels. It follows that if you have to breathe more than normal, then you will also not be able to hold your breath as long as you should. Professor Buteyko has cunningly used this principle to measure your blood carbon dioxide by testing how long you can hold your breath.
You start the pause somewhere in your normal breathing cycle. This is how you start the pause: Look up with your eyes and at the same time pinch your nose and start a stop watch. Just before it starts to get uncomfortable, stop the stop watch and resume normal breathing. You should be able to resume normal breathing without any effort and without taking deeper or more frequent breaths.
Some precautions:
- Do not take a deeper breath before the pause.
- Do not make any attempt to empty the lungs before the pause.
- Do not worry about which phase of the respiratory cycle you happen to be in before starting the pause. A pause is just an interruption of normal breathing.
The time in seconds is called a Control Pause (CP). Asthmatics typically have a CP of 5 - 15 seconds. (But not everyone with such a low CP has asthma.) Your aim is to achieve a CP greater than 40 seconds, although for perfect health Professor Buteyko recommends a CP of at least 60 seconds.
Doing a Set
When at rest, correctly seated, comfortable and relaxed and after breathing normally for at least five minutes you are ready to do a set. A set consists of
Pulse - CP - Reduced breathing - 3min normal breathing - Pulse - CP
First measure your pulse and then do a CP. Record the results on a table. Then do reduced breathing for ten minutes. Breathe normally for three minutes, then take your pulse again and take another CP. If you’ve done your reduced breathing correctly your pulse should go down and your CP should go up. Sometimes the pulse remains the same. If it goes up you’re not doing it correctly.
After three days you should be able to do around 8 to 10 sets a day. You can then start integrating reduced breathing into your daily life. Ideally you should aim at doing reduced breathing all day.
That takes care of the exercises. Here are a few helpful hints to help your recovery.
- Don’t eat unless you are hungry. Only eat until you have had enough. Eating increases breathing; eating excessively increases breathing excessively.
- Don’t dress too warmly. Be careful not to overdress children. If you are worried about them being cold, check their ears, nose, hands and feet. If these are warm, they’re OK.
- Make sure you get plenty of vigorous exercise. But don’t exercise to the point where you have to open your mouth to breathe.
If any of these recommendations make you dizzy, sick, anxious or give you palpitations, stop immediately. If possible see a Buteyko practitioner.
Paper plates and cups !!!
Yes!
This is so true!!
Yes!!
About The Buteyko Method: A Summary of the Pathophysiology of Chronic Hyperventilation by Ira Packman, M.D.
The fact that chronic hyperventilation (CHV) has an effect on the lungs is easily understood and explained. The systemic (whole body) effects however, are physically and physiologically distant from the lungs and therefore are more difficult to understand. The multi-system, wide spread systemic ramifications of chronic hyperventilation are numerous.
These effects are all caused by the initial effect of pulmonary hypocapnia (low CO2) which causes spasm of the airways leading to asthma. The loss of CO2 from the lung on a long term basis causes a compensatory response throughout the body. This concept is called homeostasis which means that the body is always trying to stay in balance and return to its most comfortable state.
A partial list of homeostatic controls would include:
- Constant body temperature
- Constant whole body water volume
- Glucose levels
- Mineral balance including sodium, potassium, magnesium, zinc etc.
- Acid base balance (Ph control)
The acid base/Ph control mechanisms are very sensitive and closely controlled, because the Ph of the body affects the function of every body system. It is this system that is activated when patients chronically hyperventilate.
Understanding this concept, we can follow what happens with CHV.
- The lungs continuously blow off too much CO2 causing local pulmonary hypocapnia (low CO2) and arterial hypocapnia.
- The arterial hypocapnia immediately changes the Ph of the circulating blood causing an increase in the Ph (alkalosis).
- The increase in the Ph causes a decrease in the delivery of Oxygen to all the bodies tissues due to the Bohr Effect (In an alkalotic environment, the hemoglobin molecules in the red cells hold onto the oxygen molecules more tightly and will not release the O2 to the tissues).
- The kidneys see the alkalosis/Ph change and know that it must correct the bodies Ph back towards neutral (neutral Ph is a Ph of 7.40). Once CHV becomes long standing the kidneys response becomes an ongoing process in which the kidneys excrete bicarbonate in an attempt to correct the alkalosis which was created by the CHV.
- The net result is a depletion of the bicarbonate buffers due to continuous over excretion of bicarbonate which also causes the loss of electrolytes including magnesium and phosphorous which are lost with the bicarbonate.
- The loss of phosphorous also decreases the production of ATP (adenosine tri-phosphate) and ADP which are the bodies’ main source of energy.
- This then causes a decrease in the functioning of many organs including the muscles, heart, lungs, bone marrow, immune system and liver.
- These functional changes, coupled with the arterial spasm that occurs directly due to the low CO2 levels in the blood, are expressed in the long term as muscle fatigue, hypertension due to arterial spasm, decrease in the oxygenation of the brain, migraine headaches due to arterial spasm, spasm of the arteries supplying the gut, decrease brain function with memory changes, alterations in the production of proteins and metabolism of lipids in the liver causing elevated cholesterol.
This is just a partial list of the systems, organs and bodily functions which are affected by CHV and the subsequent low CO2 levels in the lungs and blood.
This concept regarding the origins and causes of these diseases is very radically different from the way medical schools teach about these diseases. It is revolutionary and may be too simple for many academicians to accept or understand.
“All chronic pain, suffering and diseases are caused from a lack of oxygen at the cell level."
Arthur C. Guyton, The Textbook of Medical Physiology*, Fifth Edition.
* World’s most widely used medical textbook of any kind
* World's best-selling physiology book
Cervical instability. Checkmate
@@JDB61698 Why body dies?
Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko said that there is no any reason for human body to die from physiology point of view. The body is perfect and able to completely renew itself if it has all elements needed to do this restoration work. But it does not live even 150 years while it has to live at least 300 years. Why?
The answer is quite obvious. There are two main factors making our bodies sick and miserable.
1. There are two facts we have to consider here:
1.1 Life on Earth is Carbon (С) based. There are 3 main elements are used to build all living bodies. They are: C, H and O. The most bio-chemical structures in human body looks like Progestoron - C21H30O2 - a lot of carbon C, oxygen O2 and hydrogen H. Other elements like Ca, Na, Fe etc. also used but much less then these three. Carbon we get from food - organic structures which contain again a lot of C element. Another source of carbon is carbon dioxide CO2 which is sub product of cells breathing process: every cell consumes a lot of oxygen and throws outside CO2. Oxygen comes to cell from air breathing in via blood transportation system. Water is the great source of H - hydrogen. Oxygen is the most important: when we stop breathing brain cells die in 5 minutes. When we stop drinking water we die in 1-2 weeks because of lack of hydrogen. C - carbon is very important as well but it is less obvious. When we stop eating we can live for more then 3 month. But it is because our body produce a lot of CO2 inside via cells breathing process which supplies needed carbon to bio-chemical processes in the body.
1.2 Body consists of cells which need all three above elements. The cells do the whole work. If cells do not get what they need to function properly they just die. If body cells have everything they need they easily reproduce by just dividing. If all cells work properly the whole body is healthy and strong, it works like Swiss watch and can never die. In modern time our body cells suffer from great shortage of oxygen because of great shortage of carbon dioxide in the body tissue. This is the discovery of Konstantin Buteyko - scientific explanation why human body quickly gets sick, old and die. He called it the Deep Breathing Disease because we remove exhaling a lot of carbon dioxide through deep breathing. In medical science there is well known Bohr’s Law: if the level of carbon dioxide CO2 in tissue is low the oxygen - O2 remains in blood. It simply means that there is a lot of oxygen in the blood of modern men and no oxygen in inter-cellular fluid which is the living environment of all cells in the body. That is the main reason why we develop all kind of body disorders in all body systems - we do not give our body what it needs to function properly. What we expect? That’s why Buteyko Method of developing new breathing pattern and increasing of carbon dioxide level in the body heals more then 150 different disorders. It is not a miracle, it is just logic scientific approach based on correct understanding of human body.
2. The second reason is the constant body poisoning because of bad air, food full of pesticides and other poisons, wrong eating habits like years long mixing of incompatible products. The last factor is also based on the lack of body knowledge. For instance, to eat desert right after diner is the best way to poison body heavily because sugar is digested only in the lowest part of digestive system, in long intestine. When it stays in the stomach for some time it turns to spirit, get sucked in the blood and spread all around the body. When you do that for many years you kill by poisoning many cells in your body and the body feels and looks like garbage can. It is the same reason - ignorance and lack of ability to feel your own body which is the result of sick body and agitated mind.
But just to change eating habits and try to avoid poisonous environment is not enough. The much more important reason why our body gets sick and quickly destroyed is the lack of carbon dioxide in inter-cell fluid. CO2 is the main component which is used to neutralize and remove poisons from body tissue. It cleans the body. When it is not enough of carbon dioxide the poisons are accumulated there and corrupt the most of metabolic processes. Even if we are get poisoned regularly but would have normalized breathing and normal level of CO2 the body would be able to stay healthy just by cleansing and removing most of poisons. But unfortunately most of us have low carbon dioxide level and poison the body by all means.
The only solution is to increase CO2 in the body by normalizing its level in the system. There many additional tools and means how to stop loosing carbon dioxide like breathing exercises, diet, correct physical exercises, yoga and pranayamas etc.
The list of disorders caused by low level of carbon dioxide is huge because every body system is effected. Our body metabolism includes about 200 vitamins and 1000 enzymes. Even with normal nutrition if there is a shortage of CO2 the assimilation of vitamins and enzymes dramatically decrease. Сalcium is washed away. The bones get fragile and the joints get slowly destroyed. And that is just a fragment of the whole picture of body disfunctions caused by carbon dioxide shortage.
That is why Buteyko Method heals so many so different disorders like asthma, allergy, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease on early stage, irregular menstruation etc.
It is because of the core metabolism of the body is disturbed. Hyper ventilation - deep breathing pattern, low carbon dioxide level resulting massive shortage of oxygen all around the body is the real cause of the most body disorders.
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