The Buteyko Breathing Technique
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The Buteyko Breathing Technique - Help Reduce Asthma By Breathing Less
The Buteyko Breathing Technique is a set of exercises which focuses on deliberate control of one's breath to reduce the occurences of asthma attacks, panic attacks snoring and other breathing ailments. This page will discuss the concep behind the buteyko breathing technique, and how it will help asthmatics.
So, How Does Buteyko Breathing Techniques Work? Part 1
First let me explain hyperventilation, vertigo and the carbon dioxide. This will make sense, I promise!
Hyperventilation is when you breathe in and out too fast than what is needed.
Vertigo is when you feel dizzy after breathing in too much. You know why? It is not because you have too much oxygen, but rather you need air! Confusing? You see, carbon dioxide is a catalyst in the blood that serves as unbinding agent between oxygen and its transportation, hemoglobin. Without it, the oxygen stays bonded to the hemoglobin and won't be able to get to its destination, and cells won't get to cook their food.
Carbon Dioxide is barely present in the atmosphere, and our bodies produce this surprisingly important air, and it stores it mainly in the lungs.
With all these information combined, you can say the more a person hyperventilate, the less oxygen he gets. And the natural reaction of the body is to scramble for it because it does not want to die.
So, How Does Buteyko Breathing Techniques Work? Part 2
So what does Buteyko Breathing Techniques have to do with this? I'll explain.
An asthmatic hyperventilates and eventually comes to the scrambling-for-air part, the natural thing the body does to preserve the CO2 in the body is to thicken the mucus membranes and produce phlegm. Because of this, whistling sounds are audible - the signs of an asthma attack.
This where Buteyko Breathing Techniques come in. Give the body what it wanted in the first place, and the symptoms will subside quicker, and future asthma episodes will decrease.
How to Stop Asthma Attack Using Buteyko
Get Buteyko Breathing Techniques Here
The above is the author of the DVD and book, entitled, Buteyko Clinic Method. What's great about this is that DVD is as easy to follow as the video above, and the author lets you contact him if further questions are needed to be answered.
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I would like to suggest that crosstrainer exercise might be a better alternative to buteyko breath-holds. Though I did them regularly, they did seem a little too herioc if a bronchodilator effect was to be gotten.
I've now been exercising on a crosstrainer (see enclosed figure) with 30 minutes a day at 160 watts at a pulse rate of 100 to 115.
I find it surprisingly easy to keep to nose breathing and feel that my body is being retrained to ventilate less. This might well be a good basic training for those with asthma. There is also the benefit of
endogenous nitric oxide from the nose.
Hope this might be of some assistance to asthmatics
training in fitness studios.
Richard Friedel
even if you already had an asthma in your health, can this exercise really help in treating asthma? uhhmm.. maybe, in my own opinion, cardio exercise is the best exercise to treat asthma. Doing 1 hour jogging every morning would really help.
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KellyEngaldo 2 years ago
Deep breathing is something I stress every day with my clients. I am writing an article on this subject - I will be sure to link to your article. Wonderful - thank you for sharing and welcome to Hub Pages. Keep up the great work.