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Buteyko
Method
Learn How Buteyko Method
Can Help Your Asthma Treatment
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 Buteyko
method
could be claimed as one of the most modern and comprehensive
natural asthma treatments these days. Developed by the founder
himself, Prof. Konstantin Buteyko from Russia. Prof. Buteyko had
found a surprising fact on a direct relation between human’s
breathing pattern and his health level.
Buteyko Method For Asthma Treatment
According to Buteyko theory, basic cause of asthma is excessive
over breathing habit. Patient use to inhale too much air without
realizing it, or is known as hyperventilation. Hyperventilation
will cause a kind of body defense
mechanism that appears as asthma symptoms. So, the treatment
method is as simple as to teach the patient to breath in a right
way. When an asthma patient can learn to change or adjust the
volume of the breathed air, his asthma symptoms can also be
drastically reduced, even without pharmaceutical
asthma medication. |
How hyperventilation can lead to asthma symptoms?
There is a little contradictive opinion which believe that carbon dioxide or CO2 is an important component for our health. Every human cells need at least 7% of CO2 to maintain its normal condition. It is believed that the breathed air on the first phase of human life on this earth contained more than 20% of carbon dioxide. However, at present the content had been decreased to only 0,03%.
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Our body adjusted to that condition by creating small air
bubbles in the lungs, which we call alveoli. When we breathe
normally, there will be 6,5% of carbon dioxide in our lungs, in
the same quantity as oxygen. However, modern lifestyle and
environment change has seriously affected our breathing pattern,
which lead to ‘over-breathing’. Over-breathing happens when we
inhale too much air than what we need, and at the same time we
exhale carbon dioxide very quickly. Our body cells will out of
oxygen supply, which lead to a spasm on airways muscles. Prof. Buteyko called this condition as a hidden hyperventilation.
Symptoms of over-breathing
When you are
over-breathing, your body will apply a mechanism to maintain a
normal carbon dioxide level by causing these symptoms,
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Spasm on airways and
alveoli.
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Mucus production as a
result of airways blockage to block the exit of carbon dioxide.
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Airways inflammation.
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Increase of cholesterol in
liver.
All above
symptoms will be diagnosed as asthma and many other diseases such as
emphysema, hypertension,
eczema, sinusitis, allergic
rhinitis, etc.
What are
the real cause of hyperventilation?
The wrong concept of deep breathing
Many people believe that deep
breathing can increase health.
Stress
Emotional stress because of over-exciting or depression tend to increase
over- breathing.
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No exercise
When you are fit, the carbon dioxide level in your blood will also
increases.
Excessive eating
Excessive eating will force your body to work harder in order to process
the food. This will cause an over-breathing.
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Alcohol and drugs
Toxin and over-stimulation in alcohol and drugs can stressed our body,
and cause over-breathing.
Too much sleep
Sleeping in lie down position in a long term can also cause
over-breathing.
Hot and humid environment
When you are in a high humidity place, you will feel that the air you
breathe is insufficient, which will make you breathe deeper or
over-breathing. The same thing happen when you are in a polluted
environment or in a place full of cigarette smoke.
Bronchodillator
Its function as one of asthma medication is giving easy breathing in an
asthma attack. However, these drugs also cause over-breathing.
How Buteyko Method Works?
Buteyko methods train
an over-breathing patients the right way to breathe, so that he
can breathe normally for the rest of his life.
Let’s learn about
human breathing levels,
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In normal way, we
inhale 3-4 liter of air per minute, with 6,5% of carbon
dioxide level in our lungs.
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When you inhale
5-10 per minute, you are already in an over-breathing level
without realizing it. In this condition, health problems
start to occur, and become worse after certain period of
time.
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In the more severe level where a person
breathe 10-20 liter per minute, an
asthma attack is taking
place. And because of the difficult
breathing, he might try to increase your breathing level to
20-30 liter per minute. This is when the patient got anxiety
attack.
With its simple
technique and easy to apply, Buteyko method is one of the most
effective treatment for asthma patient, by turning his breathing
level back to normal, 3-4 liter per minute. This method can also
be applied in children, but it must be done under a certified
Buteyko trainer supervision. |
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any, external aid, often for the purpose of self-transformation. Let's
get a look at how meditation could help you to reduce asthma symptoms.
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