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It is known to medicine and many ordinary people 2 00:01:55,113 --> 00:01:60,228 that there are many lifestyle risk factors that can promote chronic diseases cancer included. 3 00:01:60,228 --> 00:02:03,860 For example, a lack of physical exercise,
poor diet, overeating, stress, strong emotions and many others
can cause more health problems.
But how do they work and how we can apply these lifestyle
factors in relation to cancer?
About 200 Russian doctors applied a simple breath holding
time test, it's called the body oxygen test,
in order to measure the effects of different lifestyle factors
on body oxygen levels.
What they found is that, in sick people, and cancer patients included,
because they've tested hundreds of people with cancer,
the most negative factors relate to sleep,
This is normal because body oxygen level is lowest
during early morning hours.
Numerous medical studies found that chances of people to die,
due to heart attacks, strokes, epilepsy seizures, asthma attacks,
acute exacerbations due to bronchitis, and many other conditions,
are most likely to take place during early morning hours,
from 4 to 7 o'clock in the morning.
Any person can easily confirm that, during this time,
he or she is going to have the lowest breath holding time
or lowest body oxygen level.
This is not just a breath holding time test, it's a very special
test, which you need to do after your usual exhalation and
only until your first stress without any discomfort.
So, when people do this test throughout the day,
they are going to find out that they have lowest oxygen level
in the morning, and therefore the 2 crucial lifestyle
factors that relate to sick people are sleeping on the back so called supine sleep
and another factor is mouth breathing.
So how do they work? How do these negative factors
reduce oxygen levels in body cells?
It's relatively simple. When we sleep on our back at night,
our breathing is not restricted.
You see when you sleep on the chest, or left side, or right side,
its more difficult to breathe, because, with each breath,
you need to lift a part of your body trunk.
But once we lie on our back, our breathing is easy,
either using our belly or using our chest.
In both cases, breathing is unrestricted, and people start to breathe more.
More breathing is called "hyperventilation".
What it does, it reduces CO2 level in the blood stream.
When we have normal, very small breathing, so called normal breathing,
or breathing accordance with medical norms,
blood oxygenation is exceptionally high about 98-99%.
Of course, this breathing must be diaphragmatic.
And when we breathe more, we hyperventilate or
we have deep breathing, we reduce CO2 level.
And CO2 is, according to some studies, is the most important vasodilator.
It dilates blood vessels.
Therefore, the very first effect of hyperventilation, and probably
the most important one, is constriction of blood vessels.
Our blood vessels, arteries and arterioles, get into the state of spasm.
And therefore, when we sleep on our back,
or we breathe through the mouth at night,
we immediately reduce oxygen level in body cells.
There are simple techniques developed by these Russian doctors:
one involves taping of the mouth for sleep
using a surgical tape, you can find its instructions online,
and another technique is how to prevent supine sleep,
or how to prevent sleeping on your back.
You can have a small knot on your back, and this way
you will not be able comfortably to sleep on your back at night.
These 200 Russian and Soviet doctors also found that
the most important factor, in order to fight chronic disease, is physical exercise.
But, they found that the exercise is going to be
much more effective and totally safe if people breathe
only from the nose during exercise, in and out, all the time.
During exercise, due to our breathing through the nose,
CO2 gets higher and our breathing centre resets to high CO2 level
because breathing is regulated mainly by carbon dioxide.
So, later, after exercise, our breathing becomes slower and
that improves oxygenation of the cancer tumors and other body cells.
The only problem with physical exercise with nose breathing is
that most people are not able to exercise intensively.
I am talking about sick people, virtually 100% of them would not be able, for example, to run.
Therefore, they need to start very slowly.
Once they achieve about 20 seconds or more for the
body oxygen test, and this is exactly the criteria where most
chronic diseases do not progress, cancer included,
then these people will be able to run and breathe only through the nose.
But before that, walking would be the best exercise:
walking with nose breathing, up to 3, 4, 5 hours every day.
Nutritional deficiencies would also have the same effect.
As soon as we are low in, for example, essential fatty acids,
calcium, magnesium, or zinc, these are the most common nutritional deficiencies
in the modern population, we are going to hyperventilate.
and our breathing pattern is going to be heavy,
and body oxygen is going to be low 24 hours per day.
There are many other lifestyle factors that are also possible
to explain easily using these ideas related to breathing.
When we experience stress and strong emotions,
our breathing unconsciously, automatically becomes stronger.
This is so called a fight or flight reaction:
when we automatically, unconsciously start to have deep and
fast breathing pattern in order to prepare our body for a fight or flight situations.
But this deep breathing again reduces oxygen level.
And when people have chronic stress,
when they have certain ideas, which may be suppress them, or certain
depressive thoughts, this chronic stress is going to be manifested
in heavy breathing 24 hours per day,
and that reduces body oxygen levels and promote cancer.
Another factor: how, for example, overeating can influence cancer?
The mechanism is again relatively simple.
If you try to measure your body oxygen level or just
monitor your breathing, you are going to find out a very simple fact,
if you eat too much, or if you eat when you are not hungry,
especially heavy foods which contain, for example,
animal proteins, fats, you are going to notice that your
breathing, after such meal, after 1, 2 even 3 hours,
is going to be much heavier. It's much more difficult to exercise
you probably know about that.
So your breathing is much heavier, and, if you measure your body
oxygen level, it can be reduced up to 2 times just due to overeating
or eating too much.
Poor posture would be another cancer factor because, once we slouch,
we cannot breathe using our diaphragm, and, therefore,
our oxygenation of the arterial blood is reduced.
So, therefore, slouching or poor posture causes low oxygenation
of the blood and that reduces oxygen level in the cancer tumor.
Therefore, it’s important to keep correct posture.
Thermoregulation: When we are overheated,
when we have for example too much clothing or
the temperature, the surrounding temperature is too high,
we start to hyperventilate.
All these ideas provide us with clear understanding, how to measure the development of cancer.
Furthermore, experience of Russian doctors and Soviet doctors
practicing breathing retraining with hundreds of people who had cancer
found that, when people have less than 10 seconds for the body
oxygen test, the cancer tumors are likely to metastasize.
Because, at this oxygen levels, the blood is not able to resist
spread of malignant cells.
Most people with cancer, with initial stages of cancer,
stage 1, have between 10 and 20 seconds body oxygen test.
And this is much less than the norm, because
healthy people have about 40, 45 seconds for the body oxygen test.
Therefore, people with cancer have heavy breathing,
and that promotes advancement of tumor.