Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Let us consider the cause of asthma.
In these 5 clinical studies, it *** discovered
that the people with asthma breathe about 2-2.5 times
more air than the medical norm.
These are the details of these stadies.
It's important to notice that people can breathe 2-3 times
more air than the medical norm, and be unaware that
their breathing is way too heavy.
In relation to asthma, the effects of hyperventilation are going to be following:
When people hyperventilate, they have low level of CO2 in their airways.
And CO2, according to clinical studies, is very powerful, some studies
say most powerful known relaxant of smooth muscles.
Therefore, CO2 is a dilator of airways.
And, when people hyperventilate, they suffer from bronchoconstriction.
This is exactly the case with people with asthma.
Bronchoconstriction is one of the 3 central factors, which define asthma.
Therefore, it's obvious that heavy breathing, which was found in
virtually all asthmatics, is the cause of their bronchoconstriction or constriction of airways.
Hyperventilation reduces oxygen level in body cells.
Let us look at this brain image.
If asthmatics have too heavy breathing for a long time,
they start to destroy their airways and alveoli,
and that causes reduction in oxygen transport in the lungs, and
they develop so called "ventilation-perfusion mismatch".
As a result of low oxygen level, the immune system becomes suppressed,
and it also becomes hypersensitive to innocent triggers.
Therefore, its normal that asthmatics, due to their hyperventilation,
develop allergies and sensitivities to dust mites, cat and dog proteins, smoke and many other chemicals.
Because of this hypersensitivity of the immune system,
asthmatics develop inflammation of airways.
This also involves production of extra mucus.
As we can see, overbreathing leads to all symptoms of asthma.
And therefore, hyperventilation is the key cause of asthma.
In order to prove this statement, we need to consider the effects
of those breathing techniques which are able to eliminate hyperventilation.
So, what are the methods of treatment for asthma.
One of the techniques is called the Buteyko breathing method, and
it was investigated in 6 published clinical randomized trials.
These trials found that asthmatics are able to eliminate their use
of bronchodilators, in about 3 months time, by 90 percent.
This means that they are going to use 10 times less medication
if we are talking about a large group of asthmatics,
if they practice breathing exercises. And the goal
of these breathing exercises is to slow down their breathing pattern
back to the medical norm and increase body oxygenation.
I am not just talking about practising some breathing exercises.
What is important, in case of asthma and some other chronic diseases,
is to slow down so called automatic or unconscious breathing pattern
back to the medical norm. So you can imagine it's quite
a difficult challenge because the person needs to adjust
or maybe change many lifestyle risk factors
that relates to sleep, physical exercise, diet and many others.
Therefore, asthma has a simple cause, and it also has a proven
clinical treatment. Apart from the Buteyko method, there is another
breathing technique which is based on the application of the Frolov breathing device.
So this technique was also tested, but only in Russian clinical trials,
so far, and Russian doctors, because the Frolov device is endorsed
and suggested to their patients by about 600 doctors in Russia
right now, these Russian doctors discovered that the Frolov breathing device
also produces effects on the breathing center, and allows to slow down
breathing pattern closer to the medical norm.
In practical terms, it is not easy to measure breathing and body
oxygenation: they require special devices.
But there is a simple test which is called the "body oxygen test", and this test
has a very good correlation with symptoms of asthma.
For example, the normal result for the body oxygen test is 40 seconds.
People with asthma, and, since I am practising and teaching the Buteyko breathing method,
I know, that they have around 15 seconds only,
people with severe asthma around 10 seconds. And when they
start to practice breathing exercises and do lifestyle changes,
they gradually improve their body oxygenation.
When they achieve about 25 seconds, they usually do not require
any medication.
They are able to stop asthma attacks with breathing exercises.
This is one factor, and another factor is that,
as soon as they maintain their body oxygenation and breathing at
certain level, they are not going to experience any asthma attacks.
Of course, they need to avoid triggers because triggers make them hyperventilate.
If these asthmatics continue to slow down their automatic breathing pattern,
they are able to further increase their body oxygenation.
And if they achieve about 35-40 seconds, then these
asthmatics are able to restore their airways.
Unfortunately, only a very small number of asthmatics are able to
reach this goal because it's really difficult to achieve 40 seconds
for the body oxygen test 24 hours per day.
But those asthmatics who manage to achieve this goal and maintain
this level, for 1 or 2 month time, are able to eliminate inflammation of airways.
And then their parameters of lung function tests are going to be normal as well.
In order to find out more about this proven treatment of asthma,
and the required steps, in order to improve body oxygenation and slow
down breathing, you can visit web pages of the website www.NormalBreathing.com