Diseases and symptoms
What is the available scientific and clinical evidence that connects
hyperventilation with chronic health conditions? This section considers
these
common disorders:
Asthma Breathing and asthma: What is the
link?
Heart disease Breathing and heart disease: How are they related to each
other?
Brain and CNS Over-breathing creates 3 fundamental abnormalities in the
human brain
Chronic fatigue How hyperventilation induces
chronic fatigue
Cancer
Hypoxia is the known key cause of cancer: how it relates to breathing of
cancer patients?
HIV/AIDS Reduced tissue oxygenation is a
hallmark of numerous abnormalities related to HIV/AIDS
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With approaching death, breathing of critically ill people becomes very frequent and deep and their CP becomes shorter and shorter: 5, 4, 3, 2, and only 1 s of oxygen in the body just before the death. "...Death consists of the passing out of the air. It is, therefore, necessary to restrain the breath". Hatha Yoga Pradipika, ancient Hatha Yoga manuscript. Here are medical studies of the terminally sick. |
Doctor K. P. Buteyko observed that out of over 20,000 health abnormalities known to medicine, only a small portion (about 150 diseases) relates to breathing and can be successfully addressed with breathing retraining or breathing normalization. List of health condition treated in Novosibirsk, Moscow and other cities by Dr K. P. Buteyko and his colleagues. |
Apart from chronic health problems, many factors that relate to quality
of life are also connected with the way we breathe. Among links are:
Sleep Duration and quality of sleep are
connected with breathing
Digestion Duration and quality of digestion depend on breathing
Energy Feeling of energy is controlled by body oxygenation index (CP)
and breathing
Performance Our long-term accomplishments are linked with the way we
breathe.