Chronic Diseases Caused by Ineffective Breathing Patterns

Doctors and sick patients We already discovered that people with chronic diseases have ineffective or heavy breathing pattern 24/7. While considering carbon dioxide effects, we also found that chronic overbreathing leads to reduced oxygen transport to cells. As a result, ineffective breathing patterns cause tissue hypoxia, chronic inflammation, immunosuppression, and many other negative effects caused by low body oxygen levels and hypocapnia (reduced CO2 levels).

Meanwhile, tissue hypoxia is the driving force for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, chronic fatigue and many other health conditions. Hence, the more they breathe, the more severe health problems and symptoms they are going to experience.

Group of medical people smiling In this Section we are going to focus on some common disorders:
- Asthma and Breathing: What is the link?
- Anxiety Breathing Disorders: Even the name of this condition pinpoints the main cause
- Brain and CNS: Overbreathing creates 3 major abnormalities in the human brain
- Depression: Hyperventilation reduces brain O2 and CO2 levels causing serious mental and psychological problems
- Chronic fatigue syndrome: How abnormal or ineffective breathing pattern induces chronic fatigue and other debilitating symptoms
- Cancer: Hypoxia is the known key cause of cancer on a cell level. How it relates to breathing of cancer patients? What are the treatment options? Do you know about the clinical trial on breast cancer: reduced breathing cured about 60 women with metastasized breast cancer?
- Breakthrough in breast cancer research and treatment
- Sinusitis (Cause and proven medical treatment)
Cystic Fibrosis Web Pages: Therapy For Cystic Fibrosis: Treatment with Breathing Retraining
- Cystic Fibrosis in Lungs is Caused by Low CO2 - Medical research review about prevalence of chronic hyperventilation in CF and injurious effects of chronic hyperventilation on lungs
- Prognosis of Cystic Fibrosis and Lung CO2 & Body Oxygen - How clinical symptoms and prognosis, including life expectancy, relate to respiratory parameters in CF
- Cystic Fibrosis Cause: Chronic Hyperventilation - Summary of effects of chronic hyperventilation and cystic fibrosis
- CFTR is Controlled by Lung-Blood Gases and Breathing - Scientific publications that link faulty CF gene CFTR and how it amplifies pathological changes caused by chronic hyperventilation
Diabetes:
- Diabetes: Its Cause and Proven Medical Treatment
- Cause of Diabetes: Low Oxygen Levels in Cells
Epilepsy and Seizures web pages:
- Seizure Threshold Is Controlled by Breathing Pattern and Blood Gases - Tens of medical studies have found that voluntary hyperventilation triggers seizures, while hypocapnia in the brain lowers the seizure threshold due to over-excitement of the nerve cells
- The Cause of Seizures - Seizures cannot exist in conditions of normal breathing, but can appear when breathing is disturbed
- How to Stop Seizures Naturally in 2-3 Min (Breath Exercise) - When the person has ability and time to control their own breathing, he can prevent many types of seizures with a simple breathing exercise
- How to Prevent Sleep Seizures: Lifestyle Changes - Most sleep seizures can be prevented or their severity can be reduced with simple lifestyle changes that make breathing slower, lighter and more regular
- Treatment of Seizures Program (90% Success Rate) - Breathing retraining leads to elimination of seizures and clinical remission of epilepsy
Heart disease: Problems with Breathing is always one of the main complaints in heart patients?
HIV-AIDS:
- HIV-AIDS Therapy: Reduced body oxygen content is a hallmark of numerous abnormalities related to HIV-AIDS. Hence, breathing normalization is the way to deal with these pathological changes related to digestion, mental life, feeling of energy, sleep, infections and many others
- Clinical trial on HIV-AIDS patients revealed that the body oxygen test reflects the stage of the disease and symptoms of the patients. Hence, the
- HIV-AIDS cause is chronic hyperventilation and there are breathing techniques which can successfully address chronic overbreathing in HIV-AIDS patients.

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.

Solutions to breathing problems

There are many breathing techniques and methods in order to normalize breathing and increase body oxygen levels. The Buteyko breathing technique has the most powerful arsenal of lifestyle changing tools which are described in detail in Section Learning. The same Section also describes the Buteyko breathing exercises, which are difficult to learn. Furthermore, there are breathing exercises that are more powerful (in comparison with the Buteyko breathing exercises) for body oxygen increase.

Oxygen remedy is such a program that is based on using Buteyko lifestyle program and application of breathing devices (the Amazing DIY breathing device, Frolov device and some others) that trap exhaled air with high CO2 levels for inhalations to boost body oxygen content. More info about these alternative respiratory techniques can be found here:
* Amazing DIY breathing device
* Frolov breathing device.

References: CO2 Effects Web Pages
Vasodilation: CO2 expands arteries and arterioles facilitating perfusion (or blood supply) to all vital organs
The Bohr effect How and why oxygen is released by red blood cells in tissues
Cell Oxygen Levels and oxygen transport are controlled by alveolar CO2 and breathing
Oxygen Transport depends on breathing and these two effects (Vasoconstriction-Vasodilation and the Bohr effect) are parts of two diagrams that summarize influences of hypocapnia (low CO2 content in the blood and cells) on circulation and O2 delivery
Free Radical Generation takes place due to anaerobic cell respiration caused by cell hypoxia. Hence, antioxidant defenses of the human body are also regulated by CO2 and breathing
Inflammatory Response is controlled by breathing since hypoxia leads to or intensifies chronic inflammation through over-expression of the hypoxia-inducible factor 1, while normal breathing reduces these processes
Nerve stabilization takes place due to calmative or sedative effects of carbon dioxide in neurons or nerve cells
Muscle relaxation or relaxation of muscle cells is normal at high CO2, while hypocapnia causes muscular tension, poor posture and, sometimes, aggression and violence
Brochodilation - dilation of airways (bronchi and bronchioles) by carbon dioxide, and their constriction due to hypocapnia
CO2: Best Natural Cough Suppressant and "home remedy" since it calms urge-to-cough nerve receptors located in the tracheobronchial tree and larynx
Blood pH regulation and regulation of other bodily fluids
CO2: Lung Damage Healer: Elevated carbon dioxide prevents injury and promotes healing of lung tissues
CO2: Skin and Tissue Healer
Synthesis of Glutamine in the Brain, CO2 fixation, and other chemical reactions
CO2 myth "CO2 is a toxic waste gas" myth
Breathing control How is our breathing regulated? Why hypocapnia makes breathing uneven and erratic?

Reference Web Pages: Breathing norms, Medical Graphs and Tables about Breathing Rates (Minute Ventilation) and Body Oxygen in Healthy, Normal and Sick People
Breathing norms Parameters, graph, and description of the normal breathing pattern
6 breathing myths 6 myths about breathing and body oxygenation (prevalence: over 90%)
Hyperventilation Definitions of hyperventilation: their advantages and weak points
Hyperventilation Syndrome in the Sick. Table 1. Western scientific evidence about prevalence of CHV (chronic hyperventilation) in patients with various chronic conditions (34 medical studies)
Normal Minute Ventilation in Healthy Subjects: Easy and Light Breathing (14 Studies)
Hyperventilation Prevalence Present in Over 90% of Normal People (24 medical publications)
HV and hypoxia How and why deep breathing reduces oxygenation of cells and tissues of all vital organs
Body oxygen test How to measure your own breathing and body oxygenation (a simple DIY test)
Body oxygen in healthy Table 4. CP (body oxygen level) in healthy people (27 medical studies)
Body oxygen in sick Table 5. CP (body oxygen level) in sick people (14 medical studies)
Buteyko Table of Health Zones with clinical description of most common zones
Morning HV Morning hyperventilation effect or how and why critically ill people are most likely to die during early morning hours

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