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How to Gain Weight Fast: Most Natural Weight Gain

The most natural way how to gain weight fast is to improve the digestive system, liver function, appetite (or hunger) naturally by increasing body oxygen levels. When a person is underweight and struggles with weight gain, he or she always have low body oxygenation, generally, less than 20 seconds for the body oxygen test. This means chest breathing 24/7 (that drastically reduces blood oxygenation), possible mouth breathing (especially at night), and chronic overbreathing or breathing more than the norm causing poor perfusion of all organs, the GI organs included, lack of hunger, low levels of energy, horrible quality of sleep and many other problems. This how to gain weight approach suggests to remove the cause of all these problems: too fast and too deep chest breathing that reduces body O2 content.

How to gain weight programThis how to gain weight program is shown on a diagram. It generally requires up to 30 seconds for the body oxygen test in order to be very close to one's ideal weight, and over 60 s 24/7 for the ideal body weight (provided that one has food and some variety of food items).

Note that apart from low body oxygenation, hyperventilation or fast and deep breathing also increases blood glucose levels, and while having low energy levels due to tissue hypoxia, such underweight people are not hungry and that problems with how to gain weight task. This can be easily reversed with correct breathing exercises.

It is a very common effect that when underweight or too slim people start practicing the Buteyko breathing exercises or the Amazing DIY breathing device, their blood glucose level drops since the body is “inviting” new calories to be used for weight gain with the goal to get your body weight closer to the norm. Then it is easy and natural to gain weight by increasing calorie intake and keeping oneself warm throughout the day.

Extra tips for how to gain weight program

Calories generally come from carbohydrates and fats. The common problem is that people with low weight have poor liver and poor pancreas that are able to handle only small amounts of fats and carbohydrates per meal and per day causing problems with weight gain.

One additional solution for this how to gain weight program (in addition to breathing retraining and lifestyle changes) is too greatly increase honey intake which does not require digestive enzymes. However, keep in mind that only raw honey does not promote pathogens in the gut and one needs to stick only with raw (or cold pressed, or unpasteurized) honey. Note that honey has some laxative effect due to certain carbohydrates that humans cannot digest. But one does not need to worry about this temporary effect and can use up to 0.5-1 kg per day until one's weight is normal and this feeling of being cold during and after breathing exercises disappears.

Another suggestion is to chew complex carbohydrates or starches VERY WELL. Whatever starchy food someone with low weight eats, from potatoes to bread, rice, corn, and buckwheat, they all should be chewed up to 70-100 times or until the food disappears in the mouth naturally (without any swallowing movements). This reduces the load from the pancreas since ptyalin and other digestive enzymes from the salivary glands in the mouth can digest up to 80-90% of starched in the mouth. This will surely help to gain weight fast.

Finally, one can also take steps to restore the liver using betaine hydrochloride (especially if the liver is damaged due to medical drugs and alcohol), black cherry juice (or black cherry juice concentrate), and Milk Thistle (the main herb for liver detoxification that starts to work at about 20 s CP). Use those dosages that are commonly suggested since it is mostly duration (often 1-3 weeks are required) and especially one's body oxygenation that play the main role in liver restoration and the appearance of strong hunger or voracious appetite.

How to gain weight fast with correct lifestyle changes

Physical exercise must be done only with nose breathing and could be temporarily limited by about 1 hour of intensive exercise making sure that one gets a lot of sweat (with strong perspiration) and body shaking or mechanical vibrations (like during jogging). It is more important to gain weight first and then add more exercise later, when weight is about normal, and one does not feel cold due to breathwork anymore.

Finally, do not forget to eat about 100 gr or more of raw honey (or some other easy to digest food) just before a breathing session or else start breathing sessions when your meals are just gone from the stomach and your blood sugar is high. This eliminates or greatly reduces this unpleasant feeling of being cold after and during breathing sessions.

All other main lifestyle changes (how to prevent mouth breathing during sleep, how to develop diaphragmatic breathing 24/7. how to prevent supine sleep, and so on) are discussed in detail in the "Learn here" Section, and these factors are very important for this how to gain weight program.

Lifestyle factor: Body oxygen < 30 s Body oxygen > 50 s
Energy level Medium, low, or very low High
Desire to exercise Not strong, but possible Craving and joy of exercise
Intensive exercise with nose breathing Hard or impossible Easy and effortless
Typical mind states Confusion, anxiety, depression Focus, concentration, clarity
Craving for coffee, sugar and junk foods Present Absent
Addictions to smoking, alcohol, and drugs Possible Absent
Desire to eat raw foods Weak and rare Very common and natural
Correct posture Rare and requires efforts Natural and automatic
Sleep Often of poor quality; > 7 hours Excellent quality; < 5 hours naturally

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

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
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

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