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By Dr. Artour Rakhimov, Buteyko breathing teacher and educator

Welcome to the World of
Breathing Education and Learning (O₂ matters!)

Fact: Over 99% people do not know which unconscious breathing pattern provides maximum oxygenation of tissues (In other words, people do not know how to breathe 24/7 for best self-oxygenation.) Moreover, less than 10% people have normal body oxygenation.

Is breathing and oxygenation that important? Fact: Tissue hypoxia (low level of oxygen in our cells) is the key factor for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, bronchitis, chronic fatigue, arthritis, and many other conditions.

All available Western medical evidence (hundreds of studies, for some of them click here) indicate that all these patients have abnormal breathing patterns causing sub-optimum or low oxygenation of all vital organs.

Watch this video clip (from www.GoogleVideo.com) about the paradox of breathing. Click in the window right to learn about scientific and practical evidence connecting the index of oxygenation (stress-free breath holding time after usual exhalation) and minute ventilation of people in various health states. Video clip "Breathing patterns" (it will open in a new window).

Note that the stress-free breath holding time test is done after usual exhalation and only until the first desire to breathe or first stress or discomfort. Click here to watch the introductory video clip from my Lecture where I explain in detail how the breath holding time test is done and what are the typical numbers for various groups of people. Video clip "Stress-free breath holding time test" (it will open in a new window).

Conclusions: Those people who breathe less have longer breath holding time and more oxygen in tissues. Those people who breathe heavier (or deeper/bigger) have much less oxygen and shorter breath holding time. Why? This video clip provides the answer. Video clip "Physiology of oxygen transport" (it will open in a new window).

Fact: Chronic diseases are always accompanied by sub-optimum or abnormally low oxygenation of vital organs and tissues.

Fact: Restoration of oxygenation by one's breathing retraining means no symptoms and no medication for many common health problems.

Learn about breathing and oxygenation, and restore your health, sleep, digestion, energy, and performance INFORMATION PAGES.

This website has 6 main parts:

1. Cancer webpages

2. Education (learn about the practical side of why and how oxygenation and breathing are crucial for your health, performance, sleep, digestion, and life)

3. Learning (learn the Buteyko method by blocks (some manuals and articles are not free))

4. Buteyko breathing practice (details about teaching the Buteyko breathing method)

5. Two books:
"Oxygenate yourself: breathe less" (E-book is about the importance of breathing and introduction to the Buteyko breathing method; 94 pages. 15 Euro)
"Normal breathing: the key to vital health" (E-book is for Buteyko practitioners and very serious Buteyko students; 298 pages; 2008 edition. 70 Euro)

6. Video-DVD Lecture: "Breathing Patterns and Tissue Oxygenation"; (see parts of this DVD on www.GoogleVideo.com and www.YouTube.com) Dr. Artour Rakhimov speaks about the Buteyko breathing method and other discoveries of the Soviet spaceship doctor. 3 hours 20 minutes. Windows Media Files on a DVD. 40 Euro. You can also buy the right to download and get internet access to electronic Windows Media Video Files of the lecture "Breathing Patterns and Tissue Oxygenation" for 20 Euro.

What other Buteyko practitioners wrote about my book
"Normal breathing: the key to vital health"

"… It is not just another book on Buteyko. It really fills in some gaps and addresses some real needs. I purchased one and read the first couple of chapters last night and flicked through the rest. What a fabulous rescource it is. I would highly recommend it to everyone. We will definitely make it part of the required reading for the Eucapnic- Buteyko Practitioner Training Course… "
Rosalba Courtney, Buteyko teacher, Chairperson of the Buteyko Practitioners Association in Australia

"…This is the most comprehensive scientific work available in the west on Buteyko's work…"
Peter Kolb, Buteyko teacher and organizer of the largest web-site devoted to the Buteyko method (http://www.members.westnet.com.au/pkolb/buteyko.htm)

"…I have read through your book a number of times and I have came across nothing which would demand a correction. Personally I feel that your book is very well written and is a great help for all practitioners. I would also believe that the information contained is greater than what has been available on most Buteyko practitioner training courses. I have recieved notes and feedback from most of them and nothing comes close. Furthermore, it is the most informative book available to date on the Buteyko Method which is published in the English language…"
Patrick McKeown, Buteyko practitioner (Ireland), author of several books about the Buteyko method

"... I've just bought your book yesterday and I want to thank you for all the effort you took to write it. It is good stuff and helps me even better understanding the Buteyko Method. Many thanks..."
Dirk van Ginneken, Buteyko practitioner and founder of the Buteyko Institute in the Netherlands (www.buteyko-instituut.nl)

" ...I congratulate you on a really excellent and valuable addition to the fund of available Buteyko knowledge. I think the way you have properly referenced everything gives it real credibility…"
Victor Lunn-Rocliffe, artist and Buteyko student, who contributed to Western Buteyko movement with his numerous drawings used for various Buteyko articles and web-sites

"…This is without doubt one of the most comprehensive and rigorous examinations of Buteyko's work and the science behind it, in English language, available today. The book is an excellent reference for Buteyko practitioners and medically trained people and yet is written in a style accessible to all readers..." Glenn White, New Zealand, Buteyko Breath Correction, BIBH Practitioner

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By Dr. Artour Rakhimov, Buteyko breathing teacher and educator

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