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Introduction
A. Why and how oxygenation and breathing are crucial for your health, performance, sleep, digestion, and life
B. I just breathe the way I breathe. What is wrong with this? (Why bother?)
1. Breathing is about tissue oxygenation
A. You can measure your tissue oxygenation using the CP (Control Pause) (with GoogleVideo clip)
B. What about usual CP numbers of healthy people?
C. What about usual CP numbers of sick people?
2. Breathing parameters and patterns of healthy and sick people
A. What is the breathing pattern of healthy people? (with GoogleVideo clip)
B. Do mildly sick people breathe more or heavier?
C. What about breathing of severely sick people?
D. Is there "special breathing" for exceptional or super health?
E. What about oxygenation in cases of irregular breathing patterns?
F. Do we notice that our breathing is heavy?
G. How efficient are our lungs in oxygen extraction?
3. The fundamental paradox of breathing and the main health-related
superstitions
A. The fundamental paradox of breathing: those, who breathe more, have less
oxygen in their tissues
B. The main health-related superstitions: "big and deep breathing is good for
health" and "CO2 is a toxic, waste, and poisonous gas"
4. Properties of CO2
A. Vasodilation (with GoogleVideo clip)
B. The Bohr effect (how, why, and where oxygen is released by red blood cells)
C. Stabilization of the nervous system
D. Relaxation of muscles
E. Brochodilation
F. Blood pH and other chemical reactions
5. Individuality of effects
A. When chronically hyperventilating, should I experience all these bad effects?
B. How do people with diseases react to voluntary hyperventilation? Genetics and
breathing (with GoogleVideo clip)
6. Control of breathing
A. How is our breathing regulated?
B. Can I change my breathing pattern immediately?
7. Health conditions and their connection with breathing
A. Breathing and asthma
B. Breathing and heart disease
C. Breathing and the brain and the central nervous system
D. Breathing and chronic fatigue syndrome
E. Breathing and cancer
F. List of health condition treated in Novosibirsk, Moscow and other cities by
Doctor Buteyko and his colleagues.
8. Quality of life and breathing: what is the link?
A. Breathing and sleep (duration and quality of sleep are connected with
breathing; with GoogleVideo clip)
B. Breathing and digestion
C. Breathing and energy
D. Breathing and performance
9. Evolution of air on Earth and its impact on our breathing (with GoogleVideo clip)
10. How do we breathe when we die? (with GoogleVideo clip)
11. Life style factors that matter
Introduction (Why do we breathe too heavily?) (with GoogleVideo clip)
A. Is physical activity a factor?
B. Is psychological stress important?
C. Are there any special factors for babies?
D. Does mouth breathing affect health?
E. What is important in relation to sleep?
F. Can meals worsen our health?
G. Can overheating make us breathe more?
H. Can nutritional deficiencies influence breathing?
I. Can toxic chemicals and pollutants from air, water, food and other sources
lead to hyperventilation?
J. What about poor posture and tense muscles?
K. Do we breathe more while talking?
L. Do other factors also generate stress?
M. Which factors are practically most important when we get sicker?
N. Do old movies and films show that people's breathing pattern in the past was
different?
13. Some historical facts about the origins of the Buteyko breathing method
14. Why did Professor Buteyko introduce his norms for breathing?
15. How to learn the Buteyko method? (basic physiology)
16. Clinical effects of the Buteyko breathing method on common health
problems (from my Practice section)
Respiratory problems (Asthma; Chronic bronchitis; Acute respiratory
diseases, including influenza and cold; Pneumonia; Rhinitis, sinusitis (frontal
sinusitis, metopantritis, maxillary sinusitis); Emphysema)
Cardiovascular problems (Primary hypertension; Ischemic heart disease;
Chronic cardiac insufficiency; Arrhythmia; Varicose veins, Neurocirculatory
dystonia)
Hormonal diseases (Diabetes mellitus; Hypothyroidism; Obesity)
Gastrointestinal problems (Chronic gastritis; Chronic non-ulcerative
colitis; Chronic pancreatitis; Chronic cholecystitis; Gastro-oesophageal reflux
(GERD))
Diseases of kidneys and urinary tract (Chronic pyelonephritis; Kidney and
urinary stones)
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system (Osteochondrosis; Polyarthritis;
Chronically poor healing of bone fractures)
Skin diseases (Eczema; Psoriasis; Neurodermitis)
Allergies and states of immunodeficiency (Allergic rhinitis and nasal
polyps; Allergic conjunctivitis; States of immunodeficiency (secondary)
17. Additional resources (from my Practice section)
Biographies of Doctor KP Buteyko
- Biography of Dr. K. P. Buteyko from the website of the Buteyko Clinic in
Voronezsh (Russia)
- Biography of Doctor K. P. Buteyko from the website "Health and Life"
www.fhal.ru Smolensk regional public fund of social and humanitarian programs
(Russia)
Interviews
- Interview with Doctor K. P. Buteyko (1982)
- Interview with Doctor K. P. Buteyko. Russian national newspaper "Sovetskaya
Sibir'" [“Soviet Siberia”] No. 19, 31 January 1998
- Doctor K. P. Buteyko; the direct telephone line with readers. Russian national
newspaper "Komsomol'skaya Pravda" [“Komsomol’s Truth”] 29 October 1997
- This interview with Dr. Andrey Novozshilov was published in the Russian
national magazine "Krasota i zdorov'ie" [“Beauty and health”], 2003
- This interview with Dr. Andrey Novozshilov was published in the Russian
national newspaper "Argumenti i fakti" [Arguments and facts, Health Section] 30
January 2003, issue 05(442)
Articles
- “Buteyko breathing” against autumn-winter increased incidences of diseases
from the Russian national magazine "Meditsinsky Sovet" [“Medical advice”],
September 2003
- Cancer and tissue oxygenation (some physiological aspects and practical ideas)
by Artour Rakhimov, PhD
Questions and answers
- Some questions and answers from the book “Normal breathing: the key to vital
health”
Websites
- Moscow Buteyko Clinic - www.buteykoclinic.ru/english
- Buteyko Institute of Breathing and Health – www.buteyko.info
- Peter Kolb's
Buteyko asthma website - www.members.westnet.com.au/pkolb/buteyko.htm