Blood clots and breathing exercises

Learning the Buteyko method by modules

Module 8-A. Restrictions, side effects, limits, and temporary contraindications

Reduced breathing dilates arteries and arterioles and makes blood thinner so that existing blood clots could get loose and travel via the blood. The released clot may block blood flow through the artery leading to the brain or heart muscle and cause death.

Hence, a person with a blood clot will benefit from avoiding maximum pauses, extended pauses, control pauses and other breath holds that cause sudden dilation of arteries and arterioles. Breathing exercises (Buteyko technique, Frolov device, and so forth) should be short and weekly CP (control pause of body oxygen level) growth should be limited to 1-2 seconds only. It is better to focus on defensive measures in relation to breathing retraining (prevention of CP drops due to sleep, mouth breathing, slouching, overheating, and so on). These defensive activities prevent periods of hyperventilation that make blood thicker and the clot larger.

Other beneficial lifestyle changes are physical exercise with strictly nose breathing and good diet. In particular, a raw vegetarian diet and natural enzymes or supplements can be great assisting factors to dissolve the blood clot naturally.

Later, when the clot is dissolved or removed, the person can follow the common program of breathing retraining adjusted to their new health state. Depending on diet and CP fluctuations, the natural process of blood clot dissolving takes place between 20 and 35 seconds. The same CP numbers are necessary to prevent blood clots appearance.

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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