Buteyko Breath Therapy

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By Dr. Artour Rakhimov, Buteyko breathing teacher and educator 

Map (web pages) of the website www.normalbreathing.com
 
 
 
Education
    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 easily measure your tissue oxygenation using the stress-free BHT (breath holding time) test
B. What about usual BHT numbers, BHT norms and BHT of sick and healthy people?
    2. Breathing parameters and patterns of healthy and sick people
A. What is the breathing pattern of healthy people?
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
B. The Bohr effect (how and why oxygen is released by red blood cells)
C. Stabilization of the nervous system
D. Relaxation of muscles
E. Brochodilation
F. 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)
    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
B. Breathing and digestion
C. Breathing and energy
D. Breathing and performance
 
    9. Evolution of air on Earth and its impact on our breathing  
 
   10. How do we breathe when we die?  
 
    11. Life style factors that matter
Introduction (Why do we breathe too heavily?)
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?
    12. Morning hyperventilation
 
    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. 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
 
Questions and answers
Some questions and answers from the book “Normal breathing: the key to vital health”

Western references (List 1)

Western references (List 2)

Some scientific publications about the Buteyko breathing method published in Russia

Popular articles (by Dr. Artour Rakhimov)
How to prevent sleeping on the back
The best breathing exercise to prevent epileptic seizures
Stress-free breath holding time predicts health of HIV/AIDS patients
Russian doctors had a successful clinical HIV/AIDS trial
The best ever known health test (DIY)
Over 200 Russian doctors learned how to hold their breath for more than 5 minutes for … health reasons
Doctors suggest a simple DIY test for ideal health (the Control Pause)
Health hazard: we do not notice when we breathe 2-3 times more than the medical norm
Deep breathing: the greatest health superstition
What is physiologically abnormal in all modern men
The best breathing exercise to prevent insomnia
The breathing exercise to unblock the nose
 
Cancer webpages
Part 1. Tissue hypoxia: the prime cause of cancer (modern research)
Part 2. Tissue pollution and hypoxia: how they affect our breathing
Part 3. Effects of unnoticed increased breathing on cellular oxygenation (or how our slight over-breathing influences breathing of cells)
Part 4. Lifestyle factors and their interactions with breathing
Part 5. A dynamic model for development of cancer (theoretical and practical ideas)
Part 6. General approach to the treatment of cancer
- Cancer and tissue oxygenation (some physiological aspects and practical ideas) by Dr. Artour Rakhimov
Buteyko breathing practice (details about my teaching Buteyko breathing method)
          Who was Buteyko? (short summary about Russian Professor Konstantin Buteyko, the author of the Buteyko breathing method)
          About the Buteyko method (goals, facts and popularity of the method in different countries)
          Clinical trials (published western clinical trials of the Buteyko breathing method)
          Health conditions (health problems that are successfully addressed with the correct application of the method)
          Courses and fees (information regarding length and duration of courses, their requirements and fees )
          Resources (as above, in Education section: Biographies of Doctor KP Buteyko
; Interviews; Articles; Questions and answers)
          About Dr. Rakhimov (some details about my training and background)
          Dr. Rakhimov and his teachers (photo of Dr. Rakhimov with his teachers)
          Contact details (if you want to get in touch with me)
 
 e-Book "Oxygenate yourself: breathe less" (94 pages)
My popular small book about importance of breathing and the Buteyko breathing method - 15 Euro
        Purchase (How to buy this book)         
        Content of the book
 
 e-Book "Normal breathing: the key to vital health" (298 pages; 2008 edition)
My big book for Buteyko practitioners and very serious Buteyko students - 70 Euro
          Content (the content of the big book)
          Chapter 1 (you can read the whole chapter 1 on line)
          Purchase (how to buy this book)
          Comments (what other Buteyko practitioners wrote about this book)
 
DVD Lecture: "Breathing Patterns and Tissue Oxygenation"
Watch video clips on GoogleVideo amd YouTube. Dr. Artour Rakhimov speaks about the Buteyko breathing method and other discoveries of the Soviet spaceship doctor; duration: 3 hours 20 minutes; 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.
         

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