- Updated on August 13, 2020
By Dr. Artour Rakhimov, Alternative Health Educator and Author
- Medically Reviewed by Naziliya Rakhimova, MD
What are the causes of heart disease? On a cell level, the cause of heart disease is known: low oxygen levels. Any person who gets critically low levels of oxygen in the heart tissue will experience horrible angina pain. Low tissue oxygenation can be caused by many factors: stress, overeating, overheating, physical exertion, inflammation, and many others. But how could all these factors create low oxygen levels in body cells? All these factors have one common mechanism: they intensify respiration. And then hyperventilation reduces oxygen delivery to the heart muscle and other organs (the brain too – see the image on the right side). Do people with heart disease have heavy breathing in stable conditions (when they are at rest)?
Breathing rates and heart disease
| Condition | Minute ventilation |
Number of people |
All references or click below for abstracts |
| Normal breathing | 6 L/min | – | Medical textbooks |
| Healthy Subjects | 6-7 L/min | >400 | Results of 14 studies |
| Heart disease | 15 (+-4) L/min | 22 | Dimopoulou et al, 2001 |
| Heart disease | 16 (+-2) L/min | 11 | Johnson et al, 2000 |
| Heart disease | 12 (+-3) L/min | 132 | Fanfulla et al, 1998 |
| Heart disease | 15 (+-4) L/min | 55 | Clark et al, 1997 |
| Heart disease | 13 (+-4) L/min | 15 | Banning et al, 1995 |
| Heart disease | 15 (+-4) L/min | 88 | Clark et al, 1995 |
| Heart disease | 14 (+-2) L/min | 30 | Buller et al, 1990 |
| Heart disease | 16 (+-6) L/min | 20 | Elborn et al, 1990 |
| Pulm hypertension | 12 (+-2) L/min | 11 | D’Alonzo et al, 1987 |
All these studies testify that heart patients have abnormally low oxygen and CO2 levels in the heart tissue and other organs 24/7 due to their …. chronic overbreathing. Since they breathe at rest about 2-2.5 times more air than the medical norm (this is called hyperventilation), this results in the following causes of cardiovascular disease. Their arterial CO2 is below the norm. This causes constriction of arteries and arterioles (due to CO2 Vasodilation Effect), suppressed Bohr effect, reduced oxygenation of all vital organs (the heart and brain included), increased level of blood lactate (lactic acid), abnormal excitability of nerve cells (causing additional electrical problems in the heart pacemakers), generation of free radicals and oxidative damage, suppressed immunity, increased viscosity of the blood, predisposition to chronic inflammation and many other effects. (See the links for medical studies related to all these CO2 effects below.)
Reversing the causes of cardiovascular disease
The solution to heart disease is simple. One needs to slow down his or her automatic breathing pattern back to the medical norm (6 L/min) and this eliminates the cause: chronic hyperventilation or deep automatic breathing pattern. Normal breathing will increase CO2 levels in the arterial blood. This will improve oxygen transport to heart tissue and normalize other processes.
Vice versa, hyperventilation provocation test, as several medical studies found immediately causes symptoms of the coronary artery spasm and worsens cardiovascular health. If breathing more induces heart attacks in less than 2 minutes, it would be logical to investigate the opposite way: teaching people with heart disease how to breathe slower and less air.
After testing and treating thousands of heart patients, Russian medical doctors found that the main symptoms of the cardiovascular disease disappear when the person gets more than 20 s for the body-oxygen test. However, a complete reversal of pathological changes in the heart muscle tissue requires more than 35 s for the body-oxygen test 24/7.
The video of the left side (“Causes of heart disease“) features Dr. Artour Rakhimov who explains the reasons behind low O2 in the heart and body cells for people with heart disease, diabetes, and asthma.
There numerous breathing techniques used by hundreds of medical professionals for breathing normalization in people with cardiovascular disease are Resperate, the Buteyko method (it has the best lifestyle program for high body-oxygen levels), Amazing DIY breathing device and the Frolov breathing device (most effective breathing exercises). Samozrdav and Breathslim breathing devices produce similar effects (as the Frolov device). This discovery of the main cause of heart disease is made by Dr. Konstantin Buteyko, MD, Ph.D.
