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today we’re going to talk about how to

get rid of asthma symptoms

okay it’s a very very

powerful and exciting technique that

you’re going to learn if you have asthma

but it can also be good for people that

are in stress people that have hay fever

people who snore people who have sleep

apnea

and even people that cannot sleep

now this is based on this book right

here called close your mouth developed

by professor buteyko it’s called the

buteyko breathing method extremely

powerful if you have asthma now before i

get into it i need to give you a little

background

on how this works simply because it’s

very counter-intuitive so you have to

kind of understand some basics so if we

take a healthy normal person versus an

asthmatic person

the average breaths per minute in a

normal person is between like 10 and 12

breaths per minute but an asthmatic is

15 to 20 breaths per minute okay so

they’re breathing more frequently each

breath of a normal person as far as

quantity of air is about 500 milliliters

okay compare that to an asthmatic it’s

700 milliliters to 1 liter of air

and in a normal healthy person the

volume of air per minute is about 5 to 6

liters

compared to an asthmatic it’s 10 to 15

liters of air and that’s the volume of

air per minute so you can see an

asthmatic is consuming a lot more air

than a normal healthy person

now here’s the counter-intuitive part

co2

okay

is normally considered a waste gas right

we breathe it out we try to get rid of

it but co2

is actually more important than oxygen

okay

or shall i say it’s just as important

but if you have asthma it’s actually

more important now to understand why you

have to understand

this

it’s called the bohr effect the bohr

effect is an observation

by i think it was a dr bohr that the

binding of oxygen in your blood okay in

the hemoglobin is dependent on

co2 carbon dioxide

okay in other words co2 cannot stick to

hemoglobin in your blood it can’t be

carried it can’t go into the blood

unless you have enough

co2 now that’s a pretty interesting

piece of data that i didn’t know until

recently all right so here’s the next

piece of the puzzle

breathing a volume of air greater than

normal does not increase the amount of

oxygen in your blood

now that’s another counterintuitive

piece of data so when you’re trying to

breathe more than normal you’re not

actually getting more air into the blood

and the blood is already saturated at a

saturation rate of between 90 and 98

so when you’re trying to breathe in more

air than normal you are actually

lowering

the co2 and remember we talked about

this you lower co2 and then the oxygen

cannot bind in the blood and this is why

when people hyperventilate okay they

actually pass out because they’re

getting less oxygen why

because they’re getting less co2 to be

able to bind the oxygen to the

hemoglobin

so the more air

the less oxygen is delivered all right

so you got that concept

let it sink in

if it’s not sinking in

watch this part again because it’s going

to be important for this next part and

one little side note

when you breathe

roughly about 75 of the oxygen that’s in

the air that you breathe is exhaled when

you’re breathing let’s go into the next

part

all right so the less co2 you have the

more the airways are constricted so if

you’re an asthmatic and you just can’t

get enough air realize you don’t have

enough co2

so co2

the so-called waste gas

actually relaxes your smooth muscle okay

in your lungs it relaxes your lungs it

actually helps you breathe so what is

the real problem with asthma

over breathing

okay

what do you normally see in an asthmatic

they’re usually trying to get more air

right they’re suffocating they’re

constantly trying to get more air and

when they over breathe they lock up the

oxygen ability to bind in the hemoglobin

so it makes it worse okay and this also

would make sense too if you look at it

from the viewpoint of stress when you’re

stressed you’re trying to breathe more

you’re trying to get more air right and

where are you breathing from your lungs

your chest

you’re breathing like this and all that

extra breathing is locking up and

shutting down your oxygen

and you’re using more of your

sympathetic nervous system it’s called

the flight or fight you’re not in a calm

state now this relates to a quick story

a while ago i went to lunch with a

patient i had a long time ago and we

were at lunch we were talking and

all of a sudden she was like

i can’t breathe i can’t breathe some

food got stuck her throat and i’m like

okay how do i do the heimlich maneuver

so i had her get up and i started to do

it and it didn’t work

and everyone was sitting around they

weren’t really helping and they were

just kind of just they’re kind of like i

was surprised that someone didn’t call

9-1-1 but i started getting nervous

because it wasn’t working so i saw her

face turning red and she’s like what am

i going to do

and luckily i came up with this idea i

said

okay calm down just relax i had her sit

in a chair i started to kind of massage

her neck and just don’t try to fight it

just relax and then bam she started to

breathe again okay why because when

you’re in flight or fight mode when

you’re in stress mode everything gets

constricted okay including your lungs

including your throat so if you’re an

asthmatic you definitely want to relax

but the more over breathing you do the

less you’re going to get oxygen into the

blood the more you’re gonna have things

like sleep apnea asthma hay fever and

even nasal congestion

so

this is the technique okay

and it’s really simple

instead of breathing fast you want to

start slowing down your breath okay

instead of you know trying to sigh and

get more oxygen okay or gasp for air you

want to just start breathing in a very

regular way

and a very gentle way

through your nose

not your mouth okay and some people find

it very helpful to just put some tape on

their mouth when they go to sleep at

night so you can start practicing

breathing through their nose so you

really want to get to a state where your

breathing is very silent it’s very soft

not so it’s noticeable so even if you’re

laying down trying to rest and you can

hear yourself breathing you don’t want

that you want to breathe so it’s

completely quiet and very very soft very

gentle

so the air that’s coming through your

nose is very very light and it’s coming

out through the nose very very light

you don’t want to breathe with your

upper chest you want to focus on

breathing through the stomach okay so

you can pull your diaphragm down

the diaphragm is innervated by the vagus

nerve which is all

parasympathetic nerve control

so

the autonomic nervous system is both

voluntary and involuntary in other words

you can control

your autonomic nervous system

through this type of breathing you can

take yourself out of this sympathetic

overdrive or flight or fight mode just

by

calming down your breath

focusing on the breath coming through

your sinuses

very slowly and gently and coming back

into your sinuses and no longer

breathing through your chest breathing

through your stomach now the first thing

you want to do before you do anything is

you want to measure how long you can

hold your breath okay comfortably so

this is called the comfortable breath

hold time or cp

all right

now if you can only hold your breath

10 seconds or less

then you have a severe situation okay

you have severe

asthma but if you can hold your breath

between 11 and 20 seconds

it’s not as severe but you’re going to

probably have many symptoms related to

asthma

if you can hold your breath between 21

and 40 seconds

you’re going to have less symptoms

and if you can hold your breath over 40

seconds

without that strong urge you’re going to

have absolutely no symptoms related to

asthma so the symptoms of asthma are

directly related to your ability to hold

your breath

comfortably

so guess what the goal is to get at this

level right here and to be able to

maintain that for at least six months to

really make sure that your condition is

in remission of course we can never say

cure but we can say it’s in remission so

the question is is holding your breath

the actual technique no it’s just an

indicator or a tool that you can use to

figure out if you’re progressing okay or

not right this is the exercise right

here you’re just actively

slowing your breath down you’re

breathing through your nose

you’re breathing through your diaphragm

and you are when you’re resting at night

you’re having the air go in very slowly

through the sinuses and out through the

nose so as you monitor this cp or

comfortable breath hold time

you’re going to notice that you’re going

to be able to hold your breath longer

and longer and for every increase of 5

seconds you’re just going to feel better

and better and better so what is this

technique doing it’s increasing the

concentration of co2

and something else

when you breathe very very gently

through your sinuses you’re also

increasing another very therapeutic

gas called nitric oxide which relaxes

the sinuses okay and you’re going to

find when you do this that your sinuses

are going to start to open up they’re

going to relax you’re going to breathe

better through your sinuses and when you

check this breathing whole time where

you’re holding your breath

i recommend that you just plug your nose

so that way it’s easier to hold your

breath so very simply

start breathing through your nose

make sure your breathing is very gentle

and very calm never hear your breath

when you’re resting make it very very

silent

slow your breath down as much as

possible

because you’re going to allow the co2 to

help the oxygen bind with your

hemoglobin and use the diaphragm to help

you breathe not your chest you can even

put your hand on your chest and your

stomach

to practice that as well now the other

really cool thing about this is that

you’re going to find your stress level

is going to dramatically decrease your

ability to sleep is going to greatly

improve and everything connected with

that is going to improve as well so i’ll

put some more information about videos

you could watch to get more data on this

as well as a link to the book but if you

haven’t seen my acupressure technique

on how to extract stress from your body

that would be the next step check it out

right here

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