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Asthma Symptoms Once and For All
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
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