Mr. Buteyko is a Russian scientist who has made an interesting theory about why there are attacks of asthma. It appears that the reduce its diameter bronchioles during an asthma attack due to a natural resource of the body which seeks to restore the balance of CO2 and oxygen.
had always considered that we needed oxygen to live and that the combustion of the produced CO2, carbon dioxide, which in the end was deleted. As it turns out that CO2 is also necessary in the body at certain levels and that its absence may cause the blood pH is altered, the blood becomes alkaline and is harmful.
is exactly what happens in an anxiety attack, the person hyperventilate and have the subjective perception of drowning and is therefore more air (panting hard and fast, high thoracic breathing, chest pain, etc) when is the opposite happens, you need CO2. Hence, the preventive treatment of breathing with a paper bag in his mouth; inhale back the CO2 we release, restoring levels. Logically, then in those cases, such as asthmatics, is to breathe "less" is not holding your breath, just breathe slowly.
The video is in English and shows a simple animation that I wanted to post on the blog: Dr Buteyko teaches a series of exercises to recondition the subject's breathing pattern and appears to normalize the results are pretty good.
also diving for Utube, I found one such exercises Prfo. Stelnikova promising improvements from the first week in reducing asthma crisis.
I wonder if it would be useful for controlling panic attacks as well. I bet you did.
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