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If you think about your own life, look at other people or even start asking them about their lives, you can realize that life is tough for almost all people around you. We force ourselves out of the bed in the morning. We apply efforts and psychological energy to do various things physically. We try hard to keep our emotions under control. Whatever the goal or project, job or hobby, we should try really hard, as we feel it, to achieve success. Why do we have so much stress that seems to be a part of everything we do these days? Are or were there any people for whom any activity was or is almost effortless or even pleasant?

Looking at physiology of modern people and advance of chronic diseases, one can notice, based on hundreds of physiological studies, that the common feature of all degenerative conditions (including, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, asthma, and many others) is abnormally low body oxygenation. Even healthy modern people have significantly less oxygen in tissues than people living a century or more ago. Hence, we have less energy and reduced mental abilities; we suffer from symptoms and require medication.

Why do we have less oxygen in our brains, hearts, and other organs? The homepage of my website has a large table with Western respiratory data about breathing of patients with heart disease, asthma, diabetes, and other conditions. All available evidence says that sick people breathe much more air at rest than the medical norm, about 12-18 liters per minute, instead of 6 l/min.

What would be the effects of chronic hyperventilation on body oxygenation? Dozens of studies, done on different body organs and tissues proved that the more we breathe at rest, the less oxygen gets into the tissues. Why? In short, whatever our breathing rate (normal or big and deep), our red blood cells are almost completely saturated with oxygen (up to about 98% for normal breathing), but chronic overbreathing reduces CO2 content in blood and cells of the body, causing:

1) constriction of blood vessels (less blood arrives to all vital organs and tissues);

2) the suppressed Bohr effect (whatever oxygen arrives to tissues, it cannot be efficiently released by red blood cells since CO2 is a chemical catalyzer of this release).

Hence, it is logical that overbreathing reduces tissue oxygenation. In fact, healthy people have so small breathing at rest, that, first, their breathing is invisible and inaudible, and second, when asked, they say that they do not feel their breathing because it is so tiny.

Can somebody measure own breathing or body oxygenation? Most breathing parameters can be measured using special devices, and a person cannot find out even their breathing frequency at rest, since the breathing pattern changes as soon as one pays attention or listens to own breathing.

However, there is a simple test to measure one’s body oxygenation index. Sit down and rest for about 5-7 minutes. After your usual exhalation (breathing out), pinch the nose and measure your breath holding time in seconds until the first urge to breathe or sensation of air hunger. You can get wrong numbers, if you push yourself into sensation of stronger air hunger or if you do not have usual inhalation before starting the test. Both these parameters are crucial for accurate results.

Based on your oxygenation index, it is easy to define your current health state:

- between 1 and 10 seconds: you are fighting with death;

- between 10 and 20 seconds: you are fighting with symptoms or in the grip of disease (the disease keeps its nasty arm on your throat and is ready to finish you);

- between 20 and 30 seconds: you are in the state of struggle, when chronic diseases do not progress, but your body tissues are not improving;

- between 30 and 40 seconds: there are positive changes going on in your body;

- over 40 s 24/7: the processes of body and tissue recovery are fast;

- over 60 s 24/7: you are in the great health state.

Over a century ago, ordinary people, according to medical studies, had about 45-70 s of oxygen in their bodies. Most healthy modern people have about 20-25 s during day time and down to 15-20 s in the early morning (when diseases advance).

Among main life style factors that make breathing light and easy, and breath holding time high are: breathing only through the nose (especially during the whole night and physical exercise); eating only when hungry; correct posture with straight spine 24/7; wholesome food; a lot of physical exercise; good air quality; and forgiveness.

This body oxygenation test became the main tool of one breathing retraining therapy that is called the “Buteyko breathing method”. This therapy is officially approved by Russian Ministry of Health for treatment of asthma and heart disease and it is practiced there by about 200 medical professionals. There are several hundred Western Buteyko breathing teachers. Their therapy involves learning how to breathe less, while being totally relaxed, and correction of life style factors mentioned above so that to slow down heavy breathing of modern people and improve their body oxygenation.

Currently, Buteyko breathing teachers are the only health practitioners who provide money back guarantee so that in about 1-2 months the typical student, who is practicing the breathing exercises and normalizing own life style, will be free from symptoms and medication for asthma, primary hypertension, bronchitis, sleep apnea, chronic fatigue syndrome, angina pectoris, depression, panic attacks or anxiety, sleeping problems, sinusitis, hay fever, allergies, and eczema. These conditions require only about 25 s of oxygen 24/7 for elimination of clinical symptoms and medication. However, Russian doctors found, and these results were published, that even more severe conditions, like diabetes, arthritis, or emphysema, after years of good tissue perfusion and oxygenation gradually disappear.

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