Shallow-breathing technique can fight asthma: an Alternative Paths column
The Plain Dealer, Jan 26, 2010
By Jane E. Brody

"Evan Gillespie's asthma was so severe in his adolescence that pre-dawn attacks landed him in the emergency room more than 30 times. He was often in respiratory failure after rescue inhalers failed, his lips turning blue from lack of oxygen as he struggled to take in enough air." read more

Another Health Paradox: With Oxygen, Less is More
The Nutritional Therapist
by Judith Ames, NTP

"Teachings about breathing are central to ancient arts of Yoga, Qigong, Ayurveda, and meditation. Coaches say that to find that sweet spot with your breath will improve your performance whether of rugby, swimming, football, singing, or public speaking. Those of us who have come through the NTA training program have learned that of the abundant nutrients around us, surprisingly, water is the single nutrient that people are most likely to be deficient in. This article looks at oxygen, another ubiquitous substance: can it, too, be crucially deficient?..." (read more)

A Breathing Technique Offers Help for People With Asthma
The New York Times, Nov 2, 2009
By Jane E. Brody

"I don’t often write about alternative remedies for serious medical conditions. Most have little more than anecdotal support, and few have been found effective in well-designed clinical trials. Such trials randomly assign patients to one of two or more treatments and, wherever possible, assess the results without telling either the patients or evaluators who received which treatment." read more

Take a Shallow Breath and Relax
Acupuncture Today
by Andrew Rader, LAc, MS

"Hyperventilation is the cause of Asthma and many other chronic conditions. This is the hypothesis of the late Konstantin Buteyko, the Russian physician who questioned long-held concepts of respiration. He created a training method that..." (read more)

Buteyko Breathing Technique Improves Asthma Imported from Overseas, Breathing Technique Offers Natural Relief and Reduces Medication Use

BOTTOM LINE SECRETS Daily Health News
July 10, 2008

http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/blpnet/article.html?article_id=45714

reathing should be the most ordinary of physical tasks since we do it about 20,000 times each day. But for the many millions of Americans who have asthma and other breathing disorders, this ordinary act can be a challenge.  Use link above for complete article
 

Sit Much? Options to Improve Health
Balanced Living Magazine, Sep - Oct 2007
by Carol Baglia

"Ultimately, sitting in traditional chairs can lead to "sitting-oriented disorders," or SOD.  This includes discomfort while sitting, poor posture, neck and shoulder problems, lower back pain, strained joints in the lower extremities, weakened circulation..." (read more)

CAMPBELL LIVE: Breathing Easy
New Zealand, TV3 News, June 15, 2006, Video Clip
by Simon Shephard

Six weeks ago we met a pair of asthmatic twins looking for a drug-free treatment. They started the controversial Buteyko Breathing Technique. We find out if it worked.

• Watch the Program, Length 4:46

CAMPBELL LIVE: Breathing Technique Could Help Asthma Sufferers
New Zealand, TV3 News, May 2, 2006, Video Clip
by Simon Shephard

It's World Asthma Day, so Simon Shepherd takes a look at a little-known Russian breathing technique that's offering hope to asthma sufferers.

• Watch the Program, Length 6:22

Asthma - Ignorance or Design?
Nexus Magazine, Volume13, Number 1, Dec 2005 - Jan2006
by Jennifer Stark

"The Buteyko method has had great success in controlling asthma, reversing symptoms and removing the need for medication, which is why it poses such a threat to the pharmaceutical companies." (read more)

A Breathing Breakthrough
NEHQ, Autumn 2005 New England Health Quarterly
by Vivian Orlowski

"A new alternative can empower asthma sufferers and boost endurance for athletes.  For everyone from ailing asthmatics to active athletes, improving breathing can bring life-enhancing changes...   'Even those with severe asthma can learn in a few days how to improve their breathing while reducing drug dependency,' asserted Tom Fleming, who first studied the Buteyko method five years ago." (read more)

Buteyko Breathing
CBC Radio One Calgary EyeOpener, Audio Clip
by Jim Brown

Researchers at the University of Calgary are checking out a breathing exercise program to see whether it helps people with asthma. Jim spoke with Dr. Bob Cowie and Buteyko Specialist Chris Bauman.

• Listen to the Program. Length: 6:18. Requires: Real Media Player (free download)

Breathing for Good Health #489
People's Pharmacy, Audio Clip, Mar 6, 2004
by Joe and Terry Graedon

Although most of us take breathing for granted, paying attention to breathing can affect our energy level, our blood pressure and even help control asthma. On this show we will find out how the simple act of breathing can profoundly affect our health.  GUESTS: Yashna Maya Padamsee, yoga instructor; Eina Fishman, MD, Chief of Staff, Samuel Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, NY; Susan Neves.

• Listen to the Program. Length: 59:15. Requires: Real Media Player (free download)

Buteyko: Breathe through your Nose for a Healthier Body & Mind
Balanced Living Magazine, March-April. 2005
by Carol Baglia

"Breathing is such a regular, involuntary process that usually you do not pay attention to it unless you develop a problem such as asthma, allergies or anxiety attacks. However, breathing properly is as fundamental to your health as proper nutrition and physical exercise. A multitude of factors can cause you to breathe inappropriately. These include diet, drugs, emotions, environmental pollutants, illness, injury, financial concerns and even mannerisms. “Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health,” says alternative health guru Dr. Andrew Weil.” (read more)

Buteyko: A Useful Tool in the Management of Asthma?
International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, Oct. 2004
by Sandy Stapleton

"Medical management of asthma focuses on drugs which, although effective, are costly and produce side-effects.  Recent evidence suggests a role for breathing interventions that reduce total ventilation such as the Buteyko method, which has strong similarities to techniques already used by therapists to manage hyperventilation.  Both approaches should be made readily available to patients to 'step down' drug treatments in accordance with medical guidelines." (read more)

Obstructive sleep apnea and breathing retraining
Australian Nursing Journal (ANJ), Clinical Update 74, August 2004
by Mary Birch, RN, BA, MBioE

"Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder where repeated upper airway obstruction during sleep leads to a decrease in blood oxygen saturation and disrupted sleep.  Current treatment options include oral appliances, surgery, and/or the use of a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.  However, breathing retraining with the Buteyko Institute Method (BIM) is a safe, effective and convenient approach to OSA that could help eliminate the need for surgery or CPAP." (read more)

Buteyko Breathing Technique for asthma: an effective intervention
Focus Asia, Star TV, Article and Video Clip, March 2004

"One would imagine that breathing is the most natural thing for any living person. But practitioners of the Buteyko method – an alternative breathing technique – believe that many people perform this basic function of life incorrectly without even knowing it. And they say incorrect breathing could be causing over 200 ailments, from asthma to impotence. Shakuntala Santhiran has the story." (read more)

Buteyko Breathing Technique for asthma: an effective intervention
The New Zealand Medical Journal,  Vol. 116, No. 1187, Dec. 2003

"The Buteyko Breathing Technique (BBT) is a Complementary and Alternative Therapy (CAT) used by asthma patients that has enjoyed increasing popularity over recent years.  One small, randomized controlled trial of the BBT showed marked reduction in asthma drug consumption among patients..." (read more)

The Buteyko Method and the Importance of Carbon Dioxide
Positive Health Publications, Oct. 2003
by Dr Alina Vasiljeva, MD (Russia) & Dr. David Nias, BA, MPhil, PhD

"Carbon dioxide was found to be responsible for the bond between oxygen and hemoglobin.  If the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal, then this leads to difficulties in releasing oxygen from hemoglobin...   it was found in practice, from thousands of cases, that there would not be any asthma without 'deep breathing'.  The term 'deep breathing' provides a clue to the development of an entirely new way of treating asthma and, indeed treating many other diseases as well." (read more)

Chemistry of Respiration and the Breathing Heart Wave
Biofeedback Society of California, Spring 2003, by Peter Litchfield, PhD

"It is estimated that the primary complaint of one third of all patients in general medical practice is fatigue, a condition that may actually be brought on and/or exacerbated by buffer depletion resulting from over breathing...   Breathing evaluation and training bring together differing western schools of thought and tradition, including physiology, psychology, healthcare, and human performance with the promise of weaving them together with Eastern thinking, traditions, and practice into an active, personal and mindful participation in behavioral-physiologic self-regulation for health and performance." (read more)

Tess has football stars breathing easier - Tale of Eight Cities
The Australian, August 11, 2003, by Christine Wallace

"After yesterday's 51-16 thumping of Manly, even skeptics who put Canberra's brilliant National Rugby League season down to an easy draw are looking for the success factors driving the team's glory...   Raiders props Ryan O'Hara and Sean Rutgerson revealed another critical success factor: the Buteyko breathing method...   After seven hours breathing training from Graham over five days, Sean Rutgerson was clocking the same speeds at a 30 per cent lower heart rate." (read more)

Aerosolized Patient Exhaust May Jeopardize Practitioner Airways
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care Practitioners, Vol. 16, No. 7, Mar. 2003
by Michael Gibbons

"The design of nebulizers needs to change since there is three times greater rate, than other medical professions, for respiratory therapists to acquire occupational asthma, which is related to passive inhalation of patient’s aerosolized medications. Hyperactive airways can be developed as a response to second-hand bronchodilators." (read more)

Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life
N. Truebner & Co., London, 1870, 4th edition
by George Catlin

"...During' my Ethnographic labours amongst those wild people I have visited 150 Tribes, containing more than two millions of souls; and therefore have had, in all probability, more extensive opportunities than any. other man living, of examining their sanitary system; and if from those examinations I have arrived at results of importance to the health and existence of mankind, I shall have achieved a double object in a devoted and toilsome life, and shall enjoy a twofold satisfaction in making them known to the world; and particularly to the Medical Faculty, who may perhaps turn them to good account..." (read more)