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Buteyko Works!
In most western countries, the word "Buteyko" is famous as a natural asthma treatment, yet it is also widely used as a successful remedy for sleep problems, such as snoring, sleep apnoea and insomnia, and also for improving allergies and hay fever. It is based around the concept that having a poor breathing pattern upsets good health, resulting in a wide and varied range of symptoms.
Breathing is your most basic requirement for balance and good health, yet it is the least likely to be considered simply because it is so basic. Breathing affects every cell in your body and, like blood pressure; it is easy for breathing to become abnormal without you being aware of it. This condition that is called 'hidden hyperventilation' upsets the basic rhythm of life and the body works less effectively.
Introduction to the Buteyko Method
You can't bottle Buteyko. It is not a "pill for every ill" approach to managing poor health, but instead the Buteyko Works programme is a wholistic approach that includes the special Buteyko breathing techniques and principles about exercise, nutrition and sleeping that Dr. Konstantin Buteyko considered vital to good health. Experienced Buteyko practitioners, Russell and Jennifer Stark, teach people the techniques and principles in Australia and New Zealand so that people can once again breathe normally.
The symptoms of asthma, allergies, blocked nose, insomnia, snoring, sleep apnoea, panic and hyperventilation attacks are improved substantially with the Buteyko Works programme.
Understanding Hyperventilation
Dr. Buteyko considered that the 'Disease of Deep Breathing' to be the root cause of many health conditions. The symptoms that breathing too much air each minute causes are similar to those that are caused by other conditions, and so there is sometimes a misdiagnosis in the condition, or hyperventilation can aggravate an existing condition. For example, hyperventilation causes difficulty breathing, that is represented by narrowed airways, tightened smooth muscle and an increase in mucus production. These symptoms are also symptoms of asthma. One of two things happens:
- Instead of being correctly diagnosed with hidden hyperventilation, the person is misdiagnosed with asthma, and as a consequence of this and the use of conventional treatments, the condition deteriorates. Or
- The person has asthma, but hyperventilation makes it worse.
In either case, restoring a normal breathing pattern will go a long way towards improving the health of this person.
Take the test to see if you have hidden hyperventilation, and contact Russell or Jennifer Stark to see what you can do about it.