A natural, permanent solution to breathing related disorders including asthma, sinusitis, hay fever, allergies, anxiety/panic attacks, sleep apnoea, insomnia and snoring.
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Welcome to Buteyko Breathing Clinic
Buteyko Breathing Technique
Fast, effective relief from...
asthma, allergies, hay fever, snoring, sleep apnoea, panic attacks
...and many other breathing-related disorders- Decrease reliance on medication
- Enjoy restful snore-free sleep
- Improve sports performance
About Buteyko
Buteyko is a strategy to retrain dysfunctional breathing based on the postulation that many diseases result from an abnormal breathing pattern. To be more specific, conditions such as asthma, high blood pressure, sleep apnoea, panic disorders, etc. are believed to be the body's responses (a 'defence mechanism') to 'hyperventilation' or in simple terms; over-breathing.
Professor Konstantin Buteyko, a Russian physician, developed the method in the 1940s to alleviate conditions including asthma, allergies, sleeping disorders and hypertension. He found that hyperventilation is the primary cause of these conditions and thus his programme is based on slowing down breathing rates to within normal parameters. The programme includes guidelines for correct diaphragmatic breathing and learning to breathe through the nose.
Buteyko theory is based on the understanding that over-breathing disturbs the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in our lungs. At the end of the 19th century, carbon dioxide was found to be responsible for the bond between oxygen and haemoglobin. If the levels of carbon dioxide in the blood are lower than normal, this leads to difficulties in releasing oxygen from haemoglobin. This is known as the Bohr Effect. Loss of carbon dioxide during hyperventilation causes smooth muscle to constrict around airways and blood vessels. Professor Buteyko maintains that this is what causes chest tightness and is the main factor in blocked noses. An asthma attack is the body’s way of attempting to reduce the airflow passing through the lungs in order to reduce carbon dioxide loss.
According to Professor Buteyko, 200 different chronic diseases are essentially just one, which he called “deep breathing disease”. When breathing is normalised which can be done simply by decreasing its depth thus allowing carbon dioxide in alveolar air to reach the desired level of 6.5%, symptoms can disappear.
Though most people may think of it as a poison, carbon dioxide may, in fact, be the “breath of life”.
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
BSc, MSc 1st class honours
Practitioner member BIBH
Service Categories
Allergy Testing / Treatments, Breathwork
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