What
is the impact of sleep positions and especially supine posture on
health of people with diabetes, HIV-AIDS, cancer, epilepsy, coronary
disease, bronchitis, COPD and many other diseases? Why have many
family physicians, nurses, and general practitioners noticed that
sleep affects
COPD patients,
patients that experience coronary spasms and patients with sudden
cardiac deaths? How does sleeping on one's back cause changes in
health and breathing or your oxygen level, as measured by the
CP(control pause) test? This effect is also known as nocturnal
hypoxemia.
In
this YouTube video, Chris Prokop interviews Dr. Artour Rakhimov about
sleeping on one's back (supine sleep) and causes of worse health and
nocturnal hypoxemia when a person sleeps on his or her back.
Your
breath is unrestricted, when sleeping on your back. So it helps to
sleep prone, or on the left and right sides because your body weight,
restricts your breathing. Most sick patients in hospitals are
commonly seen laying on their backs. The patients hyperventilate and
breath about 3-4 times more than the medical norm causing nocturnal
hypoxemia.
There are NormalBreathing
web pages that relate to this topic. One of them is “Supine Sleep
Position and Nocturnal Hypoxemia”
http://www.normalbreathing.com/article-internet-lies-ideal-sleeping-positions.php.
The Spanish version of this
page is “Por qué y cómo prevenir y parar de dormir en forma
supina (boca arriba)”
http://www.respiracionnormal.org/prevenga-dormir-boca-arriba/ .
Dr.
Buteyko and over 180 Soviet breathing retraining doctors did
extensive research on sleep positions. They found out that, the
supine position or laying on the back was the worst position. A drop
of 30% occurred, with the CP (control pause or body oxygen) test. 25
independent Western clinical studies also researched sleep positions
and viewed the same drastic effects of supine sleep.
Early morning hours have shown to have the worst effects on over
breathing, causing exacerbation’s of peoples diseases and they have
the highest mortality according to various published medical studies.
Asthma was one such disease, that became aggravated during early
morning hours with nocturnal
asthma. The Buteyko Method has immediate and long term
lasting effects for treating asthma. It has been shown in, 6 Western
randomized clinical trials on asthma, to have more than a 90%
reduction in medication. The Buteyko Method received a much higher
rating in comparison to meditation, yoga, various nutritional
interventions and programs or other complementary therapies by the
British Thoracic Society.
People with hypertension,
anxiety disorders and many more diseases, have a low CP. In
contrast, people with 40 seconds have good health, and people with
over 60 seconds do not suffer from any chronic conditions. The
Normalbreathing.com
website helps people in achieving a higher CP with information on
breathing exercises and lifestyle factors.
Great body oxygen also
eliminates all symptoms of chronic bronchitis
http://www.normalbreathing.com/c/bronchitis-symptoms.php as this page
also suggests.
Sleep positions and
postures, form the basis of the breathing retraining lifestyle.
Sleep positions have a direct impact on your MCP (morning control
pause), the main parameter of health. If your sleep positions cause
you to over breathe, it will limit your overall CP growth, as the
body will be working to recuperate, from the harmful effects of the
night. Many people experience, a drop in their CP over night. The
MCP may be easily measured at home, just after waking up, to test the
effects of various sleep position, on your oxygen levels preventing
nocturnal
hypoxemia.
Breathing retraining
exercises encouraged by Normalbreathing.com include the Buteyko
Method. This medical and Alternative Health method has been used on
over 100,000 asthmatics, more than 30,000 people that have
cardiovascular problems and many other conditions (sleep apnoea,
bronchitis, liver cirrhosis). The Buteyko Method has been approved
by the Russian Ministry of Health. Additionally, Soviet trials have
used the Buteyko Method on HIV-AIDS, radiation disease, hepatitis B,
metastatic cancer (with a 6 times decrease in 3 year mortality) and
more.
Devices are also used, for
the breathing exercises and are found to be easier for beginning
students. Such devices include the amazing DIY device and the Frolov
device.
Our YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/artour2006
The YouTube URL of this
video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733LYI0_xbc
.
The video features Dr.
Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and
trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.com. The
video was edited and produced by Chris Prokop.
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