How breathing retraining and the Buteyko method solve problems with anxiety including relationship anxiety: Dr. Artour Rakhimov speaks at Relationship Anxiety Summit (organized by Sergey Shevtsov).
In this video, Buteyko Method practitioner and health educator, Dr Artour Rakhimov, talks to us about how the Buteyko method can be applied to support individuals who suffer from anxiety due to overbreathing. Dr Artour highlights how significant changes to human breathing have occurred in the past century, with the average person breathing far greater volumes of air at rest than the medical norm. How we breathe correlates with how well we oxygenate our body and mind, and as Dr Buteyko’s work demonstrates, the more we breathe, the less oxygen we retain.
The brain is one of the organs which works hardest at rest, constituting up to half of our daily energy expenditure. When our body oxygenation is low, the brain is impacted by four negative downstream effects: reduced blood supply, reduced oxygen supply, reduced supply of energy, and reduced carbon dioxide. It is important to understand that carbon dioxide is crucial for normal brain function, as carbon dioxide is required to transmit signals throughout the nervous system. For signals to travel from one nerve cell to another across synapses, there is a certain threshold of excitability which must be met. If the signal is too low, it isn’t transmitted. Evolution designed the nervous system to function in this manner to prevent the amplification of unwanted signals and to ensure a level of stability in the nervous system. The normal functioning of the nervous system hence requires normal breathing - https://www.normalbreathing.com/diseases-anxiety-disorders/ .
Modern people, however, breathe twice the medical norm. How does this impact brain function? The threshold of excitability gets lower, and all types of abnormal signals can be amplified, giving the individual the impression that the external world is dangerous, and requires vigilance. Across our society, with the deterioration of our breathing has come a range of lifestyle diseases like social anxiety and panic attacks. Such disorders were virtually unheard of in medical journals 100 years ago. In the low oxygen state of modern times, anxiety disorders have become common. Breathing retraining through the Buteyko method offers individuals the ability to overcome the hyperventilation which drives many mental health conditions and restore balanced, normal brain function.
Quoting a journal of experimental brain research, Dr Artour cites a group of Finnish neurology researchers who claimed the following: “Hyperventilation lead to the spontaneous and asynchronous firing of neurons”.
Dr Artour believes this quote captures the nature of the low oxygen brain very accurately and highlights the importance of breathing retraining for anxiety. When students can normalize their breathing through the Buteyko method, the brain can rebuild its levels of carbon dioxide, receive sufficient blood and nutrient supply, and normalize its overall function. In Dr Artour’s experience, when a breathing retraining student can attain a CP of around 30, which still is not at the level of the medical norm (MCP 40), they are nonetheless able to eliminate all forms of inappropriate anxiety and panic - https://www.normalbreathing.com/stop-panic-attacks/ .
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The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.org.
