Sleeping sitting instructions - Interview with Dr. Artour Artour Rakhimov

Sleep positions and postures for people with COPD, diabetes, HIV-AIDS, cancer, epilepsy, asthma and many other diseases. What tools are helpful for changing sleep positions? How long does it take to get used to sleeping sitting and how does this position affect people with diseases?

Chris Prokop interviews Dr. Artour Rakhimov, a teacher and trainer of Buteyko breathing practitioners. The question addressed is “techniques for sleeping sitting”.

To adapt to sleeping sitting takes about 1 to 2 months. Patience is an important factor to get used to the process in sleeping sitting. The reason being that most people have become used to lying down to sleep. Having a circular pillow (used on airplanes) around the neck helps for comfort and prevents mouth breathing during sleep. Additionally, having comfortable arm rests under the elbows supports the weight of the shoulders. Putting your legs on some type of trunk may be used but is not necessary. Most importantly, the spine should be straight. If you lean back too far that will increase your rate of hyperventilation. There are pillows that are comfortable for you to lay forward on them or you can also rest forward onto a table with a pillow underneath your head. Consequently, these sleep conditions will allow you to have fewer health problems at night and your MCP (morning control pause) will be higher.

“How the Buteyko method improves body oxygen levels” - this topic is explained in this article:

http://www.buteyko.space/breathing-method-improve-body-oxygen/ .

According to most leading Soviet Buteyko breathing practitioners (over there, they are medical doctors), sleeping sitting is the best position for health. It will allow you to maintain the same CP you had before falling asleep at night. While for most people their CP drops in the morning because of improper sleep positions that cause hyperventilation. The MCP is the main criteria of being healthy. Keeping a high MCP greatly increases the time your body has to recover from any health problems. In turn, your CP during the day will grow a lot faster.

In contrast, supine sleep has harmful effects on breathing and health. Dr. Buteyko and about 200 doctors (Buteyko practitioners whom he trained) noticed that when the lungs are unrestricted during supine sleep it intensifies breathing. 25 Western studies came to the same conclusion about supine sleep. Additionally, the CP test shows about a 30% drop when sleeping in the supine position.

Sleeping sitting also prevents epilepsy seizures during sleep. See more on this page http://www.normalbreathing.com/Articles-how-to-prevent-seizures-during-sleep.php /.

For the overview of training of Buteyko practitioners ()who does, where and other factors), visit this page: http://www.normalbreathing.com/buteyko-practitioner-training.php/ .

The NormalBreathing teachings include a variety of breathing techniques. One of the widely used techniques is the Buteyko Method. The method has shown practical credibility being used on more than 100,000 asthmatics, 30,000 people with cardiovascular problems and on many other conditions (liver cirrhosis, apnoea, bronchitis). There has been shown to be a 90% reduction in medication for asthmatics by 6 Western randomized clinical studies on asthma. The Buteyko Method has been approved by the Russian Ministry of Health. Its effectiveness has been shown during Soviet trials when it was used on patients with HIV-AIDS, metastatic cancer (6 times reduction in 3-year mortality), hepatitis B and more diseases. Dr. Artour Rakhimov also had students who achieved clinical remission from symptoms of cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, and many other conditions.

Other breathing techniques used are the Amazing DIY device and the Frolov device. The Amazing DIT device is one of the inventions of Dr. Artour Rakhimov, a trainer of Buteyko practitioners. For details of his training, visit this page: http://www.normalbreathing.com/buteyko-practitioner-training-artour-rakhimov.php /.

Breathing devices are found to be easier for beginning students and have greatly effective results. Managing sleep positions and retraining breathing patterns, form the foundation of NormalBreathing teachings. These factors lead to efficient breathing and improved overall health.

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Why Best Sleep Position is Sitting - Interview with Dr. Artour Rakhimov Artour Rakhimov

Sleep positions and postures for diabetes, sleep sitting for lupus, HIV-AIDS, leukemia, cancer, IBD, cardiovascular disease, epilepsy, COPD, asthma and many other diseases.

In this video, Chris Prokop interviews Dr. Artour Rakhimov. Today's question is are there any benefits in sleeping sitting? The sitting position provides even better oxygen levels, according to the CP (control pause) test. Dr. Buteyko and Soviet doctors extensively studied sleep because the majority of people with diseases had an increase of their symptoms during sleep. Managing sleep factors is an important part of Buteyko's teachings.

Some of the sleep lifestyle aspects, include having proper thermoregulation, preventing mouth breathing and more. Most Buteyko specialists, including Dr. Andrey Novozhilov, the chief doctor from the Buteyko Clinic in Moscow, believe sleeping sitting is the best position for health. Sleeping sitting will allow you, to gain the highest CP results. It will also, make it possible for you to keep the same CP that you had before falling asleep.

This web page explains factors related to good sleep hygiene http://www.normalbreathing.com/good-sleep-hygiene.php

The Spanish version of this page ash the title “Higiene de buena dormida | Cómo dormir” and is here: http://www.respiracionnormal.org/higiene-de-buena-dormida/

Our most recent accessible information about how people slept, is from the early 20^th century. Most books do not describe such details about sleep conditions, but some museums contain historical beds. Having a thicker mattress is a relatively recent lifestyle change that started around the 1930's or 1940's. Older beds before that were around one meter in length. It was only possible to sit while sleeping in these beds. Even myths existed that lying horizontally in bed, will have your body taken over by a spirit that would eventually kill you.

Various doctors and studies found out that supine sleep has drastic effects on breathing and health. Dr. Buteyko and around 200 doctors came to the conclusion that when the lungs are unrestricted during supine sleep, it intensifies breathing. The same outcome was determined by 25 Western studies. According to the CP test, there is about a 30% drop when sleeping in the supine position.

Preparation of proper sleep conditions and sleep positions are a key part of the NormalBreathing teaching. Measuring the MCP (morning control pause) first thing in the morning shows the effects of sleep on your oxygen levels. The MCP is the most important breathing test because over night is when oxygen levels usually drop. Keeping the same CP in the morning as it was during the night, allows the body to have more time to maintain a high level of health. This also makes your breathing progress a lot more effective. Additionally, the MCP is used as a goal to achieve higher levels of health, energy and many more benefits.

Sleeping sitting is hard and challenging, but it provides best results for the morning body oxygen test. With slower breathing (that may take weeks or months), people naturally sleep better and require less time for sleep. For example, all NormalBreathing students who got over 60 s for the body oxygen test in the morning required no more than 4.5 hours of sleep. Dr, Buteyko himself achieved up to about 2 minutes and 30 seconds for the CP test and had only 2 hours of sleep naturally.

More about sleep and the Buteyko method is here: http://www.buteyko.space/sleep-breathing/

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The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and NormalBreathing trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.com.

The video was edited and produced by Chris Prokop.