How to Achieve Automatic Diaphragmatic Breathing 24/7 Day-Night: Prevent Chest/Thoracic Respiration Artour Rakhimov

http://youtu.be/ACkG3F5FU5sHow To Achieve Automatic Diaphragmatic Breathing 24/7, Day & Night – Prevent chest or thoracic respiration with breathing retraining and high body oxygen levels Is it possible to unconsciously breathe with the diaphragm 24/7? There are many people out there who claim to be able to teach people to use diaphragmatic breathing, but in many cases this retraining takes many months or even years before the person will reach a point of doing so automatically, or without consciously deciding to change their breathing pattern e.g. while sitting somewhere comfortably for an hour a day and focusing on their breathing pattern. Meaning there is no guarantee that they are breathing diaphragmatically through the night or even while at rest, during the rest of their day. The reasons for this are very simple. Their methods do not address the causes of chest breathing, which can be categorized as, too fast and too large inhalations, causing low body and brain oxygenation. Many of them also claim that breathing more air improves body oxygen levels, and that CO2 is a toxic waste gas, this is incorrect. Modern people breathe about 2 times more air than the medical norm and most people are still suffering from a lack of oxygenation. When we breathe more than the medical norm at rest – which can be as little as 12 small diaphragmatic breaths per minute, and about 500 ml of air per breath – it is called hyperventilation. Hyperventilation causes alveolar hypocapnia (or CO2 deficiency in the lungs), which reduces blood flow and oxygenation of the diaphragm muscle. While arterial hypocapnia makes smooth and skeletal muscles tense, the diaphragm included. In fact, hyperventilation or (overly) deep diaphragmatic breathing, reduces oxygen delivery to all vital organs in the human body. Sick people tend to breathe about 2-3 times more than the medical norm. Which means they suffer from low CO2 levels in the lungs and reduced O2 levels in their body cells. Many of us may have brief moments of additional hyperventilation (on top of what we have now) when surprised. Where people in the past had only 4-5 L/min for minute ventilation at rest, modern numbers are about 12 L/min for normal subjects. Hyperventilation makes modern people oxygen deficient (see instructions for the body-oxygen test below) and this makes them chest breathers. Therefore, automatic (unconscious) diaphragmatic breathing is very rare these days. In this video, Dr Rakhimov explains how, with the students from his breathing retraining course who improve their body oxygen test results (see how to test below) to a level of 30 CP, first thing in the morning, they automatically switch to diaphragmatic breathing. Regardless of age and how accustom they have become to chest breathing. Many of them start out unable to move or even feel their diaphragm, but by the time they reach a body oxygen level of 30 seconds, first thing in the morning, diaphragmatic breathing becomes their new normal. So, in short, what are the major benefits of automatic diaphragmatic breathing? Diaphragmatic breathing 24/7 is necessary for ideal oxygenation of the arterial blood (about 98-99%) and efficient lymphatic drainage of abdominal organs, as up to 60% of all lymph nodes are located just under the diaphragm. Our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/artour2006 The YouTube URL of this video is: /. The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.com.

3D Flash NormalBreathing Intro Video - 16 Seconds Artour Rakhimov

http://youtu.be/mJTtdjBSXiMHere is our short 3D Flash NormalBreathing Site Introduction Video - only 16 Seconds long. Learn how to breathe slower and less using breathing retraining, the Buteyko method, Frolov-DiY devices and other techniques such as lifestyle changes with correct diet, sleep and exercise programs. Our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/artour2006 The YouTube URL of this video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJTtdjBSXiM/. The video is created, with help of Freelancers, by Dr. Artour Rakhimov, who is a health educator, Amazon writer, breathing teacher and trainer of Buteyko teachers, and the author of the websites www.NormalBreathing.com, www.NormalBreathing.org, www.NormalBreathing.net. Music credits to be added.

Chest Breathing Causes Health Problems - How Diaphragm Functions Artour Rakhimov

How & Why Chest Breathing Causes Health Problems – Functions and Benefits of the Diaphragm

This video begins with Dr. Artour Rakhimov showing you how to conduct a simple ‘Chest Breathing Test’.

The route of breathing test can be done as follows:
- Place one hand on your chest and one over your belly button or navel.
- Without thinking too much about how you ordinarily breathe, begin to take, slow, deeper breaths.
- Then, monitor which of your hands moves the most, if you breathe more into your chest than into your belly or diaphragm, then the hand on your chest will move more and vice-versa. Usually your breathing pattern will be evident after 1-3 breaths.

Dr Artour Rakhimov then goes on to explain how despite the fact that most medical and physiological text books clearly state that 80-90% of our breathing should be done using the diaphragm – with the upper chest playing a much smaller role – probably 90+% of people are breathing predominantly with their upper chest, during sleep, at rest, and throughout most of the day.

When watching healthy people with ‘normal breathing’ we can see that they have very little visible movement in the chest at all, with perhaps a small movement in the 2 lower ribs, which is hardly noticeable and typically inaudible.

Even when someone is breathing 2-3 times more than the norm it would still be difficult to notice based on the sound alone. Usually if a person is breathing 4 times the norm (hyperventilation), it would become evident audibly.

So, are there any negative effects of chest breathing? Can it create suffering?

There is no simple answer to this question, as it is not such a popular point of discussion. But in this video Dr. Rakhimov hopes to shed some light on the subject, as he shares the information that he found from several medical studies.

- Problems with chest breathing and their causes: http://www.normalbreathing.com/index-chest-breathing.php
- Relaxed diaphragmatic breathing exercise: http://www.normalbreathing.com/l-relax-diaphragmatic-breathing.php

There are 2 scientific reasons and benefits why diaphragmatic breathing is much better for us than chest breathing:

1) Using the diaphragm expands your lungs down – allowing many more alveoli (tiny air sacks inside the lungs) to stretch out and get a fresh air supply – meaning the whole lung gets fresh air. As opposed to when we breathe into the chest, which only allows fresh air to reach the top half of the lungs. Due to gravity, the upper part of the lungs, have 5-6 times less blood flow than the lower part. Meaning that even someone who breathes 2-3 times more than the norm will still not be absorbing less oxygen, just due to chest breathing. (For some reason this effect is stronger during sleep – “Nocturnal Hypoxemia”)

2) 50-60% of all lymph nodes are located just under the diaphragm. Lymph nodes are important for clearing the body of toxins and waste products and can only be moved around the body by compression. Most people, who are barely using their diaphragm to breath, will have a build up of toxins from the pancreas, liver, intestines and other organs, just sitting underneath their diaphragm, unable to move due to the lack of movement in the area. Once they begin diaphragmatic breathing, these toxins can be pushed out of the body as nature intended. This is another advantage of having abdominal or diaphragm respiration.

Pages in Spanish:
- Función de diafragma: Beneficios de respiración diafragmática: http://www.respiracionnormal.org/diafragma-funcion/
- Respiración diafragmática : Técnicas e Instrucciones: http://www.respiracionnormal.org/respiracion-diafragmatica/

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The YouTube URL of this video is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9DmVcqK6_A/.

The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, Buteyko breathing teacher and trainer of practitioners, and the author of 11 bestselling Amazon books and the website www.NormalBreathing.com.

Measuring Body and Brain Oxygen Levels (Devices and Simple DIY Test)

Measuring Body And Brain Oxygen Levels (and how to increase brain and body oxygenation naturally since your breathing is the main factor for oxygen transport to tissues and cells) Measuring Body & Brain Oxygen Levels (and how to increase brain and body oxygenation naturally since your breathing is the main factor for oxygen transport to tissues and cells)

How much oxygen is in the body? And how can we test how much oxygen is in the body? Here is the link to the page that discusses this topic in more detail: http://www.normalbreathing.com/body-brain-oxygen-content.php/ .

Believe it or not, you don’t have to go to the hospital for an expensive test in order to get an idea of how much oxygen is in your body. (Of course if you are unwell and suffering, you should always go to the doctor for a check up)

As you may already know, using PET scans to measure body oxygen levels in the brain and other organs is probably the most common method used among doctors today. But when solely using these scans, it can be difficult to get a clear picture of your total body oxygen level.

Here is more about body and cell oxygen levels: http://www.normalbreathing.com/co2-cells-oxygen.php

This is due to the fact that the distribution of oxygen around our body is usually very inhomogeneous, or unevenly distributed, and can change from moment to moment depending on which part of the body needs the most oxygen at that time.

For example, the stomach and intestines would use a lot more of the body’s oxygen during digestion than at any other time throughout the day, so taking a scan with the intention of reading body oxygen levels at that time, could leave you with misleading results.

Fortunately, Dr. Buteyko - leading Soviet physiologist who was a Manager of the Respiratory Laboratory for spaceship research in the 1960s - did a wide variety of tests, measuring oxygen levels in the body tissues and their correlation to breathing. From these tests, he was able to create a much simpler test.

In this video, Dr. Artour Rakhimov is here to explain how Dr. Buteyko’s simple test works, and how anyone can do the test in less than a minute (on average - with the exception of deep-sea divers and the like).

In order to do this simple ‘Breath Holding Test’ or ‘Body Oxygen Test’ you will need to:
- Rest for 5 min. - To ensure that you are calm and that your blood pressure is at a ‘normal’ resting rate)
- While seated, begin to monitor your regular breath (trying not to change it from its usual pattern)
- When you are ready, and after an exhalation, pinch your nose and begin holding your breath
- Start timing your breath hold, from the second you pinch your nose
- Hold only until ‘first point of stress or discomfort’ – i.e. not for as long as you possibly can, that would be a very different number
- Then, release your nose, ensuring that your breathing pattern is the same as it was before the breath hold.

If you feel as though you are gasping for air after the hold, this means that your breathing pattern was disturbed. In this case, the number you counted was not your true CP (Control Pause or Body Oxygen Index) and you should repeat the test after 2 minutes.

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This video is created by Dr. Artour Rakhimov, an international educator and writer, breathing teacher and trainer of practitioners, an author of bestselling Amazon books, and the creator of www.NormalBreathing.com.

New 3D Asthma Medical Animation (Causes and Treatment) Artour Rakhimov

This 3D medical animation provides a general overview of asthma, the clinical condition of the upper respiratory airways. The video includes details related to symptoms of asthma, as well as its causes and treatment.

If you like this animation, share this video URL on your Facebook, Google plus, Twitter, and other social networks.

Asthma is a lung disease that is accompanied by inflammation and narrowing of the airways. It can be managed with medication, avoidance of triggers, elimination of inflammation, and breathing exercises that increase amounts of CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the airways and alveoli.

As some official medical sources from the NHS (www.nhs.uk/conditions/asthma/) claim, "Asthma ... can be managed but not cured". However, these medical sources in their YouTube 3D animations and videos do not provide educational details about the treatment of asthma using the Buetyko breathing exercises. This therapy was tested in 6 controlled randomized clinical trials conducted in Western countries. More about clinical trials http://www.normalbreathing.com/buteyko-clinical-trials-review.php .

Bronchospasm, due to asthma, is caused by 3 factors:
- Swelling of cells in the lining of airways due to chronic inflammation
- Constriction of smooth muscles that are located around bronchi and bronchioles (also known as bronchoconstriction)
- Production of additional mucus (or phlegm) due to inflammation and triggers of asthma.
http://www.normalbreathing.com/diseases-Asthma.php

As a result, asthmatics suffer from these classical symptoms of asthma
- wheezing (whistling or rattling sounds in the chest)
- coughing
- chest tightness
- difficulty breathing.

Common asthma triggers include following factors: pollen, house dust mites, mold, cigarette smoke, and pet dander.

However, there are many other factors that can trigger an asthma attack. These include lower respiratory infections, overeating, anxiety, psychological stress, exercise, and even laughter.

Acute asthma exacerbations (asthma attacks) and even deaths are most likely to occur during early morning hours or from about 4 to 7 am during sleep.

There are two lifestyle factors that dramatically increase chances of these problems at night. These are:
- sleeping on the back (supine sleep)
- and mouth breathing.

The common approach to asthma is to use bronchidilator medication (such as Ventolin)
that relaxes the smooth muscles of airways and dilates them allowing easier air flow.

Bronchospasm can be reversed with avoidance of triggers or elimination of inflammation.

Apart from using medication, 6 randomized controlled clinical trials showed that people with asthma can reduce or eliminate their symptoms of asthma and main bronchodilator medications by about 90% using breathing exercises to slow down breathing back to the medical norms.

This method of alternative medicine is called the Buteyko breathing technique. It has rating from the British Thoracic Society showing much higher efficiency of this method for asthma than yoga, meditation, nutritional intervention, or any other tested complimentary therapy.

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This video is created by Dr. Artour Rakhimov, an author of 11 Amazon books and the creator of www.NormalBreathing.com.

Dr Artour Rakhimov Interview: How To Breathe For Health (Buteyko Method)

Dr. Artour Rakhimov Interview: How To Breathe For Health (Buteyko Method)

This is Dr. Artour Rakhimov's Interview for Extreme Health Radio extremehealthradio.com. The title of this show was “How To Breathe For Health: Buteyko Method”.

During last 100 years, humans experienced large changes in the way they breathe. Modern people breathe nearly 2-3 times more air than people living at the beginning of the 20th century. Dozens of clinical studies showed that people with chronic diseases breathe even heavier. All these basic facts related to breathing can be found on the Homepage of http://www.normalbreathing.com/.

What are the effects of over-breathing or breathing too much air (known as hyperventilation)? Breathing more air at rest decreases CO2 levels in the lungs and body cells. As a result, arteries and arterioles constrict causing decreased oxygen transport for tissues of the body.

These physiological facts were known to Dr. Buteyko who developed the Buteyko breathing technique to treat chronic diseases. He trained over 150 medical professionals to apply this natural healing therapy on nearly half million of people in the USSR and, later, Russia.

The Buteyko technique is popular for asthma and other respiratory conditions, as well as infections. See also our chest infections remedy. But other conditions, even cancer and diabetes can be addressed as well.

Dr. Artour Rakhimov created and developed world's largest website devoted to breathing retraining. About 500 web pages of this site provides analysis and practical tools related to lifestyle factors and how they interact and influence our breathing. This relates to physical exercise, sleep, diet and many other factors of life.

Meditation and mindfulness are also parts of these breathing exercises.

You can find more information about this show on Extreme Health Radio website:
http://www.extremehealthradio.com/ep-362-dr-artour-rakhimov-how-your-breathing-is-a-factor-in-your-energy-levels-overall-health-hormones-sleep-levels-preventing-disease-2-27-2015/

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The YouTube URL of this video is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Wdf_uq9zA /.

The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.com to fight chronic diseases naturally with breathing and other natural health tools.

Buteyko Practitioner Training Testimonial (by Misha Sakharoff)

Misha Sakharoff Testimonial about His Buteyko Practitioner Training and Courses with Dr. Artour Rakhimov

This is a video testimonial from  a Buteyko breathing teacher and educator Misha Sakharoff (http://sakharoff.com/), who lives near Copenhagen, Denmark. Misha Sakharoff tells us about his experiencec about his breathing Buteyko trainer Dr. Artour Rakhimov (http://www.normalbreathing.com/)

Misha Sakharoff says that he got a lot of inspiration from Artour Rakhimov and discovered new ideas and techniques related to exercise, sleep, diet, and other lifestyle factors. All these factors help to slow down breathing at rest and increase body oxygen levels to higher numbers. This causes a profound effect on easing or disappearance of symptoms and chronic diseases.

Slower breathing and better body oxygenation is a great natural home remedy that helps people with blocked or stuffy nose, chronic cough (even at night), insomnia, constipation, and many other common symptoms. However, the main power of breathing retraining (permanent changes in automatic breathing patterns) relates to its ability to cure or treat chronic diseases. Breathing exercises are similar to ancient meditation mindfulness methods.

Misha Sakharoff currently specializes on application of breathing retraining to cancer (oncology) and other serious health problems while cooperating with medical doctors and health specialists.

More details about training of Buteyko practitioners by Dr. Artour Rakhimov (courses and classes for Buteyko breathing teachers) can be discovered on this webpage http://www.normalbreathing.com/buteyko-practitioner-training-artour-rakhimov.php .

This video appeared on NormalBreathing Channel by Dr. Artour Rakhimov (www.NormalBreathing.com). Our YouTube Channel URL is http://www.youtube.com/user/artour2006 .

The YouTube URL of this video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3VVegyDpwc /.

The video features Misha Sakharoff who speaks about Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and trainer of Buteyko practitioners, author of www.NormalBreathing.com.