Nocturnal Hypoxemia and Mortality Caused by Supine Sleep Position (on Back): Interview with Dr. Artour Artour Rakhimov

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.

Best sleep positions: Left or right side? Back or chest? Interview with Dr. Artour Artour Rakhimov

http://youtu.be/EpqHpF84MHASleeping postures and positions (left or right, supine vs. prone) for people with asthma, COPD, cancer, HIV-AIDS, cardiovascular disease, epilepsy, diabetes and many more diseases. Can sleep positions affect the health of people with these various diseases? Chris Prokop, from the NormalBreathing team, interviews Dr. Artour Rakhimov about best sleeping postures and medical research that compared various sleep poses by testing effects of sleeping on the left side vs. the right side as well as comparing supine sleep (on one's back) vs. prone (or on the chest or stomach). Results were consistent. For Western medical research, see this page: http://www.normalbreathing.com/l-6-best-sleep-positions.php The Spanish version of the same page is here "Mejor Posición para Dormir y el Dormir Boca Arriba": http://www.respiracionnormal.org/mejores-posiciones-para-dormir/ You can also have it in German "FORSCHUNG ÜBER DIE BESTEN SCHLAFPOSITIONEN: AUF DEM RÜCKEN, BAUCH, DER LINKEN ODER RECHTEN SEITE": http://www.atmungnormal.de/schlafen-schlafposition/ . According to research done by Dr. Buteyko and over 200 doctors, supine position is the worst position for breathing. Similarly, 25 Western studies came to the same conclusion, that sleeping on the back is the worst position. Sleeping on the back, was tested using the control pause test, measuring your oxygen levels. There is about a 30% drop in the CP test (body oxygen test also known as the Control Pause), when laying on the spine. Meanwhile, most medical websites suggest supine sleep as the best sleep posture! Therefore, Dr. Artour Rakhimov published a press release "Best Sleeping Position Myth: Mass Media Disinformation" here: http://www.normalbreathing.com/pr-deception-best-sleeping-positions.php Individuals with hypertension, anxiety disorders and numerous other diseases, have an already low CP. While people with a 40 seconds CP, have good health and people with over 60 seconds, do not have any chronic health conditions. Learning about proper sleep positions and sleep conditions, you will be able to apply changes to a foundational part of being healthy. Maintaining your CP from the previous night, allows you to have a greater MCP (morning control pause), which is the most important part of improving your health. While, many people have a drop in their CP test overnight. If your CP rises a lot during the day, but the MCP is neglected it will keep you, at a lower CP because the body has a limited time to recover. Additionally, sleep positions and their effect on your CP, can be easily measured at home, to notice the important differences. By taking measures to apply proper sleeping positions, breathing exercises and other lifestyle factors, you will improve your overall CP. Breathing exercises include the Buteyko Method, that is approved by the Russian Ministry of Health. It was also used on more than 100,000 asthmatics, 30,000 plus people with cardiovascular problems and many more other conditions(liver cirrhosis, bronchitis, sleep apnea). The Buteyko Method was tested, by 6 Western randomized clinical trials on asthma (more than a 90% reduction in medication) and Soviet trials on HIV-AIDS, hepatitis B, metastatic cancer(by 6 times reduction in 3 year mortality), radiation disease and more. Furthermore, breathing devices are found to be easier to practice. The devices include among others, the Amazing DIY device or 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=EpqHpF84MHA /. The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.com. In this video, he was interviewed by Chris Prokop, his breathing student and trainee. Other videos of the NormalBreathing Channel provide further details about best sleep postures (since sleeping sitting is even better!)

Best sleep positions: Left or right side? Back or chest? Interview with Dr. Artour Rakhimov

Sleeping postures and positions (left or right, supine vs. prone) for people with asthma, COPD, cancer, HIV-AIDS, cardiovascular disease, epilepsy, diabetes and many more diseases. Can sleep positions affect the health of people with these various diseases?

Chris Prokop, from the NormalBreathing team, interviews Dr. Artour Rakhimov about best sleeping postures and medical research that compared various sleep poses by testing effects of sleeping on the left side vs. the right side as well as comparing supine sleep (on one's back) vs. prone (or on the chest or stomach). Results were consistent.

For Western medical research, see this page:
http://www.normalbreathing.com/l-6-best-sleep-positions.php
The Spanish version of the same page is here "Mejor Posición para Dormir y el Dormir Boca Arriba":
http://www.respiracionnormal.org/mejores-posiciones-para-dormir/
You can also have it in German "FORSCHUNG ÜBER DIE BESTEN SCHLAFPOSITIONEN: AUF DEM RÜCKEN, BAUCH, DER LINKEN ODER RECHTEN SEITE":
http://www.atmungnormal.de/schlafen-schlafposition/ .

According to research done by Dr. Buteyko and over 200 doctors, supine position is the worst position for breathing.  Similarly, 25 Western studies came to the same conclusion, that sleeping on the back is  the worst position.  Sleeping on the back, was tested using the control pause test, measuring your oxygen levels.  There is about a 30% drop in the CP test (body oxygen test also known as the Control Pause), when laying on the spine.

Meanwhile, most medical websites suggest supine sleep as the best sleep posture! Therefore, Dr. Artour Rakhimov published a press release "Best Sleeping Position Myth: Mass Media Disinformation" here: http://www.normalbreathing.com/pr-deception-best-sleeping-positions.php

Individuals with hypertension, anxiety disorders and numerous other diseases, have an already low CP.  While people with a 40 seconds CP, have good health and people with over 60 seconds, do not have any chronic health conditions.

Learning about proper sleep positions and sleep conditions, you will be able to apply changes to a foundational part of being healthy.  Maintaining your CP from the previous night, allows you to have a greater MCP (morning control pause), which is the most important part of improving your health.  While, many people have a drop in their CP test overnight.  If your CP rises a lot during the day, but the MCP is neglected it will keep you, at a lower CP because the body has a limited time to recover.  Additionally, sleep positions and their effect on your CP, can be easily measured at home, to notice the important differences.

By taking measures to apply proper sleeping positions, breathing exercises and other lifestyle factors, you will improve your overall CP.  Breathing exercises include the Buteyko Method, that is approved by the Russian Ministry of Health.  It was also used on more than 100,000 asthmatics, 30,000 plus people with cardiovascular problems and many more other conditions(liver cirrhosis, bronchitis, sleep apnea).   The Buteyko Method was tested, by 6 Western randomized clinical trials on asthma (more than a 90% reduction in medication) and Soviet trials on HIV-AIDS, hepatitis B, metastatic cancer(by 6 times reduction in 3 year mortality), radiation disease and more.  Furthermore, breathing devices are found to be easier to practice.  The devices include among others, the Amazing DIY device or the Frolov device.

Our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/artour2006 .

The YouTube URL of this video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpqHpF84MHA /.

The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.com. In this video, he was interviewed by Chris Prokop, his breathing student and trainee.  Other videos of the NormalBreathing Channel provide further details about best sleep postures (since sleeping sitting is even better!)

Do sleep positions really matter? Interview with Dr. Artour Rakhimov Artour Rakhimov

Sleep positions, sleeping postures for people with cancer and diabetes.  How patients with heart disease and asthma should sleep?  Do postures during sleep influence health of people with COPD and HIV-AIDS?  Can sleep positions influence heart attacks and stroke, as well as acute exacerbations with seizures, due to epilepsy?

Details how poor sleep hygiene causes health problems http://www.normalbreathing.com/causes-sleep.php. The same page in Spanish "Respiración rápida al dormir (La respiración pesada reduce el O2 corporal)" http://www.respiracionnormal.org/causas-dormir/ .

Various Western clinical studies show that early morning hours (about 4am-7am), people with chronic diseases commonly experience the highest exacerbations of their diseases, and they have the highest mortality rate, due to hyperventilation or breathing more than the medical norms.

Asthma attacks and deaths have the highest chance of happening during these early morning hours.  Fortunately, breathing exercises have shown, to be able to lower or completely get rid of asthma symptoms, and lessen the use of the main bronchodilator medications (such as Ventolin) by about 90 percent. This was shown with the Buteyko breathing technique in 6 randomized controlled clinical trials. The British Thoracic Society gave it a much higher rating, in comparison to meditation, nutritional invention, yoga methods, or any other tested complementary therapy.          

Similarly, in COPD patients, sleep has harmful effects on their breathing and gas exchange (see Urbano & Mohsenin, 2006).  Likewise, Coronary spasm occurs, after night fall to early morning hours (Yasue & Kugiyama, 1997). This happens as a result of patients hyperventilating.  While American cardiologists from Georgetown University Medical Center, found that for the majority of patients, who died suddenly, “there was a circadian variation of all tested SCDS”(sudden cardiac deaths) (see Behrens et al, 1997). The deaths of these patients occurred during the morning hours as well.

More about good sleep hygiene and how to create better conditions for sleep http://www.normalbreathing.com/good-sleep-hygiene.php. The same page in Spanish "Higiene de buena dormida | Cómo dormir" http://www.respiracionnormal.org/higiene-de-buena-dormida/ .

Our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/artour2006

The YouTube URL of this video about sleep postures and their importance for health is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buEyiBfKZxo/.

The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, best selling Amazon writer, breathing teacher and trainer, and the author/creator of the popular website www.NormalBreathing.com.

His Amazon book about sleep https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Better-Less-Naturally-Body-Brain-ebook/dp/B00FDSM18S/ "Sleep Better and Less - Naturally: Cure Chronic Insomnia and Boost Body-Brain O2 Levels". Have a great sleep!

Part 8. Mindfulness and Meditation with Buteyko Reduced Breathing Exercise, Use of Cortisol... Artour Rakhimov

http://youtu.be/nF0ek-k-nSoMindfulness and meditation with Buteyko reduced breathing exercise, use of cortisol and other techniques While the original Buteyko method has very little related to training of the mind or mindfulness, there were developments in this area. Breathing exercises are among first most ancient meditation techniques: http://www.normalbreathing.com/meditate-mindful.php Patrick McKeown, a Buteyko teacher from Ireland, developed mindfulness exercises with muscle relaxation combined with reduced breathing that is the main exercise of the Buteyko method. These advances can be found in his audio “Anxiety Free” that is a part of the Amazon book with the same name. Further advances in the area of meditation and metacognition are to be expected in future. There were many other small and large innovations to slow down your breathing and achieve higher morning CP. Dr. Andrey Novozshilov, MD, the chief physician of the Buteyko Clinic in Moscow provided these two great ideas. How to use cortisol for breathing retraining and the Buteyko method. These ideas, as well as how to dose cortisol and how to wean off cortisol, can be found in his book “Living Without Asthma”. Dr. Andrey Novozshilov also shared how to represent reduced breathing exercise (the main breathing exercise of the Buteyko method) using a simple chart or diagram. The image is shown in the video above. SLIDE: Other innovations: - Patrick McKeown's mindfulness exercise that combines reduced breathing with muscle relaxation - Dr. Andrey Novozshilov's description related to uses of cortisol for breathing retraining and his visual representation of reduced breathing on a chart. Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/artour2006 The YouTube URL of this video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF0ek-k-nSo /. The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.com.

Part 7. Grounding (Earthing) vs Barefoot Walking for NormalBreathing and Buteyko courses Artour Rakhimov

http://youtu.be/umNWDdHAM4wPart 7. Grounding (or Earthing) vs barefoot walking technique for NormalBreathing and Buteyko breathing courses. The NormalBreathing became the first Buteyko course that introduced Grounding (Earthing) as a part of breathing retraining. Dr. Buteyko and his colleagues discovered that barefoot walking is beneficial for breathing retraining. One of the written sources that mentions barefoot walking is in the article by Soulyagin S. S. Physical factors in DVBM treatment, published in Buteyko method. Its application in medical practice, ed. by K.P. Buteyko, 2nd ed., 1991, Titul, Odessa, pages 47-53. However, their explanation of positive effects was based on the idea of nerve stimulation on the surface of the feet. The idea of grounding the human body appeared decades later when Clint Ober discovered and started to investigate effects of electrical grounding of the human body for health benefits (e.g., to reduce insomnia). Later, positive effects of nerve and muscle cells due ot Grounding were found in clinical studies. SLIDE Teachers and students of the NormalBreathing course use a unique DIY Earthing (Grounding) method at night (during sleep) that: 1) is cheaper and simpler than any commercial (Amazon, etc.) Grounding product and 2) provides better grounding (or as good as in best clinical trials on Earthing). Our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/artour2006 The YouTube URL of this video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umNWDdHAM4w /. The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.com.

Part 6. Sleep and Breathing Retraining: NormalBreathing vs Buteyko course Artour Rakhimov

http://youtu.be/y0MG50pJK-0Part 6. Sleep and Breathing Retraining: NormalBreathing course vs original or classical Buteyko course Dr. KP Buteyko developed simple rules in relation to sleep, prevention of insomnia and higher morning CP: go to sleep when you are really sleepy and get out of the bed in the morning (do not stay in bed). Other known or previous ideas related to the original Buteyko breathing method are following: students naturally get less sleep with easier breathing, down to 2 hours of sleep at high 2-3 min CP, as for yoga masters (in relation to sleep duration and breath holding abilities). All problems with insomnia and poor sleep disappear with easier breathing during sleep. The NormalBreathing course includes these new additional details: - A great emphasis on the morning CP as the main parameter used by students to measure their physical health - The Breathing-Sleep Chart that provide a more detailed link about expected duration of natural sleep (in hours) and body oxygen test results - The systematic and ordered approach to using sleep-related techniques include testing sleep positions, development of ideas related to sleeping sitting, effects of nutrients, exercise, and other factors on sleep, development and use of swaddling methods. SLIDE TEXT: Students and teachers of the NormalBreathing course learn about: - The morning CP as the main parameter of physical health - The Breathing-Sleep Chart that provide relationship about expected duration of natural sleep (in hours) and body oxygen test results - The system of sleep-related techniques include effects of nutrients, exercise, and other factors on sleep, development and use of swaddling methods, testing sleep positions, and development/use of ideas and methods related to sleeping sitting. Our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/artour2006 The YouTube URL of this video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0MG50pJK-0 /. The video features Dr. Artour Rakhimov, health educator, writer, breathing teacher and trainer, and the author of the website www.NormalBreathing.com.