Why Breathwork Matters | Breathing Exercises | Andrew Weil, M.D.
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- Breathwork is a free and easy practice that can significantly benefit your health. Dr. Weil discusses why this practice is important and how one simple exercise should become part of your daily life.
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I so appreciate this information. As a former cardiac RN, I am fully convinced that conventional medicine has GOT to find its way in acknowledging complimentary therapies and alternative medicine and natural/holistic practices.
They want a monopoly on medicine for money. Sad but true
I'd love to know how many people actually follow preventive practices for health instead of going to a doctor after they've developed some health condition.
I believe most people get preventive advice after they acquire a health condition.
Then most MDs provide treatments based on their formal education, which they paid for handsomely.
And mostly all most doctors know from their education is pharmaceuticals or surgery.
I grew up before the internet was available to the general public.
Before the internet was available to the public, I became a software developer before attending a little college in the 1970s.
My father and grandfather became physicians before there were requirements for board certification. They became MDs in 1960 and the 1930s respectively.
They didn't know much about diet and exercise but they knew it mattered.
The drugs were minimal except for penicillin mainly.
They thought that it was the only true miracle drug of their time.
Even at that, they only gave penicillin when they saw need for it.
They had a lab in the back of their medical office that was used to detect whether a respiratory condition was due to allergy (eosinophils), strep, staph, or viral or bacterial pneumococcus based on a patient's sputum sample.
They put a slide on the roof each morning to collect pollen and checked the previous day's slide to see what was "in the air".
The vast majority of pollen was cedar (mountain juniper), mesquite, or ragweed when most patients experienced sinusitis, rhinitis, or URI.
It was a simpler time with no internet.
Most people knew little because info was available only in educational institutions with good libraries.
My father was a doctor at the time when corticosteroid drugs became available and was wary of them initially because they reduced inflammation.
Inflammation was a sign of illness and the reduction of inflammation through drugs seemed like covering over a condition without actually curing it.
Yet asthma and sinus corticosteroids were developed and became drugs we turn to.
They reduce suffering at least at the outset.
This is what drugs do.
They reduce suffering until the body becomes accustomed to them.
Then people can't get off of them.
Smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol are the same thing.
Yet marketing through advertising or word of mouth has led people to embrace them only to discover how they only cover over life circumstances.
Really, Ayurvedic science and Chinese Traditional Medicine are the original "food as medicine" remedies relative to our current knowledge.
Yoga and Qi Gung are the original movement remedies relative to our current knowledge.
Rarely are ailments investigated unless there's money to be made.
When there's money to be made, the rule is that you must synthesize a compound in the lab and perform studies on it to determining any side effects before it can be patented, labeled with warnings and sold.
And these are the things that doctors most often sell.
This is why I love Dr. Weil.
He looked at traditional and modern modalities and chose to embrace those instead of following the traditional physician path.
As he says, this simple 4-7-8 breathing method helps people.
The physiological sigh is another breath technique, based on study of what animals and humans do by nature.
I did this for a week 3 times a day 2-4 breaths and I feel more balanced then I've done in years. Thanks a lot Andrew :) Will keep doing it.
I'm completley off all medications, heart rate went down 20 beats or so and managed to get my life back in order. Thanks man, will keep doing it, despite it being 8 months of doing it.
Wow. 12 years old vid as of 2024. You really were ahead of the curve on this. Also, good clear explanation of why breathwork is beneficial.
I suffered from so much shortness of breath on and off over a year, and just found out about breathing in from the nose and slowly out the mouth, by looking it up on the computer. Now a few days later I’m still amazed how I can breath so much better, without feeling awful and needing to catch my breath. It’s really awesome.
Breathing is my favorite pastime. I do it all the time.
A bit overrated
Lmao im dead
THANK YOU! I am an exercise physiologist for a fire department and I teach them, on a basic level, torso breathing. When I start to talk about the breath I tend to loose half of the room. But more and more I see them figure it out, connect with their breath even if they were skeptical in the beginning something just clicks. This is when the mind and body connection can truly be made and then the possibilities are endless.. This is something that I am passionate about. I bring teach para-sympathetic/relaxation to those that are highly sympathetic. Breathwork will change the world.
Yes!!🙏🧡
@@PhoenixFireBreathwork Thank you for highlighting this comment I made 9 years ago!! I have come sooooo far. I went from people barely listening to me when I spoke about the benefits of breath to now. I am the director of a respiratory lab where the breath is the medium not only for assessment but also for healing and strengthening the mind and body. I am at the edge of medicine (always have been) working with Dr. at a functional medicine center. It is only the beginning and I have worked for over a decade to get here... I look forward to what the next decade brings.
@@Jyzenwellness BEAUTIFUL!!👏👏🫶
@@Jyzenwellnesshi please can I contact you ? I seriously forgot how to breathe please
Interesting, never entered my head that breathing can be achieved consciously and unconsciously. ❤
deeper, slower, quieter, and more regular
Always amazes me that even though Pranayama is the actual original way of Yoga and has been around and worked(when do...at all) over 5 thousand years and still it is seen as too simple. That's the Ego saying that BTW. "It for was that easy I would have worked it our for myself" Well the you didnt 😂🙏♥
Breathing/breath-work will one day soon be a staple of western medicine. It has already been used in it's most basic form as one of the most effective tools known in cardio-pulmonary science. Looking forward to participating in this time.
So simple and so effective. Thank you Dr. Weil.
Outstanding information! Thank you so much!
I was just asked to do spiritual coaching and breathwork at a sober living house. I’m terrified but I healed myself so I just need to learn the nitty gritties. Terrified 😨
Thank you Dr. Weil for this outstanding information!
For the 1st time I feel like I have a chance to sleep without meds..which aren't working too well.I actually started. .yawning:)
To learn more on breathwork go to JeruKabbal. research and find out for yourself. Breath work is a powerful way to release subconcious Data that does not help you live the life you want. Get more clearer after each breath work session. hope this helps.
Not just because it's too simple but because money can't be made from it.
Can I do it the entire day nonstopping?
Fabio Alexandrino I would imagine so?
If you take a yoga class, you do breathing exercises.
A lot of people take yoga classes, so a lot of people are doing breathing exercises without calling it that.
Even an aerobics class emphasizes breath.
Anyone swimming laps is doing breathing exercises.
Just may not be the exact one kind Dr Weil teaches.
I happen to do his 4-7-8 technique every day at work about a set an hour.
It's calming and helps my focus.
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I swear that bras are some of the worst things for women's lung health. I often wonder how we'd all breathe without them (I suspect far better).
"Deeper, slower, quitter, and more regular."
What a waste of time! All you did was talk about how other doctors reacted to what you said to them. There was absolutely no helpful information to people about HOW to breathe in this way.
Other people: deeper, slower, quiet and regular
This guy: ABSOLUTELY NO USEFUL INFORMATION!!!1!