22. ME/cvs en hartkloppingen - Prof. Dr. F.C. Visser
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2013
- Prof. Dr. F.C. Visser geeft antwoord op vragen over ME/cvs en hartkloppingen.
00:16 Waar komen hartkloppingen vandaan?
00:52 Het hartritme in rust
02:26 Wat is de verklaring voor een hogere hartslag?
07:00 Wat is hier aan te doen?
09:16 Waar komt het bonkende gevoel van het hart vandaan?
Deze video is opgenomen als onderdeel van 'Wetenschap voor Patiënten' op 07-06-2012.
Disclaimer: Deze video bevat geen diagnostische of therapeutische informatie over uw eigen medische situatie. Het kan nooit ter vervanging dienen van een persoonlijk consult. Leg vragen, klachten of symptomen tijdig voor aan uw behandelend arts. (Lees meer op bit.ly/R5Mwzj) - Věda a technologie
Indrukwekkend compact, breed, helder en genuanceerd college. Voor patiënten en omstanders belangrijke en bruikbare informatie. Dank u en chapeau professor Visser !
Chapeau? Haha, zit je hoog in je ivoren toveren?
1997, Perth Academy of Natural Therapies, Australia (chronic fatigue syndrome)
A study by Shellie Gaskin, as a partial fulfillment for a Diploma of Naturopathy, was conducted on 15 people diagnosed with CFS. There were following improvements: fatigue 87%, night sweats 75%, depression 70%, allergies 66%, anxiety 66%, muscular aches 60%, difficulty sleeping 54%, and headaches 50%. After 10-12 weeks all those who continued their Buteyko breathing exercise regimes reported a 100% reduction in fatigue.
Bedankt.
Reports from two conferences in Moscow and Krasnojarsk in 1988 (large variety of health problems)
There were about 30 published reports (Buteyko method, 1992) of about 40 Russian medical doctors and health professionals, who met during two conferences in Moscow and Krasnojarsk in 1988 in order to share their practical experience of application of the Buteyko method in over 20 medical hospitals and clinics in Russia. The total reported number of treated people, according to the published conference proceedings (Buteyko, 1991), was over 3,000. Although most of them had respiratory (asthma, bronchitis, rhinitis, etc.) and cardiovascular (hypertension, angina pectoris, ischemia, etc.) problems, hundreds were treated or relieved from arthritis, osteoporosis, epilepsy, ulcers, gastritis, kidney stone problems, hepatitis, different infertility conditions, skin diseases (e.g., dermatitis, psoriasis, eczema), etc. Typical reported results were either some or essential improvement for over 90% patients, while remaining patients were not able to normalise their breathing parameters due to absence of desire or motivation and quitting the method during its initial stages. Thus, those patients who achieved large CPs significantly improved their health state. Normalization of breathing always leads to dissapperance of symptoms and no need for medication.
Buteyko method. Its application in medical practice, ed. by K.P. Buteyko, 1991, 2nd edition, Titul, Odessa.
most people with a microwave arent chronically ill because some people are less sensitive for microwaves, also the distance person/microwave is very important. The oven in another place is more safe. The radiation become less when the oven gets older.Some ovens give less radiation then others. In Russia is less radiation allowed by law.
Beste Dirk, heb je nu echt onder iedere video dit bericht achtergelaten? Ik maak me een beetje zorgen als ik zie hoeveel tijd je hier wel niet in hebt gestoken. Zou je misschien hier eens hulp bij gaan zoeken?
1968, Institute of Pulmonology, Leningrad, USSR (bronchial asthma, hypertension and angina pectoris)
50 patients with severe bronchial asthma, hypertension and angina pectoris, all of them with many years of heavy medication, most with steroid deficiencies and organic complications; success rate 95% (Khoroscho, 1982).
Khoroscho A, Interview with Buteyko [in Russian] 1982, in Buteyko method. Its application in medical practice, ed. by K.P. Buteyko, 2nd ed., 1991, Titul, Odessa, p.168-180.
Amazing medical references: 15 clinical studies claim that chronic fatigue means hyperventilation.
There are 15 astonishing medical studies that link chronic fatigue with overbreathing. You can see references for these studies further down:
Medical References
Rosen SD, King JC, Wilkinson JB, Nixon PG, Is chronic fatigue syndrome synonymous with effort syndrome? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1990 Dec; 83(12): 761-764.
Paulley JW, Hyperventilation, Recent Progress in Medicine 1990 Sep; 81(9): 594-600.
Bogaerts K, Hubin M, Van Diest I, De Peuter S, Van Houdenhove B, Van Wambeke P, Crombez G, Van den Bergh O., Hyperventilation in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: the role of coping strategies, Behav Res Ther. 2007 Nov; 45(11): p. 2679-2690. Epub 2007 Jul 20.
Vasiliauskas D1, Kavoliūniene A, Jasiukeviciene L, Grizas V, Statkeviciene A, Leimoniene L, Tumyniene V, Kubilius R., [Impact of a long-term complex rehabilitation on chronic fatigue and cardiorespiratory parameters in patients with chronic heart failure], Medicina (Kaunas). 2008;44(12):911-21.
Hypocapnia or low end-tidal CO2 in chronic fatigue syndrome
Bazelmans E, Bleijenberg G, Vercoulen JH, van der Meer JW, Folgering H., The chronic fatigue syndrome and hyperventilation, J Psychosom Res. 1997 Oct;43(4):371-7
Cook DB, Nagelkirk PR, Poluri A, Mores J, Natelson BH., The influence of aerobic fitness and fibromyalgia on cardiorespiratory and perceptual responses to exercise in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, Arthritis Rheum. 2006 Oct; 54(10): p. 3351-62.
Guilleminault C, Poyares D, Rosa A, Kirisoglu C, Almeida T, Lopes MC, Chronic fatigue, unrefreshing sleep and nocturnal polysomnography, Sleep Med. 2006 Sep;7(6):513-20. Epub 2006 Aug 24
Lee S., Estranged bodies, simulated harmony, and misplaced cultures: neurasthenia in contemporary Chinese society, Psychosom Med. 1998 Jul-Aug; 60(4): p. 448-457.
Naschitz JE, Mussafia-Priselac R, Kovalev Y, Zaigraykin N, Slobodin G, Elias N, Rosner I., Patterns of hypocapnia on tilt in patients with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, nonspecific dizziness, and neurally mediated syncope, Am J Med Sci. 2006 Jun;331(6): p. 295-303.
Natelson BH, Intriligator R, Cherniack NS, Chandler HK, Stewart JM., Hypocapnia is a biological marker for orthostatic intolerance in some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, Dyn Med. 2007 Jan 30;6:2.
Nijs J, Adriaens J, Schuermans D, Buyl R, Vincken W., Breathing retraining in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a pilot study. Physiother Theory Pract. 2008 Mar-Apr;24(2):83-94.
Razumovsky AY, DeBusk K, Calkins H, Snader S, Lucas KE, Vyas P, Hanley DF, Rowe PC., Cerebral and systemic hemodynamics changes during upright tilt in chronic fatigue syndrome, J Neuroimaging. 2003 Jan; 13(1): p. 57-67.
Saisch SG, Deale A, Gardner WN, Wessely S., Hyperventilation and chronic fatigue syndrome, Q J Med. 1994 Jan;87(1):63-7.
Sisto SA, Tapp W, Drastal S, Bergen M, DeMasi I, Cordero D, Natelson B., Vagal tone is reduced during paced breathing in patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome, Clin Auton Res. 1995 Jun; 5(3): p. 139-143.
Togo F, Natelson BH, Cherniack NS, FitzGibbons J, Garcon C, Rapoport DM., Sleep structure and sleepiness in chronic fatigue syndrome with or without coexisting fibromyalgia, Arthritis Res Ther. 2008;10(3):R56. Epub 2008 May 13.
Getting Started
by Peter Kolb
While the Buteyko method introduced into the west has been getting excellent results, it does not entirely accord with Professor Buteyko’s recommended practice. During two weeks he spent in New Zealand in December 2000, he demonstrated the Buteyko technique as it should be practiced.
Aim
Firstly, it needs to be understood that breathing too much is a bad habit that leaves you with a debilitating shortage of carbon dioxide and bicarbonate. It usually results from long term, undischarged stress. Any stress makes you breathe more. If this is sustained over a long time period it becomes a habit. The physiology behind this habituation process is well understood. Buteyko therapy aims at reversing this, by habituating to less breathing. You do this by developing and sustaining a feeling of a slight shortage of air over a long time period. This gradually restores your carbon dioxide and bicarbonate levels back to normal.
Maximum Pause
While it is possible to stifle an asthma attack with a long and uncomfortable breath hold know as a maximum pause (MP), this procedure does not reverse your asthma and does not retrain the respiratory center to pace your breathing correctly. Professor Buteyko is emphatic that the maximum pause has no therapeutic value in restoring healthy breathing, which is the aim of his therapy. It is also dangerous for people with various disorders such as hypertension, heart disease, epilepsy, kidney disease and diabetes. It can also destabilize your breathing, making it worse. Unfortunately the maximum pause has been introduced into a westernized version of the Buteyko technique, much to the annoyance of the Professor.
An understanding of the physiology behind the Bueyko method leaves no doubt that the maximum pause cannot improve your breathing.
DIY/Self-help
Professor Buteyko is firmly opposed to the DIY/self-help approach. The Buteyko technique relies 100% on patient compliance for effectiveness. Learning it from a script is like learning Yoga or martial arts from a book. Most people will experience changes in their bodies as their CO2 levels rise. These changes vary from one individual to another. Buteyko practitioners help you deal with these changes, keep you motivated and ensure that you do the breathing exercises correctly. Support for your Buteyko practitioner enables him to continue his work of bringing the technique to other sufferers.
Nevertheless, very few people around the world have access to a Buteyko practitioner. So here are some basics to help get you started.
Medication
Do not make any changes to medication. Steroids must be taken as prescribed. Because of carbon dioxide shortage asthmatics often don’t make enough Cortisol (natural steroid) and must have supplements. Steroids are not just anti-inflammatories but they are needed by the body and without the right amount it can be almost impossible to get breathing back to normal. Your doctor will be able to review your need for steroids when you stop having asthma symptoms.
Bronchodilators must be taken only when needed. As you progress, discuss with your doctor the possibility of weaning yourself off long acting bronchodilators and replacing them with short acting ones. That will give you more control over using them when needed. You should find that within days you will be able to overcome asthma attacks with reduced breathing and won’t need the bronchodilators. Nevertheless, you must always carry them with you for emergencies.
Nose breathing
Always breathe through your nose. If your nose is blocked perform the following exercise: After breathing normally (do not make any exaggerated breathing manoeuvre), hold your breath for as long as is comfortable, and then gradually resume very gentle breathing. It may help to pinch your nose, nod your head a few times or do some other form of exercise. In stubborn cases or when the blockage is due to a cold, you may have to try a few more times.
To avoid breathing through your mouth in your sleep, you might like to experiment with a little light medical paper tape to keep your mouth closed. Mouth taping at night is not recommended by Professor Buteyko, but most people find it extremely valuable. If you do, protect your lips with suitable cream, use a low tack tape (some are quite aggressive), and make sure you fold a tab or handle at each end for rapid and easy removal. Do not go to sleep with tape on your mouth if this causes any form of anxiety.
Comfort
Make sure you’re comfortable before starting the exercises. Remove unnecessary clothing since the improved blood carbon dioxide will dilate blood vessels in the skin, thereby warming you up.
Posture
To get your posture right stand with your back to a wall, heels, shoulders head and bottom touching the wall. Now drop your shoulders. Keep this upper body posture when sitting.
Relaxation
While maintaining your posture, relax all the muscles in your chest, neck, shoulders, arms, tummy and particularly the diaphragm. It’s a good idea to tense them up a bit first before relaxing them so that you can properly identify them and make sure they are all relaxed.
Normal Breathing
Take off your shirt and stand in front of a full length mirror. Watch your chest and tummy for breathing movement. Make sure that your chest does not move at all, and only the upper part of the tummy moves, between navel and breast bone. The second thing to check for is that the tummy moves out with each in breath and not the other way around. Many people get this wrong. Your out-breath must be free, relaxed and unforced.
Reduced breathing (RB)
Your aim is to develop a feeling of slight hunger for air, sustain this over a period and do this frequently. In fact, this should become a habit so that you do it all the time until you have achieved your health goal.
Try to feel your breathing and become aware of your breathing pattern. Now try to maintain this pattern while taking in just a little less air on each breath so that you develop a slight hunger for air. Initially try to sustain this for two minutes, then five and then ten.
If you follow all the steps correctly, then you should feel really calm, good and even a little sleepy. If you already practice relaxation techniques, yoga etc, you can combine them with reduced breathing.
Measuring your breathing
Hyperventilators breathe more than normal in order to achieve lower than normal blood carbon dioxide levels. It follows that if you have to breathe more than normal, then you will also not be able to hold your breath as long as you should. Professor Buteyko has cunningly used this principle to measure your blood carbon dioxide by testing how long you can hold your breath.
You start the pause somewhere in your normal breathing cycle. This is how you start the pause: Look up with your eyes and at the same time pinch your nose and start a stop watch. Just before it starts to get uncomfortable, stop the stop watch and resume normal breathing. You should be able to resume normal breathing without any effort and without taking deeper or more frequent breaths.
Some precautions:
- Do not take a deeper breath before the pause.
- Do not make any attempt to empty the lungs before the pause.
- Do not worry about which phase of the respiratory cycle you happen to be in before starting the pause. A pause is just an interruption of normal breathing.
The time in seconds is called a Control Pause (CP). Asthmatics typically have a CP of 5 - 15 seconds. (But not everyone with such a low CP has asthma.) Your aim is to achieve a CP greater than 40 seconds, although for perfect health Professor Buteyko recommends a CP of at least 60 seconds.
Doing a Set
When at rest, correctly seated, comfortable and relaxed and after breathing normally for at least five minutes you are ready to do a set. A set consists of
Pulse - CP - Reduced breathing - 3min normal breathing - Pulse - CP
First measure your pulse and then do a CP. Record the results on a table. Then do reduced breathing for ten minutes. Breathe normally for three minutes, then take your pulse again and take another CP. If you’ve done your reduced breathing correctly your pulse should go down and your CP should go up. Sometimes the pulse remains the same. If it goes up you’re not doing it correctly.
After three days you should be able to do around 8 to 10 sets a day. You can then start integrating reduced breathing into your daily life. Ideally you should aim at doing reduced breathing all day.
That takes care of the exercises. Here are a few helpful hints to help your recovery.
- Don’t eat unless you are hungry. Only eat until you have had enough. Eating increases breathing; eating excessively increases breathing excessively.
- Don’t dress too warmly. Be careful not to overdress children. If you are worried about them being cold, check their ears, nose, hands and feet. If these are warm, they’re OK.
- Make sure you get plenty of vigorous exercise. But don’t exercise to the point where you have to open your mouth to breathe.
If any of these recommendations make you dizzy, sick, anxious or give you palpitations, stop immediately. If possible see a Buteyko practitioner.
Bij mij is Fibromyalgie (ik weet niet of dit hetzelfde als ME is) vastgesteld. Ik voel en hoor mijn hart ook continu bonken in mijn linkerkant van mijn hoofd/oor maar het doet geen pijn. Ik vind het wel heel eng, met name als ik 's nachts in bed lig. Alsof ik 'n stuk heb hardgelopen of gefietst. Ik zie vaak letterlijk mijn shirtje bewegen op het ritme van mijn hart. Is dit wat deze arts bedoeld met wat de twee verschillende zenuwen in de hersenen doorgeven? PS. Welk ziekenhuis is gespecialiseerd in patiënten met Fibromyalgie/CVS en ME en wat is de naam van 'n goed specialist? Ikzelf woon in gemeente Waalwijk. Bij voorbaat mijn vriendelijk dank.
ik denk niet dat dat geklop bij je hoofd van die hartknopen is, maar wel oorzaak van de hartknopen en dus sneller kloppen van het hart en daarmee bloed door de aderen in je hoofd / slapen. Ik heb fibro en CVS en deze kloppingen in mijn rechterslaap. CVS is vastgesteld bij vermoeidheidenpijncentrum in de Bilt
heb ook fibriomyalgie en nu 5 dagen hart ritme stoornissen 2 keer de artsen dienst gebeld maar geen spoed? maar doodsbang dat wel
Hundreds of people with CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) or ME/Fibromyalgia successfully and naturally treated this condition with the Buteyko method and breathing retraining.
People with fibromyalgia can recover from their condition by using breathing retraining.
It is not an easy method, as people will have to practice lots of breathing retraining and continue to practice to maintain a healthy state. All people that practice breathing retraining and achieve 40 to 60 seconds for their control pauze test, they are able to reverse all symptoms of their condition. These people can have a normal lifestyle and they do not have health complaints any longer.
People with this diagnosis need to apply a lot more effort than other health conditions in order to progress. For example, someone with asthma or initial stages of diabetes recovers a lot faster and requires less work to achieve a healthier state. We are talking about normalizing breathing patterns. This requires not simply doing breathing exercises, but the goal of this technique is to normalize unconscious breathing patterns.
To improve breathing patterns physical exercise is also required. This is a challenge for people with fibromyalgia. Doing strenuous physical exercise such as light jogging might cause them pain later on in the day. It would be a good idea for them to exercise for shorter periods. They might be able to jog for about half an hour and then at another part of the day they can jog for another half an hour.
Lifestyle changes are practiced in a breathing retraining course. An important factor for change is diet. The damage of inflammation that takes place in cells is possible to reverse if really dramatic changes to diet are taken. This takes place by reducing carbohydrates in one's diet. When people have a severe form of fibromyalgia, Dr. Artour Rakhimov recommends eliminating all carbs. Without using any carbs the body switches to using ketones for its energy source. A combination of a low carb diet and practicing breathing retraining will allow for the fastest progress. Progress is slow, but the results are fantastic to people's health.
The goal of the method is to train the body to breathe according to the medical norm and to stop hyperventilating. It is a stubborn situation for individuals with fibromyalgia because their body-oxygen level or control pause level does not grow quickly as normally expected. When they do achieve these higher oxygen levels, they experience a reduction in their symptoms. With 40 to 60 seconds on the CP test, these students have a vibrant life with short sleep and they function really well.
Dr. Artour Rakhimov is an Amazon writer, breathing teacher, and the author of NormalBreathing .com.
Getting Started
by Peter Kolb
While the Buteyko method introduced into the west has been getting excellent results, it does not entirely accord with Professor Buteyko’s recommended practice. During two weeks he spent in New Zealand in December 2000, he demonstrated the Buteyko technique as it should be practiced.
Aim
Firstly, it needs to be understood that breathing too much is a bad habit that leaves you with a debilitating shortage of carbon dioxide and bicarbonate. It usually results from long term, undischarged stress. Any stress makes you breathe more. If this is sustained over a long time period it becomes a habit. The physiology behind this habituation process is well understood. Buteyko therapy aims at reversing this, by habituating to less breathing. You do this by developing and sustaining a feeling of a slight shortage of air over a long time period. This gradually restores your carbon dioxide and bicarbonate levels back to normal.
Maximum Pause
While it is possible to stifle an asthma attack with a long and uncomfortable breath hold know as a maximum pause (MP), this procedure does not reverse your asthma and does not retrain the respiratory center to pace your breathing correctly. Professor Buteyko is emphatic that the maximum pause has no therapeutic value in restoring healthy breathing, which is the aim of his therapy. It is also dangerous for people with various disorders such as hypertension, heart disease, epilepsy, kidney disease and diabetes. It can also destabilize your breathing, making it worse. Unfortunately the maximum pause has been introduced into a westernized version of the Buteyko technique, much to the annoyance of the Professor.
An understanding of the physiology behind the Bueyko method leaves no doubt that the maximum pause cannot improve your breathing.
DIY/Self-help
Professor Buteyko is firmly opposed to the DIY/self-help approach. The Buteyko technique relies 100% on patient compliance for effectiveness. Learning it from a script is like learning Yoga or martial arts from a book. Most people will experience changes in their bodies as their CO2 levels rise. These changes vary from one individual to another. Buteyko practitioners help you deal with these changes, keep you motivated and ensure that you do the breathing exercises correctly. Support for your Buteyko practitioner enables him to continue his work of bringing the technique to other sufferers.
Nevertheless, very few people around the world have access to a Buteyko practitioner. So here are some basics to help get you started.
Medication
Do not make any changes to medication. Steroids must be taken as prescribed. Because of carbon dioxide shortage asthmatics often don’t make enough Cortisol (natural steroid) and must have supplements. Steroids are not just anti-inflammatories but they are needed by the body and without the right amount it can be almost impossible to get breathing back to normal. Your doctor will be able to review your need for steroids when you stop having asthma symptoms.
Bronchodilators must be taken only when needed. As you progress, discuss with your doctor the possibility of weaning yourself off long acting bronchodilators and replacing them with short acting ones. That will give you more control over using them when needed. You should find that within days you will be able to overcome asthma attacks with reduced breathing and won’t need the bronchodilators. Nevertheless, you must always carry them with you for emergencies.
Nose breathing
Always breathe through your nose. If your nose is blocked perform the following exercise: After breathing normally (do not make any exaggerated breathing manoeuvre), hold your breath for as long as is comfortable, and then gradually resume very gentle breathing. It may help to pinch your nose, nod your head a few times or do some other form of exercise. In stubborn cases or when the blockage is due to a cold, you may have to try a few more times.
To avoid breathing through your mouth in your sleep, you might like to experiment with a little light medical paper tape to keep your mouth closed. Mouth taping at night is not recommended by Professor Buteyko, but most people find it extremely valuable. If you do, protect your lips with suitable cream, use a low tack tape (some are quite aggressive), and make sure you fold a tab or handle at each end for rapid and easy removal. Do not go to sleep with tape on your mouth if this causes any form of anxiety.
Comfort
Make sure you’re comfortable before starting the exercises. Remove unnecessary clothing since the improved blood carbon dioxide will dilate blood vessels in the skin, thereby warming you up.
Posture
To get your posture right stand with your back to a wall, heels, shoulders head and bottom touching the wall. Now drop your shoulders. Keep this upper body posture when sitting.
Relaxation
While maintaining your posture, relax all the muscles in your chest, neck, shoulders, arms, tummy and particularly the diaphragm. It’s a good idea to tense them up a bit first before relaxing them so that you can properly identify them and make sure they are all relaxed.
Normal Breathing
Take off your shirt and stand in front of a full length mirror. Watch your chest and tummy for breathing movement. Make sure that your chest does not move at all, and only the upper part of the tummy moves, between navel and breast bone. The second thing to check for is that the tummy moves out with each in breath and not the other way around. Many people get this wrong. Your out-breath must be free, relaxed and unforced.
Reduced breathing (RB)
Your aim is to develop a feeling of slight hunger for air, sustain this over a period and do this frequently. In fact, this should become a habit so that you do it all the time until you have achieved your health goal.
Try to feel your breathing and become aware of your breathing pattern. Now try to maintain this pattern while taking in just a little less air on each breath so that you develop a slight hunger for air. Initially try to sustain this for two minutes, then five and then ten.
If you follow all the steps correctly, then you should feel really calm, good and even a little sleepy. If you already practice relaxation techniques, yoga etc, you can combine them with reduced breathing.
Measuring your breathing
Hyperventilators breathe more than normal in order to achieve lower than normal blood carbon dioxide levels. It follows that if you have to breathe more than normal, then you will also not be able to hold your breath as long as you should. Professor Buteyko has cunningly used this principle to measure your blood carbon dioxide by testing how long you can hold your breath.
You start the pause somewhere in your normal breathing cycle. This is how you start the pause: Look up with your eyes and at the same time pinch your nose and start a stop watch. Just before it starts to get uncomfortable, stop the stop watch and resume normal breathing. You should be able to resume normal breathing without any effort and without taking deeper or more frequent breaths.
Some precautions:
- Do not take a deeper breath before the pause.
- Do not make any attempt to empty the lungs before the pause.
- Do not worry about which phase of the respiratory cycle you happen to be in before starting the pause. A pause is just an interruption of normal breathing.
The time in seconds is called a Control Pause (CP). Asthmatics typically have a CP of 5 - 15 seconds. (But not everyone with such a low CP has asthma.) Your aim is to achieve a CP greater than 40 seconds, although for perfect health Professor Buteyko recommends a CP of at least 60 seconds.
Doing a Set
When at rest, correctly seated, comfortable and relaxed and after breathing normally for at least five minutes you are ready to do a set. A set consists of
Pulse - CP - Reduced breathing - 3min normal breathing - Pulse - CP
First measure your pulse and then do a CP. Record the results on a table. Then do reduced breathing for ten minutes. Breathe normally for three minutes, then take your pulse again and take another CP. If you’ve done your reduced breathing correctly your pulse should go down and your CP should go up. Sometimes the pulse remains the same. If it goes up you’re not doing it correctly.
After three days you should be able to do around 8 to 10 sets a day. You can then start integrating reduced breathing into your daily life. Ideally you should aim at doing reduced breathing all day.
That takes care of the exercises. Here are a few helpful hints to help your recovery.
- Don’t eat unless you are hungry. Only eat until you have had enough. Eating increases breathing; eating excessively increases breathing excessively.
- Don’t dress too warmly. Be careful not to overdress children. If you are worried about them being cold, check their ears, nose, hands and feet. If these are warm, they’re OK.
- Make sure you get plenty of vigorous exercise. But don’t exercise to the point where you have to open your mouth to breathe.
If any of these recommendations make you dizzy, sick, anxious or give you palpitations, stop immediately. If possible see a Buteyko practitioner.
Amazing medical references: 15 clinical studies claim that chronic fatigue means hyperventilation.
There are 15 astonishing medical studies that link chronic fatigue with overbreathing. You can see references for these studies further down:
Medical References
Rosen SD, King JC, Wilkinson JB, Nixon PG, Is chronic fatigue syndrome synonymous with effort syndrome? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1990 Dec; 83(12): 761-764.
Paulley JW, Hyperventilation, Recent Progress in Medicine 1990 Sep; 81(9): 594-600.
Bogaerts K, Hubin M, Van Diest I, De Peuter S, Van Houdenhove B, Van Wambeke P, Crombez G, Van den Bergh O., Hyperventilation in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: the role of coping strategies, Behav Res Ther. 2007 Nov; 45(11): p. 2679-2690. Epub 2007 Jul 20.
Vasiliauskas D1, Kavoliūniene A, Jasiukeviciene L, Grizas V, Statkeviciene A, Leimoniene L, Tumyniene V, Kubilius R., [Impact of a long-term complex rehabilitation on chronic fatigue and cardiorespiratory parameters in patients with chronic heart failure], Medicina (Kaunas). 2008;44(12):911-21.
Hypocapnia or low end-tidal CO2 in chronic fatigue syndrome
Bazelmans E, Bleijenberg G, Vercoulen JH, van der Meer JW, Folgering H., The chronic fatigue syndrome and hyperventilation, J Psychosom Res. 1997 Oct;43(4):371-7
Cook DB, Nagelkirk PR, Poluri A, Mores J, Natelson BH., The influence of aerobic fitness and fibromyalgia on cardiorespiratory and perceptual responses to exercise in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, Arthritis Rheum. 2006 Oct; 54(10): p. 3351-62.
Guilleminault C, Poyares D, Rosa A, Kirisoglu C, Almeida T, Lopes MC, Chronic fatigue, unrefreshing sleep and nocturnal polysomnography, Sleep Med. 2006 Sep;7(6):513-20. Epub 2006 Aug 24
Lee S., Estranged bodies, simulated harmony, and misplaced cultures: neurasthenia in contemporary Chinese society, Psychosom Med. 1998 Jul-Aug; 60(4): p. 448-457.
Naschitz JE, Mussafia-Priselac R, Kovalev Y, Zaigraykin N, Slobodin G, Elias N, Rosner I., Patterns of hypocapnia on tilt in patients with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, nonspecific dizziness, and neurally mediated syncope, Am J Med Sci. 2006 Jun;331(6): p. 295-303.
Natelson BH, Intriligator R, Cherniack NS, Chandler HK, Stewart JM., Hypocapnia is a biological marker for orthostatic intolerance in some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, Dyn Med. 2007 Jan 30;6:2.
Nijs J, Adriaens J, Schuermans D, Buyl R, Vincken W., Breathing retraining in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a pilot study. Physiother Theory Pract. 2008 Mar-Apr;24(2):83-94.
Razumovsky AY, DeBusk K, Calkins H, Snader S, Lucas KE, Vyas P, Hanley DF, Rowe PC., Cerebral and systemic hemodynamics changes during upright tilt in chronic fatigue syndrome, J Neuroimaging. 2003 Jan; 13(1): p. 57-67.
Saisch SG, Deale A, Gardner WN, Wessely S., Hyperventilation and chronic fatigue syndrome, Q J Med. 1994 Jan;87(1):63-7.
Sisto SA, Tapp W, Drastal S, Bergen M, DeMasi I, Cordero D, Natelson B., Vagal tone is reduced during paced breathing in patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome, Clin Auton Res. 1995 Jun; 5(3): p. 139-143.
Togo F, Natelson BH, Cherniack NS, FitzGibbons J, Garcon C, Rapoport DM., Sleep structure and sleepiness in chronic fatigue syndrome with or without coexisting fibromyalgia, Arthritis Res Ther. 2008;10(3):R56. Epub 2008 May 13.