Nov 24, 2015 | Anxiety, Asthma, Asthma and Exercise, Asthma and Food, Exercises to Combat Asthma, Exercises to Combat Sleep Disorders, History of Buteyko, How is Your Breathing, Information about Buteyko, Science of Sleep Disorders, Sleep Disorders, The Facts About Asthma, What is Insomnia?, What is Sleep Apnea?, What is Snoring?, Your Breathing Muscles
When we take a breath of fresh air into our lungs, oxygen passes from the lungs to the blood where it is picked up and carried through the blood vessels by a molecule called haemoglobin. This oxygen-rich blood is then pumped by the heart throughout the body so that...
Nov 24, 2015 | Anxiety, Asthma, Asthma and Exercise, Exercises to Combat Asthma, Exercises to Combat Sleep Disorders, How is Your Breathing, Information about Buteyko, Sleep Disorders, The Facts About Asthma, What is Insomnia?, What is Sleep Apnea?, What is Snoring?
Breathing can be measured in two ways: the first is to count the number of breaths per minute; the second is to determine the size of each breath. Normal breathing rate for a grown adult at rest is about twelve breaths per minute, taking in half a litre of air per...
Mar 25, 2014 | The Facts About Asthma
There are many and varied breathing therapies, plenty of which I have tried, particularly when I was really suffering from my asthma. However, I can honestly say that Buteyko is the only one that has ever produced lasting results for me. There is evidence...
Mar 25, 2014 | The Facts About Asthma
Why is it that nasal breathing can be so much more beneficial to us than mouth breathing? The nose has a number of features designed to bring cold dry outside air to a more acceptable condition before it enters the lungs. The mouth, however, is not intended to...
Mar 25, 2014 | The Facts About Asthma
Before you commence breathing retraining, it is important for you to have a basic understanding of the roles played by the respiratory system and carbon dioxide in your body. Your respiratory system consists of the parts of your body used for the delivery of oxygen...
Mar 25, 2014 | The Facts About Asthma
There is no universally accepted definition of asthma. The Concise Oxford Dictionary describes it as ‘a disease of respiration characterised by difficult breathing, cough etc.’. Any good medical book will describe it in more technical terms but ‘difficult breathing’ is...
