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What Do We Actually Know About Breathing and Health/Illness?

• We know that all of the ancient healing practices, including those from China, India, Egypt and Japan all involve breathing.
• We know that sometimes taking up an activity like swimming can change asthma status. As can changing your diet, changing your job or where you live or even just your mattress. Your asthma can get better or worse following a seemingly unrelated change.
• We know that there are thousands of stories of people who go on strange diets, or just meditate all day and have been relieved of usually fatal illnesses. You will know people who have had large variations in symptom level without really changing anything obvious. Asthma can seem to come and go. Another term is to "Grow out of asthma." Or in fact to "Grow into asthma." Developing asthma for the first time at a late age is becoming more and more common.
• We know that "modern" medical science is certain that how you breathe is vital to health. All major hospitals and physiotherapists teach some kind of breathing which is supposed to help a little. But what thought or research has actually been done on breathing levels? Has anyone actually measured the breathing of people with various conditions - then compared them with very healthy people?
• We know that when people are really ill or dying, their breathing is very clearly different from when they were healthy. If you have seen someone on their death bed, you may have noticed that their breathing gets deeper and deeper as they get closer to death. You may also have noticed that the unconscious breathing of people who are in excellent shape when they are at rest is so slight of depth that they appear to be completely still.
• This is the clue that started a young Russian Doctor on a path which has been at odds with conventional practice since the 1940's. This clue led the young Doctor KP Buteyko to develop a model which is easily able to give the cause of several diseases of the 20th Century, including asthma.
• It is very simple, and can be easily shown to be effective in practice. A simple breath-holding test gives a different result when taken by an asthmatic. The worse the condition, the lower the score. The less affected by asthma, the higher the score. After a little practice with other breathing exercises, your asthma decreases as your score increases.
• Take the simple test called a "Measurement (or Control) Pause" now.

• It explains clearly and simply the direct link between your breathing and symptoms like asthma and migraine and hay fever.
• It shows you the most effective way to change your breathing for better health.
• And very importantly, it has been proven to work by tens of thousands of people, plus the Clinical Trial which left absolutely no doubt.

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