STOP Asthma Symptoms Once and For All

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today we’re going to talk about how to get rid of asthma symptoms okay it’s a very very powerful and uh exciting technique that you’re going to learn if you have asthma but it can also be good for people that are in stress people that have hay fever people who snore people who have sleep apnea and even people that cannot sleep now this is based on this book right here called close your mouth developed by professor bouto and it’s called the bco breathing method extremely powerful if you have asthma now before I get into it I need to give you a little background on how this works simply because it’s very counterintuitive so you have to kind of understand some Basics so if we take a healthy normal person versus an asthmatic person the average breaths per minute in a normal person is between like 10 and 12 breaths per minute but an asthmatic is 15 to 20 breaths per minute okay so they’re breathing more frequently each breath of a normal person as far as quantity of air is about 500 milliliters okay compare that to an asmatic it’s 700 milliliters to one liter of air and in a normal healthy person the volume of air per minute is about 5 to six liters compared to an asthmatic it’s 10 to 15 L of air and that’s the volume of air per per minute so you can see an asthmatic is consuming a lot more air than a normal healthy person now here’s the counterintuitive part CO2 okay is normally considered a waste gas right we breathe it out we try to get rid of it but CO2 is actually more important than oxygen okay or shall I say it’s just as important but if you have asthma it’s actually more important now to understand why you have to understand this it’s called the bore effect the bore effect is an observation by I think it was a Dr bore that The Binding of oxygen in your blood okay in the hemoglobin is dependent on co2 carbon dioxide okay in other words CO2 cannot stick to hemoglobin in your blood it can’t be carried it can’t go into the blood unless you have enough CO2 now that’s a pretty interesting piece of data that I didn’t know until recently all right so here’s the next piece of the puzzle breathing a volume of air greater than normal does not increase the amount of oxygen in your blood now that’s another counterintuitive piece of data so when you’re trying to breathe more than normal you’re not actually getting more air into the blood and the blood is already saturated at a saturation rate of between 90 and 98% so when you’re trying to breathe in more air than normal you are actually lowering the CO2 and remember we talked about this you lower CO2 and then the oxygen cannot bind in the blood and this is why when people hyperventilate okay they actually pass out because they’re getting less oxygen why because they’re getting less CO2 to be able to bind the oxygen to the hemoglobin so the more air the less oxygen is delivered all right so you got that concept let it sink in if it’s not sinking in watch this part again because it’s going to be important for this next part and one little side note uh when you breathe roughly about 75% of the oxygen that’s in the air that you breathe is exhaled when you’re breathing let’s go into the next part all right so the less CO2 you have the more the Airways are constricted so if you’re an asmatic and you just can’t get enough air realize you don’t have enough CO2 so CO2 the so-called waste gas actually relaxes your smooth muscle okay in your lungs it relaxes your lungs it actually helps you breathe so what is the real problem with asthma over breathing okay what do you normally see in an asthmatic they’re usually trying to get more air right they’re suffocating they’re constantly trying to get more air and when they over breathe they lock up the oxygen ability to bind in the hemoglobin so it makes it worse okay and this also would make sense too if you look at it from the Viewpoint of stress when you’re stressed you’re trying to breathe more you’re trying to get more air right and where are you breathing from your lungs your chest you’re breathing like this and all that extra breathing is locking up and shutting down your oxygen and you’re using more of your sympathetic nervous system it’s called the flight or fight you’re not in a calm State now this relates to a quick story um a while ago I went to lunch with a patient I had a long time ago and uh we were at lunch we were talking and all of a sudden she was like I can’t breathe I can’t breathe some food got stuck in her throat and I’m like okay how do I do the heck maneuver so I had her get up and I started to do it and it didn’t work and everyone was sitting around they weren’t really helping and they were just kind of just they were kind of like I was surprised that someone didn’t call 911 but I started getting nervous because it wasn’t working so I saw her face turning red and she’s like what am I going to do and luckily I came up with this idea I said okay calm down just relax I had her sit in a chair I started to kind of massage her neck and just don’t try to fight it just relax and then bam she started to breathe again okay why because when you’re in flight or fight mode when you’re in stress mode everything gets constricted okay including your lungs including your throat so if you’re an asthmatic you definitely want to relax but the more over breathing you do the less you’re going to get oxygen into the blood the more you’re going to have things like sleep apnea asthma hay fever and even nasal congestion so this is the technique okay and it’s really simple instead of breathing fast you want to start slowing down your breath okay instead of you know trying to sigh and get more oxygen okay or gasp for air you want to just start breathing in a very regular way and a very gentle way through your nose not your mouth okay and some people find it very helpful to just put some tape on their mouth when they go to sleep at night so they can start practicing breathing through their nose so you really want to get to a state where your breathing is very silent it’s very soft not so it’s noticeable so even if you’re laying down trying to rest and you can hear yourself breathing you don’t want that you want to breathe so it’s completely quiet and very very soft very gentle so the air that’s coming through your nose is very very light and it’s coming out through the nose very very light you don’t don’t want to breathe with your upper chest you want to focus on breathing through the stomach okay so you can pull your diaphragm down the diaphragm is inovated by the vagus nerve which is all parasympathetic nerve control so the autonomic nervous system is both voluntary and involuntary in other words you can control your autonomic nervous system through this type of breathing you can take yourself out of this sympathetic overdrive or flight or fight mode just by calming down your breath focusing on the breath coming through your sinuses very slowly and gently and coming back into your sinesis and no longer breathing through your chest breathing through your stomach now the first thing you want to do before you do anything is you want to measure how long you can hold your breath okay comfortably so this is called the comfortable breath hold time or CP all right now if you can only hold your breath 10 seconds or less then you have a severe situation okay you have severe asthma but if you can hold your breath between 11 and 20 seconds uh it’s not as severe but you’re going to probably have many symptoms related to asthma if you can hold your breath between 21 and 40 seconds you’re going to have less symptoms and if you can hold your breath over 40 seconds without that strong urge you’re going to have absolutely no symptoms related to asthma so the symptoms of asthma are directly related to your ability to hold your breath comfortably so guess what the goal is to get at this level right