tissue oxygenation is under our control

[Guest guest]

Dear friends,

Hypoxia is the fundamental cause of cancer (see titles below). Over

99% people do not know which breathing pattern provides maximum

tissue oxygenation. Moreover, practical experience of Russian doctors

practing breathing retraining found dissappearance of tumours when

the BHT (oxygenation index) gets up to 35-40 s 24/7 (stages 1 and 2).

Dr. Artour Rakhimov

www.normalbreathing.com

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[Guest guest]

Sure, Guru K,

Hatha yoga is a great system and my breathing teacher

MD Buteyko had the highest opinion about it. What

matters for tissue and tumour oxygenation is how we

breathe unconsciously since we can do various things

(including exercises you mentioned) with our

breathing, but maybe for 1-2 hours per day only. For

remaining 22-23 hours we can only control breathing

and our oxygenation indirectly: using diet, posture,

thermoregulation, exercise, relaxation, forgiveness,

not sleeping on the back, breathing only through the

nose, using the diaphragm for breathing (you are

right, for consistent massage of the lymph nodes

located just under the diaphragm), etc. Hence,

oxygenation connected with all these factors.

The question is what is wrong with breathing and

oxygenation when we get sicker. All medical western

evidence shows that sick people breathe heavier (about

2-4 times more air every minute 24/7), but oxygenation

and breath holding time of sick people, cancer

included, is less. This is the paradox of breathing

that I explain on GoogleVideo (9 minute clip):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6470121083854787500 & hl=en

We can do pranayama, “Breath of Fire”, alternative

nostrils, and many other wonderful exercises, but the

long term effects on our unconscious breathing

patterns (e.g., when we sleep), this is matters most.

Regards, Artour.