Increasing CO2 resistance for a better health, better breathing, less allergies, better sleep quality and better digestion, these are all the benefits from “buteyko breathing”.
Buteyko breathing consists in breathing less. Breathing less for a better health.
CO2 has always been seen as a “bad gas” that has to be released from the body. But CO2 is crucial for a good oxygenation of the body. This comes from the Bohr effects :
"CO2 is a catalyst for the chemical release of O2 from hemoglobin cells. This phenomenon is called the Bohr effect and it can be found in many medical textbooks (e.g., Ganong, 1995, Starling & Evans, 1968). Bohr and his colleagues (1904) first described this effect. How does it work?
In normal conditions (when we breathe about 6 l/min), arterial blood is 96-98% saturated with O2 due to a fresh air supply to the lungs. When the arterial blood arrives at the tissues, some O2 is released by its carriers, the hemoglobin cells (red blood cells). What is the reason for this chemical release? The cells of the organism also breathe, and the more they breathe the more CO2 is produced. These elevated values of CO2 in tissues increase the CO2 level in the blood due to CO2 diffusion from the tissues. As a result, the greater the amount of CO2 in the blood, the more O2 is going to be released from the hemoglobin cells for the tissues to use, since CO2 is a catalyst causing this chemical reaction."
The goal here would be to breath less (less O2 L/min), make our body more accustomed to CO2.
The progression of this breathing can be measured with the Control Pause (CP). The control pause is a holding of the breath after an ordinary exhalation of air, until you experience the first TINY desire to breathe in! Until the very first, very tiniest desire!
A CP below 20 means that you are hyperventilating in your everyday life (CP<10 probably means you have asthma)
A CP>40 means your are in good health in general, and your breathing is slow and efficient.
A field in order to increase the CP would be so helpful for people like me having asthma. I’ve tried so many fields related to lungs and oxygenation but nothing really helps. The deep breathing field helps a little bit, but I think we need a field to increase the CP.