Answer: See the list of the malaises overcome by means of a Buteyko Method. Your specific diagnosis will be taken into consideration only if you are going to visit us. In this case, please send us an electronic (or regular mail) message with a brief case report, current diagnosis, and a list of drugs taken in.

Answer: If you haven't learned the Buteyko Method within ten days for a selftreatment, you either entirely misunderstand the Method or are studying not the Buteyko method. If you study the Method with a practitioner, turn to a more qualified one. Answer: We do not normally answer such questions since qualified practitioners stick to the obvious rule of never advising patients who studied under another practitioner.

Yes. Stamina improves, and, if symptoms have been experienced during exercise, this gradually reduces to become an experience of the past.

Answer: We strongly recommend using only the article: "The First-Hand Buteyko Method". See the "Popular Publications" page of this website. If this does not help, please do not begin experimenting, just turn to an expert.

Answer: The Buteyko Method is a system of principles and scientific conclusions that are impossible to protect by patents or other legal means. There are two patents pertaining to the Method. The first one is the "Method of Treatment of Hemohypocarbia", whose restrictive action has expired (the author and owner - K.P Buteyko). The other patent is still effective; it is the "Conscious Correction of Breathing" patent (author and owner is Margarita A. Buteyko from Cheliabinsk).

Safe and natural breathing exercises tailored to the individual and depending on medical history, coupled with simple and easy to implement dietary and lifestyle changes.

The Buteyko Method is helpful for any illness, since the body can deal with difficulties more effectively when gas exchange is normal and when the balance between carbon dioxide and oxygen is correct. It is particularly effective for any of the breath related disorders such as sinus, cough, COPD, emphysema, sleep apnoea, bronchiectasis, bronchitis and blocked nose.

Yes. The outcome is not as satisfactory as a young person with a shorter history. Even so the condition at first stops getting progressively worse, and then gradually improves to give a better quality of life that perhaps an individual thought no longer possible.

The Buteyko Method is helpful for any illness, since the body can deal with difficulties more effectively when a person is breathing normally, i.e. gas exchange is normal and when the balance between carbon dioxide and oxygen is correct. The Method is particularly effective for any of the breath-related disorders such as hayfever, rhinitis, sinusitis, coughing, COPD, emphysema, bronchiectasis, bronchitis, Hyperventilation Syndrome, panic attacks, snoring/sleep apnoea.

Professor Buteyko, whilst completing his medical training, did a piece of work on breathing and health. He found that the sicker someone was, the more they breathed. So he set about exploring the connection between breath rate and disease. During periods of disease he found that the breath rate increased way over what is considered normal. He found that over 250 medical complaints responded favourably to breath reduction, the most noticeable being asthma.

More information is contained within our sister site, Buteyko Asthma and Health Care, including newspaper articles, conditions that can benefit, how you can tell if you are overbreathing, patient testimonials, and clinical trials and research findings.

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The Buteyko Method normalises breathing. The exercises result in a gradual reduction in the overall intake and output of breath. Oxygen levels remain optimal, as with normal rate breathing oxygen levels are 98%, but what does change are the levels of carbon dioxide that are exhaled. This important gas is produced in the body and serves to keep the airways open and improve oxygen absorption.

It is more correct to view the Buteyko Method as a method for controlling asthma symptoms. Once the programme has been adhered to for long enough to normalise breathing, symptoms cease to occur.

Children as young as five manage well, so it really only needs very basic skills to be able to master the method.

Not at present, though it is hoped that the NHS will adopt the Buteyko Method as frontline management for asthma in the future.

In the UK, the therapy has been featured on a number of television programmes including the BBC's 'QED' science programme and 'Inside Out', ITV's 'Tonight with Trevor McDonald' and the "Pride of Britain awards", and Channel 4's 'Richard and Judy' show. In addition several case study articles have appeared in various newspapers and magazines.

long as a child can follow simple instruction, they can learn the Buteyko Method. Generally I take children over five years old and up.