Asthma and Breathing

• Breathing is one of the most important things you can change to improve the way your body functions.

• To have good health, you must have good breathing.

• The link between asthma and hyperventilation has been observed and written about in medical literature since at least 1945.

• Deep breathing as a cause of fatality in animals was observed in experiments conducted in 1909 by Dr. Henderson.

• Asthmatics generally hyperventilate or over-breathe up to 3 times more than is normal, even between attacks.

• During attacks, their breathing increases even more. This encourages spasm of the bronchi and decreases the efficiency with which oxygen is taken up.

• Fear, anxiety, poor breath control and lack of understanding makes asthma worse than it needs to be for most sufferers.

• Learning to breathe effectively gives asthmatics an important tool to help themselves.

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