Heart Diseases: strong vessels - long life

In 1995, the British Heart Journal published a study (Clark et al, 1995) by researchers from the National Institute for Heart and Lung Research in London. The respiration of the heart All 88 patients at rest 10 to 18 l /min. This is approximately 2-3 times longer than standard: 6 l /min at rest for a 70-kilogram man.

In 2000, a study from the breast-a group of magazine American Heart professionals showed that patients with chronic heart failure was 14 to 18 l /min (Johnson et al, 2000).

Lately, Greek doctors from the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens recorded ventilation values ranging from 11 to 19 l /min for heart patients from their hospital (Dimopoulou et al, 2001).

In addition, more than a decade a group of 10 doctors published their findings in relation to the respiration of cardiac patients in the American Journal of Cardiology. This MD hyperventilation provocation test with more than 200 heart patients. Patients were asked to hyperventilate. It was noted that all patients coronary spasm (Nakao et al, 1997). The title of their study "hyperventilation as a specific test for the diagnosis of coronary spasm." The cause of the spasm was too low CO2 levels in the blood due to over-breathing.

How can hyperventilation affect the heart? The main effects are due to CO2 deficiency.

* Low blood CO2 levels lead to a narrowing of small blood vessels (arteries and spasm of arterioles) in the whole body. This causes two problems. First, as a group of Japanese medical experts found, under the terms of the lack of CO2, the reduced blood flow to the heart muscle (Okazaki et al, 1991). Therefore, cardiac tissue is less oxygen, glucose and other nutrients. Secondly, because the small blood vessels have the largest share of the total resistance in relation to blood flow, CO2 deficiency increases resistance to blood flow and makes the heart work harder.

* the suppressed Bohr effect, due to low CO2 levels in the blood, further reducing oxygen supply to the heart muscle (oxygen can not be efficiently provided by red blood cells, causing tissue hypoxia). It is now known that low oxygen supply to the heart is the cause of angina pain.

* The excited neurons in the heart (the cells, called pacemaker) with the normal sync and harmony in the working of the heart muscle. (The valves open and close should be the right time, much like a well tuned engine.). Desynchronization, the entire process of blood pumping more or less efficient energy-and oxygen-demanding.

* Abnormal metabolism of fats leads, because the Russian medical studies, an elevated blood cholesterol in some people. This condition gradually, over a period of weeks or months, produces cholesterol deposits on the walls of blood vessels in genetically predisposed people. Such deposits can, primary hypertension. As Russian published studies suggest that the degree of excess has a linear relationship with blood cholesterol levels.

* mouth breathing (both at rest and during exercise) is an additional negative momentum in most heart patients. It prevents normal absorption of nitric oxide (a hormone and powerful dilator of blood vessels) are synthesized in the nasal passages.

Which parts of the cardiovascular system are the most affected?

The answer depends on genetic predisposition and environmental factors. There are so many factors that can affect the normal functioning of the cardiovascular system. The people are different. Some are chronic heart failure, other high blood pressure, or stroke, or multiple abnormalities in the heart muscle.

Therefore, it is reasonable to suggest that cardiovascular disease is a severe respiratory disease clinic. It exists only in a climate of chronic hyperventilation. Heart patients too hard to breathe in peace, and even higher in acute phase. If heart patients to slow down and normalize their breathing, they would not on their symptoms and not on their medication. Currently there is only one medical oxygen therapy even practiced by hundreds of health and doctors in Russia and other countries. It is known as the Buteyko breathing method.

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Dr. Artour Rakhimov is one of the leading world experts in self-oxygenation, breathing and the Buteyko oxygenation medical therapy. He is the author of books and the educational website http://www.normalbreathing.com devoted to natural self-oxygenation, breathing education and breathing retraining.

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