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Asthma-Free Naturally: Everything You Need to Know About Taking Control of Your Asthma--Featuring the Buteyko Breathing Method Suitable for Adults and Children

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Asthma free naturally. The medical profession have overlooked probably the only factor guaranteed to help solve your asthma. For some reason, people are not told to close their mouth or to correct their breathing. Why is this?
Is there too much income to be earned from the existing structure? The Asthma Society who are suppossed to be our friends are funded by drug companies and so are afraid to rock the boat.
Give asthmatics inhalers for the rest of their life and spend no research on hyperventilation. The medical profession have a lot to answer for.
Meanwhile millions suffer- people like you and me.

If you are asthmatic- you will understand what I mean from reading this book. I cannot understand the logic, of why this is not taught to every adult and child.

Forest fire smoke came rolling into the Las Vegas Valley back in July and suddenly my lungs weren't working despite having no history of breathing problems. In fact I used to be about the healthiest person I know! Diagnosis? Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome (RADS), which is similar to asthma (chronic chest tightness, shortness of breath, worsened by exercise and bad air quality) but it does not respond to asthma medication and I refused to take a course of steroids.

I'd been following the supplement program as outlined in "Reversing Asthma: Breathe Easier with This Revolutionary New Program" by Richard Firshein, DO, but my condition had not measuraby improved. After 4 months I started to feel a bit hopeless.

I had to wait almost 4 weeks for this book to arrive, it's not very popular in the US, but it was worth the wait. After only 10 days of doing the Buteyko exercises outlined in this book I was able to resume exercising and now have moments when I have no discomfort at all!

Private lessons for the Buteyko method are about $400. Videos run $100 or more. This little $16 book might not be as thorough as those options for learning the Buteyko method (or maybe it is!) but I've learned enough to be able to markedly improve my condition in less than two weeks. I still can't believe what a difference it has made, and in so short a time. And I'm going to keep doing the exercises until I'm fully recovered and my control pause is at least 40 seconds (it's already gone from 10 to 20)!

I now have hope for a full recovery from my condition thanks to Patrick McKeown.

I have had asthma for nearly 23 years and had been steadily increasing my medication over the years which was worrying. I was always sporty and found it increasingly difficult to keep up exercise without lapsing into a coughing attack. However, when I stumbled across this book I got my life back. The simple exercises have allowed me to gradually decrease my medication. I am back playing sport 3 times a week without any wheeziness. I feel fantastic and my quality of life has improved immensly as a result. I cannot believe that by only spending 14.99 i have reversed my asthma and reduced my spending on medication by hundreds of euros a year. I am truly grateful to Patrick McKeown who has given me back a quality of life I thought was long gone.

Buteyko breathing and helpful accounts of diet and exercise- ground breaking stuff. I would advise readers to do their research on Buteyko especially if they have breathing related problems. The site of the book is http://www.asthma-care.com/ - look at the history, conditions, and scientific evidence from the New Zealand Medical Journal and Australia Medical Journal. It is incredible that this approach has not being adopted into mainstream medication - maybe this will happen but will surely take time. You can take the first steps now- read this book

Can you answer the following:
Why do I continue to need my inhaler after 1, 5, 15 years?
Why do my airways constrict?
How could I begin to change the physiology of my body to live with asthma better?
If you are willing to take the chance, get this book and read it, think about it, and do the exercises. Just by concentrating on nose breathing and keeping my mouth closed 24 hours a day, I have begun to concentrate less on how much air I take in and instead on how I should decrease the amount and let my nose do its job. More MD's should be trained in the Buteyko method. What do they have to lose?

Just as the book promises, I easily stopped my coughing and wheezing with this and the book Close Your Mouth. In addition I snored and this has stopped too. Nicely written, well explained without too much fluff. The exercises are appliable from the book.
Overall both books have helped me tremendously. I could not recommend them more.

For over ten years, I have grappled with asthma and little did I know that a simple breathing technique and lifestyle guidelines could provide me with such positive and lifechanging results. The book itself is well laid out, information at the start is a general synopsis of what asthma is about and the bones of the self help follows on. It was easy to follow with little jargon and the exercises themselves were easy to understand. It did take a little while for me to make the switch from mouth to nasal breathing and apply other recommendations such as keeping the mouth closed at night. One exercise teaching how to unblock the nose works like magic - by simply holding the breath. Now I nasal breathe, my coughing and wheezing has improved dramatically.I recommend this book to any person with asthma.

I loved this book. Simple, consise, practical and honest. Look at your lifstyle and make simple changes to your breathing. You know you are on the right track when you feel a lot better.

If there is ever a life changing book for asthma- this is it. I have grappled with this condition for 45 years and nobody seemed to be able to cast any light on why it was progressing. The simple exercises in this book which can be practised in your car or as part of your normal day have changed my condition dramatically. I think this is a god send for all asthmatics who cannot afford not to read it.

I loved this book and found it of utmost benefit. It is life changing unlike many asthma books promising everything but failing to deliver. This book provides a great degree of understanding to an otherwise frightening and complicated condition.

Comes highly recommended.

Jim