Do you have shortness of breath?

Do you take sudden gasps of air?

These are classic signs of sub-conscious hyperventilation. 

I haven’t posted about this in a long while, but I still do Buteyko Breathing, not as much as I used to.   But back in the spring of 2011, I got rid of a LOT of secondary symptoms by reducing hyperventilation via Buteyko

The following is a link to the Nijmegen Questionaire for hyperventilation.  Check it out!  See how many symptoms you have.  Report your score

http://www.bradcliff.com/?page_id=62

Here is a study showing that the questionnaire is very accurate for accessing chronic hyperventilation.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4009520

In a nut shell …. Chronic stress leads to chronic hyperventilation.  The source of stress doesn’t matter.  Your CO2 set-point becomes too low.  Buteyko works to retrain your set-point.

Here is a You Tube video on how to measure your “ control pause” (CP).   The lower your CPs, the more you are hyperventilating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWUxOGTDd3s

I started at ~ 11 seconds in March 2011, which is pretty bad.  This is when I had very bad shortness of breath.   I did get it up to 36 seconds at one point.

Any source of stress will reduce you CP, since stress make you hyperventilate.  People report that EMF exposure from computers will reduce their CP. 

For Ray Peat fans, here he is talking about the importance of CO2. 

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/co2.shtml