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BOLT Score and CO2 Tolerance Test: How to Measure Your Breath-Hold
By Anders Olsson · Updated November 2026The control pause, also known as the BOLT score, measures how long you can comfortably hold your breath after a...
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Konstantin Buteyko: Interview 1982
Interview taken in 1982. Published in “The Buteyko Method. An Experience of Use in Medicine”, by Moscow, “Patriot” Publishers in 1990English translation originally published on www.buteyko.ru...
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Konstantin Buteyko – The Discovery
English translation originally published on www.buteyko.ru >>Konstantin Pavlovich was born in 1923 in sun-lit, fertile Ukraine. His father was a carpenter, mum v a tailor. The...
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Breathing is the Key to Stay Healthy
We spend an enormous amount of money on the quest for improving our health, our looks, our weight, our fitness, our sleep, our energy and our...
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Stress – What is it Really?
What is stress, and how does it affect the body’s nervous and hormone systems? The famous stress researcher Hans Seyle defined stress as “everything that forces...
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The Five Tibetans With The Relaxator
The Five Tibetans consist of five very simple and highly energizing yoga-like poses that provide a great way to keep your body in shape when you...
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Why Your Body Needs Carbon Dioxide: What CO2 Does
By Anders Olsson · Updated November 2026Most people think of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a waste gas your body just needs to get rid of. That's...
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What Is a CO2 Inhaler? How It Works and Who It Is For
If you're looking for a CO2 inhaler, you're likely curious about how carbon dioxide can actually benefit your breathing, focus, and energy levels. While oxygen often...
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Mouth breathing negatively affects children's smile, teeth, face and airways
Infants and children naturally breathe through their noses. However, internal and external stressors may often cause them to begin to breathe through their mouths. In a...
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The Hyperventilation Syndrome - Dr. Frances Ames Part VIII
CHAPTER 10 - REFERENCES Baker, D.M. (1934): Sighing respiration as a symptom, Lancet I (174) Barker, L.F. and Sprunt, T.P. (1922): A spontaneous attack of tetany...
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The Hyperventilation Syndrome – Dr. Frances Ames Part VII
CHAPTER 9 - APPENDIX OF CASE HISTORIES This appendix summarizes forty cases individually. In all of them, except case 20, the symptoms and signs were reproduced...
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The Hyperventilation Syndrome - Dr. Frances Ames Part VI
CHAPTER 7 - DISCUSSION It has become evident that a great deal of illness is of emotional origin and that all illness has its emotional component....
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The Hyperventilation Syndrome - Dr. Frances Ames Part V
Download in pdf-format >> TABLE l. The changes in pulse volume after a single deep breath in normal subjects and in hyperventilators. Normal subjects.Normal pulse volume...
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The Hyperventilation Syndrome – Dr. Frances Ames Part IV
CHAPTER 6 - EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PERIPHERAL VASCULAR PHENOMENA OF THE HYPERVENTILATION SYNDROMEHISTORICAL REVIEWIt is more than 50 years since the association between deep breathing...
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The Hyperventilation Syndrome - Dr. Frances Ames Part III
CHAPTER 4 - DIAGNOSIS AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Diagnosis is not difficult if one is aware of the syndrome. It must be made on positive grounds with...
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The Hyperventilation Syndrome – Dr. Frances Ames Part II
CHAPTER 3 - CLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS This series comprises forty patients who were seen during a two-year period at Groote Schuur Hospital. They were referred...
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The Hyperventilation Syndrome - Dr. Frances Ames Part I
Dr. Frances Ames was a remarkable woman from South Africa. She was a neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist. During her infancy in the early 1920s,...
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The Treatment of Pneumonia by Inhalation of Carbon Dioxide
Published January 1930 in Archives of Internal MedicineYandell Henderson, PhD, Howard W. Harggard, MD, New Haven Connecticut and Pol N. Corrylos, MD, George L. Birnbaum, MD,...
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