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Buteyko on Television and in the Newspapers
The Buteyko Method has featured on the BBC and has been discussed
in the "broadsheet" newspapers including The Telegraph, The Times, and The Guardian.
Here's what the BBC website
says about their own Buteyko investigation:
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QED invited Sacha Stolmatski, a Russian therapist, to run a five-day Buteyko breathing
course. The three people on the course, two of whom were put forward by the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as very severe
cases, all appeared to derive benefit from the breathing exercises. Campbell
Stewart, a self-employed plumber who could hardly walk 20 yards without getting breathless and coughing, was able to cut down
on his medication within days of learning Buteyko. Several months on from the course he is now playing golf - something
he never thought possible. "I've been really good," he said. "It surpassed what I thought, because
I didn't think it would have happened, to be honest with you." Another
asthma sufferer, Tim Leon, confirms his success. He has now stopped using all asthmatic drugs. "You have to be
conscientious about it [breathing exercises], and it will differ with different people. It took me about two months to get
to the point where I had no symptoms anymore," he said. Health Stopping you enjoying your hobbies? Stopped golfing because of asthma? We can't promise a hole in one BUT after Buteyko training one man went from struggling to walk 20 yards
to walking 18 holes! Click here to read the full article
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I did a Buteyko course after having repeated
severe brittle asthma attacks which resulted in hospitalization. It changed my life. Before I attended the training course, I was taking oral and inhaled
steroids, Ventolin and another asthma reliever medication. I have not been admitted to hospital for asthma since the
course. I managed to gradually come off all steroid medication, under medical supervision, but keep Ventolin handy -
just in case. I am still asthmatic, but now I have a way of controlling it without any side effects. My overall health has
also improved. A. Roberts, Oxford. |
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The Buteyko method made a big difference, not only in
her daily life but also that of her husband. With continuing respiratory infections from bronchiectasis over 10 years,
Mrs. Keller had required use of antibiotics and daily percussion treatments by her husband in order to loosen mucous from
her distended bronchial tubes. This condition also caused coughing and snoring, which awakened her husband. As a result of instruction by Tom Fleming and practicing
Buteyko exercises three times a day, Mrs. Kellar no longer is troubled by mucous accumulation and snores only infrequently.
Never a smoker she credits the Buteyko method along with a vegetarian non-dairy diet with her health improvements and freedom
to travel more easily. "Buteyko breathing
is such a simple thing to do - it's been a godsend" she said
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Telegraph.co.uk February 2004 |
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Dr James Le Fanu reports on an asthma 'cure' to take your breath away. The young Konstantin Buteyko maintained that some of
the more distressing symptoms of asthma were due to "overbreathing", and devised a series of exercises to counter
this. But, despite impressive anecdotal reports, mainstream medicine was dismissive. The surprise, when they eventually got
around to evaluating his methods, is not that they did make a difference, which might be expected, but the scale of the difference
- with a recent study reporting a 85 per cent reduction in the use of ventolin-type drugs. Clearly there must be more to asthma than conventional explanations allow. "Buteyko's
method is a safe, efficacious alternative for the management of asthma," observed Dr Bruce Duncan in the New Zealand
Medical Journal in December. |
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I have been asthmatic for twenty years, averaging ten puffs
of Ventolin a day. Since doing a course in the Buteyko Institute Method I am off my medication completely. Julia Williams |
ABC News (Australia)
23rd August 2001 |
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After years of promoting asthma drugs for the pharmaceutical
giant Glaxo, a product manager jumps ship and begins promoting non-drug treatment - an extraordinary defection.
After finding the Buteyko breathing technique subdued his own chronic asthma, the manager resigned from the drug company
and set up his own Buteyko clinic.
Click here to read the full article
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