ecstatichamster
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I may always have been hypothyroid but I think breathing exercises made me worse.
To be clear, breathing exercises form Buteyko’s work saved my life. Literally I’d be dead now without them.
But along the way, I remember having very cold hands and feet and my coaches said that was normal.
I went through two winters with absolutely frozen hands and feet it seemed.
Dr. Peat was saying in a recent interview that high thyroid people breathe more.
He said the only way to measure BMR is to breathe into a machine and those machines are old and some still laying around but are no longer used. They measure oxygen in and out so they can tell accurately how much oxygen you are really metabolizing, is I think how it works.
Buteyko taught that breathing less brings you more health. But as usual that is an over simplification.
I think breathing less lowered my metabolic rate and suppressed my thyroid. I think a healthy thyroid person breathing less will lower his metabolic rate and his thyroid too.
That’s a consequence of Buteyko breathing exercises: lower metabolic rate.
That’s my opinion today and I think it’s why Dr. Peat has never to my knowledge recommended hard core breathing exercises, but rather some casual breathing into a bag.
Dr. Peat has taught that the organism adjusts to stress through what some would call epigenetic changes.
For a reduced breathing person, the organism says “you want me to lower metabolic rate so there is less oxygen needed, so I’ll do just that.”
Everything has a consequence that at first isn’t obvious. Would I do the reduced breathing today if I were where I was then? Absolutely. It saved my life.
I still live in a lifestyle that favors reduced breathing, nose breathing, building air hunger. It feels really good to me to do that and has let me maintain a high fitness level for a person as sedentary as me.
But it also lowered my metabolic rate and I am working to increase that.
To be clear, breathing exercises form Buteyko’s work saved my life. Literally I’d be dead now without them.
But along the way, I remember having very cold hands and feet and my coaches said that was normal.
I went through two winters with absolutely frozen hands and feet it seemed.
Dr. Peat was saying in a recent interview that high thyroid people breathe more.
He said the only way to measure BMR is to breathe into a machine and those machines are old and some still laying around but are no longer used. They measure oxygen in and out so they can tell accurately how much oxygen you are really metabolizing, is I think how it works.
Buteyko taught that breathing less brings you more health. But as usual that is an over simplification.
I think breathing less lowered my metabolic rate and suppressed my thyroid. I think a healthy thyroid person breathing less will lower his metabolic rate and his thyroid too.
That’s a consequence of Buteyko breathing exercises: lower metabolic rate.
That’s my opinion today and I think it’s why Dr. Peat has never to my knowledge recommended hard core breathing exercises, but rather some casual breathing into a bag.
Dr. Peat has taught that the organism adjusts to stress through what some would call epigenetic changes.
For a reduced breathing person, the organism says “you want me to lower metabolic rate so there is less oxygen needed, so I’ll do just that.”
Everything has a consequence that at first isn’t obvious. Would I do the reduced breathing today if I were where I was then? Absolutely. It saved my life.
I still live in a lifestyle that favors reduced breathing, nose breathing, building air hunger. It feels really good to me to do that and has let me maintain a high fitness level for a person as sedentary as me.
But it also lowered my metabolic rate and I am working to increase that.