"Much the same goes for the other chronic illnesses. A person who has a damaged heart has a reduced power in ejecting blood from the heart and therefore will automatically breathe more rapidly than a healthy person to maintain the required oxygen and acid/alkaline balance of the blood." ................................
Seems a little chicken versus egg to me.The underlying thinking is that excess breathing(excess to immediate requirements)depletes CO2(normally 6% in the lungs) which is needed to chemically buffer the blood pH.As the CO2 is depleted the blood tends to become slightly more alkaline which increases the strength of the molecular bond to the O2 molecule in the red blood cell, preventing it from being released into the tissue, hence hypoxia of varying degrees.
Interestingly, in relation to the other thread concerning cancer, Otto Warburg received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1931 for his discovery of the connection between low cellular oxygen in the presence of sugar, and cancer. ................................ "Asthma may however be somewhat different in that there is an inflammatory component, and this maybe why the Buteyko method helps." ................................. Buteyko argued that the inflammation associated with asthma was a result of low CO2 and was the body's attempt to conserve CO2 by constricting airways.
