T.S.

From Mike:
These "normal" people worry me.
Our tests statistics show a strong correlation with lowered reported illness and slower breath rate. Essentially the traditional medical field focuses on illness. The complementary/alternative holistic field on health.  Pay close attention to the clinical studies page relating to Cross Sectional Studies as opposed to longitudinal ones.  

Cross sectional studies include undiagnosed sick people. Sick from the standpoint of the "norm" being much too far from real healthy or "normal".  For example, the class average including 5 morons in a group of 5 geniuses is bound to lower the learning expectation.

Including those with non optimal health in a given group to establish clinical norms will lower the expectation of acceptable health quality and allow for increased undetected poor health to worsen because no one sees the need to take action.  Too-wide parameters instead of narrower ones in a blood test is another example. Here is a link a blood testing service with a much tighter window for health.

btw, there is ample evidence that athletics is good to a point but harmful after that.  Where is that point?  The wider the so called norms are the sooner the athlete develops signs of trouble that are overlooked by contemporary assessments.  Lots of sports/exercise induced asthma and heart attacks these days.  If the parameters were tighter they would be dissuaded or better counseled against the activity that is worsening or causing the problem.  For example I prefer using 190 beats per minute as the top heart rate deduct one's age from to measure exercising heart rates.  But that is just my own conservative approach. 

I view a 20 breath rate meaning that the person’s nervous system is constantly stressed and will need constant medical attention of some sort.  Like running a car engine at 5,000 RPM while at a stop sign or in the garage. The engine will burn out much sooner.

We shoot for 5 breaths per minute. Recommended program. mike

Dear Breathing.com:
I have heard that breathing exercises such as slowly in and out for 4 counts each way and holding in between for 10 counts will gradually increase ones chest size. I believe the term is a "barrel chest". I am just wondering about the mechanics of this. How effective is this and how exactly does it work and can be maximized? Would this be worthwhile for someone with a flat chest? Thank you for your time and expertise.

Dear Chris: Breath holding is not a good idea.  One can increase chest size but it must be done with care not to create a large stiff "barrel shaped high-chest lest the lungs be restricted in their contraction, the diaphragm in its excursion (rise)  and the heart and organs not massaged enough by the reduced rise and fall of the maximal excursion of the diaphragm. The chest must be certain shape that we teach in our primary self help program and school. More like a pear hanging downward with variations.  The  self help program will greatly add to chest size without breath holding.  Recommended Program

The prednisone was awful on her and an apparent allergic reaction to the dye for a test almost killed her.

In 1948, Mom was 17 and diagnosed with pneumonias. (I was born in 1951)and her father had arranged for her funeral and had even ordered the flowers! Some angel back then recognized the virus as being something she contracted from one of her friends who had been in the service in the Philippines. They sent to the Philippines for a vaccine which, seemingly miraculously, saved her life at the last moment. (Most pleasantly for me and my siblings!)

Now she is off the prednisome and we need another angel!

Do you know what this vitus and/or vaccine could be? Some say the microchrondia would still be there. (I'm a layman, obviously!) is that possible? What treatments would you recommend? Would Microhydrin and MMX help her breathe? What about systemic enzyme therapy? Bromelain?

I'm going to use information from your site to try to help. (Please help us any way you can! (Feel free to edit this letter for your site if needed)

Thank you! Charles & Mary H

From Mike:

It is interesting to see the progression from bronchitis to fibrosis. This is logical. Had the "medical" people used natural means initially she may well not have gotten worse and recovered. I suspect that in this example PF is an extreme of bronchitis.  So my question is then can pulmonary fibrosis be reversed to bronchitis that we already know can then often be eliminated, without drugs.

You seem to be looking for a magic bullet (an alternative expression for some ONE thing that will make THE difference). I would address the problem on every level possible; holistically. Including coming to Charlotte.   http://www.breathing.com/no-more-bronchitis.htm.  Good luck. She is lucky to have such caring children.

From Mike:
I worked on a woman today that had tremors much the same as I evidenced Katherine Hepburn doing during talk show interviews.

This woman's breathing was horribly uncoordinated. She met me with defeated posture and downward gaze. She had very little sense of what it should feel like and how it should function. 30 minutes later she left me feeling "very good". Color came back into her face. She seemed to shake a little less.

There are very specific, safe and painless techniques even a relative or close friend can be trained to do for a loved one. Recommended Program

One more question I didn't think to ask as am so used to living with it. One of my lungs doesn't seem to "work right". I think there are distortions to that side, to the muscles and the bones, possibly from the birth process but at least from infancy. That side can't expand as much, and I get 'asthma' on only that side. I've never gotten any doctor or chiropractor to figure it out, or actually even acknowledge it.

Any thoughts?

From Mike:

Asthma has a lot to do with physical breathing restrictions as well as autonomic nervous system energetic imbalance.

The diaphragm shrinks irregularly up and down like a one half football (curved portion upward) turning from a half of a plum to a wrinkled prune with shrink lines up and down from top to bottom like a pin striped suit. As it shrinks it is reduced in height, irregularly like from a football's oval to the skyline of several hills. The more it shrinks the more it puts stress on the entire nervous system.

I suspect that the shrink pattern has something to do with trauma to the excessively shrunken area. When the body gets traumatized it gets stiff. For example, being tackled with a helmet in the kidney area in football or falling out of a crib or down stairs creates stiffness in the muscles and connective tissues surrounding the immediate area of impact as well as perhaps hundreds of other muscles and tendons. Optimal breathing coordination is hindered. And if the stiffness is not softened by proper exercise or bodywork or whatever, then the body, in that area, will become more dense and less supple and tend to not expand or contract as well as it could. Children can even grow up with that bias and the traumatized area and imbalance gets larger and more significant as they grow older and larger.

This throws the entire breathing balance into a more or less erratic function and if the imbalance is chest dominant then asthma, which is primarily a high chest breathing dominant malady, may appear.

See if the below page gives you more insight on this.

http://www.breathing.com/articles/diaphragm-development.htm

I cover it more clearly in a new video-manual combo.

If you have the manual you will understand it even more.
Another option for you is to have a phone consultation with me.