I saw someone on hexbear mention it a while ago, and went on my own research rabbit hole. It seems pretty cool, and I believe it could cure diseases and increase health in general, it’s just hard. The jist is a Soviet doctor named Buteyko realized breathing less and increasing CO2 in one’s body can greatly improve health. His method is to do lots of breath exercises, stay active, and eat healthily. I’ve been doing 15 minutes of exercises everyday for a few weeks, but it’s slow, and my control pause is a terrible 9 (probably part of why I’m always tired. Fuck school for making me wake up at an unnatural time and making me sit so long). The people around me irl that I’ve mentioned it to seem to think it’s too hard or a waste of time. For better or worse, I’m also a modernist, believing in human “perfectibility” with the right conditions and influences.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buteyko/comments/c8px11/start_here_intro_faq_of_rbuteyko/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/fjh47l/a_buddhist_monks_experience_with_buteyko/
What do you think? Is it legit? Do any of you practice?
Remember you can be honest and still wrong. “Feelings” you get are not science based medicine. The placebo effect is very strong indeed.
I don’t have time to look into it right now, but a lot of times preliminary studies that are not decisive will sometimes be forwarded as evidence when it’s really not. Also, there are for-profit journals where you can publish junk science (I mean all journals are for profit. But at least some of them try to do good science. At any rate, there are definitely journals that do not give a shit about science and are just there to make money. This is, of course, a problem with capitalism, but we’re talking about science right now.)
No it is not. Please be aware that the way your body naturally breathes is just fine unless you have a very well-known breathing condition.
I’m sorry, but this is junk science through and through.
I was going to look more into the evidence eventually.
I did notice on one study they claimed as evidence it just said five minutes of breath work (but not Buteyko) made people happier than meditation (that’s obviously too short for actual meditation).