Buteyko in the News

2006

CAMPBELL LIVE: Breathing Easy
Video. Length 4:46
June 15, 2006, New Zealand, TV3 News
By Simon Shepherd

Six weeks ago we met a pair of asthmatic twins looking for a drug-free treatment.
They started the controversial Buteyko Breathing Technique. We find out if it worked.

CAMPBELL LIVE: Breathing Technique Could Help Asthma Sufferers
Video. Length 6:22
May 2, 2006, New Zealand, TV3 News
By Simon Shepherd

It's World Asthma Day, so Simon Shepherd takes a look at a little-known Russian breathing technique that's offering hope to asthma sufferers.

NEXUS Magazine:   Asthma - Ignorance or Design?
Volume13, Number 1, Dec 2005 - Jan 2006
by Jennifer Stark

The Buteyko method has had great success in controlling asthma, reversing symptoms and removing the need for medication, which is why it poses such a threat to the pharmaceutical companies....

2005

The Times OnLine - A Good Wheeze
26 November, 2005 - London, England
by Jerome Burne

Could the way you breathe make you ill? While scientists argue, a new device is claimed to help.
We’ve all heard of hyperventilation, a condition linked with panic attacks, involving very fast breathing and a dramatic loss of carbon dioxide, the gas that we normally breathe out. This leads to hypocapnia (loss of carbon dioxide), and the standard treatment is to breathe into a paper bag, which gets some of the missing carbon dioxide back into the lungs....

NEHQ:   A Breathing Breakthrough
New England Health Quarterly Autumn 2005
by Vivian Orlowski

"A new alternative can empower asthma sufferers and boost endurance for athletes.  For everyone from ailing asthmatics to active athletes, improving breathing can bring life-enhancing changes...   'Even those with severe asthma can learn in a few days how to improve their breathing while reducing drug dependency,' asserted Tom Fleming, who first studied the Buteyko method five years ago." ....

CBC Radio One Calgary EyeOpener - Buteyko Breathing
Audio Clip. Length: 6:18.
April 29, 2005, Canada
by Jim Brown

Researchers at the University of Calgary are checking out a breathing exercise program to see whether it helps people with asthma. Jim spoke with Dr. Bob Cowie and Buteyko Specialist Chris Bauman.
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Balanced Living Magazine - Buteyko: Breathe through your Nose for a Healthier Body & Mind
March-April. 2005
by Carol Baglia

"Breathing is such a regular, involuntary process that usually you do not pay attention to it unless you develop a problem such as asthma, allergies or anxiety attacks. However, breathing properly is as fundamental to your health as proper nutrition and physical exercise. A multitude of factors can cause you to breathe inappropriately. These include diet, drugs, emotions, environmental pollutants, illness, injury, financial concerns and even mannerisms. “Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health,” says alternative health guru Dr. Andrew Weil.”

2004

International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation - Buteyko: A Useful Tool in the Management of Asthma
Vol. 11, Iss. 10
01 Oct 2004, pp 476 - 480
by Sandy Stapleton

Medical management of asthma focuses on drugs which, although effective, are costly and produce side-effects. Recent evidence suggests a role for breathing interventions that reduce total ventilation, such as the Buteyko method, which has strong similarities to techniques already used by therapists to manage hyperventilation.

NPR The People's Pharmacy - Breathing For Good Health #489
Audio Clip. Length: 59:15.
April 2004
by Joe and Terry Graedon

Although most of us take breathing for granted, paying attention to breathing can affect our energy level, our blood pressure and even help control asthma. On this show we will find out how the simple act of breathing can profoundly affect our health.  GUESTS: Yashna Maya Padamsee, yoga instructor; Eina Fishman, MD, Chief of Staff, Samuel Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, NY; Susan Neves, Buteyko Instructor

2003

Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association:
Buteyko Breathing Technique for asthma: an effective intervention

12-December-2003
Vol 116 No 1187

Patrick McHugh, Fergus Aitcheson, Bruce Duncan and Frank Houghton
Conclusions: BBT is a safe and efficacious asthma management technique. BBT has clinical and potential pharmaco-economic benefits that merit further study....


2002

ABC Channel 11 Raleigh/Durham - Article Title Here
17 July, 2002
by Angela Hampton

More than 17 million Americans rely on rescue inhalers to control their asthma. Over the past 20 years, asthma rates have risen 75% in the U.S. and childhood asthma has doubled. But a simple breathing technique is helping thousands of people beat asthma-- in many cases, without medication....

2001

Health Sciences Institute - Buteyko: Breathe through your Nose for a Healthier Body & Mind
September 2001

"While mainstream treatments try to "control" asthma by throwing bronchodilators and steroids at the symptoms, an alternative therapy developed by a Russian doctor has actually eliminated the cause of asthma in over 90 percent of patients.  For the 17 million Americans suffering with asthma, this may finally provide them with true relief.”

ABC Australia News Program Catalyst: Asthma - an alternative treatment
23 August, 2001
by Ray Moynihan

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...

Australian Doctor - Study explains success of Buteyko
11 May, 2001
by Megan Howe

A study showing more than one quarter of asthmatics have symptoms of dysfunctional breathing might explain the anecdotal success of the Buteyko method in treating asthma, researchers say....

1998
BBC News - QED Program - Breathless
18 August 1998

The National Health Service (NHS) could save a fortune in drug costs if asthmatics used a simple breathing technique, according to claims made in a BBC TV programme...