
And here it begins: the parents are on guard, the fight goes on, sometimes for years. Therefore, we wake him up after 1-2 hours, he practices decreasing respiration…Ĭhildren, especially asthmatics, or the deep-breathing children turn themselves over on the tummy during sleep. The longer he sleeps, the more chances that his breathing will be increased causing attacks. Our patients with deep breathing practice, but cannot control their breathing at night, and hence, sleep is actually a poison for them. We should lie down only for a minimum amount of time, and only when sleeping.

Many severely sick patients remain sitting up, afraid to lie down. Buteyko’s Lecture in the Moscow State University, 1972), Buteyko and his colleagues about sleeping on the backĪccording to clinical observations of Dr. When you get over 60 s CP, you can sleep in any posture you like and enjoy a higher degree of flexibility and freedom in terms of your sleeping position without having to experience any negative health effects. Furthermore, their sleep was probably about 2 hours due to their high CP level– around 3 min CP – see the Buteyko Table of Health Zones. If you try it, you can find that it is hard to breathe in this position. The only exception I have heard about relates to American Indians who probably slept on their backs some 2-3 centuries ago while propping their heads against a stone so that their chins were pressing against their chests. However, all people (who tried so far sleeping on their back) found that it causes reduced body oxygenation and has the worst impact on health. If you find that your body-oxygen content does not decrease (or maybe it even improves) after sleeping on your back, you must sleep on the back all the time. As a result, sleeping on one’s back intensifies breathing and causes ineffective, heavy, and/or irregular breathing patterns. Sleeping on the back causes the lowest body oxygenation since our breathing is unrestricted: our belly and chest muscles can move without any restrictions. Note that you should spend about 10-15 minutes in a certain position in order to achieve a stable metabolism which corresponds to this sleeping position before you can measure the effectiveness of any sleeping position on your health. Perform this test after sleeping in different sleeping positions. These doctors suggested using this body-oxygen test to check different sleep positions. – supine sleep (see the web page Sleep Positions for more detail). Buteyko doctors also discovered the following order of sleeping positions for maximum health benefits (the best at the top and the worst and the bottom): They suggested that supine sleep and mouth breathing during sleep are the key causes that the explain highest mortality rates in the severely sick with chronic diseases. These doctors intensively investigated sleep and its effects on health. Over 170 Soviet and Russian practical Buteyko breathing medical doctors tested thousands of people with various health problems and suggested that their body oxygen level (which is measured with the CP test – see instructions in the link below) is the best ever-known health-state indicator.

Benefits of the body-oxygen test for testing supine sleep As a result, it is smart to stop and prevent supine sleep. These abstracts are quoted in Module 6-B: Sleep Positions. Several of these studies found lowered blood oxygenation for sleeping on the back. These studies tested 100s of people for effects of different sleep positions, and found that sleeping on the back leads to higher incidence of sleep paralysis (with terrifying hallucinations), stroke, asthma, increased airway resistance, and sleep apnea episodes: see best sleep positions for the summary and a separate page with abstracts and details of these studies. Medical research (over 25 Western clinical studies) testifies about the adverse effects of supine sleep on different groups of adults.

Medically Reviewed by Naziliya Rakhimova, MD Module 6 (Part A). Artour Rakhimov, Alternative Health Educator and Author Proofread by Samson Hui Proofreader on July **, 2019īy Dr.
