380: CO2 is Your Friend with Dr. Artour Rahkimov

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

“Inhale fresh, life-giving oxygen… exhale toxic, dead carbon dioxide,” said my yoga teacher. I’ve heard some variation of this hundreds of times in classes. Oxygen is good, carbon dioxide is bad. In with the good, out with the bad. Right?

As it turns out, this kindergarten understanding of breathing physiology is wrong. Most of us could really benefit from more CO2 because it opens up your air passageways, relaxes smooth muscle tissues, and allows for greater absorption of oxygen. Lack of CO2 actually leads to a lack of oxygen. Confused yet? Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

On this week’s show, we’ll set the record straight and help you understand why slow breathing boosts CO2, and why that’s a good thing.

Listen & Learn:

The CO2 paradox: why you need carbon dioxide to actually absorb oxygen
Why 4-6 liters of air per minute is what we need but most people breathe 2x that much
How over-breathing reduces (not increases) oxygen levels
Why over-breathing and mouth breathing is associated with dozens of neurological disorders and diseases
How to slow down your breath

Links & Resources:

Artour’s Site

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Artour Rahkimov has been teaching the Buteyko method and breath retraining to thousands of students for more than 17 years. He was trained by Ludmila Buteyko and Dr. Andrey Novoh-zhilov, MD, the Chief Physician of the Buteyko Clinic in Moscow. Dr. Artour trained numerous breathing practitioners in the US, Germany and Denmark.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood Show. I'm a yoga teacher, a trainer, a serial
0:07.6	entrepreneur, and a father. First and foremost, though I'm a student I love
0:11.3	learning. I started this show a few hundred episodes ago
0:14.7	because I wanted access to smarter people I wanted a platform where I could call up
0:19.3	PhDs and medical doctors and biophysicists and all kinds of interesting people and
0:24.3	learn stuff about the human body about personal growth and development about health
0:28.4	and nutrition and of course about yoga things that I'm interested in and it's been
0:32.2	a real pleasure to find out that
0:33.7	thousands of you in fact tens of thousands of you are interested in tuning in every
0:37.4	week to follow me on this journey so I really appreciate your support on this
0:41.2	week's show we will be talking about boutiqueo breathing. We've
0:45.2	been talking a lot about breathing recently about nine months ago I released a
0:48.6	TED Talk called Change Your Breath, Change Your Life, and I was initially really disappointed it didn't get many views at all
0:55.4	I thought another one of these topics that I'm interested in that nobody cares about like edible insects
1:00.2	and lo and behold here we are nine months later and the video is getting like 10 or 20,000 views a day.
1:05.0	And I'm getting emails every day, so I'm really excited because it seems like there's a huge interest in breathing.
1:11.0	And a bigger problem, there's a huge confusion about breathing. in fact most breathing practices are about manipulating CO2, oxygen levels in the blood
1:25.8	at least stay relatively consistent.
1:28.4	This week's show will be chatting about Boutaco breathing which originates from Russia Russia but it has been used primarily to treat
1:35.4	asthma. I got formally trained in boutique breathing I guess it was six years ago
1:41.2	spent a bunch of time with a boutiqueo instructor and I found it really, really
1:46.3	helpful. Very different approach than yoga breathing, but the principles are still the same.
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