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Snoring sleep apnoea insomnia


Reading this could be your first step towards better health. Sleeping badly affects your whole life and those around you. Breathing re-training with the Buteyko method is a natural, drug-free way of improving sleep patterns by reducing insomnia and the incidence of snoring, sleep apnoea, vivid dreams and nightmares.
When you are asleep the airways are more floppy than when you are awake and so they are more likely to collapse. Breathing heavily is one way of making this happen because it causes narrowing, swelling and inflammation in the airways. Sleeping flat on your back can make these problems worse as you can breathe twice as hard. There is an excellent summary of the Buteyko method for sleep apnoea here.
“I am delighted with my progress so far; I slept right through until my alarm went off, for the first time in more than three years” Insomnia, Chorlton.
Breathing is our most basic requirement for life and good health yet it is the least likely to be considered simply because it is so basic. Breathing affects every cell in your body and like blood pressure it is easy for breathing to become abnormal without you being aware of it. Breathing incorrectly can have devastating results on your health in the long term.
Hyperventilation means breathing more air than your body needs at a particular time. Snoring is an example of hyperventilation because healthy people breathe quietly when they sleep. Other examples include breathing through your mouth while driving a car and sighing or yawning a lot.
People who hyperventilate will be familiar with some of the following indicators of poor sleep:

  • Repeatedly waking during the night
  • Waking up tired instead of refreshed
  • Vivid dreams and nightmares
  • Night sweats
  • Blocked or runny nose, especially on waking

The root cause of your abnormal breathing pattern needs to be addressed so that the poor sleep pattern becomes less of a problem. Buteyko can reset the automatic breathing pattern to operate at the correct level for any activity, including sleep.
Sleeping badly has a negative effect on you life and the lives of those around you because sleep is so important to good health. Poor sleep and sleep apnoea can also be dangerous, and may be behind many car accidents when the driver falls asleep at the wheel as they have not slept well at night. Sleep apnoea is also linked to heart failure, diabetes and more recently to cancer deaths. Children who snore or have apnoea are more likely to be hyperactive and have poor concentration at school. Another recent study has linked snoring and longer periods of sleep with getting bowel cancer.
“I have slept more deeply and have more energy over the past three weeks than at any point in the last three years. My hands and feet are generally warmer. I feel calmer and more positive in general and have got on with jobs that have been “hanging over me” for ages. Thank you, thank you, thank you!” Insomnia, fatigue High Peak.
Breathing re-training with the Buteyko method can improve sleep patterns by reducing insomnia and the incidence of snoring, sleep apnoea, vivid dreams and nightmares. Many people wake up feeling more refreshed, and start the day with renewed energy and have more stamina. It is a natural, complementary approach that does not involve gadgets, machines, drugs or herbs. Instead it corrects your breathing, making it more efficient so that you can get more oxygen into your tissues. Learn the Buteyko method for a good night’s sleep.
Dr. Konstantin Buteyko connected hyperventilation with many conditions, and perfected a programme to correct abnormal (dysfunctional or disordered) breathing patterns.

 

Paediatric sleep apnoea is on the rise and can be devastating. Read this article from Stanford University “Towards Restoration of Continuous Nasal Breathing as the Ultimate Treatment Goal in Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea”

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About me, Buteyko breathing educator

Janet Winter breathing and posture educator (Buteyko and Egoscue)

Dr Janet Winter (PhD)

Hello, I am Janet,  a  Breathing educator (Buteyko), and Posture specialist (Egoscue).

I help people recover from asthma, allergies, sinusitis, anxiety, sleep problems, headaches, IBS chronic fatigue (ME/CFS) and more, by improving their dysfunctional breathing.

Listen to a client’s (Suzy Glaskie, functional medicine health coach at Peppermint Wellness) 15 minute podcast on how Buteyko helped her.

I teach natural health control with no drugs, gadgets or manipulation. You can sign up to my newsletter here.

Phone me 01663 743055 (Dr Janet Winter) or contact me here.

What I do

Breathing education gently retrains a disordered breathing pattern and helps people naturally recover from breathing-related health problems.

The Buteyko Method relieves asthma symptoms, and has been listed in the UK Asthma Guideline since 2008.
I am a member of the Buteyko Breathing Educators Association and am fully insured.

I am also a qualified postural alignment specialist (PAS) Egoscue method. Good posture is essential for good breathing and proper function in general.

My background

I was involved in healthcare/biomedical research for 30 years although previously in a very different role: before training as a Breathing educator, I spent 20 years in drug discovery looking for new painkillers for a major pharmaceutical company based in a London Institute.
I worked as a neuroscientist and cell biologist, directing a team of bench scientists. (So I am not a medical doctor but I have a PhD in Neuroscience) I authored or co-authored more than 50 journal articles and reviews on my research.  My professional profile can be seen here on LINKEDIN.

Why I became a breathing educator

If you are reading this because you have CFS/ME, I know what you are going through. I know what it is like to hold onto a job by my fingernails, worried about how we would feed the family if I lost my job, come home and eat and sleep and spend my weekend recovering.

I had no social life. I was lucky to quickly get to a consultant who diagnosed me with candidiasis, and anti-fungals and a yeast and sugar-free diet helped a lot, but not enough.

I felt I had been “written off” and had nothing to offer. I was a mum, partner and employee with massively reduced physical and mental output compared with previously.
For me (after trying many different avenues, cranial osteopathy, chiropractic, mercury amalgam filling removal and more – I became a “fat-folder patient”).

How I got sick

I suspected my symptoms were “stress related” but they did not ease when I left my stressful job and moved out of London to the countryside.

Looking back on my history I can clearly see my own physical and emotional stresses accumulating, from a very traumatic bereavement, on-going work and family stresses, then a really bad summer respiratory infection and cough that was not shifted by two different antibiotics (but they probably contributed to unbalancing my gut flora, hence the fungal overgrowth/candidiasis).

A cough seems to be one of the best ways to mess up your breathing pattern, and many of my clients tell me “I was fine until I had that cough/chest infection, and I never really got my health back!!”

The breathing centre in the brain gets to think that big volume breathing is normal and unless you know about it, it is sometimes hard to recover. Luckily you CAN retrain your breathing by doing a series of gentle exercises and making some life style changes, and you CAN have hope of better health.

My recovery

Changing my breathing back to a more normal pattern really helped me. It was a big missing piece of my health puzzle, and one I had frankly never considered. One definition of stress is “anything that makes you breathe more”. And I know now that breathing too much can actually deplete the body of oxygen. And stress can be emotional or physical.

So that is why I do what I do and why I am passionate about it; I found a way to improve my chronic fatigue by better breathing and I trained as a breathing educator so I could help others with this devastating disease. There is so little help out there for them (you?).

Then chronic backache made good breathing impossible, and I discovered postural alignment therapy (Egoscue) to help with that. And I am still amazed at the progress I am making -it’s wonderful to have decreased pain and increased function when I had accepted decline at my age was inevitable. It’s not!


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