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317: How to actually tell if you’re breathing right | Patrick McKeown, breathing expert

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The Butaco Breathing Technique

The butaco method is focused primarily on the biochemistry. Dr. Butaco's observation back in the 1950s was that sick people breathe hard. So what if we are in a habit of breathing a little bit harder and a little bit faster? We remove too much carbon dioxide from the lungs, this in turn then is going to remove carbon dioxide from our blood. It can affect oxygen delivery, which is based on the Bohr effect.

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