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Times
article discussing the idea that low carbon dioxide may be responsible
for longer term disorders.
Quotes from the article:
"A
review article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002
concluded that low carbon dioxide in the blood — hypocapnia —
“appears to induce substantial adverse physiological and medical
effects” in people with pneumonia and heart failure. A review from the
University of Westminster last year described how the effects of
hypocapnia on blood flow and oxygen in the body could cause increased
joint and muscle pain. And recent authoritative trials from Australia
and New Zealand have shown that a breathing technique called Buteyko —
which trains people to breathe in a controlled way so that they do not
become depleted of carbon dioxide — brought significant reductions in
the amount of medication people with asthma had to use. "
[Dr]
"Beales
believes that common symptoms that many people come to GPs with, such as
lack of energy, headaches and depression, can often be the result of
overbreathing and the impaired blood flow to the brain that results."
“It’s
standard medical textbook stuff, which most doctors forget as soon as
they leave med school,” Dr Beales says, arguing that lowered carbon
dioxide in the blood results in a lowering of blood pressure, which
leads to less oxygen getting to brain and muscles. Once the problem has
been identified, he says, people can bring their breathing back into
balance.
For the full article please go to The Times website
http://www.newsint-archive.co.uk
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