Raising Cellular Oxygen with a simple breathing techinque - endorsed by long time CFS clinician Paul Cheney

This could be a very powerful tool in raising cellular oxygen (and all the immune benefits from including killing pathogens).

Dr. Paul Cheney recently gave advice to use a specific breathing technique that would help increase the enzyme "2,3 DPG".

DR. CHENEY: Increase Your Oxygen Intake

"2,3 DPG triggers the release of oxygen from the hemoglobin and allows it to enter our tissues. Without enough 2,3 DPG the oxygen cannot release from the hemoglobin into the cells. This oxygen deprivation causes the body to switch over to anaerobic metabolism, which produces tissue acidosis, which is painful. If 2,3 DPG levels can be increased, then more oxygen is transported from the blood into the tissues.

"What are the benefits of increased oxygen? They include more energy at the cellular level, suppression of yeast and other pathogens, and prevention of the swelling of the brain due to decreased oxygen."

 

From the Article:

Dr. Cheney's goal is to trick our bodies into thinking that we live at a higher altitude, thus raising our 2,3 DPG levels, thereby transporting more oxygen. How? By Dr. Andrew Weil's favorite breathing technique—regulated breath holding.

1. Inhale through your nose for four seconds
2. Hold your breath for seven seconds
3. Exhale through tightly pursed lips, creating "back pressure," for eight seconds.
4. Do this eight times, twice a day, everyday.

That's all it takes to make your body think it lives in Denver instead of Dallas. You must do this regularly for it to work, and it takes weeks for the body to adjust the 2,3 DPG levels. But your oxygen transport will get better and better over time. This method is 3,000 years old, and has 30 years of clinical experience behind it. Dr. Weil believes it is the most powerful way to treat chronic illness. Compared to the rebreather, this is easier, cheaper, more effective, and you cannot overcorrect and get too much O2.

For a more detailed version see Exercise 2 on this link from Dr. Weil's site:

Three Breathing Exercises

 

 

 

Using Activated Charcoal to dramatically reduce toxic load

In the world of mercury toxicity they give someone chlorella (an absorbant) 1/2 hour before eating. This is supposed to put the chlorella in place when the bile dumps. The bile contains a sample of the toxic material that is collected by your system and brought to the liver for disposal. The liver disposes of this in the bile. Bile is excreted to help digest fatty foods.

When you eat, the more fat in the meal, the more bile. If this bile is full of endotoxins you are going to get a large deposit of toxins into your digestive tract. The problem occurs because much or most of this toxic material is reabsorbed in intestines. You end up with a vicious cycle. That is until you ingest something that is very absorbent and will hold onto the toxic bile until it is excreted from your system. Suitable candidates are Activated Charcoal, Bentonite Clay, Psyllium husks, Chlorella and Modified Citrus pectin to name a few.

Taken indescriminately one may find some measure of relief but will not unlock the true potential of this mechanism. One can take advantage of the bile dump by putting the absorbent material in place when the bile dump happens. Eating a snack of nuts or other fatty (but healthy) food will cause the liver to dump bile. If you take your absorbant just before or during the snack it should travel with the food and be in place when the bile mixed with the snack. The bile is then absorbed along with it's toxic load and removed from your system.

This procedure should be done more than 2 hours after or 2 hours before a meal.

I'm experimenting with 260-520mg of Activated Charcoal per bile dump. It has done wonders already. The bowel movement is noticably green and black from the bile and charcoal and I am no less than astonished to find this may well be the source of most of my misery for the last few years.

I've found that I personally need to supplement 150-200mg N-Acetyl Tyrosine, 30mg B2 and 100mg Niacinimide 1 hour after and perhaps again in 2 hours as the Charcoal seems to be depleting me of these. There are studies showing Charcoal binding to Thyriod T4 (Tyrosine) and Nicotinic Acid (B3-Niacinimide). You might also take a Multi-Vitamin to cover the spectrum of what the Charcoal might remove along with the toxins.

It might be prudent to supplement with Bile Salts, Ox Bile or bile enhancing (and liver enhancing) supplements to replace what you are removing.

Withing three days I feel like a new person. I'm amazed and astounded. I would never have guessed that what was making me sick for 5+ years was some type of toxin in my system.

Cheers!

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