The Buteyko method began to be developed in the 1950s by Ukranian doctor, Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko, who made the connection between breathing too much and symptoms such as an excessive production of mucus, airway swelling, chest tightness, snoring, headache, high blood pressure, and so on.
He secured a government-sponsored laboratory for five years in Siberia, where he and a number of other researchers observed what happened to changes in the body due to changes in the breathing, as well as the types of things that can cause changes to the breathing. From this research, the Buteyko Method was eventually incorporated into the Russian Health System in 1981 for the treatment of asthma.
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