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想要让自己保持健康、年轻吗?而且还不用花钱。
万锦市一位商人Bill Allen相信，他已经找到了秘诀，就算不是长生不老药，也非常接近了。
秘诀就是：呼吸，完全免费。
Allen认为，呼吸可以治疗普通的感冒、肥胖、高血压、高胆固醇，以及其他20种疾病。
这位瘦长结实、精神熠熠的73岁长者说：“我的身上发生了一些奇迹。”
他这样演示给亲友、客人和熟识的人：
站直或坐直身体;
一手放于胃部，另一手的手指放在鼻孔下以增加吸气速度;
首先呼气清空肺部;
接着吸气，深度吸入氧气;
停，慢慢呼气，再停，重复以上动作。
这样重复做五遍，每天三次，Allen保证，会有很棒的效果。
“这有点像吹气球。你会觉得自己变年轻了，身上每个细胞都有了充足的氧气和血液循环。手指尖、脚指尖和头皮发麻，从第一次呼吸开始，你的免疫系统参与进来，血压下降，生命体征改善，心率下降……这是健康发生剧变的开始。”
Allen说，他已经坚持了四年，他的家庭医生、两位心血管医生、一位肿瘤科医生和牙医，全都对效果表示很震惊。
他说，“我慢跑练了30年，打壁球10年，仍然血脂偏高。但是定期做呼吸练习达到了其他方法都达不到的效果。”
为了证明他的话，他拿出了自己的医疗记录，显示他的血脂降了39%，从多年来的750降到525。
另外，困扰了他20年的间歇性心房颤动症消失了，血压和心率下降，体重也减轻了，睡眠转好，肤色变红，思维变得清晰，身体更有活力，并且已经有3年没有患感冒了。
他表示，大家不妨都试一试，医生们为何不能开类似呼吸练习的处方呢?
目前，Allen正在尽全力向他在Stouffville地区的客户推荐这一方法。有人在尝试后也出现惊人的效果，也有人表示没有那么显著。
Pickering承包商Austin Palmer说，他在过去11个月里，每天早晨起床、午餐以及晚间坚持做五次深呼吸。上个月做体检时，过去15年里一直过高的胆固醇指标首次正常了。
万锦男子Allen Wills也对呼吸疗法深信不疑。他是起重机操作员，工作的时候做做腹部“特殊呼吸”，他说，自己感觉年轻了20岁。
更神奇的是，他的胆固醇水平也降为正常，体重在3个月里减了34磅。他还说服自己的妻子Sandras也尝试一下，结果她也减了17磅。他说，现在每天可以更晚入睡，早上也不会赖床，如果午间做做“呼吸”，下午就不会犯困。冬天他也没有以前那么怕冷，而且从开始练习到现在，就没有患过一次感冒或流感。
也有人的练习效果并不明显，Allen说，效果最显著的可能是那些心率快，血氧水平低于平均的人群。
有专家表示，Allen的这一发现背后，有一些科学因素，只是往往被忽略了，很多人不知道。
约克大学心理学教授Harvey Skinner说，Allen的呼吸练习并不新奇，与传统的佛教哲学修心有关，也被运用在瑜伽、冥想，以及运动医学、分娩减痛和戒毒辅导中。
Skinner解释说，在现代人快节奏的生活环境下，很多人呼吸短、浅，导致消化系统血流量减少，血压、皮质醇和肾上腺素上升，造成对健康的损害。
另一方面，有研究显示，深呼吸可以减压和降低兴奋，提升免疫系统。
“控制呼吸是最好的健康手段之一，它并不属于西医的吃药或动手术。”
多伦多大学教授John Peever称，控制呼吸可以帮助多数人安抚大脑，提高警觉度，降低血压、减缓压力和焦虑。
他说，一直以来，西医都不太重视深呼吸和良好睡眠等基本的健康手段。
Skinner也补充说，这是非常、非常重要的方法，人人都可以做到，不需要看专科医生，也不需要去药房配药，只要坐在椅子上或车子里就可以做到。
那么，大家不妨也试一试吧。
来源 健康妙手
How to lose weight, gain health; just breathe, Markham man says
https://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/7975109-how-to-lose-weight-gain-health-just-breathe-markham-man-says/
Bill Allen is spreading the word, controlled breathing is a "miracle cure"
“Do you want perfect health, for nothing?”
Bill Allen can barely contain his excitement.
The Markham businessman believes that he has discovered, if not the fountain of youth, then something pretty darn close.
It’s called breathing, and it’s free.
“I’ve got a little bit of a miracle here,” the wiry, energetic 73-year-old tells his friends, family, clients and acquaintances, before launching into a quick demonstration with car salesmanlike enthusiasm.Allen believes this could be a cure for the common cold, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, the necessity for blood thinners and probably 20 other illnesses.
Stand straight or sit tall, he instructs. Hand on stomach, finger just under the nose to increase inhalation velocity. First exhale to empty your lungs. Now breathe in, letting the oxygen dive deep into the diaphragm. Pause. Exhale, slowly. Pause. Repeat.
Do this five times, three times a day, and Allen promises great things.
“For me it’s like blowing up a balloon. You’re going to feel something you haven’t since you were a kid. You will feel a surge of oxygen and blood circulate to every cell of the body. Tingling in your fingertips, toes, head. From the first breath, your immune system kicks in, blood pressure drops, vital statistics improve, heart rates go down … This is the start of dramatic changes in health.”
Allen says he has been doing this for four years and his doctor, two cardiologists, one oncologist and dentist, have all been astounded at the results.
“After 30 years of jogging and 10 years of squash, I still had above-normal lipid levels,” he says. “But this breathing routine, it does what exercise can’t.”
As proof, he pulls out medical records showing a 39 per cent reduction in lipid profile, LDL-cholesterol levels – which have been about 750 for many years – dropping to 525.
His intermittent atrial fibrillation (which troubled him for 20 years) has disappeared, blood pressure has dropped, heart rate reduced, he has lost weight, sleeps better, has pinker skin, clearer thinking, more energy and hasn’t had a cold in three years.
He can’t understand why everyone isn’t doing this, why the medical world isn’t prescribing breathing exercises, why we aren’t all shouting this miracle from the mountaintops. Allen is doing his best. On an almost daily basis, he shares his technique with clients and acquaintances at his Stouffville-area business selling homes and storage units.
Some report stunning success, others, not so much.
Austin Palmer, a Pickering contractor, was one of the first to give it a try.
“I’m a skeptical guy normally, but you can’t go through life skeptical about everything people tell you about. And it doesn’t take much to breathe; it’s not like having to go to the gym and lift weights. I figured, why not?”
Besides, his doctor had just warned at his last physical, as he had for years, that his cholesterol levels were too high.
So for the past 11 months, every morning after he gets out of bed, at lunch when he remembers, and again in the evening, Palmer has taken five deep breaths.
This past month, he went for his annual physical. For the first time in 15 years, his cholesterol was normal.
He had not changed his eating or activity levels.
“My gut is telling me that it’s the breathing.”
Allen and Sandra Wills are also breather believers.
A Markham native who recently moved to the Beaverton area, Allen Wills followed Allen’s “special breathing” out of boredom while he worked his job as a crane operator.
He says he feels 20 years younger.
“For four, five years I had a problem with my cholesterol. I tried meds and they didn’t agree with me. I tried diet but I like food too much.
“My last checkup, cholesterol was way down and I didn’t do anything different except breathing.”
The 55-year-old has lost so much weight – 34 pounds in three months – friends stopped to ask him what was wrong. Puzzled, his doctor ran him through a battery of tests.
“You’re as healthy as a horse,” the doctor told him.
“I told him I’d been doing breathing exercises. He looked at me like I had two heads.”
He convinced his wife Sandra to “just give it a whirl”; she has lost 17 pounds, he says.
Wills says he can stay up later at night and no longer drags himself out of bed in the morning. If he ‘breathes’ midday, he avoids his usual mid-afternoon energy slump.
He doesn’t feel the cold outdoors as much as he used to, he says, and hasn’t had a cold or flu since he began the breathing exercises.
“I truly feel fantastic. Wish I’d known about this 10 years ago,” he says.
“Everyone should at least try this for a month."
The experts say there is something to Allen’s “discovery”, but it may be ignorance that keeps it relatively unknown.
“What he is describing is certainly not new,” says Harvey Skinner, York University psychology professor and founding dean of the Faculty of Health.
Skinner says Allen’s breathing exercise is linked to ancient practices and the Buddhist philosophy of mindfulness.
It’s an important part of yoga and meditation and is used in sports medicine, childbirth and addiction counselling.
Skinner explains it this way: In our modern, rushed environment, many of us breathe short, shallow breaths which activates the “flight or fight” response, decreasing flow of blood to the digestive system and increasing blood pressure and hormones like cortisol and adrenalin.
It might have been useful in the days of hunters/gatherers when our ancestors needed to respond quickly to threats, but in today’s world, it can be bad for health.
Deep breathing, on the other hand, reduces depression and inflammation and boosts the immune system, studies show.
“Breath control is one of the best things you can do for health, but it’s not part of Western medicine that deals with people who are sick,” Skinner says. “You give them a pill or do a surgical procedure, and the public is used to that.”
As Allen spreads the word, he gives his friends oximeters to encourage them. Often, he says, the fingertip results are immediate, showing higher oxygen and reduced pulse after the first few breaths. Not everyone experiences dramatic results; it's most noticeable in those whose pulse starts out higher and oxygen lower than average, he says.
John Peever, U of T professor and director of the Centre for Biological Timing and Cognition, suggests the most significant impact may be felt by those who have pre-existing conditions that could cause oxygen-level imbalance. But controlled breathing, he says, can help most people by calming the brain, increasing alertness and decreasing blood pressure, stress and anxiety.
Until recently, Western medical training has not focused on basic health practices like deep breathing and good sleep, Peever says.
Skinner agreed, adding, “it’s very, very important and something everyone can actually do. No need to see a specialist, no need to go to Shoppers Drug Mart for a prescription. Just sit in your chair or car and do it.”
“I think I’ve just fluked into something without knowing what I was doing,” Allen says.
Now that he’s got hold of this like a pit bull, he is not letting go, proselytizing to everyone he meets. He is even asking readers who are interested in knowing more to contact him at 905-642-2689.
“When you’re in a business you become a skeptic,” he says. “There’s so much BS in the market. Everybody’s selling something. But this isn’t for sale. Everything here is free.”
