127: Buteyko Breathing with Dr. Miles Nichols

Soaring Child: Thriving with ADHD

What is Buteyko breathing? How can Buteyko breathing support kids with ADHD? How long does it take after beginning a practice of Buteyko breathing to see improvements?

In this week’s episode of the Soaring Child podcast, Dr. Miles Nichols joins the show to tell us all about Buteyko breathing. Dr. Miles Nichols is a functional medicine doctor specializing in Lyme, mold illness, gut, thyroid, and autoimmunity. After Dr. Miles personally struggled with chronic fatigue in his early 20’s, he dedicated himself to figure out the root causes. He suffered with and recovered from thyroid dysfunction, autoimmunity, a gut infection, Lyme co-infections, and mold illness.

Dr. Miles has authored two books. He founded the Medicine with Heart functional medicine clinic in Colorado as well as the Medicine with Heart Institute that trains other doctors in functional medicine.

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Key Takeaways:

[4:45] The science behind Buteyko breathing [13:26] How Buteyko breathing could help kids with ADHD [18:56] What is Buteyko breathing? [28:00] Buteyko breathing exercise guided practice [40:10] How soon might parents notice positive changes from Buteyko breathing? [46:47] Where to find Dr. Miles online

Memorable Moments:

”I really wish I had this tool back then because we know now, there’s data and there’s peer reviewed clinical trials, that we can really improve asthma…”

“If I knew back then that CO2 was so important to bronchial dilation…if I had known back then that I could simply hold my breath and breathe less and have my bronchial dilation improve and I could actually start to get air again during that acute episode, I may not have had to go to the hospital…”

”Carbon dioxide does act as a vehicle to produce nitric oxide in the sinuses, and nitric oxide is one of the things that the lungs use to bronco-dilate.”

”Carbon dioxide is directly related to this breathing technique, and it’s directly related to what I would say is the underpinnings of a lot of problems in children and adults today.”

”When it comes to ADHD, that nervous system is incredibly important, and this chronic sympathetic activation can be problematic.”

“We want to reduce the minute volume of air into the lungs.”

”Light, slow, deep breathing is a very basic technique that will help to be able to increase the amount of CO2, or carbon dioxide…”

“Not only is this safe for children, but there’s also been data collected that’s shown improvements on things like asthma for children….We do see the capacity to regain function in an incredible way.”

”The goal is to feel this tolerable ‘air hunger’ where you’re still calm. When you start to notice your heart rate increasing, that’s a sign to back off a little bit.”

“For most people, between 5 to maybe 8 breaths per minute for most people is going to be a rate for most people where we see heart rate variability.”

”For children as a starting point, it’s great to make it into a game and to do it together.”

”Sometimes as little as 4-6 weeks is enough to retrain the brain for base level breathing.”

”Within 1-3 months, we are seeing significant shifts if there is regular training.”

How to Connect with Dr. Miles Nichols

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• Functional Medicine Clinic - https://MedicineWithHeart.com
• Functional Medicine Training Institute for Practitioners - https://MindBodyFunctionalMedicine.com

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