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The cumulative effects of stress, poor diet, trauma, infection and poisoning from drugs and our environment can result in diverse defense or compensation mechanisms being deployed according to our genetic predisposition.

Modern medicine names these conditions according to their characteristics and then usually addresses their symptoms with an opposing force. This approach may bring temporary relief; however, it does not address the underlying cause and the condition may grow stronger or diversify.

Very often, conditions which are considered incurable do not have a cure because they are not a disease, but rather are a compensation mechanism of the organism. Remove the requirement for the mechanism and the condition with its symptoms reverses of its own accord.

The most powerful way to normalize the organism is to normalize its most important and influential function— the breathing.

Russian research which commenced in 1948, exposed some dramatic findings about the way we breathe and our level of health:

• As the terminally ill approach death, their breathing consistently increases in depth and volume. In fact, measuring the rate of increase was shown to predict how many hours or days were left before death.

• The chronically ill all continually over-breathe or hyperventilate. The more they over-breathe, the more their health deteriorates.
• No person who suffers any chronic condition breathes correctly.
• When the involuntary breathing pattern is improved through respiratory reconditioning, dramatic improvements to health occur.

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