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CHENEY: Increase Your Oxygen Intake at http://www.ei-resource.org , comment 1 to 13 out of 13 comments http://www.ei-resource.org Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:10:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-959 That's fantastic news Arlynn - I'm glad Dr. Weil's breathing technique as explained in Dr. Cheney's article here has helped you so much :) - Maff Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:36:06 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-958 i can`t believe i found your artical on breathing exercises. i`ve had a low oxygen count in 80`s and breathless when i walked ever since radiation burns on my lungs from thymic carcinoma. the dr`s said i should wear oxygen all the time. after a week of doing your breathin exercise, my oxygen is in the 90`s and i`m not out of breath. i feel well again. thanks so much. arlynn - arlynn Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:20:27 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-724 I got really light headed when I tried to breath like this 8 times. Is that normal for the first time? How many days will it take to not get that uncomfortable feeling? - Jill Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:13:02 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-641 Hi Tammy, it means you create a pressure in the air that is directed back into your lungs. It has nothing to do with your back ;) - Maff Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:42:03 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-639 creating "back pressure," for eight seconds what this? - tammy Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:58:24 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-346 Hi Pat, Apologies for the loss of your previous comment. The site had to be moved to a new web hosting system as it had outgrown the previous system - unfortunately there were some minor database losses in the process! This will not happen again and the site should now run faster and more reliably. - Maff Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:55:23 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-345 hi Maff, where did my response go? - Pat - Pat Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:20:48 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-310 It seems we may have another case of contradictory data.....something which is frustratingly common with ME/CFS and environmental illness. I do know that Dr. Cheney has noted mild blood alkalosis in most of his chronic fatigue syndrome patients which he attributes to a compensatory mechanism for tissue acidosis (caused by oxygen deprivation/anaerobic respiration). He has said that when treated with oxygen or the breathing thechnique above the blood alkalosis disappears....suggesting improved oxygen delivery to cells and more normal aerobic/anaerobic respiration ratio. - Maff Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:39:21 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-308 P.S. Here is another published study showing 2,3-DPG *elevations* http://64.233.169.132/search?q=cache:YbfbEcEu0q8J:www.cfids-cab.org/rc/Richards-2.pdf+2,3-dpg+CFS&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us - Pat - Patrick Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:23:41 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-305 Thanks for the reply Maff long time no chat! - Patrick Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:19:29 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-304 Hi Pat, The truth is I am not sure. It may be that Cheney's theory is based on clinical observations of improvement using his and Dr. Weil's methods and inference from other data. What we do know is well established is that people with ME/CFS, FMS and MCS don't use oxygen efficiently so cells end up being oxygen deprived but there is also an increase in reactive oxygen species/free radicals. Glutathione (GSH) is also universally low in these conditions and in another article Cheney links this to low 2,3-DPG but I don't know what biochemical mechanism he is referring to here. Perhaps the increased oxidative stress due to low GSH contributes to the poor oxygen utilization and supposed low 2,3-DPG. I am just thinking out loud here so your guess is as good as mine. - Maff Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:07:50 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-303 Out of curiosity, does Cheney have any *blood-based* data showing *deficiencies* of 2,3-DPG? I ask because the only published blood-based study (that I'm aware of) shows *elevations* of 2,3-DPG in CFS (as well as in MCS and FM). A 1998 double blinded study of MCS, FM, and CFS found that patients in all three groups had elevations, and this study went on to win 2nd prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 1999. 2,3-DPG helps red blood cells (RBCs) deliver oxygen to tissues that need it the most. Abberations at either end of the spectrum (i.e. both deficiencies *and* elevations) imply that tissues are not adequately oxygenated. See Dilnaz, P. The pathophysiological basis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Proceedings of the 8th Central European Neuropsychopharmacological Symposium: Psychiatria Danubina, Volume 10, Number 3, pages 340-341, 1998. - Pat Casanova - Patrick Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:27:25 +0100 http://www.ei-resource.org/articles/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-articles/dr.-cheney:-increase-your-oxygen-intake/#comment-144 Thanks for posting. - hattan Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:14:30 +0100