I saw someone on hexbear mention it a while ago, and went on my own research rabbit hole. It seems pretty cool, and I believe it could cure diseases and increase health in general, it’s just hard. The jist is a Soviet doctor named Buteyko realized breathing less and increasing CO2 in one’s body can greatly improve health. His method is to do lots of breath exercises, stay active, and eat healthily. I’ve been doing 15 minutes of exercises everyday for a few weeks, but it’s slow, and my control pause is a terrible 9 (probably part of why I’m always tired. Fuck school for making me wake up at an unnatural time and making me sit so long). The people around me irl that I’ve mentioned it to seem to think it’s too hard or a waste of time. For better or worse, I’m also a modernist, believing in human “perfectibility” with the right conditions and influences.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buteyko/comments/c8px11/start_here_intro_faq_of_rbuteyko/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/fjh47l/a_buddhist_monks_experience_with_buteyko/
What do you think? Is it legit? Do any of you practice?
You’re not taking into account that there is actual science behind these claims.
And for political science, it’s of course a lot less science and a lot more history and interpretation.
Of course, we teach kids simple things in order to allow them to step through science to the more advanced stuff. But the fact is when you want to debate medicine like this, you need real evidence. And a junk study that has never had a follow-up is not evidence-based medicine.
For example, the gender and sex thing is an overly simplistic way of explaining a more complicated process. But the actual science about that more complicated process exists. The advanced science about CO2 in the blood is junk. We can analyze this from an evidence-based medicine perspective. This is not real science.
For all of its faults, there is a reasonably high quality, evidenced-based way of doing real science and evidence-based medicine. And I’m sorry, this is pretty clear cut, but this is not real science.
This is the strategy for junk science and fake medicine practitioners around the world. To claim that their work is actually on the cusp of discovering something new, even if the idea is 50, 100, or 1000 years old.
We can talk all day about how evidence-based medicine is impersonal and doctors just aren’t good with their patients and they’re pushing people away into the alternative medicine industry. But the fact of the matter is that evidence-based medicine is medicine and this is not.