Yevgen,

 

I do see your point of you. In this society, we have been particularly frustrated with false promises of many products (not just this exercise), which are currently on the market today. It is just that very few things in life really work, and it usually takes many years to find out what they are. Some people will never know. This is where my frustration comes from.

 

Best Regards,

 

 

Mark

 

Hello Mark!

I certainly agree that it will not prevent infection if you
are exposed to massive dose of patogen. Say you are living
with infected person, or have been hanging out with one for
long time.
However, much lighter exposures are much more common. Say an infected person has walked passed you in a train station.
Will it get you or not? It is an open question. How many
viruses does it take to cause an infection - 100, 1000, 10000?

Innate (first level) immune system is quite good at isolating patogenes even if no "learned" immunity exists. Once it does, it will expose the "residual" to "learned" immune system for recognizing them in the future.

I argue that nasal breathing can change your exposure from "above
limit" (infection) to "below limit" (isolated by innate immunity, creating learned immunity as result) in many cases. Not in all cases,
but in many (maybe most common once).

It is like everything else in Life - there are no guaranties, but there are probabilities which you can increase or decrease by your actions.

Certainly "cure all" promises will always be false, no matter what
they are. Body is much to complex and highly individual a system to have universal solutions.
The key point is that body is a system that can function by itself,
and everything we are doing externally is just a small adjustment to what it is already doing.

In your case you have achieved some improvements in one area,
we reached quite a radical improvement (elimination of asthma) in
other area, somobody else will achieve improvement in yet another
area. Possibly the reason of the huge optimism that Shetinin
has about this exercise that he has been actually practicing
it with hundreds and possibly thousands patients, so he has indeed
see all the improvements he is talking about at least with some of them.
Which does not mean it will do it for every one, so his
extrapolation is not necessarily correct. Some improvements are more common (asthma and other respiratory problems related
for example) that is why they are the primary focus.

But it almost never harms either (as opposite to a lot of other medical or surgical treatments) so you are almost guarantied
an improvement at least in some area, just because you are encouraging
in yourself a more physically active life-style.

Regards,
Yevgen

--- In strelnikova_exercise@yahoogroups.com, mclaym1@... wrote:
>
> Yevgen,
>
> Good to hear from you.
>
> I do not think Strelnikova exercise can stop any flu virus. One might argue
> it strengthens one's immune system, but I do not think it is effective for
> stopping all viruses. I did this exercise twice a day continuously and
> still managed to get a flu virus this winter.
>
> The main accomplishment I had with these exercises was elimination of
> food allergies. It has also energizing and mood uplifting properties. It had no
> effect on my blood pressure or weight issues. It had only small effects on
> my speech-it does seem to improve one's voice if it is done with various
> speech exercises. Other than that, I think benefits of it are greatly
> exaggerated. I have been doing it for close to two years now.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
> In a message dated 5/8/2009 9:02:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> evgenij_b@... writes:
>
>
>
>
>
> This years allergy season upon us, and me and my daughter are starting to
> feel some effects on airways congestion. Time to scale-up
> the exercise routine!
> Admittedly, we have been slacking a little during the winter time
> as this year nobody got any asthma attacks or even a cold.
> Which is by itself remarkable and might be a result of regular
> exercise before. Alas, it is common to become complacent if
> everything looks good for long.
>
> All the talk about swine flue also contributes to our
> increased awareness of the need of breathing exercise.
> After all, it does promote automatic (without thinking) nasal breathing
> and widens the airways. Which both are a benefit in
> a potential flu epidemic.
> Why?
> 1) prevention (nasal breathing allows to "sample" the virus in small
> quantities as it gets stack in the nose mucus without reaching the lungs,
> and develop an immunity without actually getting sick). Gradually
> increasing number of people with indirect immunity is a reason why all pandemics
> eventually stop. It is good to be one of these "blocking" people, rather than
> one of the patients.
>
> 2) better outcome if hit (wider airways make bronchial spasm less likely
> as it disrupts CO2 depletion pathway, and of cause the symptoms of
> inflammation such as shortness of breath are also less severe). Particularly swine
> flu is known to cause an over-reaction of immune system with massive
> inflammation in the lungs. That is where patient would benefit from any additional
> diameter of the airways that he can get.
>
> Of cause even with exercise the good practices as staying away from the
> crowds and religiously washing hands while avoiding touching face are still
> important. One good outcome of the excessive publicity about swine flu might
> be increased awareness of this practices, which might save thousands of
> lives in up-coming normal flu season. After all, completely normal common flu
> kills 25000 people every year in USA alone.
>
> Regards,
> Yevgen
>
>
>
>
>
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