Konstantin Buteyko

Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko (Russian Константин Павлович Бутейко, Ukrainian Kostyantyn Pawlowytsch Butejko, Kostyantyn Pawlowytsch Butejko, also Buteyko transcribed; born 27 January 1923 in Iwaniza in Kiev; † 2 May 2003 in Moscow)

Born in the Ukraine scientists and practitioner developed a therapy against lifestyle diseases such as asthma, allergies and blood pressure problems, which requires no medication and is widely used as Buteyko method in Russia.

As a fundamental cause exist for these complaints he suspected chronic hyperventilation. Thus, the carbon dioxide concentration in the blood will be low, which in turn have a negative effect on the metabolism.

Buteyko worked in 1962 as a laboratory manager in the Siberian branch of the USSR Academies of Medical Research at the Institute of Experimental Biology and Medicine in Novosibirsk. During this time, he described a mechanism in the human body, which counteracts the negative effects of cross breathing, with other functions and mechanisms of the body are "sacrificed". Without this mechanism, a person who is breathing too much air would not survive more than 10 minutes

In the period that followed, he developed a method that is based on shallow breathing and thus normalize the breathing again. This method has had great success in Russia.

In 1988 he founded the Buteyko Clinic in Moscow, one of the first private medical institutions in the former USSR.