Buteyko-Course-Manual

9. Cleansing & Detox
As your breathing becomes better and your Buteyko Breathing scores
improve, all body systems become stronger: for example the respiratory,
metabolic, immune, nervous, digestive, cardiovascular, endocrine and muscular
systems.
As the body gains in strength and health, three cleansing and detox processes
often occur:
1) Autophagy is where individual cells start recycling broken molecules
(proteins, amino-acids, etc) that are stored in the garbage-collectors in each
individual cell. This is a very good sign of increasing health: the body
really starts a deep clean.
2) The body will also start removing toxic substances that were originally
stored in fat cells to get them out of the way and keep them out of the
bloodstream where they can do a lot of damage. When the toxins are again
removed from the fat cells, they will need to really be processed, broken
down and disposed through urine, feces, sweat, breath etc.
3) As the immune system becomes stronger, it starts to seek hidden viruses
more actively and intensively. When it encounters a virus in, for example,
the throat, urinary tract, or somewhere else, the traditional symptoms of
flu, fever, pain, or infection may arise while the immune system is
eradicating the virus. This usually happens after a solid improvement in
your breathing scores (breaking your personal record). Often big
improvement in scores will be followed by temporary symptoms of fever
or cold and the corresponding reduction in wellness and breathing scores.
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