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REVIEWS < THE CARBON DIOXIDE SYNDROME: _ restores normal blood gas pressure. They the genetic and biological factors involved Learn why changing your breathing also provide advice on recognising and con- _ but the environmental factors. For instance, can improve your health and trolling the triggers for stress, and feature southern Norway, which has the world's wellbeing testimonials from many people whose lives _ highest mortality rate for Alzheimer's dis- have been changed for the better through the _ ease, has acidic drinking water that lacks by Jennifer Stark and Russell Stark . . Buteyko method. calcium and magnesium because of the local Buteyko Online Ltd, NZ, Australia, 2002 » geology and contains high levels of alumini- ISBN 0-473-09610-2 (259pp tpb) WHAT REALLY CAUSES um. But the risk factors are all around us if Availability: Australia—Buteyko Online, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE we drink and bathe in water treated with alu- tel (07) 3397 0244; NZ—Buteyko Online, by Harold D. Foster minium sulphate as a flocculant as it is made email info@buteyko.co.nz, website Trafford Publishin Canada, 2004 deficient in calcium, magnesium and silicic http://www.buteyko.co.nz ISBN 4 At204924°0 (271 pp tpb) acid, and if we eat foods from soils depleted of these elements. We're also at risk if we eat denatured processed foods, consume drinks from aluminium cans and use alu- minium saucepans and alfoil when cooking. By cutting down on these environmental sources of aluminium, we can do much to prevent the onset of Alzheimer's and the plague proportions that are expected in a few years' time if we do nothing. Foster also suggests natural remedies with benefits in improving memory and removing toxins from the system and he lists foods high in lhe Buteyko method has grown in promi- nence in recent years as a means of con- trolling asthma, but it's less well known that the method is useful in treating a variety of other disorders including allergies, panic other forms of dementia is rising faster attacks, hypertension, pain, sleep apnoea and than the population is ageing which leads snoring, chronic fatigue, diabetes, epilepsy Harold Foster, BSc, PhD, to conclude that and more. | All of these conditions are : the increase is not due to a genetic cause, explained in this book by Buteyko practi- although there are gene variants that can tioners Jennifer and Russell Stark, who make some individuals more susceptible brought the technique to New Zealand from than others. (We've run his articles and Australia in the early 1990s. They've helped — peyjewed his books on AIDS and schizo- Availability: Trafford Publishing, website http://www.trafford.com; author's website, http:/Avww.hdfoster.com lhe incidence of Alzheimer's disease and thousands of people "restore normality to phrenia in NEXUS 10/05 to 11/03.) calcium and magnesium {0 combat excess their lives" through the practice of the spe- The main culprit behind this rise, accord- : ‘ P : cial Buteyko breathing exercises. ing to Foster's Multiple Antagonist What's common to asthma and many other Hypothesis as outlined in What Really disorders mentioned above is hyperventila- Causes Alzheimer's Disease, is aluminium. tion, and it's a normal reaction to stress. It can readily cross the blood-brain barrier However, it is an abnormality of breathing and interfere with key enzymes and their co- control which has one breathing in excess of factors, especially calcium and magnesium. metabolic needs. It removes too much car-_It causes abnormal proteins to build up in bon dioxide from the lungs and then the the brain, forming neuritic plaques and neu- bloodstream, delivers less oxygen to the rofibrillary tangles, and it strips the nerves body, makes the blood too alkaline, causes of their protective myelin sheath, leading to smooth muscle spasms in the airways and retrogenesis—the loss of the patient's abili- increases histamine production. The Starks __ ties in the reverse order to which they devel- explain the biology of this so-called "carbon _ oped from infancy. dioxide syndrome" and how it can be over- Using a wealth of scientific studies to back come with the right kind of breathing that up his hypothesis, Foster explains not just restores normal blood gas pressure. They also provide advice on recognising and con- trolling the triggers for stress, and feature testimonials from many people whose lives have been changed for the better through the Buteyko method. 66 = NEXUS the genetic and biological factors involved but the environmental factors. For instance, southern Norway, which has the world's highest mortality rate for Alzheimer's dis- ease, has acidic drinking water that lacks calcium and magnesium because of the local geology and contains high levels of alumini- um. But the risk factors are all around us if we drink and bathe in water treated with alu- minium sulphate as a flocculant as it is made deficient in calcium, magnesium and silicic acid, and if we eat foods from soils depleted of these elements. We're also at risk if we eat denatured processed foods, consume drinks from aluminium cans and use alu- minium saucepans and alfoil when cooking. By cutting down on these environmental sources of aluminium, we can do much to prevent the onset of Alzheimer's and the plague proportions that are expected in a few years' time if we do nothing. Foster also suggests natural remedies with benefits in improving memory and removing toxins from the system and he lists foods high in calcium and magnesium to combat excess levels of aluminium. An important book. APRIL — MAY 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com