Claims of Buteyko Breathing Techniques:
   There are several means to learn buteyko over the web which all claim to have dramatic results in short periods of time. Videos, pamphlets and other publication can be bought for an average of about one hundred dollars. There are also several classes offered. For example, the Buteyko Limited company in New Zealand, offers courses in Buteyko Breathing Techniques spread over six days for $395 for a child, $495 for an adult, and $675 for family groups. All of the clinics and their methods to teach buteyko make great claims about the breathing techniques, here are some money back guarantees most commonly used:
    1. "Gain control of over your asthma instead of your asthma controlling you."
    2. "Reduction in medication use."
    3. "Reduction in symptons of asthma, sinusitis, hay fever, breathlessness, allergies, etc."
    4. "Reduction in medical and pharmaceutical costs."
    5. "95% of people attending our courses reduce their reliever medication and symptons by 75% the
         first week."
    6. "Learn to permanently relieve your breathing problems." (http://www.buteyko.co.nz and http://www.ozemail.com.au/~buteyko/)

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