Buteyko Breathing Clinics

27/07/2026

Regular exercise can help reduce the frequency and severity of respiratory infections in winter, but it helps significantly if you can exercise breathing through your nose. Guidelines in comments.

Think of exercise as a way to reduce your chances of getting sick rather than preventing it altogether.

23/07/2026

Mainstream media coverage consistently ignores the clear links between basic nutrition, natural immunity and infant respiratory health?

According to a clinical study published on PubMed, newborns with vitamin D deficiency face a significantly higher risk of contracting Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and developing severe lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) like bronchiolitis during their first year of life.

The data reveals that infants born with low cord blood vitamin D concentrations had a sixfold increased risk compared to those with sufficient levels.

Despite these findings, media like RNZ focus almost exclusively on pharmaceutical options while omitting the potential benefits in boosting natural immunity and routine maternal supplementation. Journalists should provide comprehensive public health information rather than mirroring corporate public relations.

Explainer: RSV may not quite have the name recognition that influenza and Covid do, but it's actually causing more winter illness.

09/06/2026

Imagine a complete inversion of our current medical paradigm, shifting the focus from managing illness to cultivating baseline vitality. In this scenario, good nutrition, sunshine, physical exercise, time in nature, restorative sleep, healthy breathing, meditative and spiritual practises and social interactions serve as primary healthcare, while pharmaceuticals are reserved as secondary, alternative interventions for acute crises.
Starting with small steps: It is election year and the one time in our 3-year political cycle when politicians listen to the electorate. Imagine if we could commit just 10% of the annual health budget to preventive medicine. That is just one of the many initiatives that Make New Zealand Healthy is promoting. Join me and learn how to support this fast-growing movement here:

Join the Make New Zealand Healthy movement. Advocating for prevention-first healthcare, chronic disease reduction, better nutrition, informed choice, and lasting health reform across New Zealand.

05/05/2026

From 3 Near-Death Experiences to 26 Years Drug-Free

This World Asthma Awareness Week (May 4–8), I’m sharing my story because asthma doesn't have to be a life sentence of inhalers and limitation.

For 40 years, I was a prisoner to my own lungs. In 2000, while working as a gold exploration geologist, I hit rock bottom, hospitalized and fighting for every breath.

I thought I’d tried everything until I found the Buteyko Breathing Method. Within 5 sessions, my life transformed:

✅ Day 2: Put down the "blue puffer."
✅ Day 3: Slept through the night symptom-free.
✅ 6 Weeks later managed to come off all asthma medication.

Today, at 69 years old, I am fit, active, and have been entirely asthma and drug-free for 26 years.

If you’re ready to reclaim your health, let’s talk. One breath really can change everything.📞 Book a Free 15-minute Consultation: www.buteykobreathing.nz/contact-us

13/04/2026

As winter approaches in the Southern hemisphere NZ media are reporting on a new super-k flu strain. Most of these articles read like pharmaceutical company advertorial rather than journalism.
The prevailing narrative ignores natural immunity with flu jabs promoted as the only sure option to ward off infection. So for balance, here is one of many recent studies highlighting the importance in maintaining optimum vitamin D levels through the winter months.

A study of over 36,000 UK adults (published Jan 2026) found that individuals with severe vitamin D deficiency (below 15 nmol/L) were 33% more likely to be hospitalised for respiratory infections, including influenza, compared to those with sufficient levels. RNZ has probably already reported on this study but its worth repeating here to go with the advertorial. You can read the full study here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002916525007713?via%3Dihub

18/03/2026

With outbreaks of meningococcal B in many parts of the world I was reminded that in 2004, New Zealand GP Dr Mike Godfrey published a provocative letter in the New Zealand Medical Journal titled "Haemorrhagic meningococcal meningitis: is it scurvy?", NZMJ Vol. 117 No. 1200 on 20 August 2004.

Writing during New Zealand’s 1991-2007 meningococcal B epidemic, he proposed that the haemorrhagic symptoms of meningococcal disease might be a form of "acute scurvy" and argued that the rapid depletion of Vitamin C during a severe infection leads to a breakdown of blood vessel integrity, mirroring the clinical presentation of scurvy.

One mechanism for disease susceptibility might be vitamin C deficiency suggesting adequate levels on the diet may help ward off complications. He also suggested that the disease only becomes severe ("fulminating") when the liver is overwhelmed by toxins, which he believed Vitamin C could mitigate.

Godfrey argued that high-dose Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) could be an effective, safe, and cheap therapy for meningococcal disease. The letter is on page 121-122 at this link:https://nzmj.org.nz/media/pages/journal/vol-117-no-1200/01f3bb390e-1696470820/vol-117-no-1200.pdf

19/09/2025

“𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻, 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀.”

This was recently posted on social media by an ear nose and throat surgeon (ENT).

Of course you would naturally expect a surgeon to suggest the surgical option. However, as this article points out, surgery should be the very last option, after less invasive interventions have been explored.

Before taking the surgical route it is essential to understand the full picture including the risks limitations and the alternatives.

19/02/2025

The pope is suffering a “polymicrobial infection” which has come on top of “bronchiectasis and asthmatic bronchitis.

The first thing the Vatican doctors should be doing is checking the Holy See’s vitamin D levels and if subclinical, administering oral calcidiol.

Calcidiol has been clinically shown to raise plasma levels of vitamin D rapidly helping to reduce respiratory infections and inflammation.

He should also be administered high dose intravenous vitamin C and coached in breathing exercises to help relieve lung inflammation and bronchoconstriction. If anyone has access to the Vatican medical team I would happily volunteer my services.

Pope Francis, 88, is suffering from pneumonia in both lungs.

18/12/2024

Buteyko Breathing Clinics Holiday Hours and Looking Forward to 2025.

Once again, thank you to all my wonderful clients and fellow health practitioners. It has been such a treat to work with you these last 23 years. Our understanding about the science of breathing and its fundamental influence on health is expanding rapidly. There has never been a better time to be wo...

08/10/2024

Konstantin Buteyko said that medicine is standing on its head, and he wasn't wrong. So, if you are looking for an alternative to asthma medications, antihistamines, anti snoring devices, anxiety and sleep medications, we can help. There are a few places left on the last Buteyko breathing courses for 2024.

With spring once again upon us, perhaps it’s time for you to break the seasonal cycle of hay fever, runny nose and itchy eyes.