Niraj Naik argues asthma stems from chronic over-breathing that disrupts oxygen-carbon dioxide balance, triggering airway constriction. He claims slow breathing exercises can restore that balance and relieve symptoms by normalizing CO2 levels.
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Asthma in itself is a symptom, usually of over breathing. So what happens in this state is you start to breathe faster rhythms, more erratic rhythms, you get more oxygen into the bloodstream, and that can lead to all this oxidative distress. And actually, your asthma is a symptom to protect you against too much oxygen being in the system. So you get constriction, vasoconstriction to prevent too much oxygen from going into your bloodstream. So actually, people who are asthmatics who don't take medications for it, live longer than asthmatics who take medication for it, because the asthma is protecting them from over breathing. So actually, when you do these breathing techniques and you start to work on carbon dioxide ratios and you start to slow people's breathing down, can be enough to correct the physiology, to correct the oxygen, carbon dioxide balance, to relieve asthma.