Product Description

Lungs ventilation and gas exchange between the body cells and the atmosphere occur during the process of breathing; the cells use oxygen, which is involved in the process of cellular metabolism. Carbon dioxide formed during the oxidation is partially used by the cells and partially removed through the lungs.

Specialized organs (nose, lungs, diaphragm, heart) and cells (erythrocytes — red blood corpuscles containing hemoglobin, special protein for oxygen transferring, nerve cells that react to the content of carbon dioxide in blood-chemoreceptor of blood vessels, and brain nerve cells that form a respiratory center) are involved in the breathing process.

Formally the process of breathing can be divided into three major stages: external respiration, gas transportation (oxygen and carbon dioxide) by blood (between lungs and cells) and tissue respiration (oxidation of various substances in the cells).

External respiration means gas exchange between the body and the surrounding atmosphere.

Transportation of gases by blood: the main carrier of oxygen is hemoglobin, a protein that is carried inside erythrocytes. With the aid of hemoglobin up to *0% of carbon dioxide is transported from tissues to lungs.

“Tissues breathing” or «internal respiration». This process includes two stages:

In order to maintain good health, to keep fit and to sustain body health reserves it is necessary to keep lungs ventilation and gas exchange in good condition. This can be achieved by means of breathing exercises that change the common breathing patterns.

Medical practice knows several approaches to breathing exercises — hypoxic exercises, Buteyko method or hypercapnic exercises, eastern restorative breathing techniques based on the reduction of the rate of breathing, breathing techniques for reducing per-minute breathing volume, breathing exercises with breath resistance, breathing exercises using additional breathing space. The unique feature of Frolov’s Respiration Training Device is that it combines the best of all these techniques. The exercises with the Device are very easy. The device is filled with the needed amount of water and the patient starts breathing using the diaphragm.

The exercises with the Device are very easy. The device is filled with the needed amount of water and the patient starts breathing using the diaphragm.

The patient can start with the nose breathing and later switch to the mouth breathing. When breathing in through the mouth, the water in the device creates resistance. The exhale through the mouth should be slow and relaxed — it is the so-called expiration against resistance. In the course of regular exercising, the time of exhalation can be gradually increased up to ****0 seconds

Exposure to the short-term hypoxia (the state of oxygen deficiency) is one of the key elements in the breathing technique with the Device. A longer exhale creates a short-term hypoxia, which results in more efficient oxygen use in the body. That is why people living in the mountain areas live much longer.

What are the benefits of the short-term hypoxia?

It has been observed that sessions of hypoxic breathing improve the mood, mental and physical work capacity, open reserve capillaries, add additional erythrocytes into the blood, increase the amount of circulating blood and the amount of blood circulation per minute, and improve blood supply to the tissues and cells.

Therefore, for human body hypoxic exercises are a proper way to improve the functions of all principal physiological systems and organs: brain, heart, gastrointestinal tract, reproductive organs. They also normalize metabolism, strengthen the immunity and are a curative and preventive means against many diseases.

Dosed exposure to hypoxia boosts resistance to harmful factors of the environment, normalizes metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and electrolytes. Hypoxic exposure is virtually a universal non-pharmacological tool for increasing the adaptive capabilities. It restores psycho-physiological and emotional state in humans and normalizes the functioning of the vegetative nervous system regulating the internal organs.

In ***1, Academician A. Z. Kolchinskaya pioneered in developing an effective and economical method of hypoxic therapy: the method of alternate hypoxic exercise. During such exercises, the patient breathes through a mask with ambient air alternated with a hypoxic mixture containing a lowered amount of oxygen (*0% — *2%).

Hypoxic exercises result not only in the increase in the body’s adaptive capabilities, but also in the enhanced immunity. Different diseases were proved to have fewer exacerbations if treated in combination with breathing therapy as compared with traditional anti-inflammatory therapy without such exercises. Psycho-emotional state, hormonal background (the levels of prolactin, testosterone, and cortisol) and women’s periods appear to improve after the respiratory therapy.

The overall effect of hypoxic exercises on the body allows using such exercises not only for treatment of respiratory, blood and nervous system diseases, but also for protection against infections, radiation, and harmful ecological and climatic factors. Such breathing exercises stimulate an enhancement of the respiratory system reserves and improve the external breathing efficiency; they decrease the amount of breaths per minute while increasing the breathing volume, maximizing lungs ventilation, and slowing exhalations.

That is why hypoxic exercises have received wide recognition in sport: they increase the effectiveness of training and, at the same time, substitute the expensive process of mountain-climatic training of sportsmen.

There are special mixtures used for hypoxic therapy sessions. They aim to control and manage the air content consumed by a patient.

Similar effect can be achieved when breathing with Frolov’s Respiration Training Device that unifies different breathing approaches. Longer exhalation with the Device leads to a short hypoxia exposure so that the body experiences the effect similar to that occurring during the alternate hypoxic exercises with expensive air mixtures for hypoxic therapy.

Hypoxic exercises normally require special techniques that can control the properties of the gas mixtures inhaled by the patient. The Frolov’s Respiration Training Device suits best for this purpose.

The breathing technique with the Device is also based on the hypercapnic exercises — inhaling the air with high carbon dioxide concentration or increasing carbon dioxide concentration in the lungs. The rhythmical increase in CO2 concentration in the lungs is the result of slow breathing and rebreathing through the tube of the Device. Part of the CO2 from the exhale mixes with the air that the patient inhales from the device, filling the lungs with CO*-rich air.

Hypercapnic exercises are breathing exercises during which the content of carbon dioxide in the inhaled air and in the lungs increases. Such exercises play a very important role in sustaining the body wellness thanks to physiological and biochemical effects of carbon dioxide on our respiratory system. For a long time carbon dioxide was considered to be a sort of “organic waste”, a by-product of oxidation in cells to be actively removed from the body by means of vigorous lungs ventilation. However, scientific research has shown that carbon dioxide is a crucial factor that influences most important biological and physiological processes. CO2 (carbon dioxide) affects cell metabolism and smooth muscles of the internal organs and vessels, participates in the regulation of the nervous system, the acid-alkali balance in the body, and the process of oxygen separation from hemoglobin during the passage of blood through capillaries.

Moreover, it turns out that the human body actively reacts to increases in carbon dioxide in blood, as special nerve cells and hypercapnic receptors become more active. However, this reaction does not happen during decreases in carbon dioxide in blood, because humans have no specific receptors that react to decreases in CO2. Therefore, the body does not react to decreases in carbon dioxide. That is why special breathing exercises are needed to support the right amount of carbon dioxide in blood and in tissues.

This is what happens, for instance, during prolonged holding of breath: accumulation of carbon dioxide in blood takes place and neurons of the respiratory center adjust to the concentration of carbon dioxide in blood. Russian scientist Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko developed the method of PLDB based on a special technique of breathing: purposeful denial of deep breathing. According to the theory behind this method, the depth of breathing decreases during the exercises and so does the loss of carbon dioxide so that accumulation of CO2 in blood takes place. Many people confuse the method by K. P. Buteyko with the techniques based on breath holding, which is not the same.

During active physical exercises or physical work, the formation of carbon dioxide in cells also increases because of glucose oxidation, and this way the person trains the respiratory system. Various individual protective gear (gas masks, space-suits, etc.) are equipped with some devices and gadgets providing for reverse breathing, i.e. when the person exhales into a vessel (e.g. a plastic bag) and inhales back a gas mixture with the increased carbon dioxide content. Various versions of hypercapnic exercises are also used both in clinical practice to treat diseases (asthma, stenocardia, hypertension, etc.) and in sports medicine to enhance physical endurance and stamina and to recover the body reserves after training.

The method of breathing with Frolov’s Respiration Training Device helps to perform breathing exercises with an increased amount of carbon dioxide; which are also known as “hypercapnic exercises”. Periodic elevation of the carbon dioxide level in the lungs is achieved by means of slowing down one’s breathing and by means of reverse breathing through the Device. Concurrently, some carbon dioxide that goes into the Device with the exhaled air is mixed with the inhaled air and the enriched carbon dioxide mixture goes into the lungs.

The design of the Device and the breathing technique ensure the success of the breath therapy, which has a positive effect on your respiratory system and an overall health. It heals your body by supplying it with the energy and giving you overall sense of well-being.