Global Medicine Review is a talk show program hosted by Dr. Kamau Kokayi and Faybiene Miranda dedicated to exploring topics of interest in medicine, health, culture and healing. The show airs on WBAI every Wednesday from noon - 1PM. You can download individual shows below or from iTunes. You can also subscribe to our iTunes feed and get the show automatically downloaded to iTunes or to your mp3 player.

Archive for June 18th, 2008

Mandatory Vaccinations and the Buteyko Method for Breathing

Dr Kokayi has a chance to speak with Bud Weiss an advocate of free choice with respect to vaccinations. Proponents of mandatory vaccination were trying to push a bill (bill 10492) thru the NY State legislature sanctioning this. The sheer fallacy in doing this is discussed and indeed this bill was later defeated with the help of parents and practitioners state wide. In the second half of the program Bud Weiss changes hats and speaks about his work with a phenomenal system of breathing developed by a Russian doctor, Dr Konstantin Buteyko. This system of breathing has been repeatedly shown to facilitate patients recovering completely from asthma and other reactive airway diseases. Its also important in the treatment of hypertension. The increase in the expiratory phase of breathing leads normalization of carbon dioxide levels in the blood (increases them) which lead to dilation of arteries and airways.