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The Oxygen Advantage Breathing Technique by Patrick McKeown

The Oxygen Advantage improves sports performance:

1. By understanding how oxygen is released throughout the body, and improving everyday breathing habits so that body oxygenation becomes more efficient

2. By practicing specially designed breath hold exercises which provide the same benefits as high altitude training

Both methods work by increasing the amount of oxygen that can be delivered to your working muscles and heart during exercise, allowing you to become healthier, faster, fitter and stronger. The Oxygen Advantage technique provides step by step detail to enable you:

-Increase your natural production of EPO safely and legally
-Improve your VO2 max and sports performance
-Reduce your breathlessness during physical exercise
-Improve delivery of oxygen to organs and working muscles
-Prevent exercise induced asthma
-Reduce inflammation and the risk of injury
-Help maintain fitness during rest or injury

For the past eleven years, Patrick McKeown has trained over 5,000 people in reduced breathing exercises. From seriously ill asthmatics to couch potatoes to weekend warriors and Olympic athletes—Patrick teaches a simple, fast way to transform health, well-being, and performance. The Oxygen Advantage, Patrick's latest and most complete book, is based on research supported by over 230 medical papers and studies published in prominent scientific journals. For the first time, this information is being published outside academic journals and made accessible to the public. The Oxygen Advantage allows those who previously avoided exercise due to excessive breathlessness, asthma, or other health and respiratory issues, to become the athletes they’ve always wanted to become. Equally, for the first time, individuals who don’t regularly exercise can use reduced breathing techniques to improve their fitness level substantially before they even set foot on a track, or walk into a gym. The health benefits of reduced breathing for exercisers and for non-exercisers includes better sleep, improved cardiovascular health, increased energy and concentration, easy weight loss and weight maintenance, and the elimination of asthmatic symptoms. The Oxygen Advantage book includes both detailed and simplified descriptions of each exercise, quick reference guides and summaries, case studies, and the science behind the information to enable the reader to fully understand and apply the Oxygen Advantage program.

07/01/2026

When breathing feels out of control,
rate of perceived exertion rises.

It doesn’t matter what your heart rate or watch says.
If your breathing signals strain, the brain responds accordingly.

Breathlessness isn’t imagined.
It’s shaped by real physiology:
• CO₂ sensitivity
• Breathing patterns
• Blood chemistry
• Respiratory muscle fatigue
• Nervous system signalling

There are six key drivers that influence how breathless you feel —
and most are not trained by exercise alone.

That’s why people can be fit,
yet feel disproportionately breathless.

Physical training builds capacity.
Breath training improves how effort is experienced.

This is the foundation of Oxygen Advantage®.

🫁 Breathing isn’t just automatic — it’s trainable.

06/01/2026

“Yoga is not simple. It’s rich, deep, and profound.” – Robin Rothenberg

In this powerful clip from the Oxygen Advantage® Podcast, yoga therapist and author Robin Rothenberg reminds us that yoga is far more than just movement and flexibility. With over 40 years of experience, Robin shares how her own journey through chronic illness and pain led her to question traditional practices and to rediscover yoga’s true potential through the science of breath.

Robin’s work bridges ancient yogic wisdom with modern respiratory science, including Buteyko and functional breathing. In this clip, she calls on yoga instructors everywhere to go deeper, to question the norm, and to reclaim the breath as the cornerstone of healing and transformation.

Because how we breathe — in and out of class — shapes our nervous system, our mind, our pain, and our potential.

🎧 Full episode available now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.

05/01/2026

Is breathing different for women?
Yes — and like everything with breath, it’s individual. Women’s respiratory patterns are influenced by hormones, life stages, and nervous system states — but everyone can learn to breathe more functionally.

💡 Breathing isn’t just oxygen in and CO₂ out — it reflects stress, mood, hormones, and resilience. In fact, researchers can identify people by their breathing patterns with ~97% accuracy (Current Biology, 2024).

Hormones and breath:
• Across the menstrual cycle, shifts in progesterone can increase ventilation and lower CO₂ — mimicking mild hyperventilation in the luteal phase.
• Lower CO₂ can make breathlessness, anxiety, fatigue, and pain more noticeable.

Pain, breath, and women’s health:
• Many chronic pain conditions (fibromyalgia, migraines, TMJ, PMS) are linked with dysfunctional breathing.
• Breath training can improve symptoms — for example, women with fibromyalgia showed reduced pain and better function after 12 weeks of structured breathing practice.

Across the lifespan:
• Puberty: breathing and anxiety shifts
• Reproductive years: cycle‑related changes in breath, sleep, and mood
• Menopause: shifts in CO₂ tolerance and sleep/airway risks

What helps:
✓ Build CO₂ tolerance (BOLT testing + light training)
✓ Practice diaphragmatic, nasal, slow breathing
✓ Track changes across your cycle

Is breathing different for women? Yes — and understanding those differences can change everything.

When you understand it, train it, and work with it, it becomes a quiet anchor for balance, energy, and strength.
Start where you are. Listen to your breath. And let it guide the way.

03/01/2026

🫁 How Well Do You Breathe?

Your breath can reveal more than you think — about your energy, sleep, focus, and even how you perform under stress.

The Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT) is a simple breath-hold test that measures your sensitivity to CO₂ — a key factor in breathlessness, stamina, and breathing efficiency.

⏱️ What Your BOLT Score Means:

02/01/2026

Imagine if every yoga teacher could support students with asthma, anxiety, sleep issues, and breathlessness—right from the mat.

What if they could assess breathing patterns and tailor practices based not just on movement, but on the science of breathing?

Biochemistry. Biomechanics. Psychophysiology.

Not just pranayama but breathing that supports real-life outcomes, from better sleep to more stable energy and calmer minds.

We believe yoga instructors can be on the front line of respiratory and mental health—if they’re trained to work with breath in this way.

🧘‍♀️ Ready to learn how?

👉 Join our next Breathing for Yoga Instructor Training with Patrick McKeown
📅 Live Practice + Q&A: Jan 26–27
🌐 100% online + lifetime access
🎓 Yoga Alliance recognised
🔗 Link in bio / comments to learn more and enroll.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year — and welcome to 2026.

No long list of resolutions needed.

Just one habit that supports everything —
🧠 Focus
💤 Sleep
🔥 Energy
🧘 Recovery
💪 Resilience

And it only takes a few minutes a day.

Start the year strong with these 5 breathing tips:

1️⃣ Know your BOLT score
Your Body Oxygen Level Test is your breathing baseline.
🕒

29/12/2025

Don’t Give In Too Soon.

That urge to stop — the breathlessness, the burn, the noise in your head —
it’s not always a signal to quit.

Sometimes, it’s just your body responding to rising CO₂.
Not a lack of oxygen.
Not failure.
Just a signal that your system is being challenged.

This is where adaptation starts.

Most people give in to mouth breathing too early.
Because they mistake air hunger for danger.
But with the right tools, you can train through it — not override it — but understand it.

🧠 The better your system handles rising CO₂, the calmer your mind, the steadier your breath, the greater your control under pressure.

🏃‍♂️ Train this edge. Build tolerance. Improve breath economy. Teach the body to do more with less.

Because endurance isn’t just muscular.
It’s chemical.
It’s neurological.
And it starts with the breath.

🌀 Train your system to stay calm when it wants to panic.
That’s how you build real resilience — in sport, in breath, and in life.

🔗 Learn the Oxygen Advantage®
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27/12/2025

Nitric oxide was once labelled “poison” — until it saved the lives of premature babies. Today, we know your body produces it naturally through nasal breathing.

It helps widen blood vessels, deliver oxygen more efficiently, support immune defence, and enhance recovery and performance.

And it all starts in the nose.

🎧 “If you’re not breathing through your nose, you’re not activating one of your body’s most powerful physiological signals.”
— Dr. Nathan Bryan on the Oxygen Advantage® Podcast

25/12/2025

🎄 Merry Christmas from all of us at Oxygen Advantage® 🎄

Whether you're spending the holidays with family, friends, or embracing a quiet day to yourself — we hope you find calm, connection, and a few moments of stillness in your breath.

Wishing you a peaceful Christmas, a restorative break, and a strong, steady start to 2026. 💙
— The OA Team

24/12/2025

🎄 A Holiday Message from Patrick McKeown – Oxygen Advantage®

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on the impact this community has made — from elite sports to everyday wellbeing, all through the power of the breath.

To our instructors, practitioners, and everyone who’s joined the journey this year: thank you.

Here’s to a peaceful Christmas, and an exciting year ahead for breathwork, education, and global health.

23/12/2025

"If you can control your breathing, you can control anything."
That’s what Jake Paul’s coach said to him during the fight.

But here's the question:
Did anyone teach him how to control his breathing?

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