Breathing Coordination- The Science of Respiration

The Way Your Body Was Meant to Breath

We are presently experiencing an epidemic of respiratory disease. Breath holding is at the center of this problem. Stemming from over use of ci******es and the extreme stresses of our present day life, there are important lessons to be learned from the life saving work of Carl Stough, called by The US Olympic Committee to work with the 1968 American Track & Field Team participating in the high altitudes of Mexico City- the only team which would not need oxygen in the entire Olympics. These young athletes working under the experienced hand of Stough, who they affectionately called “Dr. Breath”, would create records that would stand for more than 25 years. Carl had, starting in post WWII Armed Forces hospitals, begun his work in the world of respiration quite unexpectedly. He had been called into the hospital by pulmonologist, Maurice Smalls, hoping that Carl, who was trained as a choral conductor, might somehow have some knowledge that would enable him to be able to help even one serviceman in the wards of men desperately gasping for breath as a result of a new disease, “emphysema”. Carl would go on to dedicate 60 years of his life to disproving false theories on respiration, dispelling fallacies about respiratory “aides”, saving lives, working with Metropolitan opera singers and those in the popular music circuit, such as Dolly Parton and rectifying so much of the harm that had been done to them through the unfortunate misinformed teachings of voice teachers, athletic coaches, wood instrumental teachers and public instruction in general. The results of Carl Stough’s research, through his work in the discovery of Breathing Coordination: The Way The Body Was Meant to Breathe, continues to slowly find its way into the mainstream, despite the many attempts by The Pharmaceutical Companies and others dispensing products which cannot re-educate the diaphragm, the involuntary muscle-organ in charge of respiration, only able to be re-educated through Carl’s groundbreaking discoveries.