Breath training

[heimegut]

I am new to this, diagnosed in November 22, and had symptoms a few months before that. The reason I am here is to learn and maybe find a way out of this.

Do any of you have experience with breathing training. I am specifically thinking about Buteyko method and Wim Hof method. I was doing these two combined but on different days of the week for a few months before my symptoms showed up.
This training had a tremendous positive effect on my health, energy levels and general well being so I really dont want to stop doing them.
Both these methods aim to influence the CO2 levels in the blood stream and the hence the cellular activity in the body. I am thinking that such radical changes as the ones I have seen also could be accompanied by something negative. Like for instance making the immune system go a little over board in the penile area and cause Peyronies?

I want to continue this training but I am very interested in if anyone else has any experience or opinions making this a bad idea.

[Pfract]

Hey Heimegut. If you read up on the causes of Peyronies disease in all sorts of literature, nowhere it states a correlation between these exercises and getting peyronies.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Please have a look at it yourself.

[Bak]

The only thing that might relate to that which comes up in my mind is oxidative stress (ROS). Increase in ROS seems to be related to Peyronie's disease. I don't know these breathing exercises that you mention, but if anything, they were probably beneficial in decreasing the oxidative stress. So I wouldn't say they are the cause.

Oxidative stress in short: https://www.healthline.com/health/oxidative-stress
Oxidative stress and Peyronies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9781573/
Breathing exercises and oxidative stress: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139518/

[heimegut]

Thank you guys. This forum is great.

[Vincent2023]

I have also been doing the wim hoff exercises and also meditation (before and after). Interesting.