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Are there breathing exercises that can help with my asthma symptoms?

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Are there breathing exercises that can help with my asthma symptoms?

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Although it's difficult to alter your breathing to control asthma, there is a slow breathing method called Buteyko that has been shown to help. Watch pulmonologist Brian Gelbman, MD, discuss this method that can potentially help with asthma symptoms.

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