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If that sounds like you, or like someone you love, you are not alone.
Thousands of adults over 60 have quietly handed pieces of their life over. Not all at once. One task at a time. The stairs went first, then the bath, then carrying the shopping in from the car.
Age, illness and years of shallow breathing all do the same thing. They leave you puffing after twenty feet, sitting down to recover, and working out how far the car is before you agree to go anywhere.
You have been told it is just your age. You have been told your COPD is stable. You were told about pulmonary rehab, and then told about the waiting list. So you assumed this was the new normal, and that it only goes one way.
And if you are reading this thinking it is not that bad yet, that is exactly what every one of them thought a few years ago.
Your diaphragm is a muscle. The same tissue as the muscle in your arm. It gets weak when it is not used, and it gets stronger when it is worked. That is not a theory. That is how every muscle in your body has worked your entire life.
It does not much matter what they called it. COPD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, a chest infection that never quite cleared, or just years quietly adding up. The muscle answers to the same thing.
And 20,000+ Americans over 60 are already working theirs, for five minutes a day, sitting in a chair, with Breathful.
Most breathing gadgets are built for athletes. This one was built for people who get out of breath doing ordinary things. Light in the hand, comfortable in the mouth, dials that turn with one finger even with arthritis, and it comes apart in seconds to wash.
You sit down and breathe in and out through it. Two dials add gentle, adjustable work to both directions, so your diaphragm and rib muscles do more than they have in years. Muscles answer that the only way they know how. They get stronger. And then ordinary breathing costs you less.
No walking. No standing. No gym, no app, no batteries, nothing to refill. Five minutes in the morning, five in the evening, with the TV on. Most people feel a difference in the first few uses. By the end of the first week, they are telling us about the stairs.
Every other breathing trainer on the market only works the breath in. With COPD, that is the wrong half of the problem.
Ask anyone with COPD what it actually feels like. They will not describe trouble getting air in. They describe air that will not come out. Stale air, trapped in the chest. Breathing through a straw. Cobwebs building up in there.
When air stays trapped, there is no room for the next breath. That is the whole reason you are gasping at the top of the stairs.
Breathful™ is the only device that works the breath out as well. The second dial works the muscles that push air out, the abdominals and the muscles between your ribs. In ordinary quiet breathing those muscles do almost nothing, which is exactly why they are the weakest ones you own.
Work both directions and the whole cycle gets easier. Air in, air out, room for the next one. That is what people mean when they say it gave them their wind back.
Since a chest infection two winters ago I have stopped halfway up every time. I felt it the very first time I used it. By the end of the week I got up the stairs still talking. My husband noticed before I said anything.
Four years since my COPD diagnosis and I had stopped offering to carry anything. Groceries from the car to the kitchen used to finish me for twenty minutes. I only tried it because my daughter kept on at me. Inside a week I was bringing them in one go.
I always put it down to getting older. I never realised how shallow my breathing had got until the first go on this. Within a few days I was not left sitting on the bench while everyone else walked on. That is the whole thing for me.
Use it every day for a week. If your breathing does not feel easier by the end of it, email us at support@breathful.co any time in the next 90 days and we refund you in full. No questions asked.
Easier breathing in five minutes a day, sitting down, starting from your very first use.
★★★★★ 4.9 based on 5,147 reviews
I did not think a bit of plastic would do anything. I bought it because I am tired of being told there is nothing to be done. First morning my chest felt looser. Five days in I got dressed without stopping once. I have spent far more than this on things that did nothing at all.
Bought this for my mum after she came out of hospital and started hiding how bad she was from me. She actually uses it, which is more than I can say for anything else I have bought her. The printed book is why, she likes ticking the days off. I got the two-pack so there is one downstairs and one by her bed.
The second dial is the bit that did it for me. Getting the old air out was always the problem, not getting new air in. Nobody else seems to have understood that. It comes apart to wash in seconds, which mattered to me more than I expected. Ordered a second one for my brother.
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