Kar-Ming,
You may not have noticed that my blog post and writing is an attempt to bring science into easy to understand terms. I offer nothing of possible harm (I suggest that once a person is asymptomatic, they may not find any need for medication. That is a self assessment, nothing I can predict), and therefore have no fear about jumping over science to provide the message that people need to hear. If I provided all of the science, everyone would fall asleep and learn nothing. They would never overcome asthma.
I attempt to get to the point and reach out to the average individual. I try to keep thing as easy to understand and practical as possible.
Unfortunately, you try to use big words to sound smarter and superior. Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. Yes you are a doctor, which is very credible to most. But don't try to sound too high and mighty. You may be just a bit too eager to drop the doctor plug on this public forum. Instead of increasing your credibility as you may wish, I see it as a weakness and rather a big "hey look at me". Big words and big titles are not going to help the average person comprehend what you are presenting. In fact, maybe even less then if you did not drop these features here. Remember that in the future.
In addition, I am blown away by your misunderstanding and lack of knowledge. By airways I refer to alveoli, bronchioles and bronchi of the lungs. This inflame, produce excess mucus, and therefore contrict to prevent loss of fluid. Yes, that is true.
I refer to CO2 in the lungs not the blood. I am aware that the blood pH will not alter significantly. I am simply referring to the % of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs.
Hold your breath, the blood will pick up oxygen and drop off CO2. The longer you hold your breath, the higher the CO2 will rise. The opposite occurs when you hyperventilate. This becomes the issue with asthmatics. I am referring to the CO2/O2 ratio in the lungs, not the blood. The lungs help regulate the alveolar fraction of gases to maintain homeostasis so that the blood pH will not change in times of greater or lesser availability of oxygen, as you referred to the blood pH does not alter much. If it did we would die.
Maybe you have been practicing for 13 years, but maybe you also still have more to learn. Everyone does.
I will learn until I die. I then will only be approaching a fraction of the greatest science. But I won't stop. I will never know it all. If I help people with my knowlede, I am doing them a disservice not to learn the best and most that I can. The issue many make is that once they graduate from school and begin to practice, the learning stops. That's a huge mistake. Graduation is a beginning.
So what you are suggesting is that instead of correcting the health issue that lies in the person with Asthma, that they should continue to mask the symptoms with medication and ignore the underlying cause? There is an underlying cause. Asthma is not normal for anybody.
What I am suggesting is harmless. Do me a favor, try it with one person. Let me know how it goes. You may learn something new about humans! I mean that with the most respect.
Also thanks for chiming in. If what I presented was wrong, or has holes in it that people should learn - then I appreciate you helping with that.
As Roger Bannister once said "The human body is centuries ahead of exercise scientists". I think the same can be said for more than just exercise science!
Jon Slaney *Not a Doctor* - just and average guy sharing his experience with asthma and diligence to not suffer from it.
You may not have noticed that my blog post and writing is an attempt to bring science into easy to understand terms. I offer nothing of possible harm (I suggest that once a person is asymptomatic, they may not find any need for medication. That is a self assessment, nothing I can predict), and therefore have no fear about jumping over science to provide the message that people need to hear. If I provided all of the science, everyone would fall asleep and learn nothing. They would never overcome asthma.
I attempt to get to the point and reach out to the average individual. I try to keep thing as easy to understand and practical as possible.
Unfortunately, you try to use big words to sound smarter and superior. Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. Yes you are a doctor, which is very credible to most. But don't try to sound too high and mighty. You may be just a bit too eager to drop the doctor plug on this public forum. Instead of increasing your credibility as you may wish, I see it as a weakness and rather a big "hey look at me". Big words and big titles are not going to help the average person comprehend what you are presenting. In fact, maybe even less then if you did not drop these features here. Remember that in the future.
In addition, I am blown away by your misunderstanding and lack of knowledge. By airways I refer to alveoli, bronchioles and bronchi of the lungs. This inflame, produce excess mucus, and therefore contrict to prevent loss of fluid. Yes, that is true.
I refer to CO2 in the lungs not the blood. I am aware that the blood pH will not alter significantly. I am simply referring to the % of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs.
Hold your breath, the blood will pick up oxygen and drop off CO2. The longer you hold your breath, the higher the CO2 will rise. The opposite occurs when you hyperventilate. This becomes the issue with asthmatics. I am referring to the CO2/O2 ratio in the lungs, not the blood. The lungs help regulate the alveolar fraction of gases to maintain homeostasis so that the blood pH will not change in times of greater or lesser availability of oxygen, as you referred to the blood pH does not alter much. If it did we would die.
Maybe you have been practicing for 13 years, but maybe you also still have more to learn. Everyone does.
I will learn until I die. I then will only be approaching a fraction of the greatest science. But I won't stop. I will never know it all. If I help people with my knowlede, I am doing them a disservice not to learn the best and most that I can. The issue many make is that once they graduate from school and begin to practice, the learning stops. That's a huge mistake. Graduation is a beginning.
So what you are suggesting is that instead of correcting the health issue that lies in the person with Asthma, that they should continue to mask the symptoms with medication and ignore the underlying cause? There is an underlying cause. Asthma is not normal for anybody.
What I am suggesting is harmless. Do me a favor, try it with one person. Let me know how it goes. You may learn something new about humans! I mean that with the most respect.
Also thanks for chiming in. If what I presented was wrong, or has holes in it that people should learn - then I appreciate you helping with that.
As Roger Bannister once said "The human body is centuries ahead of exercise scientists". I think the same can be said for more than just exercise science!
Jon Slaney *Not a Doctor* - just and average guy sharing his experience with asthma and diligence to not suffer from it.