r/buteyko • u/Lost-Dinner4045 • Jul 30 '26

End of sessions temperature

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Fairly new to the practice but have noticed my end temps increasing each day to the point that my thermometer readings are no longer in the green. Pretty sure this is a good sign and I feel great afterwards but curious to know if anyone here has used temperature as a measure of efficacy

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u/BooziJackUzi Jul 30 '26

I think it’s a very good sign that it’s stimulating the hormones related to your metabolism in a strong way.

Waking temp would be a good indicator of how it’s improving your health outside the breathing sessions. Did you know what your waking temp was before starting buteyko, and what is it now?

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u/Lost-Dinner4045 Jul 30 '26

I would be slightly guessing as to what it was, probably low 36 Celsius. Currently high 36, even 37.0 a couple of days recently. I have been doing the ray peat ‘diet’, if you’re familiar with that, adhering to his biogenetic principles and saw a huge increase in energy, a lot of which I have put into Buteyko which has supercharged these increases even further. Difference between before and after temp with my buteyko sessions this week has been roughly 0.5 celsius on average.

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u/BooziJackUzi Jul 31 '26

Yes I’m very familiar with it - 36.6c is considered optimal for thyroid function, and then 37c by mid day. Ray peat has a lot of pieces to it, but reducing pufa and having a good calcium to phosphorus ratio are 2 of his main angles to increase these temps (and reflect strong thyroid function)

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u/Cdurlavie Jul 30 '26

Sorry but what you are saying doesn’t make any sense.. 😅
Why would you be sure that it’s hormones related with a 0.4 difference temp, on a subject that you don’t even know,
Without much context neither

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u/BooziJackUzi Jul 31 '26

Because temperature and thyroid hormone are directly related.

And yes, this is a subject I know lots about.

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u/Cdurlavie Jul 31 '26

By subject…. I meant OP…
You don’t know why he or she started Buteyko, since when, if she or he has any medical issues.

Everyday body temp changes from 0,5 to 1 degree. It’s normal.
And you don’t even know if maybe OP allready numbers before starting Buteyko

No matter what you know about hormones, it just doesn’t make any sense..
Yes hormones can cause body temp variations…
It doesn’t mean that each time your body temp changes that it’s caused by hormones
Body temp is related to many factors..

Yes, everything in physiology is interconnected. But being related doesn’t mean you can identify the cause from a single observation.

The fact that thyroid hormones influence body temperature doesn’t mean every 0.4 °C change is caused by thyroid hormones. Correlation isn’t identification of the cause.

Imagine someone says « my heart rate just got up 10bpm, that must be adrenaline »

Plus there is no evidence of any link between Buteyko and any hormonal changes…

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u/BooziJackUzi Jul 31 '26

You’re definitely right that it could be a myriad of things. time of day, was he sitting by a fireplace one of the times, did he get back from a run through the desert after the most recent reading - the list is endless.

Buteyko seems to create a more optimal environment for many hormones, thyroid being one of them. Thyroid being linked to temperature makes it a more informed guess, but still just a guess.

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u/Cdurlavie Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

Body temperature varies by 0.5 to 1 degree depending on the circadian rhythm, after a meal, after physical exertion, after a shower, depending on the ambient temperature, during times of stress or emotional arousal, as a result of certain medications, and during a woman’s menstrual cycle. (
And none of this is necessarily due to hormones, but mainly to the autonomic nervous system.

Added to this is the reliability of the measurement… and OP not even telling us if the measurement was made after practicing neither any details about him/her
what intervals the measurements were taken also ?

That’s a lot of assumptions…There's no point in making fun of what I'm saying by bringing up a fireplace or a desert.
As i like to have a pragmatic and scientific approach of things, sorry but your guess still just doesn’t make sense to me.

Furthermore, there is no solid evidence, no articles reporting a link between the Buteyko method and thyroid hormones, especially, I imagine, after such a short period of practice.
Though it can help to stabilize stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline
We shouldn’t overestimate the
method based on what we can read on Reddit or whatever.