Fix your pectus.
Without surgery.
The complete non-surgical system for pectus excavatum, carinatum, and rib flare.
Joined by 1,000+ who chose the non-surgical path
Find your exact condition & best fix.
A 1-minute assessment that names your condition and builds your plan - with a video from me.
Which of these matches your chest?
Pick the closest match. Or choose "Not sure" and I'll work out exactly what you have from a few simple questions.
I had it.
I fixed it.
I'm Mihail. I had pectus excavatum. Instead of surgery, I spent a decade testing every non-surgical approach I could find - exercises, breathing plans, vacuum bells, custom braces.
I fixed my own chest. Then I built a system so you can too.
The plans I teach are the exact ones that worked for me, and for over a thousand people since. I run this alone. Every inquiry comes to me directly.
Prof. Dr.
Mustafa Yüksel.
- Role
- Chest Wall International Group President
- Field
- Thoracic & cardiovascular surgery
- Volume
- 2,000+ pectus operations
The surgeon who checks the case for not operating performs the operation for a living. That is the whole point. If the non-surgical argument on this site cannot survive a chest wall surgeon reading it, it does not belong here.
- 48 yrs
- In thoracic surgery
- 19
- Countries operated in
- 100+
- Surgeons trained
- 5,000+
- Clinic patients treated
- 450+
- CWIG members, 52 countries
Three conditions.
Three different plans.
These three behave nothing alike, so I don't hand out the same plan for all of them. Each one gets its own non-surgical route.
Here's how I can help you.
Eleven years of work, in the order most people need it. Start wherever your case actually is.
Work directly with me
Your intake read within 24 hours, a plan written for your chest in your first days, equipment at client pricing and same-day answers from me. 30-day money-back guarantee.
See coaching - $199/mo→
Made to your measurements
I build your vacuum bell or brace from your own measurements, 3D-printed and shipped to your door.
See equipment→
Training built for your chest
Sixteen weeks per condition. Works in a gym or on a bedroom floor.
View programs→
Breathe Deeper
The complete 1,127-page non-surgical system for pectus excavatum.
Read the eBook→
Get the details right
Practical guides for braces, the vacuum bell and confidence.
Browse guides→$197 until 31 Dec
Self-paced video courses
The whole method on video, for all three conditions. $197 until 31 Dec 2026, when they ship and the price goes to $297. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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& Real Stories
Read them by rating, or by what people actually got out of it - the transformations, the honest reviews, and the messages that land in my inbox every week.
"I came across your blog about a year ago and I just want to say how much you've changed my life for the better. I thought it was going to be another average article, but the tips you gave were things I hadn't heard of before. Now I've improved so much and im more confident then ever."
"read the blog for months before i actually did anything with it. no coach, no brace, just the stuff in the articles done properly. i feel a lot better now and the photos say the rest"
"Two months in and I've put on 3 kg of muscle. My chest doesn't cave the way it used to when I'm standing relaxed, and that alone was worth it."
"Had the flare since i was about 14 and just assumed that was my ribcage, permanently. Brace plus the breathing drills and my mrs asked when i'd lost weight. I hadn't lost anything, it's just the ribs sitting where they should now."
"first call he told me straight up itd take a year and id hate months 2 through 5. he was right about both lol. 12 months on and my PC is flat. took my shirt off at the beach in january without doing the whole towel thing"
"didnt know you could be breathing wrong for 21 years. thats the whole thing right there. flare started going down on its own once i stopped breathing into my shoulders, which is not what i paid for but ill take it"
"the bell leaves a red ring on your chest the second you take it off, and nobody warns you about that. it fades within the hour and the skin has never been an issue since. 100% satisfied - the sternum sits higher than it has my whole life"
"the brace is made really good, i wear it under the t-shirt at school and nobody has noticed in 4 months. my mother was crying when we compare the photos. sorry for my english"
"He knows more about this than the two consultants I paid to see, which says more about them than it does about him. Showed my GP the 9 month photos and he asked me for the website. Half a star off because the time zones make the calls a nightmare from Ireland."
"ive bought like four programs for this over the years and quit every one of them by week two. finished this one. i think its cus you cant move on until you can actually hold the position, so theres never that thing where you're guessing if youre ready or not"
"watched the youtube for six years before i spent a single cent. bought the program, did it properly for 7 months, and the only thing i actually regret is the six years"
"My son is 15 and had started keeping a shirt on in the pool, which is how I worked out something was wrong in the first place, because he certainly wasn't going to tell me. He would never have stuck with the brace on his own. It was the fortnightly check-ins that did it - he didn't want to turn up with nothing to report. Six months now and the bump has visibly come down. He swims without the shirt."
"I went in wanting to debunk it, honestly. Started opening the citations one at a time and they were real papers that said what he said they said. That is a depressingly low bar and nowhere else online clears it."
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“I'm 32. Everything I ever read said the window on this shuts at 18 and after that you either get cut open or you live with it. Nine months, 5 kg on, 1 cm off the depth. Nobody is more annoyed about the wasted decade than me.”
Before
After
“came in skinny with a deep dip and ribs that stuck out at the bottom. six months, 4kg up. funny thing is nobody says anything about the dip, its the flare going down that people actually noticed”
Before
After
“I'm 52. I have both a bump and a dip, which I'm told is unusual, and I've had the pair of them since I was a boy. Nine kilos off in five months and for the first time my chest looks like one chest. I did not expect to be sorting this out at my age, but there we are.”
PE pectus excavatum · PC pectus carinatum · RF rib flare
Drag each slider to compare.Tap any case to open and compare. Published only with the client's written consent.
1-on-1 Coaching.
I take on a small number of clients each month. Your case. My full attention.
Work directly with me.
Limited spots each month. Your intake read within 24 hours, your plan written in your first days, equipment at client pricing and a revision every two weeks - built around your specific case from day one.
- Personalized correction planBuilt around your scan, severity, age, and lifestyle, not a template.
- Direct access to meSame-day chat in the coaching app, video calls when typing is not enough. No support tickets.
- Equipment at client pricingBell or brace built to your chest dimensions, 15% off as my client (30% if you need both).
- Bi-weekly plan revisionsAdjusted every two weeks based on your measurements and photos.
- Progress documentationBefore/after measurements tracked from day one through completion.
- Priority responseI work with a limited number of people at once. When you're in, you have my full attention.
Self-paced video courses.
Similar to the plans I run with 1-on-1 clients - structured so you can follow them on your own.
Still being filmed. Pre-order at $197 for another 61 days - they ship 31 Dec 2026 and the price goes to $297.
Pectus Excavatum
The complete PE correction plan.
Everything I know works on pectus excavatum: the exercises, the breathing, when to use the bell and for how long, posture, mobility. Six modules, all of it runnable from your bedroom.
Pectus Carinatum
The brace does the work. This tells it where to push.
Carinatum corrects better than any other pectus type, but only if you actually wear the thing. Built around compliance, breathing, and the postural habits that decide your result. Every progression works while braced.
Rib Flare
Close the flare. Fix the foundation.
Flared ribs are a diaphragm and core problem wearing a cosmetic disguise. Eight modules on the actual mechanism: how you breathe, how you brace, how the cage moves. Fix those and the flare stops coming back.
Built to fit you.
Custom vacuum bells and braces - 3D-printed to your exact measurements and shipped to your door.
Vacuum Bell
Built around your measurements, not a size chart.
The bell is the most effective non-surgical tool there is for pectus excavatum, and the fit decides whether it works. I build each one to your chest measurements, so you are not adapting your body to a device made for someone else.
Rib Flare Brace
The brace I designed because nothing else existed.
I designed this one because the off-the-shelf braces I tried were built for posture, not for flare, and they pull in the wrong direction. This holds sustained compression exactly where the cage needs it.
Pectus Carinatum Brace
Steady pressure, in the one place it belongs.
I build each of these to your chest circumference and how far your sternum sits forward. Pair it with the Carinatum Course and you have the whole plan.
Built for your chest.
Structured training plans built around each condition's mechanics - zero guesswork about what to do in the gym.
Pectus Excavatum Workout Program
Training that accounts for the dip in your chest.
Sixteen weeks of chest opening, thoracic mobility and postural work, sequenced around what a sunken sternum actually does to your training. Generic chest days make the rounding worse.
Pectus Carinatum Workout Program
Train around your brace. Accelerate the results.
Strength and mobility built to run alongside your brace rather than fight it. Upper thoracic work, postural rebuilding, and progressions you can do with the thing on.
Rib Flare Workout Program
Core-first training that closes the flare.
Sixteen weeks aimed at the cause rather than the look: diaphragm control, how you brace the cage, and the movement patterns that keep the ribs down once they come down.
Fill out your frame.
Training fixes the shape. Food builds the size. The complete gaining system for the naturally skinny pectus frame.
Pectus Nutrition Program
Put on weight even when you have no appetite.
Most of us with pectus are naturally skinny, and a hollow chest reads far worse on a thin frame. This is the full nutrition system for putting on real weight: the calorie maths, the blender plan, and the low-appetite playbook that makes eating enough physically possible.
Breathe Deeper.
The complete non-surgical system for pectus excavatum - every method that works, in one 1,127-page book.
Breathe Deeper
Everything I know about fixing a sunken chest, in one book.
1,127 pages covering vacuum bell therapy, bracing, exercise, posture, flared ribs, nutrition and the parts nobody writes about. It is what I used on my own chest, in the order I would do it again.
Get the details right.
Focused, practical guides for braces and the vacuum bell - the specifics that make everything work.
Vacuum Bell Guide
The plan the box it came in does not include.
Suction levels, how long to sit in it, when to progress, and what to change when the chest stops moving. Drawn from eleven years of watching where bell users get stuck.
Pectus Carinatum Brace Guide
How to wear a brace so it actually corrects.
Fitting, wear schedules, measurement tracking, and the skin care nobody mentions until you have a sore. Plus the exercises that compound what the brace is doing.
Rib Flare Brace Guide
Pressure is easy. Knowing where and how long is not.
Wear schedules, how posture folds into it, measurement checkpoints, and the exercises that work with the compression instead of against it.
Having surgery?
Don't go in alone.
Walk into the operating room as prepared as possible, so you recover faster and protect the result.
Pre-Surgery Pectus Excavatum
Go into the Nuss procedure as strong as possible.
The breathing, posture, strength and nutrition prehab that gets you into the operating room as fit as possible, so you recover faster and protect the result.
Pre-Surgery Pectus Carinatum
Prepare for carinatum repair the right way.
The ribs-down posture, breathing and conditioning prehab that readies you for surgery and helps the flattened chest hold afterward.
Pre-Surgery Rib Flare
Build breathing control before costal-margin surgery.
The diaphragm and ribs-down core control to build before a rib flare or pectus repair - the prep that makes recovery smoother and the result stick.
Post-Surgery Pectus Excavatum
Protect your repair and recover safely after the bar.
The breathing, posture and progressive-strengthening plan that protects your repair, speeds recovery and keeps the result - safe around the bar.
Post-Surgery Pectus Carinatum
Lock in the correction after carinatum repair.
Posture, breathing and strengthening progressions that protect the correction and rebuild the chest wall after surgery.
Post-Surgery Rib Flare
Rebuild rib control once you have healed.
The diaphragm, core and posture program that locks in rib position and rebuilds control once you have healed from a procedure.
The mental side matters too.
The psychological weight of a visible chest condition is real - here's the science-backed way to handle it.
The Confidence Program
The part of this nobody wants to talk about.
A visible chest condition does something to your head, and the research on that is better than most people realise. Body image science, CBT tools, an exposure ladder for the stuff you avoid, a daily practice, and a four-week plan.
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The whole non-surgical plan for each condition: the method, the research behind it, and what to actually do. I don't charge for these. Take yours and start tonight.
Blog.
No filler. Just the research, the data, and what I've found actually works.
