A 1,127-page e-book for treating pectus excavatum without surgery. Every method I used to make my own chest unnoticeable, in one place.
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Everything I know about non-surgical pectus correction, in one place.
You keep losing time hopping from website to website, reading incomplete information about pectus. Do any of these sound familiar?
You don't have to piece it
together from scraps.
You need one complete A-Z, tried-and-tested roadmap focused strictly on correcting pectus excavatum non-surgically, so you know you aren't skipping or missing a single step.
Four spreads, untouched, straight out of the file you get. Every number on this page is something you can see for yourself below.
Every one of the 93 chapters ends with its own scientific references - 741 citations in total, so you can check the evidence yourself.
Beyond the 741 scientific references, I've personally tested every non-surgical method in this book. I made the mistakes myself, so I know how to help you avoid them and stop your appearance from getting worse.
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.
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500+ reviews collected since 2015. Open a bar, a tag or a condition to read the published ones.
What the 4.9 is made of
17 published statements · 500+ collected since 2015
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
DaniloPE
Read the blogCroatia 🇭🇷
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.
MiloPE25
1-on-1 CoachingGermany 🇩🇪
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
PiotrPE25
Vacuum BellPoland 🇵🇱
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.
RuairíPE29
1-on-1 CoachingIreland 🇮🇪
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
TanePE26
PE Exercise ProgramNew Zealand 🇳🇿
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.
DanielRib Flare27
Rib Flare BraceUK 🇬🇧
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
DimiPC19
1-on-1 CoachingAustralia 🇦🇺
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
benjiRib Flare21
Rib Flare CourseUSA 🇺🇸
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
NicoPC17
Pectus Carinatum BraceItaly 🇮🇹
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
MateoRib Flare23
Rib Flare CourseUSA 🇺🇸
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 ridge has visibly come down. He swims without the shirt.
Noah's mumPC
Pectus Carinatum BraceUSA 🇺🇸
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.
SanderRib Flare34
Read the blogNetherlands 🇳🇱
every doctor said come back when youre done growing, which is a mad thing to say to a 17 year old whos already miserable about it. did four months of training instead. 4kg on and my t shirts actually sit on something now
JakePE17
USA 🇺🇸
1 cm off the depth in eight months. I had this filed under things about my body that got decided before I was born, and I'd stopped thinking about it somewhere in my twenties, so being wrong about it has been a strange few months honestly.
VincentPE + Rib Flare36
France 🇫🇷
i was the skinny kid who kept his top on at the beach every single year. 6 months, 5kg heavier. took it off in ibiza this summer and genuinely forgot to be weird about it until we were leaving
CallumPE17
UK 🇬🇧
bump is 0.5cm down in 5 months. bro i genuinely thought this was gonna be bench press for a year, its like 80% breathing drills and posture stuff. wasnt what i signed up for but i cant argue with the tape measure
EliasPC16
Norway 🇳🇴
i did abs for two years thinking that was the fix. it was never going to be abs. three months of the brace plus actually learning how to exhale properly and its 1.5cm narrower down there
AlexRib Flare22
USA 🇺🇸
"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."
"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"
"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."
"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"
"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 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"
"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"
"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 ridge 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."
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
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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.”
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“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”
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“I'm 52. I have both a ridge 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.”
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“The brace did the flare, the training did the rest. Seven months, 6 kg on, 1 cm off the depth. The part I wasn't ready for is that I now own shirts that fit, after about fifteen years of buying everything one size too big.”
Before
After“5 months, 4kg on. still there if i go looking for it. nobody else has said a word”
Before
After“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”
Before
After“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”
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“3 months and 5kg later the ridge is sitting lower than its ever been. i was 100% convinced surgery was the only option, like id already looked up how much it costs and everything”
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“9 kilos in 6 months. the trick nobody tells you is you build the muscle around the ridge, then the ridge is not the first thing people see. before this i am buying only loose shirts, maybe 8 years like this”
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“before, the carinatum is the first thing i see in every photo of me. now i show someone and they must ask me where it is. i did not have any surgery, only the training”
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“Four months in and the side profile is the thing that changed. I used to clock myself in every shop window I walked past, at 30 years old, and I hadn't even noticed I was doing it until I stopped.”
PE pectus excavatum · PC pectus carinatum · RF rib flare
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Case 01Case 02Case 03Case 04Case 05The four that come up most, answered the same way I would answer them on a call.
Take the 60-second quizPosture and breathing shift inside the first few weeks. Visible chest change is slower - in the case log above, Milo hit his at 2 months, Ian at 6. The programs run 16 weeks because that is how long it takes to show in the mirror.
Almost certainly not. The clients on this page were 22 to 32 when they started. Cartilage stiffens with age, so progress is slower, but slower is not stopped. Age changes the timeline, not whether it is worth doing.
Either works. Every program ships with a gym track and a no-equipment track for the same 16 weeks, and you can switch between them mid-program without losing your place.
No, and that matters. A sunken chest and a protruding chest need close to opposite work, and rib flare rides along with both. There is a separate program for each, if you are not sure which you have, the 60-second quiz sorts it out.
Most people struggle to understand and act on these five areas. The book covers every one of them, from A to Z.
The most effective exercises for pectus save time and improve your chest faster, with less wasted effort. Building chest muscle won't pull the breastbone out, but it makes the indentation less noticeable, and the right exercises correct the muscular imbalances that make the deformity worse.
Poor posture makes your deformity look more severe. Most of us hide it by rounding the shoulders and pushing the head forward - what I call pectus posture. Inside are proven exercises to undo that unhealthy posture and stand taller with more confidence.
Protruding ribs can make pectus excavatum look deeper than it is. The most effective way to treat flared ribs is with bracing, using Dr. Sydney Haje's Orthopectus dynamic remodeling method. I review the best braces and exactly how to use them.
Vacuum bell therapy pulls the sternum out of the dent, non-surgically. Used consistently and correctly, alongside the other methods, it can eventually flatten your chest. I cover everything from buying the right one to using it while you sleep.
Pectus can take a heavy toll, especially psychologically. This is a self-improvement journey as much as a physical one. I share what helped me improve happiness, handle stress, get past dating difficulties, and my honest views on smoking and drinking.
Thirteen parts, ninety-three chapters. Open any part to read every chapter title in it, then decide whether this covers your chest.
Where I started, what the book assumes about you, and the kit you need before chapter one.
What the deformity actually is, why you have it, and how to put a number on yours.
The longest part of the book, because suction is the only method that pulls the sternum out rather than dressing it up.
Dr. Sydney Haje's dynamic remodeling method, and the brace I rate for flare and protrusion.
The habits that make the dip look deeper than it is, taken apart one at a time, down to your shoes and your mattress.
What to train and what to leave alone, whether you have a full gym or a floor and some space.
Whether food moves the needle at all, and how to put weight on if you have always been the skinny one.
The pattern pectus trains into you, and the drills that reverse it.
The part people skip, and then wonder why the chest still looks wrong after the dip improves.
The half of this nobody prints in a leaflet: the anxiety, the hiding, and dating with a chest you would rather cover.
Pectus in women specifically, plus pregnancy, bras, and what to do about a baby with a sunken chest.
Sixteen chapters on the symptoms that get dismissed, from breathlessness and palpitations through to POTS.
The questions you would only ask someone who has it: army medicals, contact sport, tattoos over the dip, what to say to the person who comments.
Ninety-three chapters sounds like a lot to get through. It is not, because a chapter is short by design: one idea, shown, with the thing to go and do at the end of it.
Plain language, and any medical term gets explained the first time it appears. You do not need to have read anything else about pectus first.
102 illustrations and 311 photos, so a position or a device setting is something you look at and copy rather than something you interpret from a paragraph.
Chapters end with the action, not a summary. Most of them are things you can do the same evening you read them.
Every chapter closes with its own citation list, 741 in total. If a claim matters to you, the paper it came from is named right there.
It is a PDF. No app, no login, no streaming. It opens on your phone between sets, on a tablet, or on a laptop, and it stays yours.
Calling it a book undersells it. It's everything I know about living with pectus, written down in the order you'll actually need it.
Not feelings. Capabilities, each one with a way to check whether you actually have it.
Depth and severity, taken the same way every time, so month six actually compares to month one instead of coming down to whether the bathroom light was kind that day.
Check yourselfYou can state your own depth in centimetres without guessing.
The right size for your chest, the right suction, the warm-up that goes before it, and what to change when the skin complains. Seventeen chapters go into this one method.
Check yourselfYou know what tonight's session is, and why it changed from last week.
Which lifts pull your shoulders forward and deepen the shadow, what replaces them, and how to build the chest and back around the dent so it stops being the first thing anyone sees.
Check yourselfYou can name the lifts you dropped and what went in their place.
The psychological part is six chapters, not a footnote: the hiding, the changing room, the beach, dating, and what to actually say to someone who comments on it.
Check yourselfYou got changed somewhere public this month without planning it first.
My pectus excavatum took a heavy toll on my mental health, especially in my teens. Everything changed when I realised I could improve it without surgery. After staying consistent and following a non-surgical plan, my sunken chest and flared ribs became unnoticeable.
I started mrpectus in 2015 to write down what had worked on me, mostly because nothing like it existed when I needed it. Since then I've coached over a thousand people through non-surgical correction, and this book is everything I've learned from that, in one place.
I start by sharing my story and explaining what pectus excavatum is. From there you learn how to improve it and gain total control over the deformity, in the real world, not just in theory.
Medically reviewed
I don't publish a clinical claim until Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yüksel, MD has checked it
Thoracic surgeon, founder of the Chest Wall International Group
Not in dollars. In time. Side by side, honestly.
No waiting on a reply, no onboarding call, nothing to install.
Dive deep and discover effective non-surgical solutions for your pectus excavatum, designed to breathe new life into your health and well-being.
Try the whole thing for 30 days. Use it, and if it isn't what was described, message me for a full refund, no questions asked. The risk stays with me, not you.
It's for anyone who wants to improve their pectus excavatum non-surgically. It's ideal if you're motivated enough to change your physical appearance for the better.
No. You don't need any prior knowledge to follow the book fully. I explain every process in plain, everyday language.
It's built to be read linearly the first time. It starts with the basics of pectus excavatum and the most common symptoms, then progresses into the advanced details. After that, focus on the chapters where you most want to improve.
That depends on your motivation, your consistency, the severity of your deformity, and your skeletal maturity. Some people see a great improvement within three months, for others it takes six months to a year. For comparison, the Nuss procedure keeps bars in your chest for at least three years. Stay consistent and treat it properly and your chest improves faster, and the training improves your whole physique, not just your chest.
Mine comes with exercise plans and programs you actually follow rather than chapters you read and forget. It also deals with the psychological side, which the research is clear about and which most pectus books skip entirely. And a lot of it comes from watching where thousands of people got stuck, which is not something you can write from theory.
No, you don't have to. But with a vacuum bell you'll get the most out of non-surgical therapy. You can camouflage the dip by building muscle around it, and stretching and breathing help too, but the indentation itself only comes out when you pull it out with a vacuum bell. I also share a discount that can save you up to $60 on certain models.
The book includes both bodyweight exercises and gym-based ones. If I had to pick one, I'd recommend weightlifting if you have access to a gym, and I encourage everyone to start building a simple home gym over time.
Yes. In fact, I recommend every person with pectus build a home gym. I provide substitutions for each exercise, so a lack of equipment is never an excuse. A home gym saves money, keeps you more consistent, and consistency is the single most important thing for improving your deformity.
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P.S. If you've read this far, part of you has already decided. The only thing you can lose by trying is the version of next year where nothing changed. - Mihail
