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Revolutionize your health by improving your breathing.

This book is a must-read for individuals who are interested in living a healthier life through proper breathing techniques. Nestor's findings are grounded in both traditional and modern research and can benefit anyone - athletes seeking to improve performance, individuals dealing with chronic respiratory issues, and anyone interested in optimizing their overall health.

  • Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2020)
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ISBN: 9780593191354
Authors: James Nestor
Publisher: Riverhead (Hc)
Date of Publication: 2020-05-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development, Science
Goodreads rating: 4.15
(rated by 80246 readers)

Description

There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong with our breathing and how to fix it. Why are we the only animals with chronically crooked teeth? Why didn't our ancestors snore? Nestor seeks out answers in muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He tracks down men and women exploring the science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that changing the ways in which we breathe can jump-start athletic performance, halt snoring, rejuvenate internal organs, mute allergies and asthma, blunt autoimmune disease, and straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
 

Revolutionize your health by improving your breathing.

This book is a must-read for individuals who are interested in living a healthier life through proper breathing techniques. Nestor's findings are grounded in both traditional and modern research and can benefit anyone - athletes seeking to improve performance, individuals dealing with chronic respiratory issues, and anyone interested in optimizing their overall health.

  • Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.