This book uses the classic trope of the medical establishment dismissing obvious, home-remedy style solutions. We don’t need another rebuke of science in the world these days.Nestor’s sentences like “doctors use scary words to describe breathing like hypercapnia, hypoxia.” undermine actual researchers and physicians. Over-promising, potentially dangerous, pseudo-science book that uses limited to no data to substantiate its claims. But the science seems about as settled as various diet recommendations, the science of which seems to change by the year.more But again, the recommendations of nose breathing and engaging in yoga-style breathing exercises seem fairly benign and may even improve overall health. The observation of one yogi who can seemingly control body temperature doesn’t make much of an observation about humanity at large, and it might just be an aberration or a falsified data point. Though there doesn’t appear to be anything outrageous or obviously harmful here, there also doesn’t appear to be deeply researched double-blind scientific studies following statistically significant populations either. The observation of one yogi who can seemingly control body temperature doesn’t make much of an observation about humanity at large, and it might just be an aberratio In terms of single subject science books, Breath is a bit light on the science and heavy on the anecdotal evidence.
In terms of single subject science books, Breath is a bit light on the science and heavy on the anecdotal evidence. You will never breathe the same again.more
None of this should be possible, and yet it is.ĭrawing 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. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance rejuvenate internal organs halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease and even straighten scoliotic spines. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden 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. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo.
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Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Jo No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly.