Breath : the new science of a lost art /
by Nestor, James.
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BookPublisher: UK : Penguin Life, 2021Description: 280 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780241289129 (pbk.) :; 0241289122 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 613.192 NESSubject(s): Breathing exercises | Respiration -- Regulation -- Popular works | Respiration -- Popular works | Health and Fitness | Health and Wellbeing | Popular science | Health, relationships & personal development | Popular medicine & health | Fitness & diet | Self-help & personal developmentSummary: 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have been breathing all our life, but we need to learn how to breathe properly! Here, James Nestor meets cutting-edge scientists at Harvard and experiments on himself in labs at Stanford to see the impact of bad breathing. He revives the lost, and recently scientifically proven, wisdom of swim coaches, Indian mystics, stern-faced Russian cardiologists, Czechoslovakian Olympians and New Jersey choral conductors - the world's foremost 'pulmonauts' - to show how breathing in specific patterns can trigger our bodies to absorb more oxygen, and he explains the benefits for everyone that result.
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| 613.0423 MEN Men's health - how to do it | 613.0424 ARI The knowledge : your guide to female health from menstruation to the menopause / | 613.0434 GRA Midlife : how to look younger, live longer and feel better / | 613.192 NES Breath : the new science of a lost art / | 613.192 POW Follow your breath : transform yourself through breathwork / | 613.2 AGI Superfoods for dummies | 613.2 DAL 4 steps to a happier, healthier you : eat, breathe, move, sleep / |
Originally published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have been breathing all our life, but we need to learn how to breathe properly! Here, James Nestor meets cutting-edge scientists at Harvard and experiments on himself in labs at Stanford to see the impact of bad breathing. He revives the lost, and recently scientifically proven, wisdom of swim coaches, Indian mystics, stern-faced Russian cardiologists, Czechoslovakian Olympians and New Jersey choral conductors - the world's foremost 'pulmonauts' - to show how breathing in specific patterns can trigger our bodies to absorb more oxygen, and he explains the benefits for everyone that result.
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