“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe - and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being 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.
Author and journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. 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 São Paulo.
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| Tibetan yogi practicing tummo fire-heat breathing |
Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like pranayama (yogic "breath control"), Sudarshan Kriya, and Tibetan tummo.
He teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can
- jumpstart athletic performance
- rejuvenate internal organs
- halt snoring
- asthma and
- autoimmune diseases.
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.
Readers will never breathe the same again. More
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