Breath
James Nestor · Explores how changing the way you breathe can improve health, sleep and athletic performance.
5 people say it helped them, in their own words on Hacker News.
What people said
Two useful bits that really helped me were mastic gum and mouth tape. Both of them made it much easier for me to breath through my nose at night
helped me switch fully to nasal breathing, practicing better posture, warm myself when I'm cold, and breathing with my whole torso rather than just belly
The single thing that improved my running distance is a few rules I made after reading this:
Putting on mouth tape to force myself to breath through my nose did the trick.
since I read the book I breathe less when exercising and it seems to help.
Description from Open Library
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.
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In Breath, journalist James Nestor travels the world to discover the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
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, allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease, and even straighten scoliotic spines
None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of ancient wisdom and 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.
What people got from it AI summary
Best if you want to fix nose breathing, sleep, or exercise breathing with simple habits.
- Switched to nasal breathing
- Improved sleep and apnea
- Eased breathing during exercise
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Practical tools · 332 pages
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