Breath

The New Science of a Lost Art

De: James Nestor

Narrado por: James Nestor

THE MILLION COPY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, FEATURING NEW MATERIAL

"I highly recommend this book." —Wim Hof

“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

"This book is amazing. “ —Joe Rogan

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.

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. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

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. 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.

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. 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.

Life changing

I ran cross country for 4 years and this completely changes the way I breathe as I run now. This is full of amazing insights and provides an amazing foundation for such an overlooked aspect of our lives. You breathe everyday, you might as well learn how to do it properly

Very eye opening, helpful, and life changing!

This was a very eye opening, helpful, and life changing read/listen. As someone with a lifetime of problems in this area i realized my own personal improvements in sleep and in breathing within days of trying these methods safely. Thank you!!

Valuable in stress management & so much more

This book is most useful if you develop a practice of doing the breathing techniques following the instructions at the end of the book.

Fantastic

listening to this book made it easy to understand the views of the author and has changed the sleeping habits of my wife and I. Very well produced book.

Your breathe

Outstanding! The research from so many is amazing. James presented this subject which can be overwhelming in a manner that was easy to comprehend.