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.
In Breath, journalist James Nestor travels the world to
discover the hidden science behind ancient breathing
practices, discovering that if we make even slight
adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale, we can:
Jump-start athletic performance
Rejuvenate internal organs
Halt snoring, allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease
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.
