Respira

La nueva ciencia de un arte olvidado

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Paperback, 352 pages

Published Jan. 13, 2021 by Editorial Planeta.

ISBN:
978-84-08-23722-8
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5 stars (2 reviews)

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 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.

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reviewed Breath by James Nestor

Light on science but very nice introduction to nasal breathing!

5 stars

I had practised nasal breathing a couple of years before reading Breath, but this book provided a lot of historical context and personal accounts of self experimentation, which was nice to have read. This is a great book to recommend when introducing people to nasal breathing. There are several other books who are more heavy on the science that also goes into much more detail, but they are quite dry and gives much less context to the phenomenon.