140. How to Breathe Better
Update: 2024-09-14
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Description
Bestselling author James Nestor believes that we can improve our lives by changing the way we breathe. He’s persuasive enough to get Steve taping his mouth shut at night. He explains how humans dive to depths of 300 feet without supplemental oxygen, and describes what it’s like to be accepted into a pod of whales.
- SOURCES:
- James Nestor, author and journalist.
- RESOURCES:
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor (2020).
- Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves, by James Nestor (2014).
- "Open Your Mouth and You’re Dead," by James Nestor (Outside Magazine, 2012).
- "The Brain on Sonar — How Blind People Find Their Way Around With Echoes," by Ed Yong (National Geographic, 2011).
- "How I Held My Breath for 17 Minutes," by David Blaine (TED Talk, 2009).
- Project CETI.
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Providers issuing proactive and real-time advice, oftentimes needed to be BLUNT, to patients in the US has LONG taken a backseat to billions of dollars in reactive-care medications, thus opening the door for vaccination skepticism even though vaccinations are proactive-care medications.
Listening to this while in the middle of aerobic machine workout, making me feel guilty and inefficient about mouth-breathing!