Breathing: New Facts About a Lost Art
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Breathing: New Facts About a Lost Art
14.99 €
It doesn’t matter what you eat or whether you exercise. Your body type and IQ are irrelevant if you can’t breathe properly.
There’s nothing more important to your health and well-being than breathing. It seems like a simple process: inhale and exhale, 25,000 times a day. But humans as a species have lost the ability to breathe properly, and this has detrimental consequences for us.
Journalist James Nestor travels the world to find out what went wrong and how to fix it. He searches for answers not in pulmonology labs, but in dusty excavations of ancient burial sites, in secret Soviet research institutes, in New Jersey choirs, and on the smog-filled streets of São Paulo. Nestor meets people who possess secret knowledge based on ancient breathing practices like pranayama, sudarshan kriya, and tummo, and together with them, he subjects established ideas about breathing to scientific testing.
Modern research shows that even small changes in the process of inhalation or exhalation can dramatically improve athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, relieve snoring, asthma, autoimmune diseases, and even straighten a spine damaged by scoliosis. Turning to ancient medical texts dating back thousands of years and to the latest research in the fields of pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology turns our usual ideas about breathing as a basic biological function upside down.
There’s nothing more important to your health and well-being than breathing. It seems like a simple process: inhale and exhale, 25,000 times a day. But humans as a species have lost the ability to breathe properly, and this has detrimental consequences for us.
Journalist James Nestor travels the world to find out what went wrong and how to fix it. He searches for answers not in pulmonology labs, but in dusty excavations of ancient burial sites, in secret Soviet research institutes, in New Jersey choirs, and on the smog-filled streets of São Paulo. Nestor meets people who possess secret knowledge based on ancient breathing practices like pranayama, sudarshan kriya, and tummo, and together with them, he subjects established ideas about breathing to scientific testing.
Modern research shows that even small changes in the process of inhalation or exhalation can dramatically improve athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, relieve snoring, asthma, autoimmune diseases, and even straighten a spine damaged by scoliosis. Turning to ancient medical texts dating back thousands of years and to the latest research in the fields of pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology turns our usual ideas about breathing as a basic biological function upside down.
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