Description: Nice hardcover edition. Minor jacket wear, otherwise as new. “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, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray LoveNo 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.
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Original Language: English
Era: 2020s
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Breath : the New Science of a Lost Art
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Mindfulness & Meditation, Extreme Sports, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Healthy Living, Physiology
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness, Science, Medical
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: James Nestor
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
