Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art Paperback – July 8, 2021

The book tells me the significance of breath. Breath is not just a tool to exchange gas. It works in many aspects of our body. One of the tasks is to regulate the nervous system. Most people do not think we can manipulate autonomous nerves. However, we can control them by breath. If we need to calm ourselves, we should breathe slowly.Contrary to our stereotype, CO2 plays a role in our body. Chemoreceptors in our brainstem sensor the concentration of CO2 and regulate the frequency of breath. We tend to breathe much more than we need. Therefore, the CO2 we keep inside our body tends to be less. We should breathe slowly to increase the CO2. It will make us healthier.

I am more aware than ever about my breathing. I have done something as simple as downloading a snoring app and adding a wedge pillow. I can't believe how much more energy I have during the day now that I'm not snoring and actually getting a full flow of oxygen through the evening. And the history is exceptional as well.

一回でも読んだ方が良い本です

Amazing book, easy to read and covers many points.

I think this book may be a life changer. I am already seeing positive changes in my sleep quality. It is also very readable.

This will make you think about your breathing and entrain you to do it slower. It will also take you on a journey from a room in the Haight where you will watch him encounter people,traditions that have been discovered and lost and changed. I would have liked to have seen more science about the effects of carbon dioxide, but at least he is not trying to sell you anything but some ideas about health and of course his book.I’ve known about breathing for a long time but was happy to be reminded of it as a technique for relation that worked so well that it almost made pleasurable an hour under the drill preparing a broken tooth for a new crown.He summarizes:Shut your mouthBreath through your noseExhale. (Fully)ChewBreathe more, on occasionHold your breathHow we breath matters.There are some crazy things like tapping his nose shut for ten days under Stanford supervision to prove just how bad an idea this is, but I enjoyed the read.

Breathing is important.This simple idea is discussed thorugh the author’s “joirney”There are a lot of historical stories all about breathing. However, as a healthy individual practicing yoga and other interventions, the stroies are simply boring and the various methods are not interesting.

It’s a fun and cute read but the information is complete nonsense. I have literally tried the breathing exercises presented here while running just to decrease my performance, torture myself and almost start hating running which is the sport I’ve been loving the most for more than half of my life.Overall a cute fiction book, but the pseudo scientific information here is just crap.