No 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.
James Nestor has written for Scientific American, Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, National Public Radio, The New York Times, and more. His book, Deep- Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, was a finalist for the PEN American Center Best Sports Book of the Year and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Nestor has appeared on dozens of national radio and television shows, including ABC's Nightline, the CBS Morning News and NPR. He lives and breathes in San Francisco. More at mrjamesnestor.com.
'In the past few years, there have been several potentially
life-changing books, from Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep and Shane
O'Mara's In Praise of Walking, to Norman Doidge's The Brain's Way
of Healing. Breath deserves a place alongside such volumes. Read
it, and I guarantee you will want to change the way you
breathe'
*Evening Standard*
'I highly recommend this book'
*Wim Hof, on Instagram*
'This book is awesome. Most people have no idea how to do breathing
exercises and how beneficial they are. I learned a lot from James
Nestor's book. Over the last few weeks I've been using the methods
I learned and I can tell you there are absolutely some real
benefits to be had from this'
*Joe Rogan, on Instagram*
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. I already feel calmer and healthier
just in the last few days, from making a few simple changes in my
breathing, based on what I've read. Our breath is a beautiful,
healing, mysterious gift, and so is this book
*Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love*
'A wonderful book that reminds and enlightens us about how breath
and mind are intertwined'
*Rahul Jandial, author of Life Lessons from a Brain
Surgeon*
'If you want to read a book about the power of the breath, this is
it!'
*Patrick McKeown, author of The Oxygen Advantage*
'I would have thought that breathing was pretty simple and well
understood. Then I read this book. Now I know it's a hugely complex
and wondrous process which we need to understand much better.
Fascinating and provocative stuff'
*Daniel M. Davis, author of The Beautiful Cure*
'James Nestor's fascinating new book is playful and optimistic'
*Spectator*
'A transformative book that changes how you think about your body
and mind'
*Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein*
'Breath is an utterly fascinating journey into the ways we are
wired. No matter who you are, you'll want to read this'
*Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do with My Life and
Nutureshock*
'An eye-opening, epic journey of human devolution that explains why
so many of us are sick and tired. A must-read book that exposes
what our health care system doesn't see'
*Dr. Steven Y. Park, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and author
of Sleep, Interrupted*
'I don't say this often, but when I do I mean it: this book changed
my life. Breath is part scientific quest, part historical insight,
part Hero's Journey, full of groundbreaking ideas, and a rollicking
good read. I had no idea that the simple and intuitive act of
inhaling and exhaling has taken such an evolutionary hit. As a
result, I figured out why I sleep so badly and why my breathing
feels so often out-of-sync. With a few simple tweaks, I fixed my
breathing and fixed myself. A transformational book'
*Caroline Paul, author of The Gutsy Girl*
'If you breathe, you need this book. When we undervalue anything,
including something so basic as breathing, bad things always
happen-and Nestor makes it clear how awful it's gotten. But he also
provides a clear airway back to better, deeper, stronger
respirations'
*Wallace J. Nichols PhD, author of Blue Mind*
'Breath shows us just how extraordinary the act of breathing is and
why so much depends on how we do it. An enthralling, surprising,
and often funny adventure into our most overlooked and undervalued
function'
*Bonnie Tsui, author of Why We Swim and American
Chinatown*
'Super interesting'
*Emma Gannon*
It's an incredible book, I absolutely loved it
*Tim Lovejoy*
'A really, REALLY interesting book'
*Ella Woodward, Deliciously Ella*
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