Breadth – James Nestor

Description

There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. In Breath, journalist James Nestor travels the world to discover the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices, discovering that if we can make slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale, we can:

Jump-start athletics performance

Rejuvenate internal organs

Halt, snoring, allergies, asthama and autoimmune disease

Straighten scoliotic spines

None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of ancient wisdom and 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.