If You're Curious About These Questions...
You should listen to this audiobook
- Did you know that the way you breathe through your nose or mouth could be the secret key to reversing chronic health issues and even changing your facial structure?
- What if the 'perfect breath' takes exactly 5.5 seconds—and mastering it could unlock a level of health and longevity you never thought possible?
- Have you ever wondered why modern humans are the only species on Earth with crooked teeth, and how our breathing habits are to blame for this evolutionary mystery?
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Key Takeaways from Breath
- Discover how balancing oxygen and carbon dioxide levels through slow, deliberate breathing can prevent chronic illness, extend longevity, and improve athletic performance.
- Understand why human evolution actually weakened our respiratory systems, and how chronic mouth breathing leads to physical deformities, sleep apnea, and reduced mental capacity.
- Find out how to easily calculate your ideal aerobic heart rate for exercise—simply subtract your age from 180—to train more efficiently and recover faster.
- Learn a surprisingly simple method to cure snoring and improve sleep quality by using a small piece of surgical tape over your lips at night to enforce nasal breathing.
- Master the 'nasal cycle' by understanding how breathing through your right nostril stimulates logical action, while the left nostril lowers anxiety and boosts creativity.
Breath — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: It’s far healthier to breathe through the nose instead of your mouth.
Chapter 3: The human head has grown in ways that are bad for breathing.
Chapter 4: Breathing in is important, but breathing out is too.
Chapter 5: Slow, light breathing delivers surprising health benefits.
Chapter 6: We can do a lot to enhance the shape of our mouths.
Chapter 7: Intense breathing techniques can produce incredible effects.
Chapter 8: Adjusting our levels of carbon dioxide can unlock visions and transform our consciousness.
Chapter 9: The power of breathing is still scarcely known in the West, but elsewhere it’s ancient wisdom.
Breath Summary & Overview
Breath (2020) is the fascinating and unexpected story of the power of breathing. Western science has overlooked the amazing effects that different methods of breathing can have on our health.
Who Should Listen to Breath?
- Fans of popular science
- People looking for simple ways to improve their health
- Anyone keen to learn more about something we do unconsciously.
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