We've unlearned breathing and it's quietly wrecking health
Nestor argues that mouth breathing, fast shallow breaths, and low carbon dioxide tolerance drive snoring, anxiety, asthma, and chronic strain more than oxygen intake ever does.
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About James Nestor
James Nestor is an American author and journalist who has written for Outside, Scientific American, Dwell, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Men's Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and others. His 2020 nonfiction book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was an international bestseller, debuting on The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists and spending 18 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers in its first year of release. Breath won the award for Best General Nonfiction Book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors and was a finalist for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. Breath was translated into more than 35 languages in 2022.
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