Diet? Check. Exercise? Check. Vitamins? Check. But what about breathing? Sure, we do it every day, effortlessly, without a second thought. But is it possible that something so automatic and seemingly simple could be the key we’re missing in our quest for optimal health?
The Science of Breath: More Than Just Oxygen
A single deep breath. Simple, isn’t it? But a whole world of science is happening with that one inhale and exhale, a process that repeats more than 20,000 times per day.“No matter what we eat, how much we exercise, how resilient our genes are, how skinny or young or wise we are—none of it will matter unless we’re breathing correctly,” James Nestor, author of “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art,” said. “The missing pillar in health is breath. It all starts there.”