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Breathing, your hidden superpower, with James Nestor

Instant Genius

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How to Control Your Breathing - I'm Not Sane

If you want to help abate an asthma atac, take control of your breathing. We can extract about 20 % more oxygen breathing through our noses than we can equivalent breaths through our mouths. And there's been some very interesting science showing how the nose is our first line of defence against viruses and bacteria. So you have to be breathing through the nose. It is the most powerful in the long run. Changing your diet, changing other habits, exercise, that has an incredibly huge effect.

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