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Breathing, your hidden superpower, with James Nestor

Instant Genius

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We Can Tell That Our Ancestors Breathe Differently Than We Do

Our ancestors breathed differently to how we do. Can tell that by looking at their skeletal structure of their faces. We have crooked teeth because our mouths have grown so small. So they grow in crooked with that small mouth, you also have a smaller air way and the breathing and respiratory problems that come with that. hunter gather cultures don't breathe through their mouths. They breathe slower, they breathe into their bellies. These are very likely not suffering from this huge, chronic, widespread list of chronic respiratory issues. And again, hunter gathers right now, they don't have high pretension, they don’t have asthma, they don'e copede or diabedes. I think

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