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1060 The Truth About Breathing & Why You’re Doing It Wrong w/James Nestor

The School of Greatness

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How Yoga Can Help You Maintain Your Lung Capacity

From ages around thirty to fifty, you're going to lose about 15-16 per cent of your lung capacitymse. Yoga is essentially just allowing us notonly to maintain our lung capacity, but increase it. I've worked with free divers who have doubled their lung capacity. It's not uncommon to increase your lung capacity 30 per cent by by breathing properly. And especially when we get older, this is so important. We don't want to go down that entropy right?

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