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#251 James Nestor - Breaking Down the Lost Art of Breathing

What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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Lung Capacity Is a Technology of Stretching and Expanding Your Lungs, Right?

The quicker your lungs get smaller and your respiratory health goes down, the sooner you are going to die. Even with lung transplants, if patients had been transplanted with lungs that were on the smaller side, they would die sooner than those who had lungs of normal or larger size. The key is to make the arib cage and those intercostals flexible, and to keep them flexible so that you can breathe more easily yet. And what is yoga but a technology of stretching and expanding your lung capacity? Duh. We've known this for thousands of years.

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