The Breathing Expert: Breathing Through Your Mouth Can Cause ADHD, Diabetes & Child Sickness! (Must Listen): James Nestor
Every breathe you take fundamentally impacts all areas of your health and wellbeing. However, 98% of people are breathing incorrectly.
In this new episode Steven sits down with the award-winning author and science journalist James Nestor.
In 2020, James released his New York Times and internationally bestselling book, “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art”. It was awarded the prize for Best General Nonfiction Book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors, it was a finalist for Best Science Book of 2021 by the Royal Society, and has been translated into 35 languages.
In this conversation James and Steven discuss topics, such as:
- The one breathwork session that changed James’ life
- How 98% of people are breathing incorrectly
- Why we have adapted to breathing incorrectly
- How human skulls have changed over time
- The ancient history of breathwork
- Why you should rethink how you breathe
- The impact of incorrect breathing
- Links between breathing and overall health
- The damage of mouth breathing
- How mouth breathing can lead to diabetes
- The ways that poor breathing affect sleep
- How breathing can impact ADHD
- Why asthma is not a life sentence
- How to breathe for a longer life
- How having bigger lungs can lead to a longer life
- Breathing techniques to tackle stress
- Ways to hack anxiety
- How indoor carbon dioxide is impacting intelligence
- Why millions of children are ill from incorrect breathing
- Whether to wear a face mask or not
You can purchase James’ book, ‘Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art’, here: https://amzn.to/3FTO50Y
You can get yourself a CO2 monitor here: https://amzn.to/47ud6vH
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