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How to Breathe for Optimal Brain Performance with James Nestor

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

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The Truth About Breathing Through Your Mouth

Breathing through your mouth is something that's beneficial or maybe we weren't taught anything about it at all. By breathing slower in line with your metabolic needs, you will get more oxygen more easily. If you don't believe me, take 30 big breaths,. You'll feel that lightness in your head, maybe some tingling in your fingers, that's not from an increase of oxygen, but a lack of circulation to those areas. So the problem, and this is being studied right now, is that these people are so sensitized to CO2 that they have consciously and unconsciously forced themselves to over breathe. Any increase of CO2 signals an attack to them because when CO2

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