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116. Why You Need To Relearn How To Breathe | James Nestor

The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast

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What's the Perfect Breath?

When you breathe through the nose, you're forcing your body to breathe more slowly. And those slower fluid breaths allow us to get more oxygen with fewer breaths. So many different systems of the body enter into a state called coherence. Heart rate goes down, blood pressure goes down, more oxygen is delivered to the brain,. More areas of the brain come on line, an are able to communicate more fluidly just breathing this way.

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