223: Resiliency Radio with Dr. Jill: Hacking Stress and Breath for Better Performance with Brian Mackenzie

Join us as Brian Mackenzie shares his groundbreaking insights on the importance of breath in managing stress and optimizing performance. Learn about the pivotal role that breath assessment plays in understanding your body's CO2 levels and how it impacts your nervous system and overall health. Brian explains how mastering your breath can enhance your VO2Max, ultimately leading to improved physical and mental resilience.

Key Points   ✅ Breath can hold the key to improve VO2Max and optimal recovery and performance  ✅ This simple breath assessment indicates how sensitive we are to CO2, where our nervous system is, and how reactive we are to stress. ✅ Our breath responds to the energy needs of our bodies - via our nervous system - every moment of our lives. By measuring the time of our exhale, we can gain insight into how the deepest parts of our body cope with stress

Brian Mackenzie Brian is a health human performance specialist with more than two decades experience of innovating new protocols for research, and for training Coaches, Olympians, Professional Athletes, Entrepreneurs, Musicians, Actors, High Performers and everyday people on the use of biological tools to achieve maximum output in training, performance and recovery through understand physiology. He is the author of Power Speed Endurance, co-author of UnPlugged the New York Times Best Seller, Unbreakable Runner. He created The Art of Breath, a principles based approach to teaching breathing’s response to the body.