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0:06.7	I'm Paul Fabrets, and I'm an NBA Strength and Conditioning and Performance Trainer.
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0:24.9	All right, what's up, guys? We got a special guest for the podcast for you let's do it all right what's up guys we got a special guest for the podcast today patrick mccone uh he is the author of the oxygen advantage a great book that i've
0:32.2	been talking about on the podcast for a while so it's an honor to have him here thanks for being here
0:36.8	patrick that's good to be here paul thanks very much you want to give us like a quick for a while. So it's an honor to have him here. Thanks for being here, Patrick.
0:42.5	That's great to be here, Paul. Thanks very much. You want to give us like a quick background on how you became kind of the nasal breathing guy and maybe kind of where this stuff came from
0:48.1	because you make it a point in the book that you didn't create this out of thin air. This has been
0:52.1	around for thousands of years. So give us a little background on yourself and kind of how you discovered this stuff. Yeah, totally by accident. I've never encouraged anybody to go into the field of breathing if they want to try and make a living from it. So I came across it because of having asthma. But in school, I was falling asleep at the desk desk and I had undiagnosed obstructive sleep
1:12.3	apnea, but I didn't know that until about 20 years later. I was a chronic mouth breeder during
1:18.4	physical exercise, during rest and during sleep. I used to wake up at a dry mouth every morning.
1:24.2	And I'd be tired waking up and trying to focus and concentrate.
1:28.8	It's not that easy.
1:33.5	And I came across a newspaper article back in 1997 and 98.
1:40.7	And it spoke of the work of this Russian doctor who was working with astronauts during the Soviet space race.
1:48.1	And his work was designed and determined the composition of oxygen, for example, in the capsule.
1:50.4	And he spoke about two things.
1:53.2	He said that your breathing should always be in and out through the nose.
1:55.6	And he said that your breathing should be light.
1:57.3	And mine was none of those things.
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