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104. Breathe Your Way to Wellness | with James Nestor

EMBody Radio

Emily Duncan

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest on EMBody Radio is the author of one of the most powerful health books I've ever read. 

James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Scientific American, Outside, The New York Times, and more. His latest book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was released May 26, 2020 by Riverhead/Penguin Random House and was an instant New York Times and London Sunday Times bestseller. Breath explores how the human species has lost the ability to breathe properly--and how to get it back. Breath will be translated into more than 30 languages in 2021. Nestor has spoken at Stanford Medical School, Yale School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, the United Nations, Global Classroom, and appeared on more than 60 radio and television shows, including Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Joe Rogan Show, and more. He lives and breathes in San Francisco.

Today we talk about: 

-How studying deep divers piqued James' interest in breathing

-How poor breathing contributes to poor health

-What is improper breathing and how it evolutionarily has impacted facial shape

-Nasal breathing as a natural filtration system for the body

-Why nothing matters if your breathing sucks 

-Breathing, stress, and inflammation

-How the rise of soft foods and the industrial era started to devastate human health

-How the system profits off of the population being chronically ill

-Making breathing practices easy and accessible

-Why you shouldn't sleep with an open mouth and/or mouth breathing

-Breathing for better exercise performance 

-WHY it's important to breathe through your nose instead of your mouth

-Really easy breathing exercises you can do in 5 minutes or less each day

-James' incredibly realistic wellness routine as a busy, successful individual 

-Predicting future wellness trends

 

WHERE TO FIND JAMES:

mrjamesnestor.com

Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone, welcome back to Embody Radio, I'm your host Emily Duncan, and welcome to March.

0:08.0

I don't know about you guys, but whenever March comes around, even if the Midwest, you know, meteorologically is not on board yet, it's like March is a month of hope.

0:18.0

Like a hope of finally digging out of the cold winter, dry months, and heading into spring, hopefully sooner rather than later.

0:27.0

You know, just like that shift, having a bit more sun here these last few days after some just very dreary days.

0:33.0

I'm feeling, I'm feeling revived, I'm feeling re-energized, I'm feeling renewed, I'm feeling fresh.

0:40.0

So I hope you are feeling the same.

0:43.0

Today's show, really excited about our guest today, but before we get into that, I just wanted to give a quick shout out to our sponsors over at Cured Nutrition.

0:52.0

So in today's episode, we're talking a lot about just simple ways to manage health, we're focusing a lot on breath in today's episode.

1:02.0

But another one of the pillars that we touch on is as being one of the most important is sleep, right?

1:08.0

Sleep is one of the primary ways our body recovers, we cannot function and live healthily and much less perform optimally without really good quality sleep.

1:17.0

And so this is where my lovely, lovely friends over at Cured Nutrition come in with their product Zen.

1:24.0

I am telling you, Zen sleeps are different than other sleeps in the best way possible.

1:31.0

So Zen is a functional mushroom CBD and adaptogen blend product that encourages relaxation, helps combat stress, promotes deep and REM sleep cycles, helps you wake up feeling refreshed and not drowsy,

1:44.0

and helps you fall asleep and stay asleep. And I don't know about you, but that sounds really, really awesome.

1:50.0

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It is THC free, it's also gluten free and vegan and the ingredients are all natural.

2:01.0

So for me, I take three capsules before bed around, around an hour-ish before bed, and I'm telling you, I drift off to sleep, my sleep latency, that score is great.

2:12.0

On my ordering, I fall asleep, I stay asleep, I have super vivid dreams, and I wake up just feeling like a rock star.

2:19.0

Which is exactly how I think we all want to feel when we wake up, right?

2:22.0

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2:32.0

Again, that is CuredNutrition.com slash Emily with the code Emily. Now, getting into today's guest.

2:40.0

Oh, I am so excited. It's always a really cool opportunity for me when I get to interview an author of a book that I've read and have really, really benefited from.

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