280: The connection between breath & weight loss | Tanya G.K. Bentley, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Tanya G.K. Bentley, Ph.D.: "People lose weight, but where is it going? Actually, it's getting excreted as carbon dioxide by breathing out.” Bentley, a breathing expert and co-founder and CEO of the Health and Human Performance Foundation, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how your breath impacts weight loss, plus: *How breathing impacts your gut microbiome* *Low-lift breathwork practices for in-the-moment anxiety* *How to teach your kids breathwork practices that really work* *Why hyperventilating on purpose can help stop panic attacks* *How to improve your CO2 tolerance & why it matters* Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. References: *Bentley's microbiome, performance & stress research: https://www.hhp-foundation.org/research *Ruben Meerman, Ph.D.'s paper on breath & weight loss: https://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257 *Michael Ristow, M.D.'s research on antioxidants & exercise: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680430/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:08.6	Dr. Tanya G. K Bentley is the co-founder of the Health and Human Performance Foundation.
0:13.7	Alongside, Brian McKenzie, who we have in this very podcast in episode 237.
0:19.0	The Health and Human Performance Foundation is focused on the scientific understanding
0:23.2	of breathing practices, which is something we love here at MyBuddyGreen. We love breathwork.
0:28.0	Tanya is an experienced health services researcher with a demonstrated history of healthy
0:32.2	economics and outcomes research in the health policy and life sciences industries.
0:37.3	She's a research scientist at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
0:41.6	and a breathwork facilitator in Los Angeles. She earned her bachelor's of science from Cornell
0:47.3	and a master's in PhD in health policy decision sciences from Harvard.
0:52.6	Having recently transitioned in the MyBuddy Medicine Research, Tanya has a specific interest in
0:57.5	the effectiveness of active, voluntary breathing practices on health and human performance outcomes.
1:04.4	Again, we love breathwork here at MyBuddyGreen and it is going to be a fascinating conversation today.
1:12.9	Tanya, welcome.
1:14.8	Hey Jason, thank you so much for having me. It's a real pleasure, real honor.
1:18.4	Well, it is so great to have you, so great to connect, have heard tremendous things about you
1:23.6	from our dear mutual friend Brian McKenzie who's been on this podcast and the incredible work
1:28.4	you guys are doing at the Health and Human Performance Foundation. So I'm going to start with that.
1:33.6	Can you summarize for everyone what is the Health and Human Performance Foundation?
1:38.9	Yeah, thanks for asking. So we are a non-profit research organization.
1:44.3	We've been in business for just about two years and we got our non-profit status just over a
1:49.6	year ago, about a year and a quarter ago, and we are specifically doing research. We're doing
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