#350 - James Nestor - Change Your Breath, Change Your Life
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
James Nestor is a journalist and an author.
We get more energy from our breath than we do from food or hydration or sleep. And yet most people have never considered assessing how properly they breathe. Thankfully James has spent years speaking to the world's leading researchers, breathwork teachers, monks and free divers to find out exactly what we need to know.
Expect to learn why computer use is affecting your breath, how poor breathing can cause diabetes, why snoring is a dangerous habit, James' tips for optimising your daily breathing, the best strategies to use for athletic performance, how to improve your breathing while you sleep and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guest today is James Nester. He's a journalist and an author. |
| 0:07.0 | We get more energy from our breath than we do from our food, hydration or sleep. |
| 0:13.0 | And yet, most people have never considered assessing how properly they breathe. |
| 0:17.0 | Thankfully, James has spent years speaking to the world's leading researchers, |
| 0:21.0 | breath work teachers, monks and freedivers to find out exactly what we need to know. |
| 0:27.0 | Today, expect to learn why computer use is affecting your breath. |
| 0:31.0 | How poor breathing can cause diabetes. Why snoring is a dangerous habit. |
| 0:36.0 | James' tips for optimizing your daily breathing, the best strategies to use for athletic performance. |
| 0:41.0 | How to improve your breathing while you sleep. And much more. |
| 0:45.0 | This is just one of those game-changing fundamental insights that everybody needs to know about the way that they live their daily lives. |
| 0:52.0 | The same as Matthew Walker's, why we sleep and understanding that you need to get sufficient sleep. |
| 0:57.0 | The insights and the principles that James gives you today are so crucial to ensuring that your health is looked after in the short term and in the long term. |
| 1:05.0 | Plus, it'll mean that you maximize your performance as well day to day. |
| 1:08.0 | This is like an absolute must listen. You should be hysterically, fanatically, intensely focused throughout this entire episode, |
| 1:16.0 | because James gives some absolute bombs of advice. |
| 1:20.0 | In other news, before I get to other news, modern wisdom reading lists nearly finished. |
| 1:24.0 | I promised just a couple of few more final amend and it will be released 100 books to read before you die. |
| 1:29.0 | Everything that has had the biggest impact on me over the last few years. |
| 1:33.0 | That will be available for free very soon. Keep your ears and eyes peeled and I'll tell you once you can get your copy. |
| 1:39.0 | In these other news, this episode is brought to you by Boohoo Man. |
| 1:45.0 | You need a new wardrobe because you've been stuck indoors for 18 months and you haven't updated any of your clothes. |
| 1:51.0 | Boohoo Man is insane. The size of their collection, the price of their clothing, it's outrageous. |
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