413: James Nestor - Breathe This Way to Transform Your Body and Mind
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/jamesnestor413
James Nestor (@mrjamesnestor) has written for Outside, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Dwell, The New York Times, and many other publications.
His latest book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was an instant New York Times bestseller.
James has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including ABC’s Nightline and CBS’s Morning News, and on NPR.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How James became fascinated with the subject of breath and breathing
- What James learned from studying free divers
- The 10-day mouth breathing experiment
- Why it’s advantageous to breathe through your nose
- The difference between mouth vs. nose breathing
- During allergy season snoring & sleep apnea goes up
- Mouth breathing can affect the development of your face
- Breastfed babies will be less apt to snoring, sleep apnea & crooked teeth
- The problem with braces
- Palatal expansion is the new wave of orthodontics
- Practices to make nose breathing an unconscious habit
- You can change the size of your mouth
- Our environment impacts our breathing
- Overbreathing can make you more apt to have osteoporosis
- Why balancing carbon dioxide in your system is important
- What is hypoventilation training?
- Carbon dioxide training is an effective therapy for anxiety
- The benefits of mouth taping
- CPAPs are doing nothing to help the root cause of sleep apnea
- Myofunctional therapy trains people to have proper oral posture
- Why you should use a neti pot
- Hacks for better breathing
- Tummo is similar to the Wim Hof Method
- The breathing technique called the “physiological sigh”
- 5.5 breaths per minute
- Take control of your breath anytime of the day
- Holotropic breathing brings up subconscious thoughts
- Keep breathing... make it calm, light, slow and deep
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. I believe that crooked teeth are a preventable problem. |
| 0:06.5 | If you look at our ancestors, anyone older than 300, 400 years, they had straight teeth. |
| 0:12.5 | I talked to one researcher who has seen more human skulls than maybe anyone on the planet. |
| 0:17.9 | She's at University of Penn. She had said she had never seen a hunter-gatherer with crooked teeth. |
| 0:23.0 | Not one of them. From 500 years ago to 5,000 years ago to 50,000 years ago, not one of them. |
| 0:29.6 | So obviously we did this to ourselves. The next question is how do we get it back? |
| 0:35.4 | So breastfeeding is huge. Eating real food when you're a kid and not eating soft mush, |
| 0:42.0 | which is what exactly what I ate growing up, that's very important and proper oral posture. |
| 0:48.3 | And what I mean by that is you need to breathe through your nose to have your mouth closed |
| 0:52.8 | and your tongue on the roof of your mouth. |
| 1:00.7 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast episode 413. I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to |
| 1:06.4 | take your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health |
| 1:10.9 | and wellness leaders from around the world. This week I'm chatting with James Nester. |
| 1:15.5 | He's written for outside, scientific American, the Atlantic, Dwell, the New York Times, |
| 1:20.8 | and many other publications. His latest book Breath, The New Science of a Lost Art, |
| 1:25.6 | was an instant New York Times bestseller. James has appeared on dozens of national television |
| 1:31.3 | shows including ABC's Nightline and CBS's Morning News and on NPR. Highlights of our conversation |
| 1:38.5 | include what James learned from studying freedivers, his 10-day mouth-breathing experiment, |
| 1:44.3 | how mouth-breathing can affect the development of your face, practices to make nose-breathing |
| 1:49.2 | an unconscious habit and the benefits of mouth-taping. If you'd prefer to watch versus listen, |
| 1:55.1 | this full interview is available over on YouTube. You can get there by going to |
| 1:58.4 | ultimatehealthpodcast.com slash YouTube and be sure and subscribe while you're there. |
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