419: The Story of a Mouth Breather with James Nestor
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What do snoring, crooked teeth, and mouth breathing have in common? All these conditions can indicate or even predict a whole series of chronic health problems down the road. James Nestor began his study into breathwork in the extreme world of freediving and breath holding, but he eventually came full circle to focus on the power and necessity of healthy, balanced breathing - something often lacking in our lives.
This podcast is for anyone who wheezes, snores, sniffles, finds themselves out of breath easily, or simply wants to deepen their knowledge and understanding of this powerful tool that is your own breath.
Listen & Learn:
- What happens when you *only* mouth breathe (hint: it’s bad)
- How 70-80% of people have deviated septums
- How lack of chewing has made our jaws smaller and narrower
- The secrets of the Tummo Monks who heat up their bodies
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Scientific American, Dwell Magazine, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He’s the author of a book about freediving called, DEEP, and his newest book is called, BREATH: The New Science of a Lost Art.
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| 0:00.0 | Of all of the mind-body techniques that I've learned and studied for balancing mood, reducing stress, helping you fall asleep improve your digestion, I've really found nothing as powerful or as predictable and as immediate as |
| 0:14.4 | yoga breathing. I've been on my soapbox about this for a few years speaking and |
| 0:18.7 | teaching internationally, so you've certainly been exposed to this before, but I always get the question what books should I read and there aren't really many great books on breathing. |
| 0:26.5 | In fact, many of them are filled with hyperbole, misinformation, and many of them are just frankly outdated or they're focused on some kind of |
| 0:33.8 | extreme sport like free diving or breath-holding or weird cold tolerance kind of |
| 0:38.9 | stuff which doesn't really apply to most people. There's a new book out, it's called Breath, really excited to have the author |
| 0:44.2 | James Nester on the show, he's a journalist, and he really deep dove into the world of breathing |
| 0:48.6 | and did some really interesting experiments that really I've never seen done before. |
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