Hey everyone, Benkenbe Radio, how are you doing? You beautiful people. I'm very excited

about today's show. We've talked in the past about breathing the breath, the thing that

we do automatically, literally like every moment of the day. And I personally think it's

something that a lot of people would take for granted because it's an automatic thing.

It happens without us even thinking about it. But we know if we were to ask ourselves,

it's connected to stress, it's connected to sleep, it's connected to well-being, it's

connected to a lot of physiological functions. You've heard me speak on the show before

where I suffered with asthma as a kid and I did a breathing technique called the butytecotecnic

and I felt that that solved or you might use the word cured my asthma. And then throughout

this process of having long COVID, I found my respiratory system was under stress and

nasal breathing was part of my kind of recovery process. And I've seen some sort of ad

hoc benefits off the back of that. So I thought, right, let's get the breathing expert

on the show. So that's what we've done today. Patrick McKeown, welcome to the show.

Thanks very much, Ben, great to be here.

Dude, you've got such a wealth of knowledge and before we clicked record, you sort of

started to throw these topics at me, we're like, we can talk about this, we can talk

about that. And already, I'm like, oh my god, I didn't realize there was so much to

talk about when it comes to the breath, just breathing. Like, perhaps we should start

at the top and I'll intro you in a second. I kind of almost like to get into it and

then we'll kind of track back a bit. Why does no one talk about the breath? Is it because

it's so obvious? We just do it.

I think it has a bad wrap and I think a lot of people were teaching breathing and they

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