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Today's podcast, I'm trying to answer the question, how to breathe properly so you can stop snoring.

Turns out snoring is very bad for your health.

Joining me with the answers and a lot more about breathing

and its connection to health is James Nester, who's written a book called Breath, The New Science

of a Lost Art. Hello, James. Hello, how are you? I'm fine, thank you. Where are you? Where am I

speaking to you from, actually? You're in America, right? Whereabouts? In San Francisco.

Ah, San Francisco. Okay. So can you help? I'm going to talk to all about your book because I've got to say it's an incredible book. I've absolutely loved it. And I knew so little about breathing.

So we'll go through that. But can you actually help us with the not snoring phenomenon? Because I

actually do snore. I can offer some advice. I'm not a therapist or a doctor. Luckily, I've

spoken to the leaders in the field over several years and picked up a bunch of their hacks so I can

parlay what I've learned from them over to you.

And I think the first thing we have to learn about snoring is that snoring is caused by the soft tissues at the back of the mouth being too flexible and flexing inward.

Sounds just like that.

I'm sure everyone's familiar with that sound.

And just as you had said, snoring is incredibly injurious to the body, neurological issues, metabolic issues.

We usually only look at sleep apnea as being this big culprit of poor health because of sleeping.

But snoring is so bad.

It's just talking to an expert about this yesterday.

So now, to try to get rid of snoring, what I've found, what I've

been told by various experts at Stanford and elsewhere is that people who have mild or moderate

snoring, I know this is going to sound like quackery, but stick with me here, you can take a

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