How to Breathe Less to Do More with Patrick McKeown, King of Oxygen - #434
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Did you know you can improve your heath significantly, simply by breathing through your nose? World-renowned breathing expert and prolific author, Patrick McKeown, has spent the past 15 years working with thousands worldwide, who experience breathing disorders, sleep disordered breathing, high stress levels, poor concentration, and anxiety. A devotee of the Buteyko method of breathing, his most recent book, “The Oxygen Advantage,” is an extension of his ground-breaking work, combining specifically-formulated exercises that empower athletes to improve their performance. In this fascinating conversation with Dave, Patrick explains how he hacked his own asthma using breathing techniques, the importance of practicing breath-holding and avoiding mouth-breathing, how oxygen and CO2 work together when we breathe, and why you should tape your mouth shut when you sleep – really! You won’t want to miss this remarkable episode, filled with amazing biohacks and tips that will have you breathing – and feeling – better in no time.
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| 0:00.0 | If you read my anti-aging book, you know that there are seven things that cause aging in your body, |
| 0:04.7 | and one of the biggest ones you could call zombie cells. Those are cells in your body that are |
| 0:09.6 | done living, but they don't really die. They sit around, they take up resources, and they make |
| 0:13.6 | free radicals and inflammation. As you age, you get more and more zombie cells. They also cause |
| 0:19.0 | aging symptoms like less energy and longer recovery times. I've been working with my friends at |
| 0:23.6 | Neurohacker on a formula that would cause your body to eliminate those zombie cells. It's called |
| 0:30.0 | Qualia Cinelletics. It's a new kind of supplement. It's got the most powerful, herbal, and natural |
| 0:35.4 | synolytics, and it's so powerful you only take it for two days per month to turn on this cleanup |
| 0:41.4 | of your zombie cells. You don't take it every day because you don't want your body to get rid of |
| 0:45.6 | those cells every day because that would get in the way of your body's normal functioning. In |
| 0:50.0 | other words, you need to do a once a month cleaning cycle. When you check it out, you'll feel the |
| 0:53.9 | difference. Go to Neurohacker.com slash Dave, use code Asprey15, they'll give you 15% off. |
| 1:00.0 | That's Neurohacker.com slash Dave code Asprey15. |
| 1:13.2 | Will it prove radio? A state of high performance? |
| 1:17.0 | Today's episode is fantastic and it was so much fun to record this. You are going to learn more |
| 1:23.1 | about breathing and totally unexpected things about oxygen in your body than you ever would imagine. |
| 1:28.4 | It is very accessible, very understandable, and the stuff in here applies to |
| 1:33.6 | athletes, anyone who sleeps, people who travel. I just want to, what an awesome episode. You'll |
| 1:39.2 | want to listen all the way to the end because it's just a non-stop set of little tips that are |
| 1:44.2 | going to completely change how your body uses air and food. So check it out, you're going to love this. |
| 1:53.6 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. Today's cool fact of the day is that 3D |
| 1:59.7 | printers are starting to help us grow tissues and create replacement body parts. You might have |
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