How to Use Breathing to Improve Your Health, With Journalist James Nestor
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re learning how to breathe better and how that can vastly improve our overall health with help from journalist James Nestor. James is the author of the new book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which covers the extensive research on the many ways in which we sometimes struggle to breathe—from asthma, to allergies, to snoring—and what we can do about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team of LifeHacker, |
| 0:16.4 | where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Alice Bradley, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker, and today I'm joined by our managing editor, Joel |
| 0:24.8 | Cunningham. |
| 0:25.6 | Hi, Joel. |
| 0:26.6 | Hi, Alice. |
| 0:27.5 | Joel, today we're learning how to improve on something we're doing all the time. |
| 0:31.8 | In fact, you're doing it right now. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm doing it right now. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm not doing anything right now. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, you don't think you are, but in fact, you are. |
| 0:39.0 | We are going to learn how to improve on our breathing. |
| 0:42.2 | Which I hope you're doing. |
| 0:44.0 | I mean, you know, maybe you're not. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm feeling very judged. |
| 0:48.0 | I think I'm very good at breathing. |
| 0:49.7 | I've been doing it for quite some time, but I guess I'm open to critique, as in all things. |
| 0:55.8 | Our guest this week is science journalist James Nestor, who is talking to us about the science |
| 1:00.1 | of breathing. |
| 1:01.2 | So the wonderful thing about breathing is that you can use it to stimulate a restful and relaxed |
| 1:06.9 | state, that parasympathetic side of your nervous system. We can actually control this system |
| 1:12.8 | through breathing. James has written for many publications, including Scientific American, |
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