How To Use Your Breath To Prevent Disease

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and Pendulum.

Of all the things we do each day, breathing is arguably the most important. While breathing’s most important job is to literally keep us alive, breathing can help in many more ways than just survival, including activating your parasympathetic nervous system, which helps slow your heart rate and lower your blood pressure.

In today’s episode, I talk with James Nestor, Dr. Louis Ignarro, Wim Hof, and Dr. Jim Gordon about using breathing to support your health.

James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Scientific American, Outside, The New York Times, and more. His latest book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was an instant New York Times bestseller. Breath explores how the human species has lost the ability to breathe properly—and how we can get it back.

Dr. Louis Ignarro is a medical research scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his breakthrough discovery of nitric oxide and how it positively impacts health and longevity. His groundbreaking research on nitric oxide paved the way for—among other innovations—Viagra. He is an award-winning Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has his PhD in pharmacology.

Wim Hof, also known as “The Iceman,” holds multiple world records for his feats of endurance and exposure to cold. He is the author of The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential. The benefits of Wim’s method, now practiced by tens of thousands, have been validated by eight university research studies.

Dr. James Gordon, author of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing, is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist and the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC. He is a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School and was chairman (under Presidents Clinton and G.W. Bush) of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.4	The reason why breathing is so important is because we get the most of our energy from air,
0:09.2	from our breath. Hey everyone it's Dr. Mark. I know a lot of you out there are
0:15.0	practitioners like me helping patients heal using real food and functional medicine as your
0:19.8	framework for getting to the root cause. What's critical to understanding what each individual
0:25.6	person in body needs is testing, which is why I'm excited to tell you about Rupa Health.
0:30.9	Looking at hormones, organic acids, nutrient levels, inflammatory factors, gut bacteria,
0:36.7	and so many other internal variables can help us find the most effective path to optimize health
0:42.0	and reverse disease. But up till now that menu are usually ordering tests for one patient from multiple
0:47.4	labs. And I'm sure many of you can relate how time consuming this process was and then it could
0:52.3	all feel like a lot of work to keep track of. Now there's Rupa Health, a place for functional
0:57.3	medicine practitioners to access more than 2000s especially labs from over 20 labs like Dutch,
1:02.6	fiber, and American, Genova, great planes and more. Rupa Health helped provide a significantly
1:08.0	better patient experience and it's 90% faster. Letting you simplify the entire process of getting
1:14.4	the functional medicine lab tests you need and giving you more time to focus on patients.
1:18.1	This is really a much needed option to functional medicine space and I'm so excited about it. It
1:22.7	means better service for you and your patients. You can check it out and look at a free live demo
1:27.5	with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com. That's rupayhealth.com.
1:34.7	You're unique, which means your health and wellness plans should be unique too.
1:39.2	But it can be tough to optimize your health and nutrition programs because it's often difficult
1:43.2	to get the data you need. And even if you do get your numbers, you actually have to understand
1:48.0	them and then be able to make meaningful action based on them. This is where inside trackers comes in.
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