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Focusing on this one thing we all do around 25,000 times a day

can noticeably improve your sleep, energy, focus and even your risk of high blood pressure and disease.

Breathing.

But our modern world has made it harder than ever to breathe properly.

Today, I'm joined by James Nestor, award-winning science journalist and author of the

international bestseller, Breath.

He's traveled the world to find out what went wrong in our evolution of breathing and how

to fix it. We get into nasal breathing, powerful practices like humming and breath holds,

and how to use your diaphragm properly and even how modern ultra soft diets

affect our airway development and the way we breathe by the end of this episode you'll know

exactly what to change and where to start to improve your health through your breath.

James, why do you believe we've lost the ability to breathe properly?

And what are the downstream consequences of that?

I never thought that I would be writing a book about how we were breathing improperly,

and that was never my intention when I set out to write this book. But it wasn't until I spoke to so many researchers, and especially biologists and people that study evolution, that I realized

that our skulls have fundamentally changed. Our mouths are so small.

Our teeth don't fit.

That's why we have crooked teeth.

With a small mouth, you have a smaller airway.

So all of these changes have occurred in the past,

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